Tajiel Urioh
Member
- Oct 1, 2011
- 44
- 9
The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) and the UK Department for International Development's (DFID) new competitive Challenge Fund seeks to pilot new and innovative approaches to overcome these challenges and strengthen disaster and climate risk decision-making in developing countries. This Challenge Fund seeks to provide small grants to projects that address the challenge in bridging the gap between technology and on-the-ground user needs in the field of disaster risk identification. Risk identification is seen at the foundation of all disaster risk management decision-making, whether risk reduction, preparedness, financial protection, or resilient recovery. The Fund seeks to support the development of data, products and approaches to support disaster risk management decision making and build resilience, including through better information, but also strengthening key steps in moving from information to insight and behavior change.
Thematic Areas
Availability and Accessibility of Data and Tools to Analyze Risk which can include:
Utilizing new techniques, such as crowd-sourcing and big data, to fill data gaps
Drawing upon remote sensing and other datasets to deliver high-res digital elevation models
Developing new open, probabilistic modelling techniques, for example for drought
Developing models for outputs beyond direct economic loss; e.g. poverty impacts
Moving from Information to Insight which can include:
Supporting products that are co-designed, co-developed and co-implemented with users; for example, new impact-based forecasting tools tailored for use by emergency services
Risk visualization tools that communicate risk effectively based on a deep understanding of how users perceive and interpret risk information.
Accessible interfaces to existing tools that are targeted to specific user needs.
Beyond Insight to Triggering Changes in Behavior which can include:
Piloting approaches to move from insight to action, for example through gaming, participatory decision making or other approaches.
Wild Card for challenges not listed above.
Deadline: 1 May 2015 Read more @ The Green Icon
Thematic Areas
Availability and Accessibility of Data and Tools to Analyze Risk which can include:
Utilizing new techniques, such as crowd-sourcing and big data, to fill data gaps
Drawing upon remote sensing and other datasets to deliver high-res digital elevation models
Developing new open, probabilistic modelling techniques, for example for drought
Developing models for outputs beyond direct economic loss; e.g. poverty impacts
Moving from Information to Insight which can include:
Supporting products that are co-designed, co-developed and co-implemented with users; for example, new impact-based forecasting tools tailored for use by emergency services
Risk visualization tools that communicate risk effectively based on a deep understanding of how users perceive and interpret risk information.
Accessible interfaces to existing tools that are targeted to specific user needs.
Beyond Insight to Triggering Changes in Behavior which can include:
Piloting approaches to move from insight to action, for example through gaming, participatory decision making or other approaches.
Wild Card for challenges not listed above.
Deadline: 1 May 2015 Read more @ The Green Icon
