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Opportunities
Midterm Review SFDRR: Call for stakeholder registration

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 (UNDRR)
Women in Rwanda growing coffee to support themselves.
Opportunities
Opportunity: Call for concepts - From knowledge to climate-resilient action in African countries

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
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Opportunities
Call for Proposals: Online course on creating localized action-oriented early warning messages

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 (GDPC)
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
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Opportunities
UNDRR: Survey on advocacy and knowledge products for disaster risk reduction

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 (UNDRR)
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Opportunities
Global Animal Disaster Management Conference: Call for abstracts

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
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Opportunities
2023 Researchers meeting: Call for abstracts now open!

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
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Opportunities
Invitation to help us design the best capacity development services on climate change for humanitarian professionals

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
Opportunities
Climate Academy 2023: Supporting community choices in a changing climate – learning from planned relocations

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 (UNU-EHS)
Munich Re Foundation
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)
International Organization for Migration (IOM)
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Opportunities
ECCA is looking for creative and interactive contents on climate change 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 (CMCC)
Regional Launch of the Early Warnings for All Initiative (EW4ALL) for the Caribbean
Opportunities
Call for Participation: 2023 CAP Implementation Workshop

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is hosting the 2023 Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) Implementation Workshop and Training at the IFRC headquarters building

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
International Association of Emergency Managers
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)