Building Universities in Leading Disaster Resilience

BUiLD stands for “Building Universities in Leading Disaster Resilience”.Opportunities for HEIs to promote disaster resilience are multi-layered and range from awareness raising within individuals, curriculum development, building institutional disaster resilience and contributing to community resilience to supporting regional, national and international disaster resilience strategies. Comprehensive endeavours within HEIs to build disaster resilience must be strategic as well as operationally and academically embedded, and must be built on a proactive engagement with external stakeholder groups The BUiLD project is designed to contribute to the modernisation of HEI governance across Indonesia, the improvement of the management and functioning of HEIs, the strengthening of relations between HEIs and the wider social and economic environment, as well as curriculum development. It does so through the creation of a comprehensive disaster resilience framework for HEIs in Indonesia with six associated primary outputs, which areBUiLD Best Practice Model for HEI GovernanceBUiLD Disaster Response and Recovery BlueprintBUiLD Curriculum Benchmarks for Disaster ManagementBUiLD Disaster Awareness Campaign and Training MethodologyBUiLD Disaster Resilience Centres of ExcellenceBUiLD Disaster Resilience NetworkThe project will create a Centre of Excellence in Disaster Resilience in each participating Indonesian HEI. These centres will oversee the implementation of a comprehensive Disaster Resilience Framework within the respective HEIs. This framework integrates resilience capacity building at multiple levels of HEIs, including the individual, programme, institutional and network level. It addresses several aspect of resilience capacity building, including HEI governance, disaster response and recovery capability, disaster awareness education, curriculum development, internal and external information exchange and knowledge transfer. Through this, the project aims to inc