The list of the World Centre of Excellence on Landslide Risk Reduction 2020-2023 was approved and announced at the 16th Session of the Global Promotion Committee of the International Programme on Landslides held on 2 November 2020, during the 2020 ICL-IPL online-virtual Conference: Launching of the Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020 (KLC2020)
Objectives of WCoE:
To strengthen the International Programme on Landslides (IPL) and IPL Global Promotion Committee;
To create “A Global Network of entities contributing to landslide risk reduction”;
To implement the ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015-2025 for global promotion of understanding and reducing landslide disaster risk; and
To improve the global recognition of “Landslide Risk Reduction” and its social-economic relevance, and entities contributing to this field.
Criteria for WCoE Candidates:
Governmental and non-governmental entities such as universities, agencies, and other institutions, and their subsidiary entities (faculties, departments, centres, divisions or others) which meet the following two conditions:
• Contributing to “Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction”; and
• Willing to support IPL intellectually, practically and financially by either joining ICL or/and contributing to IPL-GPC and promote “landslide research and disaster risk reduction” on a regional and/or global scale in a mutually beneficial manner.
