UNEP Finance Initiative's new report on sustainable insurance

Global insurers controlling assets worth trillions of US dollars have joined with the world’s leading academics in a United Nations-backed survey putting the industry’s approach to sustainability and climate risks under examination. Read more...

Global Earthquake Model (GEM) on-line survey

GEM aim to become the first global, open source model for seismic risk assessment at a national and regional scale, and aims to achieve broad scientific participation and independence. A user-need assessment has been created to find out in an early stage what possible end-users are in need of. Complete the survey...

International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC Davos 2010

Experts from all over the world are invited to submit abstracts and contribute to the interdisciplinary dialogue, which will take place in Davos on May 30 to June 3, 2010. Read more...

ISDR World Campaign 2010-2011 on urban risk: Online survey

Interested in sharing your ideas, views and possible contributions to shape the Campaign? Please participate in ISDR's online survey.

Training Course on GIS: 7-18 December, Thailand

ADPC, AIT, and ITC are jointly organizing the Regional Training Course on GIS for Disaster Risk Management II to be held on 7th to 18th December 2009 in Bangkok. Read more....

AIDMI newsletter: safer schools

In the event of any disaster, children and teachers in unsafe school buildings face considerable risk. Read more...

Views from the Frontline

'Views from the Frontline' collected the views of over 7000 local government officials, civil society organizations and community representatives from 48 countries to help assess the progress undertaken in implementing the Hyogo Framework for Action at local level. Read more...

Cities and Resilience Dialogue

As a side event to the UNFCCC climate change meeting in Bangkok in September, ProVention, the Rockefeller Foundation and ICLEI partnered together with UN ESCAP and UN ISDR to bring together city representatives from five countries in Asia, their national climate negotiators, and other regional agencies for roundtable discussions on supporting cities' roles in adaptation. Read the agenda and presentations...

TLC regional workshop: 14-15 September 2009

The workshop gathered 25 trainers and educators from India, Thailand and the Philippines to discuss the need to jointly collect and assess existing training tools, identify gap areas, and strengthen networking among trainers in the region.

ProVention Forum 2009

The ProVention Forum took place on 13-15 May in Istanbul, Turkey. Read more...

Community Disaster Resilience Fund (CDRF)

The test of the CDRF in India is currently underway in partnership with GROOTS and under the umbrella of the recently established National Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction (NADRR). The CDRF is a grant-based resource channel to support community-based organizations, local governments, and grassroots organizations to initiate DRR initiatives in their own communities. Notes from the latest planning workshop for the test in India are available at the NADRR website. Read more...

Monitoring & evaluation workshop

Together with the World Bank and the Council of Europe Development Bank, ProVention organized a two-day workshop on M&E for disaster risk management which took place at the IDRC conference in Davos on August 26-27, 2008. Read more...

ProVention You Tube channel

The channel features over 40 videos on community-based disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation and education. Watch videos...