The innumerable successful risk reduction interventions implemented in communities worldwide represent a critical data-set from which learnings may be drawn. This is only possible if these successes are identified, analyzed, and celebrated.

For that reason, in the first plenary of #UR22, the Averted Disaster Award was presented to recognize, highlight, and celebrate disaster risk reduction initiatives around the world that are often invisible.

The Averted Disaster Award named the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) as the winner of the 2022 ADA award for outstanding Disaster Risk Management intervention. BDRCS earned the recognition for their work implementing a forecast-based financing framework for vulnerable communities in Bangladesh during successive climatic events from May-July 2020.

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