Training and Learning
Governance & DRR course, 8-10 Apr, Philippines ADPC conducted the 1st Local Government Unit (LGU) course on Governance and Disaster Risk Reduction in Dagupan City. The event promoted the culture of disaster safety and resilience putting forward the element of good governance among individuals and groups involved in the bureaucratic work.  13 representatives from eight municipalities of Alcala, Asingan, La  Union, Rosales, San Fabian, Sta. Barbara, and Dagupan City and Urdaneta City attended the course.   ADPC conducts training on Contingency Action Planning, May, Bangladesh Training cum workshop on Contingency Action Planning, an activity under the  Strengthening Household Abilities for Responding to Development Opportunities (SHOUHARDO) program was held in Cox’s Bazaar and Jamalpur on 21-22 & 25-26 May respectively. The workshop was attended by 70 participants from Pouroshawa, partner NGOs and Government agencies to facilitate the contingency planning process.   ADPC conducts training on Urban Disaster Mitigation, 21-25 Apr, Bangkok UDRM conducted a course on Urban Disaster Mitigation for Habitat for Humanity International (HFHI) for 31 of HFHI’s technical staff members that are involved in post-disaster housing repair and reconstruction.  Participants came from country offices in South Asia and Southeast Asia, as well as from Australia and Thailand regional offices and the headquarters in the US.  HFHI is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian housing ministry that seeks to eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from the world, and to make decent shelter a matter of conscience and action. ADPC conducts flagship training course on Climate Risk Management, 21 Apr-2 May 2008, Bangkok ADPC conducted the first ever training course on Climate Risk Management-Science, Institutions and Society, the first of its kind to be held in the region with 27 participants from 14 different countries. For the past two decades, ADPC, in collaboration with its partners, has developed field tested various climate risk management approaches, tools, and strategies that link climate science, institutions, and society. The lessons learned from these efforts were shared through the training course which provided mechanisms to strengthen institutional and societal capacities to manage climate risks by building the capacity of professionals in development, disaster management, and other related communities of practice, to skillfully integrate climate information into critical decision making processes. The second course will be offered from 17-28 November 2008.   Landslide Mitigation training, 23-25 Apr, Indonesia National training on regional capacity enhancement for landslide mitigation was held in Jakarta. The training was organized by Gadjah Mada University under the Asian Program for Regional Capacity Enhancement for Landslide Impact Mitigation (RECLAIM) and attended by 30 participants from Government agencies, Universities and NGOs.  The program is funded by the Royal Norwegian government.   Standardized Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction (CBDRR) training curriculum, Apr-May 2008 ADPC jointly with the International Red Cross and Red Crescent, South Asia Regional Delegation (IFRC, SARD) is developing a standardized Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction (CBDRR) training curriculum.  Funded by DIPECHO, this initiative is one component of the IFRC, SARD’s project called “Building Safer Communities” which aims to improve the overall quality and impact of the CBDRR training programmes outputs in South Asia.  The CBDRR field practitioners of the National Societies of Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the IFRC office in Maldives are the target audience of the curriculum. To initiate the process, a consultative meeting was undertaken with the representatives of said Red Cross/Red Crescent (RC/RC) national societies in April 2008 to collectively undertake the following workshop activities in designing a relevant curriculum for RC/RC CBDRR field practitioners: (a) audience analysis (b) tasks analysis and (c) training needs analysis. The result of the consultative meeting has been collated, analyzed and presented to said agencies during the recently concluded 6th South Asia Regional Disaster Management Working Group Meeting in May 2008. A proposed curriculum has been drafted  for review and enhancement by the Technical Working Group on CBDRR Curriculum Development, a group which was organized during the consultative meeting.    2nd regional training course on the use of GIS and Remote Sensing in Disaster Risk Management (GRDM-2) successfully completed, 5-16 May, Bangkok 19 participants from 13 countries from different parts of Asia, Africa, Europe, Middle East, and Latin America have successfully completed the training course. The course was conducted in collaboration with International Institute for Geo Information Sciences and earth Observations (ITC), the Netherland, and Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand at the AIT Conference Center (AITCC), Bangkok, Thailand. ADPC conducts DANA, 26-29 May, Bangladesh Damage and Needs Assessment Training (DANA) was conducted by ADPC for DanChurchAid (DCA) partners in Rangpur, Bangladesh. The 28 course participants were from DCA partner organizations from Nepal, India and Bangladesh. 8th Inter-regional Course on Public Health in Emergency Management in Asia and the Pacific (PHEMAP-8), 26 May-6 Jun, Bangkok The 8th Inter-regional PHEMAP course was organized by ADPC and WHO (SEARO/WPRO), with funding support from the Royal Government of Norway will be conducted. The course provided greater emphasis to the risk management, program management, operations management and leadership roles of health emergency managers. The graduates learned to address the challenges of managing emergency health risks by making improvements to the capacity of their respective health emergency management systems and institutions. The graduates are expected to contribute to the development and implementation of PHEMAP courses at national and sub-national levels. PHEMAP-9 is tentatively scheduled for October 2008.