Training and Learning
National Consultation Workshop on Coastal Community Resilience, 15 Feb, Myanmar ADPC, in collaboration with the Myanmar Department of Meteorology and Hydrology, facilitated a national consultation workshop on coastal community resilience in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar. The workshop brought together forty representatives from government and non-governmental organizations. The Coastal Community Resilience (CCR) initiative promotes tsunami and other hazard readiness through the collaboration of national and local emergency management agencies, coastal managers, training institutions, and local communities. It is part of a broader program on establishing a multi-hazard early warning system for tsunami and hydro-meteorological hazards for Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia, which is being facilitated by ADPC and funded by the Regional Tsunami Trust Fund through UNESCAP.  Updates from Partnerships for Disaster Reduction Southeast Asia - (PDRSEA Phase IV)  5th Disaster Management Practitioners (DMP) workshop for South East Asia, 2-4 Apr The workshop theme focuses on Building on the themes of previous DMP workshops held in 2006 and 2007. The 5th DMP workshop will focus on “Sustaining Partnerships: Meeting the Challenges of Scaling-Up CBDRM Programs.” Download Brochure National Advocacy Workshop, 19-20 Mar, Vietnam Based on the experiences gained in implementing PDRSEA IV’s pilot project in Vietnam, a National Advocacy Workshop on the role of local authorities in CBDRM will be organized in collaboration with Central Committee for Flood and Storm Control (CCFSC), UNESCAP and ADPC, with support from DIPECHO.   The workshop will share the experiences of PDRSEA IV with local authorities in order to convince the various stakeholders about the importance of supporting CBDRM strategies. High-level decision makers, local government, donors, UN agencies and NGOs will be invited to the workshop.  Advocacy and pilot implementation project in Education sector in Southeast Asia - Support to the implementation of the Hyogo Framework of Action through RCC’s program on mainstreaming of DRR into development planning and implementation 15–18 Jan, Philippines: Orientation session and pilot testing the DRR module in schools at Basilan province, Mindanao, Philippines was conducted. A total of four teachers from both public and private schools were trained. An evaluation on teaching the DRR module in class rooms was facilitated in the following week at Basilan province. 17– 19 Jan, Cambodia: Training of Trainers (TOT) for 50 teachers from Kratie, Prey Veng and Kandal province were trained on how to teach DRR in class rooms at Pedagogical Research Dept, MoEYS, Phnom Penh. An evaluation on teaching methodologies was organized as part of school safety day activities in pilot schools after the DRR module has been taught to students. Activities involved quizzes, hazard hunts and poster painting to evaluate the students’ learning. 16– 17 Jan, Lao: A Project Working Group meeting was conducted with the National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) and National Research Institute for Educational Science (NRIES) members to discuss for advocacy workshop preparation and work assignments. A discussion with Urban Research Institute (URI) on 1st draft study paper on impact of disaster on education sector was held.   National Advocacy Workshops 19–20 Mar- Cambodia 26 Mar- Philippines: date and venue to be confirmed by National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) National Advocacy Workshops will be jointly organized by Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MoEYS), National Committee Disaster Management (NCDM) and ADPC with support from DIPECHO and UNDP. The objective is to raise public awareness on how investments in risk reduction affects education as well as in disaster resilient school construction could help in minimizing financial losses incurred by MoEYS in the aftermath of a disaster.  The workshops will orient the officials from MoEYS and other related Ministries (Ministry of Planning, Finance and Public Works) and to identify the gaps in the present system of school construction and initiate mainstreaming of disaster risk reduction (DRR) into development policies, planning and implementation.   Workshop on approaches to coastal community resilience, 26-29 Feb, Seychelles ADPC presented the Coastal Community Resilience (CCR) framework and implementation activities at the workshop on approaches to coastal community resilience, held in Seychelles. The workshop was organized by the UNESCO/IOC and International Federation of the Red Cross as an event at the inter-sessional meeting of the ICG/IOTWS Working Group 6.