Training course and workshop on landslide inventory, hazard and risk mapping and mitigation, 10-11 Jan, India ADPC conducted the training under the national training activities of the Asian Program for Regional Capacity Enhancement Landslide Impact Mitigation (RECLAIM Phase II). The training course and workshop is being organized jointly by the Indian Institute of Remote Sensing (IIRS), International Institute for Geoinformation Science and Earth Observation (ITC), The Netherlands, Geological Survey of India (GSI), Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), Norwegian Geo-technical Institute (NGI), Geological Survey of Canada.  ADPC conducts training on Disaster Risk Communication (DRC), 21-24 Jan,  Indonesia ADPC conducted training at Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia for volunteers and staff of Palang Merah Indonesia (PMI) on DRC. The training was funded and supported by Canadian Red Cross (CRC), Aceh. The training provided a comprehensive, balanced approach blending theory, concepts, definitions, exercises, debates, poster making, video, simulation and presentations. The opening ceremony was covered in the local news paper, Sinar Indonesia.  It is intended that 10 participants are chosen to further disseminate awareness and thus, communicate disaster risks to their respective communities. The training materials were translated into Bahasa and were provided in soft & hard copy form. On the final day of the training, the group visited a village, amidst sugar cane and rice fields, where the communities are undertaking mitigation measures for floods that were initiated by ECHO and Danish Red Cross. The village head man briefed on how special task forces are formed in the community during an emergency. The village head man’s office displayed risk maps with under laying techniques. It also had on display names, pictures of community members responsible for various activities in an emergency.  National Consultation Workshop on Coastal Community Resilience, 15 Feb, Myanmar ADPC, in collaboration with the Myanmar Department of Meteorology and Hydrology, will facilitate a national consultation workshop on coastal community resilience in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar on 15 February 2008. The workshop will bring together forty representatives from government agencies 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 a 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.