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.
