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Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters

(CRSCAD)

in collaboration with

University College

University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

Professional Development Program Global Post-Disaster Reconstruction and Management

Certificate

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Global Post-Disaster Reconstruction and Management Certificate

The Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters (CRSCAD), in collaboration

with University College, offers a non-credit Professional Development Certificate Program in

Global Post-Disaster Reconstruction and Management. With the growing need for developing

the expertise of project and performance management during post-disaster recovery and

reconstruction, the certificate program provides a chance to explore new career paths or enhance

the one you are on.

The aim is to develop a national and an international capacity to address the horrendous

consequences of the various forms of disaster which millions of people face every year,

everywhere. The Certificate Program seeks to meet different participants’ needs and abilities by

being offered totally online. Some on-campus courses are available. It provides a unique

opportunity for participants of diverse accreditations to develop not only an expertise in a variety

of components of post-disaster recovery and reconstruction, but also the broader skills associated

with project and performance management that can be utilized in a wide array of faculties.

Instructors include Professor Adenrele Awotona, a specialist in international development

planning and disaster studies; Dr. Jennifer Clifford, an environmental economist who is currently

a lecturer in economics at the University of Massachusetts Boston and Harvard University; Dr.

Linda Hartling, an expert on relational-cultural theory; Elaine Enarson, a leading disaster

sociologist; Dr. Michael Britton, a practicing psychologist and scholar; Dr. Ulrich (Uli)

Spalthoff, Director of Media Development for Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies; Tim

Kress, an enterprise project manager and consultant in the communications, banking, and

software industries; and, Elizabeth Bury, an independent consultant and an Associate at the

Collins Center for Public Management at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

This online and “on-land” non-credit certificate program consists of four required and

one elective courses. Upon successful completion of each required course, the participant

receives 3.5 Continuing Education Units (CEUs). The required courses are: Reconstruction after

the cameras have gone: Issues and Best Practices; Climate change, Global food and Water

resources; Practical Project Management; and, Human dignity, Human rights and sustainable

Post-disaster Reconstruction. Students may choose one of the following electives: Social

Vulnerability Approach to Disasters (3.5 CEUs); or, Performance Management in Government

and Non-Profits (2.0 CEUs.)

In addition to the academic program, the student will develop the following skills in:

Research and advocacy; Problem solving, planning and organizing; Data collation, analysis,

synthesis and evaluation; Creative thinking and Decision-making; Oral, written and electronic

communication; Public policy formulation and implementation; Influencing policies and

negotiation; Time and project management; and, Co-operation, interpersonal relationships,

teamwork and leadership.

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Required courses Reconstruction after the Cameras Have Gone: Issues and Best Practices (3.5 CEUs)

Climate Change, Global food and Water Resources (3.5 CEUs)

Practical Project Management (3.5 CEUs)

Human Dignity, Human rights and Sustainable Post-Disaster Reconstruction (3.5 CEUs)

Electives Students may choose one of these topics as an elective

Social Vulnerability Approach to Disasters* (3.5 CEUs)

Performance Management in Government and Non-Profits (2.0 CEUs)

Course descriptions

Reconstruction after the Cameras Have Gone: Issues and Best Practices

Almost every day, in recent times, most parts of the world are inflicted with one type of

disaster or another. Indeed, images of horror and destruction, dislocation and starvation, as

well as of those of dying children and grieving women have become common in the

newspapers and on television screens. Ironically, in the case of developing countries, the

tragic impacts of disasters are further exacerbated by increased level of poverty, rapid and

uncontrolled urbanization, and the continuous changes in the climatic, political and economic

circumstances.

So what can be done to alleviate the suffering of the victims and to support them in

rebuilding their lives and homes? How can we intervene to mitigate the impact of disasters?

How could future disasters be prevented? How could the tragedy turn into an opportunity for

reconstruction and development?

Climate Change, Global food and Water Resources

This course will examine the causes and consequences of climate change with a special focus

on food and water resources. It will analyze proposals to prevent and mitigate global warming

with both proactive and responsive policies. The course will investigate policy changes to our

world agricultural systems that will promote long term food and water security. Weekly case

studies will supplement reading assignments and facilitate discussions centered on the current

issues. Through this course students will gain a working knowledge of the politics, economics,

and science affecting water and food issues. Economics is vitally important and at the core of

many of our most challenging food and water problems and solutions, hence, natural resource

economics will be a major part of this course.

Practical Project Management

Project management is an essential skill in today’s business world. Organizations are faced

with increasing pressure to complete projects within shorter time frames and with smaller

budgets than in the past. Professionals need a workable method to ensure that their projects are

profitable and aligned with the strategic goals of their organization.





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Practical Project Management provides professionals with the essential skills they need to

succeed in an increasingly competitive job market. Based on The Project Management Body of

Knowledge®, this highly interactive course combines expert instruction with case studies and

team exercises. In addition to technical competencies, the course covers the human and

political aspects of project management by using examples from students’ own projects.

Social Vulnerability Approach to Disasters

The course brings disaster social science to the next generation of disaster managers to help

build a science-based and human rights approach to risk reduction. While many approaches to

social vulnerability exist, we will take a sociological approach that sees social vulnerabilities as

social productions which may be reflected, reinforced and contested in disasters, and can be

reduced through disaster management. Readings and discussion, primarily but not exclusively

focused on the United States and similar societies, introduce students to the growing body of

literature on factors shaping social vulnerability to hazards and disasters, and hence to disaster

resilience. Rather than examining “special needs” we take an approach that looks for

intersecting patterns of power and privilege, vulnerability and capacity in everyday life, which

then positions individuals and groups differently in the face of natural, technological and

human-induced hazards which may then become disasters.

Human Dignity, Human Rights and Sustainable Post-disasters Reconstruction

Understanding the intersecting dynamics of human dignity, humiliation, and human rights in

today’s world is crucial for those working in post-disaster reconstruction. Greater awareness of

human rights ideals brings to the forefront the risk that post-disaster strategies and responses,

once accepted and considered helpful, are perceived as deeply humiliating. This course will

explore how globalization dramatically alters how we engage in helping relationships at all

levels. It proposes that post-disaster reconstruction can be an opportunity to implement

innovative and sustainable solutions that support the healing, health, and dignity of all involved

in post-disaster recovery.

Performance Management in Government and Non-Profits Governments around the world have increasingly come to realize the value of setting goals,

measuring performance and using the resulting data as a core management tool to improve

societal outcomes. This management approach is often referred to as "performance

management" or "managing for results." Experience has shown that, when well used, goals and

measurement can greatly improve the operation and understanding of government programs

and priorities. Experience has also shown that misuse of goals and measures, especially when

combined with incentives, can provoke dysfunctional, performance-dampening responses.

This course explores what performance management means and how government agencies can

adopt this management approach. Students will learn how to develop skills to refine the way

goals and strategies are articulated so that they can be effectively measured, and to select

practical performance measures. Also covered are how to identify target audiences, present

data clearly, and to analyze and use data to improve performance. Using theoretical readings,

case studies, and exercises, the course provides a conceptual grasp of the underlying dynamics

employed when you manage for results. It also provides a practical understanding of how to

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apply performance management tools successfully at all levels of government across policy

areas.

The course consists of six online modules and one online group meeting during the fourth

week. Upon successful completion of this course, you will receive a certificate of completion

and 2.0 Continuing Education Units

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Instructors

Professor Adenrele Awotona, PhD (University of Cambridge, UK), a specialist in

international development planning and disaster studies; and, the Director of the Center for

Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters.

Michael Britton, Ph.D., is a practicing psychologist and scholar.

Elizabeth Bury is an independent consultant and an Associate at the Collins Center for

Public Management at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Jennifer Janisch Clifford, Ph.D. is an environmental and natural resource economist

specializing in economic valuation, resource conservation, and incentive instruments

Elaine Enarson is a leading American disaster sociologist.

Linda Hartling, Ph.D, is the past Associate Director of the Jean Baker Miller Training

Institute at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College, Boston, Massachusetts,

the largest women’s research center in the United States.

Tim Kress has been an enterprise project manager, technical advisor and consultant for the

past 16 years in the communications, banking, and software industries.

Ulrich (Uli) Spalthoff (Dr. rer. nat.) Director of Media Development for Human Dignity

and Humiliation Studies

Program Staff Professor Adenrele Awotona, Program Director

Jennifer Brunson Parrado, Research Assistant

Amanda Achin, Internet Media and Research Assistant

Angela Castillo, Administrative Assistant

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Left: UMass Boston Dean Steve Crosby and Dean Jane O'Brien Friederichs of MassBay Community College,

Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts with Workshop participants

Right: Chancellor J. Keith Motley with University of As-Syafi’iyah Rector Tutty Alawiyah

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About the University of Massachusetts Boston and the Center

for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters

University of Massachusetts Boston

Founded in 1964, the University of Massachusetts Boston (UMass Boston), one of five campuses

of the University of Massachusetts system, is nationally recognized as a model of excellence for

urban universities. The institution’s mission is to promote access and opportunity for all and to

respond effectively to the educational needs of a diverse student population in an urban setting.

The institution, which enrolls more than 15,000 students each year, offers liberal arts and

professional programs on the graduate and undergraduate levels, with doctoral programs

addressing issues of particular importance to urban environments and people. Our curricula,

pedagogical approaches, and financial and academic support services address the specific needs

both of traditional and nontraditional students from varied social, cultural, and ethnic

backgrounds.

The University of Massachusetts Boston with the Boston skyline in the background

The University of Massachusetts Boston is surrounded by Dorchester Bay, a sublet of the Atlantic Ocean

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The Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters (CRSCAD)

works in close collaboration with practitioners, academics, researchers, policy makers and

grassroots organizations in the United States of America and globally in their search for the most

appropriate and sustainable ways to rebuild their communities after disasters. It assists local,

national and international agencies as well as the victims of disasters to develop practical and

long-term solutions to the social, economic and environmental consequences of disasters. It

provides expert advice and training to communities which have been devastated by disasters. It

hosts international scholars, for specified periods of time, who wish to work on the problems

which they consider essential to the rebuilding of their communities after disasters. It also assists

with building local capacity to address the horrendous consequences of the various forms of

disaster which millions of people face every year, everywhere. The Center engages in innovative

research on various disaster-related topics with a focus on vulnerable populations (disabled

people, the elderly, children, women, the poor, minorities, etc.)



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CRSCAD’s 2008 Workshop on Rebuilding Sustainable Communities in Indonesia after the Tsunami

(Top left: CRSCAD Director Professor Adenrele Awotona with University of As-Syafi’iyah Rector Tutty Alawiyah,

Dr. Ferdy Firdus, the University’s Vice Rector, and Dr. Dewi Motik Pramono, Chairwoman of the Indonesian

Women’s Alliance for Sustainable Development)

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5 6 CRSCAD’s 2007 International Conference on Rebuilding Sustainable Communities in Iraq

Photo 1: CRSCAD Director Professor Adenrele Awotona with Dr. Rajaa Al-Khuzai, a former member of the Iraqi

National Assembly

Photo 2: Chancellor J. Keith Motley, Professor Adenrele Awotona and the Indonesian delegation

Photo 3: A section of conference participants

Photo 4: Dr. Riadh Tappuni, Former Coordinator of the Iraq Task Force and Leader of the Urban Development &

Housing Policies Team at the United Nations

Photo 5: Dr. Morad Abou-Sabe', Former President & Assistant Chancellor, Misr University for Science &

Technology, Cairo, Egypt

Photo 6: Dr. Abdul Hadi Al Khalili, a neurosurgeon and the Cultural Attaché of the Iraq Embassy in Washington

D.C.

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CRSCAD’s April 2010 International Workshop on “After the Cameras have gone – Rebuilding Sustainable

Communities in Haiti after the January 12th

Earthquake”

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Contact us

For more information on CRSCAD, please visit:

http://www.rebuilding.umb.edu/ OR

Telephone: 617.287.7116

E-mail: [email protected]

http://www.rebuilding.umb.edu/

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Appendix Biographical Sketches of Faculty

Adenrele Awotona is a professor of architecture, international

development and urban studies. He is a specialist in disaster studies and

the director of the Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after

Disasters. He has been a principal investigator on major projects funded by

various agencies, including the Boston Foundation, the U.S. Department of

Energy, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S.

Department of Education, the British Government Department for

International Development, the United Nations Center for Human

Settlements, the United Nations Development Program, and the European

Union. Through research, consultancy and teaching, he has professional

experience in several countries in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East,

South America, and the Caribbean.

He earned his Doctorate degree from the University of Cambridge, United

Kingdom. He is the former Dean of the College of Public and Community

Service at the University of Massachusetts Boston.

Professor Awotona has published extensively.

Michael Britton, Ed.D., Ph.D., is a practicing psychologist and scholar

who conducted interview research with retired U.S. military

commanders/planners who had dealt with nuclear weapons during the Cold

War, exploring their experience of the moral responsibilities involved. He

has lectured internationally on the implications of neuroscience for our

global future, and provides training for conflict resolution specialists on

applications of neuroscience to their work.

Elizabeth Bury is an independent consultant and an Associate at the

Collins Center for Public Management at UMass Boston. She has two

decades experience in the fields of program planning, evaluation and

performance management. She specializes in advising government

agencies and nonprofit program managers on the use of performance

indicator systems to enable results based management. She has also

overseen a variety of evaluations involving both qualitative and

quantitative methodologies, including sophisticated econometric analyses,

large surveys and structured program reviews. She has taught previously at

West Virginia University and Community College of Micronesia. Ms.

Bury holds a Master’s Degree in Regional Development Planning from the

University of California, Berkeley She also completed a Diversity

Management Certificate from NTL Institute and holds a US Government

Secret Security Clearance.

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Biographical Sketches of Some of the Program Instructors and Staff (continued)

Jennifer Janisch Clifford, Ph.D. is an environmental and natural resource

economist specializing in economic valuation, resource conservation, and

incentive instruments. She has worked on several water projects, including

coastal zone and coral reef protection for the government of Belize, benefit

cost analysis of the Charles River cleanup, and a major contingent valuation

study of the Miyun Reservoir for the Chinese government. Currently she is

teaching semester-long courses in environmental economics, natural

resources and sustainable development, environmental policy, and

economic theory at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, Harvard

Summer School, and Harvard University extension school’s graduate

program in Sustainability & Environmental Management and presenting

environmental economics seminars for intensive executive education

programs at the Kennedy School of Government.

Elaine Enarson is a disaster sociologist whose personal experience in

hurricane Andrew sparked extensive work on gender, vulnerability and

community resilience. Now an independent scholar based in Colorado, she

co-founded the global Gender and Disaster Network and the US-based

Gender and Disaster Resilience Alliance. Elaine was lead course developer

of a FEMA course on social vulnerability, and initiated and directed a

grassroots risk assessment project with women in the Caribbean as well as

the on-line Gender and Disaster Sourcebook project. She consults

internationally on gender and disaster risk reduction, develops gender

mainstreaming materials and teaches on-line for US and Canadian

universities. She is now writing on gender, climate change adaptation and

disaster risk reduction. Her monograph on Women and Disaster Resilience

in the United States is under development and she is co-editor of Women,

Gender and Disaster: Global Issues and Initiatives and of the forthcoming

reader The Women of Katrina: How Gender, Race and Class Matter in an

American Disaster.

Linda Hartling, Ph.D., who conducted the earliest research assessing the

experience of humiliation, is an expert on relational-cultural theory. She is

the past Associate Director of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute at the

Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College, Boston, Massachusetts,

the largest women’s research center in the United States.

Tim Kress has been an enterprise project manager, technical advisor and

consultant for the past 16 years in the communications, banking, and

software industries. He specializes in helping professionals and

organizations develop their project management capabilities.

Tim has taught project management for over 9 years. He teaches the

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classroom as well as the online version of Practical Project Management.

Tim holds a BA in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts

Amherst and a MBA from Johnson & Wales University. He is PMP

certified by the Project Management Institute.

Ulrich (Uli) Spalthoff (Dr. rer. nat.) Director of Media Development for

Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies. Former Director of Advanced

Technologies at Alcatel-Lucent in Germany and France. As Director of

Advanced Technologies, his leadership included mentoring start-ups and

consulting high-tech companies in IT, telecommunication and

semiconductor industries from countries all over the world.

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after Disasters

Photo 1: Keynote speaker Governor Scott McCallum; Photo 2: Professor Russell Schutt (second from left) and other

participants; Photo 3: Keynote speaker Mark Sloan; Photo 4: Panelists YinYin Zeng and Beryl Cheal

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Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters

(CRSCAD) University of Massachusetts Boston, USA

Mission

The primary purpose of the Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters

(CRSCAD) is to work in close collaboration with practitioners, academics, researchers, policy

makers and grassroots organizations in the United States of America and in all the continents of

the world in their search for the most appropriate and sustainable ways to rebuild their

communities after disasters. Examples of disasters are framed by bad governance and poverty,

environmental pollution, HIV/AIDS, wars, conflicts, severe weather-related events, earthquakes,

large-scale attacks on civilian populations, technological catastrophes, and influenza pandemics.

Scholarship, service, consultancy, workshops and training, outreach and education as well as

creative work are key components of CRSCAD’s mission.

We will accomplish our mission by

Engaging in multidisciplinary and cross disciplinary research activities

Promoting bottom-up community participatory approach as a means to improve top- down

national policy and program design and implementation

Organizing and hosting seminars, workshops and conferences on various aspects of post-

disaster reconstruction in partnership with public and private sector agencies in all the

continents of the world

Assisting local, national and international agencies as well as the victims of disasters to

develop practical, sustainable and long-term solutions to the social, economic and

environmental consequences of disasters

Providing expert advice and training to communities which have been devastated by disasters

Hosting international scholars, for specified periods of time, who wish to work on the

problems which they consider essential to the rebuilding of their communities after disasters

Assisting in building local capacity in the field of post-disaster reconstruction as well as in

technology transfer

Building strategic partnerships with non-governmental organizations (NGOs), Grassroots

organizations, local and international research centers, among others.

Gender issues in disaster research, planning and practice

Vision

CRSCAD seeks to be recognized as one of the leading academic centers in the global

community addressing the issue of the creation of safe communities for vulnerable populations

after disasters, specifically children, women, the elderly, people with disabilities, national

minorities and the poor. It is a dynamic educational unit that cultivates alliances with local,

national and international agencies, government and academic institutions, NGOs, as well as

with for-profit and not-for-profit bodies which share common interests in the area of post-

disaster reconstruction globally.

For additional information, please kindly visit:

http://www.rebuilding.umb.edu/

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