Ways to Contribute

EM-DAT was supported by USAID/BHA from 1999 until early 2025. Since the end of this funding, the continuity of EM-DAT depends more than ever on its community of users and partners (see EM-DAT and CRED). You can help in various ways.

Support EM-DAT

• Donate through the UCLouvain giving page. Donations are processed by the UCLouvain Foundation. For larger contributions, or to support our activities and future developments through funding tied to project proposals, please contact us directly.
• Sign the open letter in support of preserving disaster data.
• Cite EM-DAT properly by following the Attribution and Citation Policy, which makes the impact of EM-DAT visible to funders.
• Stay informed: subscribe to the CRED Crunch newsletter and follow us on LinkedIn.

Improve the Data

• Report errors or missing entries (see Issue Reporting).
• Share the results of your work, such as reports, publications, or datasets, if they could improve the quality and completeness of the EM-DAT database.

Collaborate With Us

• Apply jointly to calls for research or technological development projects.
• Do an internship, a thesis, or a PhD with or in partnership with CRED.

If you are considering a project that could directly benefit EM-DAT by improving global reporting of disaster-related impacts, we recommend that you contact the EM-DAT team to consider possible improvements to the database and thus add value to your results. For projects directly involving CRED, however, we cannot accept all the opportunities for collaboration offered to us. We prioritize projects directly related to disaster epidemiology or that allow us to improve the coverage and quality of EM-DAT data substantially. If this applies to you, do not hesitate to contact us.