Community announcements

In anticipation of a forthcoming replenishment of the Trust Fund for Tsunami, Disaster and Climate Preparedness, ESCAP is calling for project proposals to build and enhance tsunami, disaster and climate preparedness capacities, particularly in end-to-end early warning for coastal hazards. Assorted countries in the Indian Ocean, Southeast Asia and Pacific Island Countries may apply...

UNISDR through its regional office for the Americas is carrying out a call starting 1 July for good practices throughout Central America and the Caribbean on integrating gender and women empowerment in Early Warning Systems (EWS). Good practices will be selected based on thematic pertinency, general approach, relevance, replicability and sustainability...

The Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) is a ten-year-programme that seeks to advance and promote new approaches to disaster risk reduction science. IRDR's co-sponsors are now inviting nominations for new members of the programme's Science Committee (SC). New SC members will be appointed jointly by the co-sponsoring organisations...

The Honourable Steven Blaney, Canada’s Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness, said: 'This important investment will help reduce flood-related costs for all levels of government and help Canadians in high-risk communities avoid the heartache associated with reoccurring flooding in their communities'...

The Honourable Steven Blaney, Canada’s Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness on April 17th launched the first call for proposals for the National Disaster Mitigation Program...The investments in flood-risk identification and prevention measures through the NDMP reflect the Government’s shift towards a proactive disaster relief model that will better protect Canadians and their communities from the costs and heartache associated with reoccurring flooding...

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. Deadline now extended to April 12...

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'...