Paper details
| Paper authors | Pat Gibbons |
| In panel on | Localising Research on Humanitarian Concepts |
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Abstract
The Building Resilience Through Education (BRTE) Consortium brings together five partners from academia, the private sector and an international NGO to find innovative ways to strengthen the resilience of communities affected by recurring disasters. This programme was inspired by an ex-post evaluation of the impact of Concern Worldwide’s twenty-five year engagement in Wolaita, Ethiopia. It found that, despite significant improvements in communities’ capacities to both absorb recurring disasters and to adapt existing livelihoods based on experience of recent disasters, they remain extremely vulnerable to their natural and physical environmental conditions - thus prompting the need to search out novel approaches to emancipate disaster communities from the ‘limbo’ in which they exist. The BRTE partnership has chosen multi-disciplinary education as a vehicle to bring about this transformative change. It aims to build the capacity of Wolaita’s educational institution to lead this transformative agenda. Specifically the BRTE programme builds the requisite critical infrastructure to enable resilience education and research; it establishes the educational platform to deliver appropriate and relevant education to guide resilience thinking at all levels; and enables research capacities to conduct innovative research to transform livelihoods in Wolaita.
