Forthcoming Activities
Regional training course on Flood Disaster Risk Management (FDRM-9), 6-17 October 2008, Bangkok, Thailand Download brochure here The FDRM-9 has been designed to meet vital concerns of most Asian nations to combat the perennial problem of floods and the resultant destruction. The course offers an integrated approach for dealing with this situation. The course will also expose the learners to globally acknowledged practices for dealing with Flood Disaster Risk Management. Experts from a number of different countries and organizations will complement the ADPC faculty in conducting the course.  The course has six modules that impart information and skills in flood problem analysis, understanding and appreciation of the various approaches to flood risk reduction, determination of appropriateness of strategies and measures to achieve the desired goal of flood risk reduction. The training methodology includes interactive lectures, workshops, individual work, case studies, plenary sessions, panel discussions and field visit activities.   Please share the information with colleagues and partner organization networks. Participants interested to attend the course are requested to fill in the ADPC Training Application Form. Please download the application from of all the above courses from the ADPC website www.adpc.net. Should you need any further information related to the courses, pls contact us at tedadpc@adpc.net or call us at (+66-2) 298 0681-92.   Hospital Emergency Preparedness and Response  (HEPR-6), 20-24 Oct, Bangkok, Thailand Download brochure here The HEPR is a five-day course which is designed to assist health personnel, both administrative and medical, to prepare health care facilities and personnel to respond effectively to internal or community emergencies that involve large numbers of casualties. The course will enable course participants to develop well designed facility-specific plans to respond to emergencies. Upon completion of the course, the participants will be able to: Describe the role of health care facilities in disaster management Apply a method of assessing components of a health care facility. Simulate a mass casualty incident addressing the roles and responsibilities of each component of Hospital Emergency Incident Command System (HEICS). Discuss the basic medical requirements of managing mass casualty incidents. Apply on-site medical care concepts to specific emergency situations. Prepare an outline of a health care facility disaster preparedness plan including response and recovery. 2nd Regional Training Course on Climate Risk Management: Science, Institutions, and Society, 17-28 Nov 2008, Bangkok, Thailand The Regional Training Course builds on the capacity of professionals to manage risks associated with climate variability, change, and extremes. It builds upon the ADPC’s two decades of experience in disaster management, facilitating regional cooperation and building capacities of disaster management institutions at all government levels, disaster management practitioners and communities, and a decade of experience in institutionalizing climate information applications for disaster mitigation. It incorporates case studies and sectoral examples from ADPC’s climate risk management programs and projects all over Asia. Upon completing the course, participants will be able to: design early warning systems for climate-related risks; design climate risk management, climate forecast applications, and climate change adaptation projects, and develop tools to integrate climate risk management practices into development programs and policies. The first CRM course offering was completed in May 2008 with 27 participants from 14 countries.  Kindly see the course brochure for more information here or email Kareff M. Rafisura at kareff@adpc.net. Registration is ongoing. Due to the limited number of participants that can be admitted to the course, early registration is recommended.     ADPC delivers a 3 credit course, titled “Managing the Disasters” for a required master degree program on Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation and Management (DPMM) for Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok from August-October 2008.   International Study Tour, hosted by GTZ-Indonesia and ADPC,  15-17 Oct, Yogyakarta, Indonesia  in collaboration with Asian Development Bank, CARE, International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, International Rescue Committee, GTZ Indonesia and ADPC. The tour highlights will include: Presentation and discussion session led by GTZ Indonesia on its project in school-based awareness raising and life-skills development in Indonesia Field visit to project site in Bali and discussion session with project beneficiaries (school children, teachers, etc.) Discussion workshop on approaches to awareness-raising and behaviour change within the context of community-based AHI management The study tour will promote: Learning from the experience of and lessons identified by GTZ Indonesia in school-based awareness-raising and life-skills development in Indonesia Understanding of issues and priorities in working with school children in the context of AHI management in Asia Identification of successes and challenges of different approaches to behavior change and life-skills development, through discussions between study tour participants and with project beneficiaries Identification of key lessons for community-based AHI management, that can be shared with other organizations and practitioners throughout Asia Sharing of experience between practitioners from different countries involved in community-based management of AHI Regional capacity-building workshop for community-based management of AHI, managed by ADPC, 27-31 Oct, Bangkok, Thailand The training workshop  in collaboration with  Asian Development Bank, CARE, International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, International Rescue Committee and ADPC will sensitize community-level practitioners to tools and processes that are currently available to strengthen their work at the community level in managing different aspects of AHI. Practitioners will be given an overview of 'good practices' and useful tools and methods for community-based management of AHI. Case studies, group discussions, and activities will stimulate critical thinking about how these tools and methods can be adapted and applied in their own contexts to strengthen projects in community-based management of AHI. Themes that will be addressed in the workshop are: Community-level research and assessments Communication for health promotion through behavior and social change Safe and sustainable small-scale poultry production and trade Community-level surveillance and reporting of AHI Community-level emergency preparedness ADPC with Disaster Management Center will organize a Coastal Community Resilience (CCR) training workshop on 19 Sep 2008 in Colombo, Sri Lanka.  ADPC with Department of Agricultural Extension and UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) delivers a local level training on Livelihoods Adaptation to Climate Change in Bangladesh from 23-24 Sep 2008 in northern Bangladesh.