Resilience Academy as a sustainability solution for urban resilience skills development in n Tanzania
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00:07
Hi, again. For those who are joining, welcome. We want to do the second presentation, which is about Resilience Academy as a Sustainable
00:22
Solution for Urban Resilience Case Development in Tanzania. My name is Ms. Likale, Ms. Ilanga. I work at the World Bank in Tanzania, but also now joined the team of University of Turku to implement this project.
00:41
It's a pilot project that has been done now in Tanzania, but it's just a continuation of previous projects that has been ongoing as a way to sustain the project. So if I just in national background
01:03
is that Africa is really urbanizing very fast. And because of this, there's a lot of increased informal settlements. And study shows that by 2025, among all the population
01:23
that will be living in urbanized cities in Africa, most of them are young people. They are the one who lives in this informal settlement. Therefore, they are in risk from different disasters.
01:41
So just to take you to Dar es Salaam. Dar es Salaam is the city that I'm from. It's one of the case studies that we've been working in the past six years. Dar es Salaam is also one of the cities that is growing very fast in Africa. And there's more than 80% unplanned settlement.
02:02
And because of this, also the infrastructure gap is really big. The city is growing fast, but the development of infrastructure is very slow. So it doesn't match with how the city grows. So there's a lot of increased problems. And one of them is flooding.
02:23
And every year when it rains, people get affected with floods. So we've been working on this as the way of new thinking. How do we use this situation to solve the problem?
02:41
And so what Residence Academy Project, what we are doing is try to rethink the approaches that has usually been done for the normal university, for example, and other stakeholders using the, if you teach the young students or young people right now
03:01
the right tools and the right knowledge, they're able to make changes when they're a decision maker. So Residence Academy is trying to institutionalize that to the university, but also understand the tools and knowledge, open source tools and knowledge that are available and then being implemented. So that's the approach to be used right now.
03:21
It's the one that needs to be evaluated and thoughtful well. But also, the other thing that we need to think is how these trainings and these new approaches on the way you teach open source tools can go into the bringing impact to the community.
03:44
So with this project, what we're trying to do is to learn how these tools can involve students, but also involve the local community themselves, but also working on the issues available, rather than doing some imaginary issues at the universities to solve issues that are not available,
04:03
but just how to match between the issues available and the solutions from the university. So you're therefore empowering the university and the university as an institution, but also you are able to help by providing solutions and bring impact on the ground.
04:24
So well, also, due to the increased number of tools available in the open source community, so through Residence Academy, we are learning about how these tools really are current and they are able to deliver.
04:44
One of the issues that we've figured out is that there was no data available of the city because the city is growing very fast. And because of this, there's no information available. So how do you use these simple tools? Very easy, very simple, and open,
05:02
that to collect a lot of information. For example, everybody has their mobile phone. How do you use mobile phone as a way to sustain and make data collection working into this informal settlement, therefore to provide information, and as well as to make decisions, really use the data in deciding.
05:25
Yeah, so through this process, we have really think on the local community themselves because the local community have knowledge and they know what's really happening on the ground. So how do you get this knowledge
05:41
from the local community themselves and streamline that to the university and people who are doing researches and studies and use these tools to work together to make good decision making. So the involvement of the local community themselves is kind of a way that if we think of how to use it and involve them, it would be a way
06:01
to get better decision making. The other thing that also Resilience Academy is trying to do is how do we tell other community? Like how do we make the impact and tell other local communities to understand things that have been done? Because most of the time, this kind of project comes
06:22
and then you do a project and then you leave, and therefore the community, they just do the project, when the project is finished, no one get really to use what has been done. So how do we use this way to make the community really use these maps or tools that has been developed for decision making?
06:45
So Resilience Academy is right now working with four universities in Tanzania, but coordinated with the University of Turku as a way to share experiences, but also within the university to create a network where these tools can be really implemented
07:04
from the university side and be institutionalized. Understanding that, for example, the university ways of teaching really takes longer to adapt what's coming on the tech side, for example. So how do the university change their curriculum
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or ways they teach using the current tools to solve the current solutions? So we're working with these four universities by doing three things. One is to develop the training materials, and we are going to be doing this online and also the university,
07:41
learning from these experiences that we have had and the tools that have been done to be able to incorporate that within the university, but also share with others who could use the same learning material or the same experiences to also learn. We're also doing open access to spatial data,
08:00
understanding that a lot has been done already. A lot of data have been collected, but as, okay, we know that data has been collected, but really everybody's collecting data. How do we harmonize the data that's been collected into one place so that as a resilience academy, the university can access it, but also the decision maker can access it
08:20
and sustain that through every year when, for example, a PhD student have done his masters and then share the same data somewhere in the database and then keep that updating and learning to help updating, but also sustain the way we do things. And the other thing that we are doing is we are doing the industrial training program,
08:41
and this is every year we're taking students to this four university at the moment, and we teach them, as I mentioned, the current tools, and we do some data collection. They do practical works or learning as an industrial training so that they have
09:02
this employability, like they learn something that they could use in the real world after they have done their university. Okay. Yeah, so as I've mentioned, this is just to go details of what we're doing. This is the developing training material part
09:20
where through the four universities that we're working on, we are now partnering with other universities that are now joining. We have the University of Twente and Deaf University that are also joining the team right now just to try to share experiences and share tools for the university to learn and also change the way they teach.
09:42
And also this is to explain more in details on the Crime Analytics database that we've done. Just up to now we have already collected a lot of information in the database that you could already see what have been done, and this can create stories of different analysis, different tools, and different, for example, issues,
10:01
and if one organization have used, I don't know, two types of data to do a certain analysis using a certain tools. They can learn through this, and then therefore it's just a replicable process instead of everybody come to do new things. So this is also one of the thing that we are doing.
10:23
And the last thing that we are doing is as we speak right now, we have 150 students trained during the industrial training, and we're training these tools, QGIS, like mobile phones, and other tools, open source tools that are available,
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and they're doing data collection while they're doing that as industrial training. As I mentioned, this is the pilot project, but we'll see how it goes, but the plan is to extend into other cities so that they also have the same experience or learn through this.
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Thank you so much. Any question?
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For the future, because this is a pilot project, you say, so you're training now only university students, and now I was thinking about the future. How can we access lower educated people? And you say everyone has a mobile phone.
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Wouldn't it be very cool if everyone just have a street map thing on their phone that they can just map and add data from their own neighborhood with an easy, low-level way?
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Yeah, thank you for the question. So this is, yeah, as I mentioned, this is the process, right? So we think that when you want to educate the community, first of all, you start with young people, and this is why we've gone for the university. And while we are doing this, we are also doing also participation,
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a lot of participation where the local community are also being trained how to use mobile phone. But it starts from the young people who then are going back to the community and explain how this has been done, and the community really get to know this thing as part of their initiative.
12:41
And yeah, through that way, then we do a lot of participation in the community. Then we educate the whole community in general. But as of now, we are doing this through all these three components. When we do the industrial training, we usually go to the community, and the community get to know what's been done. They participate. Last five years, I've been doing the same,
13:02
and we've managed to collect a lot of information. More than 3,000 local community have been trained and participate into this. So it's a process, and hoping that it can sustain itself through the university students who are doing this, or when they're doing PhD or studies or researches,
13:20
then it's easy for them to use the same methodology and use the community to generate this type of information. Any other question? You had a question. Just a quick question. You said the courses are online. So is it like MOX, like massive online courses, and so people can also access these courses
13:44
even if they're not part of the university? Ah, okay, that's quite interesting. Yeah, so in the course line, we are still in the university. So this process of curriculum and analyzing and learning and develop some training material and modules.
14:04
But the aim is to go to the MOX, also to develop some online course that everybody, not only the student can access it, but also the non-student can also access it. But sure.
14:24
Now related to your question, the lady's question, what about education at school level? Is that what you were implying? Secondary school? You answered about the community, but community, yeah.
14:47
But what about secondary school? Like is GIS in the syllabus? Can you take GIS into the classroom at high school? And is it happening in Tanzania?
15:00
Okay, so that's a good question. I think I don't have a right answer for this now, but I think it's very good part to start thinking about it. I know that secondary school have been learning about geography, right? General geography. But so yeah, the question is how do we bring this? I know it's another really long road to go through.
15:24
If we want to go to that, to start to talk, to have this discussion with the curriculum, et cetera. But it's really, yeah, it would have been nice to have this from, to start to impress them from secondary school level.
15:42
Therefore, when they're in secondary at the university, then they are able to, yeah. But it's a nice comment and idea. Someone had a question here. More than a question is a commentary. I don't know if you ever heard about Youth Mappers.
16:03
Okay, because it is nice to see that project and with Youth Mappers, with that network, you can maybe find support for that project, yeah. Yeah, this project, Resilience Academy,
16:20
is a continuation of many projects that have been done. Youth Mappers is part of this project. We have humanitarian assistance that have been doing this project. Resilience Academy is really to try to learn all that experiences that has been done by Youth Mappers, by Open Estate Map and other organization. They have done a lot of data collections.
16:42
Yeah, so if we just live like this, then everything ends. So this is try to really to institutionalize and to learn that experience from all the initiative that has been done, but to try to bring back formally through the university, but also how do you use that to go to the policy,
17:00
whatever, so it kind of a way to sustain the way we do. Yeah, so Romani Huria, yeah, that's a good idea. Romani Huria is this one of the project that was done. Romani Huria means local maps. So what we've been doing Romani Huria since 2015
17:23
is this industrial training part where we did an MOU with the university and every semester, no, every end of the year, a student supposed to do industrial training, right? But previously, student were just going around and looking for industrial training to do.
17:41
So Romani Huria was to take these students and then give them this knowledge, the different type of knowledges, the data management knowledge, mapping, data correction, open source tool, et cetera. And through this Romani Huria, they were doing that, but also community was part of it.
18:01
So the student were being trained, then go to the community, they teach the community how these things are done. And then the community do some data collection. We have done a lot of testing and doing some data collection through this project and it was really a successful project. And yeah, so this is how we're trying to learn through the Resilience Academy.
18:22
How do we proceed that through the channel of the university? Any last question? Yeah, because of Romani Huria, exactly. Yeah, we have one. I think this last one, oh. Yeah, thank you very much.
18:42
I know you mentioned that how you try to make the communities use the maps and the data you produce. I'm just wondering how best you do that because most of the times, maps are produced, but they are mainly used by institutions or organizations. But how do you make that local low-level people
19:00
use these maps and data? Yeah, that's a very good question. So in Tanzania, if a local community want to move to a new place or a new barrier or a new neighborhood, they have to report to a ward level or a sub-ward level that are now moving to this area.
19:22
And they have to report every time. So this could be, okay, so this is a, you know, changing the attitude and the way people start to use. Previously, community do not know about maps and do not demand about map. But you know, it's a question of how do we, through these ways, how do you use this method
19:41
as the way to sustain? And we have some number of cases where when the community is moving to an area and we have big maps on each sub-ward office now, then the leader is really looking into, okay, so where are you going to stay? Oh, this area, this area, it floods. Just be in mind and try to have this conversation
20:02
going from the local level to try to change really the way people think and yeah, I understand that these issues were during, for example, summer where there's no rain, people move a lot to the informal setting because they don't know. And then during rain season, they get affected.
20:21
But so how do you have this conversation all through the year when you have the maps and knowledges from the local level, but also some of the community who participate then keep saying to other community members so they understand what's going in the community. Yeah, any last question?
20:41
Good, thank you so much.