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Announcements from and for the global disaster risk reduction community.

This is your space to stay informed and engage with the global disaster risk reduction (DRR) community. Here, we share important updates, calls to action, and collaborative opportunities for professionals, organizations, and experts dedicated to reducing disaster risks.

Whether you're contributing insights, participating in events, or submitting your own initiatives, your involvement is key to driving meaningful progress in DRR. Explore opportunities to connect, learn, and take action to help build a more resilient world.

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Call for good practices: Integrating gender in Early Warning Systems

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...
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
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Call for nominations: IRDR Science Committee members

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...
Integrated Research on Disaster Risk
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Canada calls for National Disaster Mitigation Program proposals

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'...
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction – Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean
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Canada: Harper Government calls for National Disaster Mitigation Program proposals

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...
Government of Canada
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Deadline extended: #MyResilienceStory video contest

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...
Global Disaster Preparedness Center
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Video Story Contest #MyResilienceStory

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...
Global Disaster Preparedness Center
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Big Data for Resilience: realising the benefits for developing countries - Scoping exercise call

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...
Economic and Social Research Council
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INTERPRAEVENT 2016 in Lucerne, Switzerland - Call for papers

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...
INTERPRAEVENT International Research Society
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US: The Rockefeller Foundation hosts Resilience Summit to help eligible jurisdictions prepare for $1billion National Disaster Resilience Competition

'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'...
Rockefeller Foundation, the
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Story and sound art competition: Share your ideas on reaching 'zero poverty, zero emissions'

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...
Climate and Development Knowledge Network

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