Topics

Disaster Risk Management and Disaster Risk Reduction
- Response

Region

Client

Academia
- Andrew’s University

Service

Capacity Development

Year

2020

Serving as Adjunct Faculty for the Andrew’s University’s International Development Program Masters

Since 2002, IRMA’s Lezlie Moriniere has served as Adjunct Faculty for the Andrew’s University’s International Development Program Masters (IDP). As a core course of the IDP, Lezlie teaches developmental and humanitarian Needs Assessment in English and French.

Intensive courses have been dispensed to hundreds of developing country nationals in Italy, Kenya, Togo, Ghana, South Sudan, South Africa and Ukraine. Lezlie also regularly delivers Research Methods and Statistics curricula in remote/online contexts using Moodle.

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