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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
CRSCAD’s international Conference on Rebuilding Sustainable Communities with the Elderly and Disabled People
after Disasters held at the University of Massachusetts Boston, July 12-15, 2010.
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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
… CRSCAD’s 2008 Workshop on Rebuilding Sustainable Communities in Indonesia after the Tsunami
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.)
CRSCAD’s international Conference on Rebuilding Sustainable Communities with the Elderly and Disabled People
after Disasters held at the University of Massachusetts Boston, July 12-15, 2010.
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CRSCAD’s international Conference on Rebuilding Sustainable Communities with the Elderly and Disabled People
after Disasters held at the University of Massachusetts Boston, July 12-15, 2010.
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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: crscad@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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3 4 CRSCAD’s 2008 International Conference on Rebuilding Sustainable Communities with Children and their families
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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