Community announcements

Disaster risk and resilience in the news, and news from the disaster risk reduction (DRR) community and beyond.

The UNISDR Secretariat calls for contributions for a new publication, a compilation of good practices and lessons learned, with a view to encourage their replication on a broader scale...
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
The UNISDR Asia & Pacific launched a call for contributions for its annual publication on disaster risk reduction 'Disaster Reduction in Asia & Pacific - ISDR Informs: Issue 4, 2008' to be issued in March 2009...
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Asia and Pacific
The centres are to be identified at the First World Landslide Forum (WLF) which will take place in Tokyo, Japan in November 2008....
International Consortium of Landslides United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Deadline extended: 31 July 2008. Call for examples linking disaster risk reduction and public-private partnership...
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Share your experiences from South Asia on what's happening in your country on sustainable livelihoods for disaster risk and poverty reduction...
Duryog Nivaran
photo by Sustainable Harvest International www.sustainableharvest.org
The Gender and Disaster Network and the Natural Hazards Center invite nominations of those who should be recognized for their efforts to advance gender-sensitive policy, practice, or research in the areas of disaster risk reduction...
Gender and Disaster Network, the
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Final call for good practices and lessons learned that link disaster risk reduction as a key tool for reducing the impact of climate change, with a gender perspective: deadline extended to 15 March 2008...
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
This MOOC is a free and flexible training for everyone who wants to enhance their capabilities regarding the use of geospatial and Earth observation technologies in DRM.
United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs Centre for Space Science and Technology Education in Asia and the Pacific