US-Ethiopia International Workshop: Risk Science Scholarship and Sustainable Development: Building Educator-Practitioner Networks in Africa, Bahir Dar, August 2009

亚利桑那大学（UA）的John Magistro和人类学应用研究局（BARA）提议举办一个为期五天的研讨会，题为“风险科学奖学金和可持续发展：在非洲建立教育者-实践者网络”。工作会议将由BDU （Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar，埃塞俄比亚）主持，BDU是BARA/UA在实施灾害风险科学与可持续发展（DRSSD）新硕士研究生课程方面的合作伙伴。(1)知识价值拟议的讲习班解决了非洲大学一级人力和机构资源能力建设的迫切需要，以便更有效地管理非洲大陆经常和不断升级的人为和自然引发的灾害和冲突事件。非洲联盟委员会、联合国减少灾害风险办公室和世界银行最近概述了撒哈拉以南非洲风险管理能力建设投资不足的情况。它强调了？缺乏技术型人力资源？在非洲，特别强调需要进行跨部门培训和加强与水文气象威胁有关的能力。它还引起了人们的注意？各级知识、技能能力、人员和信息不足？作为国家和国家以下各级灾害及相关风险管理的限制因素。尽管在救灾方面有多年的经验，埃塞俄比亚尚未建立适当的制度，以便对继续困扰该国的一系列自然灾害和人为灾害作出反应和做好准备。发展专业人员还没有掌握在发展环境中关注风险减少和管理的战略。因此，讲习班将召集主要的教育工作者和实践者，他们将修订和设计一种更符合社会需求的课程，将理论与发展实践联系起来，以便在埃塞俄比亚境内和整个非洲的政府机构和培训学院中应用。(2)更广泛的影响本次研讨会将通过加强课程开发和风险科学与管理领域的知识交流，为BDU和UA带来明显的互惠利益。非洲主要学者和实践者的贡献将大大提高两所大学的课程和教学质量。更重要的是，它将扩大机构接触的基础，并将BDU-UA伙伴关系与非洲风险科学和管理领域正在进行的教育者-实践者网络联系起来。通过分享和协调各自研究中心和机构的努力，参加研讨会的学者和专家将扩大到更大的圈子。由于贫困和弱势群体往往是风险积累过程中首当其冲的群体，因此，讲习班将通过推广以满足两国高度弱势群体（包括亚利桑那州的印第安人和边境社区）的社会需求为基础的课程，最终使社会受益。

John Magistro and The Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology (BARA) at the University of Arizona (UA) propose to conduct a five-day workshop entitled Risk Science Scholarship and Sustainable Development: Building Educator-Practitioner Networks in Africa. The working session will be hosted by BDU (Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia), a collaborating partner with BARA/UA in the implementation of a new MSc post-graduate program in Disaster Risk Science and Sustainable Development (DRSSD). (1) Intellectual Merit The proposed workshop addresses the urgent need for human and institutional resource capacity building at the university level in Africa to more effectively manage recurrent and escalating exposure to anthropogenic and naturally triggered disaster and conflict events on the continent. The underinvestment in capacity development related to risk management in Sub-Saharan Africa was recently profiled by the Commission of the African Union, UNISDR and the World Bank. It stressed the ?lack of technically-oriented human resources? in Africa, with specific emphasis on the need for cross sectoral training and strengthening of capabilities in relation to hydrometeorological threats. It also drew attention to ?low knowledge, skills competencies, staff and information at all levels? as limiting factors in national and sub-national management of disaster and associated risks. Despite years of experience in disaster response, Ethiopia has yet to establish adequate systems to respond to and prepare for the series of natural and human-made disasters that continue to beset the country. Development professionals have not yet mastered strategies that focus on risk reduction and management within the development context. Thus the workshop will convene leading educators and practitioners who will revise and design a more socially responsive curriculum that links theory to development praxis for application among government institutions and training colleges within Ethiopia and across Africa.(2) Broader Impacts The workshop will provide clear mutual benefits to BDU and UA by bolstering curriculum development and the exchange of knowledge in the growing field of risk science and management. Contributions from leading scholars and practitioners in Africa will significantly improve the quality of curriculum and pedagogy for both universities. More importantly, it will broaden the base of institutional contacts and link the BDU-UA partnership to ongoing educator-practitioner networks in the risk science and management field in Africa. Benefits will expand to the larger circle of scholars and experts attending the workshop, by sharing and coordinating the efforts of the respective research centers and institutions. As poor and disadvantaged populations are often those who bear the brunt of accumulating risk processes, the workshop will ultimately benefit society by promoting curricula that are underpinned by a socially responsive imperative to address the needs of highly vulnerable populations in both countries (and including Native American and borderland communities in Arizona).