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Global Risk Forum (GRF Davos)
- Organization type:Non-Governmental Organization
General contact information
- URL: http://www.grforum.org
- Address: Promenade 35
- Postal Code: 7270
- City: Davos Platz
- Country: Switzerland
- Telephone: +41 81 414 16 00
- Fax: +41 (81) 414 16 01
- Email: info@grforum.org
- Head of the organization: Walter Ammann
Mission & Disaster Reduction Profile
“From Thoughts to Action”– the motto of GRF Davos.
Through its various activities GRF Davos aims at serving as a centre of knowledge and know-how exchange for the application of contemporary risk management strategies, tools and practical solutions. GRF Davos aims at reducing vulnerability for all types of risks and disasters to protect life, property, environment, critical infrastructure and all means of business for the worldwide community on a sustainable basis.
Through its various activities GRF Davos aims at serving as a centre of knowledge and know-how exchange for the application of contemporary risk management strategies, tools and practical solutions. GRF Davos aims at reducing vulnerability for all types of risks and disasters to protect life, property, environment, critical infrastructure and all means of business for the worldwide community on a sustainable basis.
- IDRC Davos: Integrative risk management in a changing world - pathways to a resilient society
14 Aug 2012 - The JTI Foundation resilience award: Call for award entries
19 Apr 2012 - IDRC Davos 2012: Call for abstracts - deadline extended
16 Apr 2012 - GRF launches project call in support of the Japanese people
29 Apr 2011 - IDRC Davos 2010: Publication launch of 'Microsurance - an innovative tool for risk and disaster management'
30 May 2010 - Call for papers: IDRC Davos 2010
29 Oct 2009 - MOU signed between the EC and the Global Risk Forum Davos
24 Jul 2009
Statements & Presentations
- International journal of disaster risk reduction
2012 - 3rd international disaster and risk conference IDRC Davos 2010: major conference outcomes
2010 - Microinsurance: an innovative tool for risk and disaster mangement
2010 - IDRC Davos 2008: '100 Ideas for Action' to support the Hyogo Framework for Action
2009
- IDRC Davos 2014: 5th International disaster and risk conference
24-28 Aug 2014 - 2nd GRF one health summit
17-20 Nov 2013 - UNCCD 2nd scientific conference: Economic assessment of desertification, sustainable land management and resilience of arid, semi-arid and dry sub-humid areas
09-12 Apr 2013 - Business continuity through integrative risk management – Prepare for the unexpected in times of international crisis
31 Aug 2012 - 4th International disaster and risk conference IDRC Davos 2012
26-30 Aug 2012 - GRF one health summit: One health - one planet - one future
19-23 Feb 2012 - Disaster emergency surgery workshop Davos 2011
10 Dec 2011 - Business continuity in times of international crisis
15-16 Sep 2011 - The socio-economics of desertification, land degradation and drought
26 Jan 2011 - 3rd International disaster and risk conference IDRC Davos 2010
30 May - 03 Jun 2010
- Project management internship
30 Sep 2010 - Business management internship
30 Sep 2010 - Project coordinator in research and development
30 Sep 2010 - IDRC Davos 2010 internship positions
31 Mar 2010 - Programme coordinator
6 Mar 2009
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Working Areas
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- Community-based DRR
- Structural Safety
- Public-private Partnerships
- Governance
- Climate Change
- Social Impacts & Resilience
- Media
- Urban Risk & Planning
- Civil Society/NGOs
- Disaster Risk Management
- Information Management
- Insurance & Risk Transfer
- Water
- Health & Health Facilities
- Food Security & Agriculture
- Risk Identification & Assessment
- Economics of DRR
- Capacity Development
- Environment
- Critical Infrastructure
- Recovery
- GIS & Mapping
- Hazards
- Tsunami
- Epidemic & Pandemic
- Earthquake
- Drought
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