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

约翰·马格斯特罗和亚利桑那大学人类学应用研究局(BARA)提议举办一个为期五天的讲习班，题为“风险科学奖学金和可持续发展：在非洲建立教育者-从业者网络”。工作会议将由BDU(巴赫达尔大学，埃塞俄比亚巴赫尔达尔)主持，BDU是BARA/UA实施灾害风险科学和可持续发展(DRSSD)新硕士研究生项目的合作伙伴。(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，以便更有效地应对非洲大陆不断增加的人为和自然引发的灾害和冲突事件。非洲联盟委员会、国际减灾战略和世界银行最近介绍了撒哈拉以南非洲与风险管理有关的能力发展投资不足的情况。它强调了缺乏以技术为导向的人力资源？在非洲，特别强调需要进行跨部门培训和加强应对水文气象威胁的能力。它还引起了人们的注意？知识、技能、能力、工作人员和各级信息不足？作为国家和国家以下各级管理灾害及相关风险的限制因素。尽管埃塞俄比亚在应对灾害方面有多年的经验，但它尚未建立适当的系统来应对和准备应对继续困扰该国的一系列自然和人为灾害。发展专业人员尚未掌握侧重于在发展背景下减少风险和管理风险的战略。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个更具社会响应性的课程，将理论与发展实践联系起来，供埃塞俄比亚境内和整个非洲的政府机构和培训学院应用。(2)更广泛的影响：讲习班将通过在不断增长的风险科学和管理领域支持课程开发和知识交流，为BDU和UA提供明显的互惠互利。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，它将扩大机构联系的基础，并将非洲发展联盟-非洲联盟伙伴关系与非洲风险科学和管理领域正在进行的教育工作者-实践者网络联系起来。通过分享和协调各研究中心和机构的努力，利益将扩大到参加研讨会的更大的学者和专家圈子。由于贫困和弱势群体往往是累积风险过程的首当其冲者，讲习班最终将通过宣传课程使社会受益，这些课程以满足两国(包括亚利桑那州的美洲原住民和边境地区社区)高度弱势群体的需求的社会响应需求为基础。

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).