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Connecting local to regional and international research processes

8 September, 2020

“I have been invited to consult and engage with international organizations such as the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction and the International Science Council, because of the visibility of scientific outputs stemming from START initiatives.” Shuaib Lwasa Shuaib Lwasa is an…

UAL engages in Integrated Disaster Risk Research

8 September, 2020

I also recollect the successful 4th World Landslide Forum (WLF4) held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in May 2017, that brought over six hundred experts across the world to exchange, share, and elaborate for ways forward. It was in Ljubljana I met then the Chair of IRDR, Dr. Shuaib Lwasa, and witnessed his…

Small and mid-size not mega cities are growing quickest and need protection against extreme events – says a new study

31 May, 2014

The UN conference on Cities (UN-Habitat III) is 14 days away and a new study that is a comment in NATURE by an international team of researchers shows that fast-growing small (populations of 0.3-0.5 million) and medium-sized (0.5 to 5 million) cities, especially in Africa and Asia, need more…

UAL conducts a training workshop on 22nd – 26th/ 08/ 2016 at Makerere University

26 April, 2014

The UAL is conducting a training workshop between 22nd and 26th August 2016 at Makerere University. The workshop is a start up activity of a three-year research project dubbed Heterogeneous Infrastructures of Cities in Uganda Project (HICCUP). The project is implemented under a partnership between…