Community announcements

Community announcements
Disaster risk and resilience in the news, and news from the disaster risk reduction (DRR) community and beyond.
A Syrian girl at Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan.
The topics of this special issue cover crises of different nature and provides a platform for discussion from various perspectives, including but not limited to individuals and local communities, volunteer groups, community-based organisations.
International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
A young boy walking across a refugee camp in Syria.
IOM and IDMC invite members of the DRR community to comment on a newly created set of standard displacement-related metrics and indicators which will strengthen the ability of DRR actors to integrate displacement in their work.
International Organization for Migration Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
Stack of books.
Our next issue of HazNet will focus on the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction was developed to guide efforts on disaster risk reduction in the period between 2015 and 2030.
Canadian Risks and Hazards Network
Graffiti artist painting a  purple fish to a wall.
The “Knowledge into use” awards are for innovative and creative ways of facilitating the use of resilience knowledge. These could be games, cartoons, arts, theatre, exhibits of local and indigenous knowledge or audio-visual content (films, songs, etc).
Climate and Development Knowledge Network
Flag with COp27 logo.
Registration is now open for the COP27 Resilience Hub Virtual Platform.
Global Resilience Partnership
A farmer planting on the organic paddy rice farmland
The Ideathon for climate change in East Asia and the Pacific (EAP) is an opportunity to crowdsource ideas from young people everywhere about how to equip utilities in the EAP region with the tools needed to address climate risk.
World Bank, the
Image of Wroclaw in Poland.
The ICLEI Action Fund is a granting scheme conducted by ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability with support from Google.org to foster data-driven environmental and climate action at the local level.
ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability
View of the Bangaldesh coast
The Climate Resilience Challenge is a competition for innovative, interdisciplinary, and solution-oriented ideas to build and enhance resilience in the country.
The Oscar M. Lopez Center for Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Management Foundation