Community announcements

Understanding Risk is accepting proposals for both technical sessions and side events for the Understanding Risk Forum in May 2018. Technical sessions on topics such as machine learning, communicating risk information, and behaviour change using risk communication are especially sought after.

The International Organisation for Standardization (ISO) is calling on international climate experts to get involved in the drafting of a new ISO standard on “Climate Change Adaptation – A Guidance to Vulnerability Assessment”. A uniform approach to vulnerability assessments will allow for actors to work consistently based on internationally agreed procedures.

UNISDR-Africa seeks to document the good practices and lessons learned from youth engagement and related activities in the field of disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. The publication will include success stories and visions of the youth to enhance resilience in Africa. Contributions are invited from individuals, organisations and youth networks.

Call for authors for white paper on next generation disaster data infrastructure, with a focus on (1) effective big disaster data collection, fusion, exchange, and query, (2) real-time big data analysis and decision making and (3) user-friendly big data visualization.

Can you help crack the code to leverage risk data in ways that generate real world action and protection from natural hazards? What examples can you share of how risk data has been used practically and effectively to spur decisions by national and local authorities, the private sector, communities or individuals?

Nominations for the Hamaguchi Award for individuals and/or organizations that have made significant contributions to the enhancement of coastal resilience against tsunamis, storm surge and other coastal disasters are open until June 30, 2017.

In recognition of the many community focused inspiring DRR work, the UN MGCY would like to invite youth/youth-led organizations to submit a case study of good DRR practice or action to be showcased at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GPDRR) later this year.

The Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance invites article submissions for the next issue of Liaison, CFE-DM’s journal of civil-military disaster management and humanitarian relief collaborations. The theme for the Winter 2017 issue is Regional Cooperation in Disaster Management.

The Water Youth Network (WYN) in partnership with Associated Programme on Flood Management (APFM) and Integrated Drought Management Programme (IDMP) have organized a competition for young people (below 35 years) and youth-led organizations that are currently working on any project and or have innovative solutions to flood and drought-related problems.

The 2017 Best Climate Practices Contest aims to award and promote actionable ideas and concrete projects designed to support urban and/or rural communities in preparing and responding to climate disasters, improving local resilience through enhanced preparedness (ex-ante) and/or recovery (ex-post) capacity.