GLOBAL INTEGRATED FLOOD AND DROUGHT MANAGEMENT COMPETITION FOR YOUTH-LEAD PROJECTS
organized by the APFM & IDMP – joint programmes of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and Global Water Partnership (GWP) in partnership with the Water Youth Network (WYN)
The role of youth in enhancing flood and drought resilience, contributing to the goal of the Early Warnings for All initiative (EW4All) has never been more crucial. Young people often bring new perspectives and innovative ideas to the table. Their creativity and willingness to challenge traditional approaches can lead to new solutions and approaches to climate action.
Global Integrated Flood and Drought Management Competition for Youth-Led Projects 2025
Following the success of the previous two competitions in 2022 and 2023, we are excited to launch the Global Integrated Flood and Drought Management Competition for Youth-Led Projects 2025! This year’s competition aims to involve youth in climate action efforts to promote global resilience to flood and drought.
More information about the Competition and the submission process is available here.
2023 Winners
Water from a Rock project
Collaborative Mapping for Flooding Resilience project
The Water from a Rock project, implemented by Youthmappers, University of Pretoria (Pretoria, South Africa), aims at developing a real-time risk and preparedness platform to map disasters, identify high-risk areas, and prioritize efforts effectively.
The project will engage the youth with an interactive application to enhance preparedness and response to early warnings and alerts for extreme weather events based on geofencing, building resilience against floods.
Project Report
The Collaborative Mapping for Flooding Resilience project is implemented by Youthmappers Chapters GeoLab and Sagema in Nueva Villa La Iguanà (Medellin, Colombia).
The project aims to enhance flood resilience by empowering the local communities through several activities, such as collaborative mapping, using open-source mapping tools to identify factors that affect flood vulnerability, and developing a community plan to increase flood resilience.
Project Report
2022 Winners
"AWAKE" PROJECT
"YOUTHMAPPERS" PROJECT
AWAKE focuses on education and training on disaster preparedness for children (7-15 years old) and people with disabilities.
AWAKE helped to equip vulnerable groups in Indonesia with the necessary knowledge on local hazards, from whirly winds to thunderstorms, rain to floods, as well as the proper skills to respond to early warnings. This project reached out 25 regular schools, three schools for children with special needs, and two housings for the blind in Biak and Jayapura and Papua.
“YouthMappers” focuses on mapping flood protection zones and evacuation routes to improve preparedness and response capabilities to flash floods in local communities.
The YouthMappers project extended the data gathering process in Tanzania, especially to Ifakara town council and Morogo, by using the community gathered data to map flood protection zones and evacuation routes using GIS techniques. This project printed and published web maps of flood protection zones and evacuation routes, and shared them with key stakeholders (local government, academia, Non-governmental organizations).