International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR)

Please submit information on upcoming events related to disaster reduction to eird@eird.org, indicating the meeting or conference title, date, location, contact person, email address and website (if available).

February 2008

Date & Location	Meeting or Conference
From 4th to 22nd San José, Costa Rica	Course on Disaster Risk Reduction at the Local Level The course will be taught intensively at University for Peace, between February 4th and 22nd, 2008 and from then on annually during the second semester. The course purpose is to equip student practitioners in environment, peace and security with enhanced knowledge, skills, resources and technical abilities in disaster risk reduction and health resilience. The course provides the tools either to prevent such disasters, to mitigate their impacts or to resolve conflicts between different social groups. UPEACE has available five scholarships for practitioners from the Central American or Caribbean regions to attend this course. Information on the course is available at: http://drr.upeace.org/english/how.cfm Applicants should please write to drr@upeace.org or call Sofia Montero +506 205 90 89 for further assistance and information. Admitted candidates will be notified on January 4, 2008. The deadline for the tuition payment for students who do not benefit from a UPEACE scholarship is January 15, 2008.

February 25th & 26th Ontario, Canada	Upwind Downwind 2008 The 2008 Upwind Downwind Conference: Climate Change & Healthy Cities will be held on February 25th & 26th, 2008 at the Hamilton Convention Centre in Hamilton, Ontario. The two day conference will focus on Air Quality and Climate Change and the linkages with public health, planning and action. For more information visit: http://www.cleanair.hamilton.ca/updown/udconf.asp

March 2008

Date & Location	Meeting or Conference
March 5-6, 2008 St. Ann, Jamaica	National Disaster Management Conference (NDMC) The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), in Kingston, Jamaica, presents the fifth installment of the National Disaster Management Conference (NDMC) to be held March 5-6, 2008. In cooperation with several non-government agencies and private companies, the 2008 Conference will address two very important areas of risk management and risk reduction: landslides and earthquakes. The Conference programme includes speakers from across the field in Jamaica and the wider Caribbean and other parts of the world. For more information contact: Kerry-Ann Morris E-mail: kmorris@odpem.org.jm Tel: (876) 928-5111-4 Fax: (876) 928-5503 12 Camp Road, Kingston 4, Jamaica

Deadline for inscription: February 6, 2008 Beginning of the course: March 18, 2008	DELNET´s Course on Disaster Risk Reduction and Local Sustained Development with the collaboration of the UN/ISDR. Inscriptions for participation in the Disaster Risk Reduction Course within the framework of Local Sustained Development are officially open. This course is aimed for Spanish-speaking countries in the Americas and the Caribbean. Deadline for inscription: February 6, 2008 Beginning of the course: March 18, 2008 Course brochure (in Spanish)

August 2008

Date & Location

Meeting or Conference

August 25th to August 29th

Davos, Switzerland

International Disaster and Risk Conference -IDRC Davos 2008
"Public-private partnership – Key for integral risk management and climate change adaptation

The next International Disaster and Risk Conference, IDRC Davos 2008, will be held in Davos, Switzerland, and it is expected to bring together over 1.300 interested individuals, policy makers, risk managers, scientists and other risk experts from, governments, the private, civil sector, NGOs, etc. to focus on the array of risks facing society today and on effective strategies to manage and reduce these risks and disasters.

For more information visit: www.idrc.info


International Strategy for Disaster Reduction The Americas