Building Resilient Communities Through Geospatial Innovations
Resilience Academy connects talented youth with geospatial technologies and real-world climate challenges. By empowering students and communities to create, use, and share open data and knowledge, we are building resilient futures across Africa.
community members engaged
new skills generated
geospatial datasets shared
online training materials
partner organizations
Our Story
From a project to a community
Most development projects end when the funding ends. Resilience Academy did the opposite.
It was founded as a project
The World Bank established Resilience Academy as the education and skills pillar of the Tanzania Urban Resilience Programme, to close two gaps at once: the missing local climate-risk data, and the missing digital skills among young people.
It became a community
When the programme cycle concluded, the Academy did not close. The universities signed an agreement to carry it forward and now steward it themselves, with a Secretariat
It is now a model that travels
Because the community and its services are real and valued, new partners fund them and new countries adopt them, from Tanga and Mwanza to Kenya and beyond.
What we do
Areas of our focus
Our impact
Real skills, real data, real cities
community members engaged
new skills generated
geospatial datasets shared
online training materials
partner organizations
Our impact
Real skills, real data, real cities
community members engaged
new skills generated
geospatial datasets shared
online training materials
partner organizations
Connecting people, data, and innovation to build resilient African cities.
We are connecting People, Data and Innovation through Resilience Academy Community of Practice (CoP) which supports collaboration, knowledge exchange and learning between individuals and organizations having passion to secure resilient urban development in Africa through youth engagement, community approaches, open geospatial data and digital tools.
This CoP is an initiative of the Tanzania Resilience Academy for transfer and scaling of Resilience Academy movement across Africa.
Are you interested to join the Resilience Academy Community of Practice?
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Building climate agency through geospatial and challenge-based learning – reflections of the Shape2Gether project
Authors: Niina Käyhkö, Sanna Mäki, Jukka Käyhkö The Erasmus+ higher education cooperation project “Shape2Gether” (Shaping Innovations in Education for Sustainable Development: Contextualizing Geosciences, New Technologies, and Serious Games with Climate Change, 2024–2026) brought together seven university partners and one company from across Europe to transform education for sustainable development. The project aimed to integrate […]
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Resilience Academy delivers four-day training on geospatial data collection, quality management, and sharing in the Climate Risk Database across two Tanzanian cities.
By Msilikale Msilanga, Amedeus Kimaro and Massoud Hamad In March 2026, the Resilience Academy conducted two rounds of a four-day training on Geospatial Data Collection, Data Quality Management and Sharing in the Climate Risk Database. The first round took place in Tanga from 9 to 12 March, and the second round followed in Mwanza from […]
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Shaping Together in Finland – Sharing the Shape2Gether Experiences in Turku
The Shape2Gether -project is about shaping innovations in education for sustainable development: contextualizing geosciences, new technologies, and serious games with climate change. If you wish to explore insights from the three summer schools that were organized during this project, you can find the Norway blog post here, the Malta blog post here, and the Germany […]
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85 students and alumni engaged in the 2025 Data Visualization Challenge to develop geovisualization solutions supporting urban water and climate resilience decision-making in Tanga and Mwanza.
By Msilikale Msilanga Young people develop the most robust skills when they engage in hands-on work on real-world problems. Resilience Academy organized another visualization challenge for 2025 as part of ProWA-SASA project, collaborating with partners like GIZ and ProWAS SASA Partners from Mwanza and Tanga cities. This initiative provided university students and recent graduates with […]
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