To further explore community perspectives on priorities for disaster risk information for developing countries, GFDRR and DFID recently launched a new report, Solving the Puzzle: Innovating to Reduce Risk. Extensive consultations with more than 100 institutions across 5 continents revealed important gaps in key areas like risk models, risk data, platforms, and capacity building.
The report revealed that in many developing countries, there simply isn’t enough available data related to risk - limiting the development of risk-reducing policies. Moreover, current efforts do not adequately take into account needs of practitioners on the ground, and effective policy requires eliminating the communication gap between information producers and policy makers.
In August 2016, the Second Round of the Challenge Fund was launched, focusing on key challenges identified in the Solving the Puzzle report, with an emphasis on high-impact activities that will promote the creation and use of risk-related data and a better understanding the needs of end users.
Project proposals were required demonstrate how their project(s) can be piloted locally in two countries and scaled regionally to demonstrate the potential to be applied at a global scale. Three pilot projects have been launched focusing on Africa and Central and South Asia, with winners announced in early 2017.
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| Solving the Puzzle: Executive Summary |
Solving the Puzzle: Written Contributions |
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