Deadline: 23-Jan-22
The Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction has announced a call for proposals for the 2022 Innovation Platform, a space for attracting and showcasing new and innovative approaches in disaster risk reduction (DRR), including those related to the use of new technology, awareness-raising or educational activities.
The seventh session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction (GP2022) will be organized and convened by the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) from 23 to 28 May 2022, in Bali, Indonesia, hosted by the Government of Indonesia. The event will be co-chaired by the Government of Indonesia and UNDRR.
Objectives
The GP2022 Innovation Platform promotes a positive environment for interactivity and inclusiveness. The Innovation Platform is intended to make sharing experience and awareness-raising easy. The GP2022 Innovation Platform aspires to:
- Create an environment that stimulates awareness-raising, behaviour change and shared learning
- Provide opportunities for experiential learning
- Motivate the application of new knowledge and approaches in DRR, with the emphasis on the development and use of more effective products, processes, services, technologies, and business models
- Ensure inter-disciplinary cross-fertilization of ideas, and to reach out beyond the more specialized DRR community so that new partnerships can evolve
- Showcase new ways to develop cost-effective DRR interventions
- Suggest new ideas to implement and advance the Sendai Framework
Themes
Below are some examples of the many possible themes:
- Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and quantum computing for simulation and decision-making in DRR
- Communicating risk for awareness-raising and engagement
- Disaster-resilient infrastructure
- Recovering back better from COVID-19 and beyond
- Innovation in schools, promoting safe schools or engaging students and communities
- Innovative use of big data, the disaggregation of data, and linking information and evidence to SDGs
- Leaving no one behind: women, children and youth, poor people, persons with disabilities, older persons, indigenous peoples, migrants
- Nature-based approaches to climate action and DRR
- Novel and evidence-based risk assessment and risk financing, with examples that speak to national and local governments
- #OnlyTogether – innovation that international cooperation brings to DRR
Format
Innovation at the Global Platform for DRR will take the format of an in-person and online exhibit. With the application of an online element, the Innovation Platform provides a truly democratized manifestation of innovation in risk reduction and resilience.
This call for proposals seeks innovation motions to be presented and showcased in a physical and/or virtual stand. There are no fees involved nor are proposals funded. Applicants are asked to indicate whether they want to take part in the physical exhibition, the virtual exhibition, or both. Those participating in person are expected to cover their own travel and accommodation costs and handle the transport of any material they wish to bring with them.
- Outstanding examples of risk reduction in the private sector
- Simple applications and approaches to risk modeling
- Risk knowledge and understanding for all
- The media as a stakeholder in DRR
- The use of art (music, written, oral, visual) in prevention or reconstruction
- Visualizing risk
Eligibility Criteria
- They invite different stakeholders and participants – Member States, Parliamentarians, Local Governments, United Nations system entities, Intergovernmental Organizations, Major Groups and other stakeholder groups – who are registered for the GP2022 and have a unique email address after registration to submit an application for an Innovation Platform space.
- If your organization fits one of the above mentioned categories, they invite you to apply. The event is open to global applicants.
- Please note that the GP2022 registration approval process may take up to five weeks – you are therefore encouraged to register for GP2022 as soon as possible.
- Please note that you may apply for the Innovation Platform while your registration is being reviewed.
- Please note that there is a limited number of slots available for both the physical and the virtual exhibition space.
For more information, visit https://globalplatform.undrr.org/apply-event