Tag: From Risk to Resilience

Earthbeat held a film challenge to reduce natural hazards. The first call for films had low entries, so they asked for grassroots-level stories instead. A judging panel chose six best ideas and supported the teams to create short videos. Earthbeat gave a small bursary to each team and provided filmmaking tips and online group chats. The challenge received 62 submissions, and six short resilience films were produced.

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Clean water and sanitation
Climate action
Life below water
Life on land
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May

2022

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Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction

Earthbeat has been attending the Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction in Indonesia, as part of our Earthbeat Challenge, From Risk to Resilience, organised in

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Climate action
Gender Equality
Life on land
Partnership for the goals
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May

2022

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Take part in the Earthbeat and UNDRR video challenge

Earthbeat has joined forces with UNDRR to launch a new global youth video challenge, addressing the theme of Risk to Resilience’. We want to amplify

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Resilience along the river bank

Clean water and sanitation
Climate action
Life on land
Sustainable cities & communities

In the shadow of Africa’s biggest dump site at Dandora, in Kenya’s capital, there’s an oasis of trees and vegetable plots threaded along the banks of the Nairobi river. This green sanctuary is the work of a group of determined local men. Nicera Wanjiru’s film is a portrait of their group Canaan Riverside Green Peace. Land in…

Disiplina Village

Good Health and well-being
No Poverty
Partnership for the goals
Sustainable cities & communities
Zero Hunger

Rachelle tells the story of the Disiplina Villages in the Philippines. The village is a local government’s project to provide housing for informal settler families (ISF) to relocate them from areas of the Valenzuela City which are at risk from flooding and other disasters coming as a result of the increasingly regular tropical cyclones. This is a story of…

Coastal Erosion

Industry, innovation & infrastructure
Life below water
Life on land
Zero Hunger

Ekoue Ivan David Djimedo-Folly, from Togo shares his story about the efforts to fight sea erosion along the coastline of his country. Find out more on earthbeat Filmmaking Credits

Resilience in the Himalayas

No Poverty
Partnership for the goals
Sustainable cities & communities

Sejuti's film focuses on the experiences of Himalayan youth and the community members in disaster preparedness. The youth members are part of ‘Disaster Response Teams’ trained by NGO Pragya as part of a programme ‘DMS Himalaya’. The local youth work with local communities and the government on participatory disaster management in remote mountain villages. They…

Preventing disaster through bamboo

Climate action
Partnership for the goals
Sustainable cities & communities

Ann Maina from Kenya reports on the efforts to prevent landslides though the planting of bamboo plants locally. She has never made a documentary film before, only some fun videos of places and landscapes. She received some help from the bamboo association while filming. She hopes it can be used to change policies, and is keen to make…