Community announcements

The RISK Award, endowed with 100,000 € project funding, is jointly organised by UNDRR and Munich Re Foundation. The RISK Award 2023 focuses on early warning, particularly in building resilience to climatic risks.

The ARA has launched the Grassroots Action Research Micro-grants, a new funding opportunity for action and research entities to collaborate to unearth knowledge, ideas and opportunities for climate change adaptation in the Global South.

IOM and IDMC invite members of the DRR community to comment on a newly created set of standard displacement-related metrics and indicators which will strengthen the ability of DRR actors to integrate displacement in their work.

Our next issue of HazNet will focus on the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction was developed to guide efforts on disaster risk reduction in the period between 2015 and 2030.

Registration is now open for the COP27 Resilience Hub Virtual Platform.

The Ideathon for climate change in East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) is an opportunity to crowdsource ideas from young people everywhere about how to equip utilities in the EAP region with the tools needed to address climate risk.

The ICLEI Action Fund is a granting scheme conducted by ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability with support from Google.org to foster data-driven environmental and climate action at the local level.

The Climate Resilience Challenge is a competition for innovative, interdisciplinary, and solution-oriented ideas to build and enhance resilience in the country.

The “Knowledge into use” awards are for innovative and creative ways of facilitating the use of resilience knowledge. These could be games, cartoons, arts, theatre, exhibits of local and indigenous knowledge or audio-visual content (films, songs, etc).

The Global Resilience Partnership (GRP), through The Resilience Knowledge Coalition, is hosting a social media competition in the lead-up to the Resilience Hub at COP27.