Community announcements

Raise awareness through your personal story by sharing in a 2-5 minute video how you are contributing to make your community resilient by preparing your community for disasters and/or tackling risks through innovative solutions...

The programme aims to enable greater and more effective investment in disaster resilience and earlier action to respond to natural hazards by providing decision makers with improved risk mapping and analyses, event monitoring and more reliable warning systems...

The 13th conference of the International Research Society INTERPRAEVENT ‘Living with natural risks’ invites contributions related to risk governance and policies, data acquisition and modelling, hazard and risk assessment, hazard and risk mitigation and emergency management...

'The most resilient communities are those that are best at preparing for the worst,' said Dr. Judith Rodin, President of The Rockefeller Foundation. 'The National Disaster Resilience Competition Summit offers leaders in every state the opportunity to jumpstart their own resilience plans so that they can be ready for whatever comes their way'...

You are invited to participate in a blogging, vlogging (video blogging) and sound art competition exploring how you experience climate change today. In one adaptation-related category, CDKN asks 'How is climate change affecting your family, your life, your work?' Share your story of dealing with the impacts of climate change...

The first annual 'International and comparative disaster law essay contest', co-sponsored by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, aims to stimulate creative thinking and analysis about disaster law in a comparative and/or international perspective...

'It would also be good if IT experts, who are interested in disaster management, could get on-the-ground experience by being involved in real disaster situations,' Onno W. Purbo, a Surya University IT expert who is often involved in IT for disaster risk management initiatives...

Are you interested at speaking at the Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience Asia conference? The Critical Infrastructure Protection and Resilience Asia Advisory Committee are inviting abstracts for consideration for inclusion in the conference...

The call seeks to continue supporting efforts of local governments in the Americas, including the Caribbean, to advance the building resilience in their communities. This time the call is focused on supporting proposals for the exchange of experiences that address topics related to integration, in the local development process, of policies on disaster risk reduction and adaptation to climate change...

'We hope people around the world will respond to our call by proposing the names of individuals or groups that have the ability to inspire new ways of thinking about the way we develop our societies and treat the planet,'