Community announcements

Announcements from and for the global disaster risk reduction community.

These news articles request for your engagement as a member of the DRR community and invite you to participate in a specific effort or event.

LGBTQI+ flag in the wind
The UCL Centre for Gender and Disaster and DRR Dynamics are working on developing a reference guide on LGBTQIA+ people and disasters. Contribute your work!
University College London
United Nations General Assembly hall
For stakeholders including civil society organisations, private sector, academia and the scientific community, grassroots organisations, persons with disabilities, youth and women’s organisations, please register by 24 April 2023.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Women in Rwanda growing coffee to support themselves.
The ‘knowledge-to-action’ call will provide grants to projects led by African organisations that mobilise Indigenous and local knowledge to support locally-led and inclusive climate-resilient action in Africa.
Climate and Development Knowledge Network
Round bookshelf in library
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) is inviting proposals to for the development of an online course focused on creating localized action-oriented early warning messages.
Global Disaster Preparedness Center
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
A magnifying glass in top of a pile of books.
The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction wishes to learn how the development community at large makes use of the tools and information resources it makes available for disaster risk reduction and whether they are useful for your work.
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
This image shows cows on flooded farmland.
The GADMC 2023 call for abstracts is open.Animal Evac New Zealand is looking to receive conference abstracts from a range of speakers across academia (incl. citizen science), government, and practice.
Animal Evac New Zealand
Stack of books.
Hazards and disaster researchers are invited to submit abstracts for the 2023 Researchers Meeting. This year’s meeting will focus on New Frontiers of Disaster Research: Action-Oriented Collaborations to Solve Complex Challenges.
University of Colorado Boulder
several humanitarian volunteers and volunteers from the red cross are distributing food aid to victims of natural disasters
We invite you to answer a survey on Aligning capacity development needs on climate change of humanitarian and development professionals, which will remain open for answers until March 12th.
RedR - United Kingdom
Children walking in flood
The “People’s Pathways to Climate Action – Climate Academy” 2023 is jointly organized by UNU-EHS and Munich Re Foundation (MRF) in collaboration with the UNFCCC. The International Organization on Migration (IOM) is a special partner for the 2023 academy.
United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security
Munich Re Foundation
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
International Organization for Migration
Green vertical green facade garden in full bloom for climate adaptation
The call for proposals is open until February 27 for the most important European event on the topic of climate change adaptation. The upcoming ECCA 2023 will be held in Dublin on June 19-21, 2023 and organized within MAGICA project, coordinated by CMCC.
Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici

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