Second Round of ProVention Grants for Disaster Reduction Announced

The ProVention Consortium is sponsoring a second round of grants to support research on innovative disaster risk management. In an official announcement made in March this year, young professionals dedicated to reducing disaster risk in developing countries were invited to submit proposals. Themes for proposals fall into three general categories: risk identification and analysis, risk reduction and risk sharing/transfer, with preference given to activities in the latter two categories. Links to local institutions, whether they are non-governmental organizations (NGOs), community-based organizations (CBOs), or government departments, field work, and dissemination of results and community feedback are expected to be a central part of the proposed project.

Applications will be screened by a jury of ProVention Consortium partners and selected projects will be awarded a grant of up to US$5,000. The criteria for selection are: candidate is a national of a developing country, is no older than 35 years of age, is a student or professional staff member of an organization addressing disaster risk management, the project has a nine-month implementation timeframe, the budget does not exceed the maximum grant award amount, and that all applications and project documentation be submitted in English. Grantees from the first grant program may also apply for this second round of grants.

The program is being implemented and managed by:

• Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC)

• Disaster Mitigation for Sustainable Livelihoods Programme (DiMP), University of Capetown

• University of Wisconsin – Disaster Management Center

ADPC is responsible for the grants awarded to entrants from South and Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

The program was launched by ProVention in collaboration with the World Bank Hazard Management Unit (HMU) in December 2002. ADPC was one of the regional partners during the first phase. Sixty-five individuals and teams from 27 countries were awarded grants of up to US$5,000. The projects were completed in January 2004. Fifteen projects were selected as the most innovative and sustainable. Team leaders from these projects presented their findings at the “Global Symposium for Hazard Risk Reduction”, July 26-28, 2004 at the World Bank Headquarters in Washington, DC.

The awards for this round will be announced o/a August 1, 2005

For more details write to Loy Rego, Director and Team Leader, Disaster Management Systems at ajrego@adpc.net or Ms Manisha Malla, Administrative Coordinator at manisha@adpc.net 

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