Research grants: microinsurance

The Microinsurance Innovation Facility and the European Development Research Network invite academic researchers to submit proposals for research that will contribute new knowledge to support microinsurance development in developing countries. Deadline for applications: 30 October 2009. Read more...

Research grants: climate and disaster governance

The Climate and Disaster Governance Programme is offering research bursaries of up to US$1000 to support research at the national or sub-national level in developing countries. Deadline for applications: 31 July 2009. Read more...

Linking research and practice: UCL conference, November 2009

The meeting "Disaster Risk Reduction for Natural Hazards: Putting Research into Practice”, to be held at University College London on 4-6 November, 2009 will provide an opportunity to analyze the application of the physical and social sciences to DRR on a multi-disciplinary and multi-hazard platform. Read more...

Call for papers: International scientific conference on technologies for development

Science and technology for disaster risk reduction is one of the priority fields of an international scientific conference that will take place at the EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) on 8-10 February 2010. Abstracts can be submitted until 15 July 2009. Read more...

CRED 2008 statistical review

The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) released the third edition of the Annual Statistical Review, which analyzes 2008 disaster figures, with comparisons to previous years. Download the report...

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...

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...

Climate change: Poznan conference

The ProVention Consortium and the broader DRR community will be actively represented at the UN climate change conference (1-12 December 2008) in Poznan, and will help to elevate and shape the climate change adaptation agenda in the context of the post-2012 framework negotiations. Read UN/ISDR's briefing note...

AURAN seminar at World Urban Forum

ProVention and the AURAN partners hosted a seminar at the World Urban Forum in Nanjing, China in November 2008 on 'Addressing Urban risk in Africa: local perspectives'. The session demonstrated that the rapidly growing urban population in Africa has already begun to reshape the geography of disaster risk and scope for reducing that risk. 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...