Community announcements

The competition will support innovative resilience projects at the local level while encouraging communities to adopt policy changes and activities that plan for the impacts of extreme weather and climate change and rebuild affected areas to be better prepared for the future. As last month’s National Climate Assessment made clear, climate change is no longer a distant threat...

The ND-GAIN Corporate Adaptation Prize recognizes organizations that have made measurable contributions in creating resilience or adaptation to climate change. Prizes will be awarded to both multi-national and local corporations...

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.

Esta convocatoria está destinada a representantes de agencias de gobierno, organizaciones no gubernamentales, organizaciones de la sociedad civil, comunidades y las agencias de cooperación desde el nivel local, nacional, subregional y regional. La fecha límite para la recepción de propuestas es el 23 de marzo de 2014 a media noche...

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. Applications are welcome from governments, intergovernmental organizations, UN agencies, funds and programmes, academic institutions or non-governmental organizations...

The call for applications for the 2nd ANDROID Doctoral School in the area of Disaster Resilience is now open. After immensely successful series of doctoral school activities in 2013 the ANDROID network is now announcing the second iteration of its doctoral school to be held in 2014...

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction is issuing a Fourth Call for Abstracts as part of the development of the 2015 Global Assessment Report (GAR15). The GAR15 will be published prior to the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in 2015, in which governments will adopt a successor framework to the Hyogo Framework for Action...

ESCAP is calling for project proposals from governments, intergovernmental organizations, UN agencies, funds and programmes, academic institutions and non-governmental organizations to build and enhance tsunami, disaster and climate preparedness capacities, particularly in end-to-end early warning for coastal hazards...

'We invite all participants, youth, students, media, film makers, experts and the general public to participate in the video competition and to see how they view disaster risk reduction issues. Their voice matters to us especially now we are discussing the successor of the Hyogo Framework for Action' said Brigitte Leoni of the UNISDR Asia Pacific office...

The Center for Excellence in Disaster Management & Humanitarian Assistance invites submissions to the next issue of Liaison, a journal focusing on sharing knowledge from applied research to improve disaster management...