The ADPC is proud to announce that a new curriculum for the Course on Community Based Disaster Management has been designed. A draft of course curriculum was developed by ADPC consultants from India and Philippines and by ADPC training staff. Later on a curriculum development workshop was held from 6-10 March 2000 at the ADPC. In total eight participants from India, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka and from ADPC reviewed the draft curriculum and made recommendations for further improvements in order to make more comprehensive and relevant. On the basis of the inputs from this workshop the draft development team is working to make the relevant changes additions. The new curriculum has five modules titled below. Please see the CBDM Course Brochure for details.

• Module one : Disaster Situation and Disaster Management Activities
• Framework for Community Based Disaster Management
• Community Based Risk Assessment
• Community Based Risk Reduction Measures
• Planning at the Local Level

The Course on Community Based Disaster Management (CBDM) was developed in 1997 by ADPC and Duryog Nivaran. Since this is a new field of study, there were no standardized guidelines or sketch of a course curriculum. Also there was a lack of local knowledge on CBDM applications in the field. Thus the curriculum of this course was under a process of constant modification and improvements. During the past three CBDM courses conducted in 1997, 1998 and 1999 many times the concepts and the methodologies in each course were different from the others. The purpose of this whole exercise was to make the curriculum more and more relevant to the needs of practitioners and to make it a good mix of theory and pracix. By the current curriculum development activity this purpose has been achieved to a great extent.