YOUTH FOR RESILIENT INFRASTRUCTURE Y4RI

International Competition for Imagining Disaster
Resilient Infrastructure

Competition Theme

Entries for the competition can be aligned to any one of the following themes in addition to your understanding of Disaster Resilient Infrastructure.

What’s infrastructure vulnerability to you

Express your idea of unreliable infrastructure, that may lead to disruption of services or may contribute to carbon emissions and disasters. Collate your ideas on how unplanned infrastructure increases the vulnerability of your city to disasters.

How nature supports infrastructure resilience

Express how nature plays an inclusive role in reducing the impact of disasters on infrastructure. This may include indigenous practices of your region that have helped to build resilience.

Innovating for resilient infrastructure

Convey how innovations and emerging technologies help in making infrastructure disaster resilient and curtail climate change. Express how new initiatives are paving way to a sustainable future.

Community based Initiatives

Share with us examples and ideas of people around you, working towards enhancing resilience to disasters. This may include local activities or voluntary actions.

How to Participate

Eligibility

The competition is open to youth from any country with age between 15 to 32.

Submission Format

The format for submission can include:

Photographs (Format: .jpeg / .jpg / .png, Maximum Size: 5 MB)
Thought Piece (Word limit – 1000 words; Format: .pdf, Maximum Size: 5MB)
Poems (Format: .pdf, Maximum Size: 5 MB)
Doodles/ sketches/ comics (Format: .jpeg / .jpg / .png, Maximum Size: 5 MB)
Posters (Format: .jpeg / .jpg / .png, Maximum Size: 5 MB)
Animations / Short videos (Format: .mp4, Maximum Size: 100 MB)

Guidelines

Language of communication must be English.
Individuals can make multiple submissions.
The submissions are strictly meant to be an original work of authors. Plagiarized entries will not be considered.
The submission must have a narrative of maximum 200 words relevant to the chosen theme.

Judging Criteria

Originality and novelty of ideas presented
Clarity and creativity
Relevance with the chosen theme

Youth represent an important and dynamic segment of the population in every country. The agility, creativity and persistence that is characteristic of the youth, make them the most promising changemakers of the future. The CDRI understands that youth engagement is crucial to mobilizing change for positive social development.

International Competition for Imagining Disaster Resilient Infrastructure