Periperi U is a platform for university partnerships to reduce disaster risks in Africa. It stands for ‘Partners Enhancing Resilience for People Exposed to Risks’ - with a special focus on advancing university action on risk and vulnerability reduction in Africa.

The goal of Periperi U is to reduce disaster risks in among African countries through improved national and local disaster risk management, due to enhanced strategic human capacity to integrate risk reduction into critical developmental sectors and programmes. The partners of Periperi U believe this can accomplished through building and embedding sustainable ‘multi-tasking’ capabilities in disaster risk and vulnerability reduction capacity building in 12 selected institutions of higher learning in Africa consistent with global disaster reduction priorities reflected in the 2015 Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction.