The Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) wants to highlight disaster preparedness efforts and best practices of disaster risk management around the world by showing how volunteers and disaster practitioners are working towards resilience through simple actions that help individuals and communities prepare for disasters.
Call to action:
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.
Steps:
1. Use your smartphone, tablet or video camera and capture in a 2-5 minute video how you are contributing to make your community disaster resilient and the lessons you learned from it.
2. Upload your video to your YouTube channel with the title #MyResilienceStory and your name. Write a brief description of your story including the city and/or country.
a. See guidelines on how to upload a video to YouTube in the related links below
3. Create an account in Preparecenter.org and share the YouTube link of your video as a resource.
a. See guidelines on how to create an account in Preparecenter.org in the related links below
b. See guidelines on how to add your #MyResilienceStory YouTube video in Preparecenter.org as a resource in the related links below
4. Share through your social networks the Preparecenter.org link of your #MyResilienceStory video with the hashtags #MyResilienceStory, #Road2Sendai and #WCDRR. Ask your friends to share your video as well. The number of views will increase your chances of getting selected. Up to five winners will be selected.
a. See guidelines on how to share on social media your #MyResilienceStory video through Preparecenter.org in the related links below
Key questions to consider:
- How is your community resilient? (See description of resilience below)
- Highlight how you “Prepare. Innovate. Learn. Together.” by addressing the following questions: (May answer one or all of them)
- Prepare: What’s your simple solution to prepare for disasters?
- Innovate: What’s your unique approach to community resilience?
- Learn: What have you learned in helping your community become disaster resilient?
- Together: How you share what you’ve learned with your community?
Timeframe
Video Story submissions will be accepted from March 3rd until April 3rd at 23:59 Washington D.C time.
Winners will be notified via email on April 6th and announced on Preparecenter.org on April 10th.
Contest Terms
Up to five winners will be selected. All winners will be awarded with a special recognition from the GDPC and will receive as a prize:
- 1st place: Ipad Air 16 GB & Ipod touch 16 GB
- 2nd place: Ipad mini 16 GB & Ipod touch 16 GB
- 3rd place: Ipad mini 16 GB
- 4th & 5th place: Ipod touch 16 GB
All participants will have the chance to highlight their efforts on Preparecenter.org.
Selected finalist will have their stories shared in stories section in Preparecenter.org.
All stories submitted will agree/consent to have their videos shared on our website and on our YouTube channel.
The GDPC may approach any of the contest participants to further collaborate with them and develop a case study about their innovative approach to resilience.
The winners will be chosen by a jury selected by the GDPC which will rate the submitted video stories based upon a combination of the following criteria:
- Creativity and quality of the video
- Message content of the video
- Number of views that the video generated
- Innovative solution approach
- Lessons learned from the message that can be applied to other contexts
The winners of the contest will be notified via email and they will need to submit their address so the GDPC can send the granted price.
Participants can submit just one video, either as an individual or a team. However, just one prize will be awarded per participant or group of participants.
Videos should be submitted in any of the following languages: English, Spanish, French, Arabic, and German.
Participants don’t need to be affiliated to any Red Cross or Red Crescent Society to participate in this contest.
See Official Rules for restrictions that apply in the related links below.
About the GDPC
The Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) is a resource center that promotes innovation in disaster preparedness and supports research and knowledge sharing amongst disaster preparedness professionals worldwide. Established in 2012 by the American Red Cross and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the primary aim is to strengthen the disaster preparedness capacities of the global Red Cross and Red Crescent network in order to help safeguard communities from future disasters.