Over the last few weeks researchers from University of Nairobi and Gadjah Mada University have been based at University College Dublin's Centre for Humanitarian Action. They have been finalising research outputs relating to the PRUV project and collaborating on preparing a new research proposal in follow up to the PRUV project. (l-r: Brenda Nanjala [...]
Collaborative approaches to building capacities of urban IDPs and host communities are emerging as a more effective way of confronting the root causes of protracted and secondary displacement in informal settlements in Colombia. Pablo Cortes Ferrandez (University of Deusto) has published on this topic in the latest issue of Forced Migration Review. The article focuses on [...]
Sinéad McGrath, PhD student at UCD School of Politics and International Relations, presented a paper entitled Gender, Displacement and Urban Resilience at the recent Social Practice of Human Rights conference held at University of Dayton. It draws on research conducted in PRUV localities in Nairobi, Kenya and Soacha, Colombia, in arguing for a gender lens in [...]
The PRUV Project held its International Symposium 2nd - 6th September 2019 at University of Warsaw. It was attended by over 130 students embarking on the Erasmus Mundus MSc (Humanitarian Action) programme offered by the Network for Humanitarian Action (NOHA). Presentations covered each of the PRUV project's themes including social capital, bottom-up approaches to [...]
In August 2019 the PRUV project shared its findings with residents of Altos de la Florida. The residents discussed findings in three rotating groups focusing on the themes of context (census and survey data collected in the locality during the project), vulnerability (what is vulnerability and what vulnerabilities are present in the locality?), and resilience [...]
Dominic MacSorley, CEO of Concern Worldwide, gave an inspiring keynote presentation on 2 September 2019 to over 130 students at University of Warsaw as part of the PRUV Project's International Symposium. The students are embarking on the Erasmus Mundus MSc (Humanitarian Action) programme offered by the Network for Humanitarian Action (NOHA). In his address [...]