InterAction Foreign Assistance Briefing Book

Recommendations for incoming U.S. president on how U.S. policies and programs can be more responsive to the realities of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable populations. Read more...

Web-based DRR course for Francophone Africa

The Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management course starts on February 16, 2009 and will run until March 20, 2009. Read more...

Canada Caribbean Disaster Risk Management Fund

The Fund seeks to support, on a locally responsive basis, small projects that tangibly and practically reduce risk in vulnerable communities. Community groups, non-governmental organizations, and government agencies are eligible. Read more...

Copenhagen Policy Forum: 12-13 November, 2008

The purpose of the Forum is to identify opportunities and build joint efforts, especially as input to the 14th UNFCCC Conference of Parties (COP-14) to take place in Poznan, Poland; and for providing input to the COP-15 in Copenhagen 2009 to effectively address the urgent challenges of disasters and climate change. Read more...

State of the world’s cities report 2008/9: Harmonious cities

This new report from UN Habitat highlights the climate risk to coastal cities around the world noting that there are 3,351 cities in the low elevation coastal zones around the world which could be exposed to sea level rise -- 64 per cent of which are in developing countries. Read more...

2009 Sasakawa award call for nominations now open

Nominees should be individuals and institutions who have contributed to building the resilience of nations and communities to natural hazards through innovative practices and outstanding initiatives. 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...

Characteristics of a disaster-resilient community

The ‘Characteristics of a Disaster-resilient Community’ project, which supports processes of community mobilisation and partnership for disaster risk reduction, has a new webpage on the ProVention Consortium’s website.