Community announcements

Action Secours Ambulance and the Africa Youth Movement are organizing the Haitian Emergency Leadership Festival to be confirmed shortly. The event is designed to provide the next generation of Haitian leaders an understanding of key sustainable development challenges including disaster risk reduction...

As part of its Making Cities Resilient: 'My City is getting ready!' world disaster reduction campaign, UNISDR will encourage more mayors and local governments to join the 100 cities that have already signed up to the global campaign...

The Global Earthquake Model (GEM) is seeking comments on its draft Request for Proposal (RfP) for the modelling of socio-economic impacts (SEI) of earthquakes through an online peer-review...

The Canadian-based York University's department of Disaster and Emergency Management is calling for contributions to 'From the Edge,' featuring a collection of experiences in managing emergencies and disasters, in any of the phases of mitigation, prevention, preparedness, response or recovery...

Due to technical problems with the abstract submission system the Stockholm Environment Institute have extended the deadline for submitting abstracts to Tuesday 10 August...

UN-ESCAP issues a reminder that the sixth round of funding for the Tsunami Regional Trust Fund remains open for receipt of proposals which should be sent to UN ESCAP by 15 August 2010...

In preparation for the 'Caribbean Cities Getting Ready' event taking place in Santo Domingo in August 2010, Oxfam is calling for papers on tools, lessons learned, and best practices in urban risk reduction and governance in the Caribbean region...

The Secretariat of the Adaptation Fund Board has posted the project and programme proposals to support adaptation in developing countries that have been submitted to date. Interested stakeholders are invited to comment on them online...

The Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland is calling for applicants for the 'Certificate of Advanced Studies in Disaster Risk Reduction'. The programme aims to train professionals in the field of natural disaster prevention, especially related to climate change...

Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) is funding a two-year project on ICTs, climate change and development. The project is co-ordinated by the University of Manchester's Centre for Development Informatics...