ADPC conducts Cross-Border Exercise Management Workshop, 18-22 Feb, Thailand The purpose of the Cross-Border Exercise Management workshop is to strengthen the capacity of Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam to manage influenza outbreaks in humans in international border provinces by providing exercise management training to a group of approximately 35 people, mostly health professionals, from these countries. Following are the objectives: To build participants’ expertise in exercise management   To provide participants with the skills and knowledge to design, conduct and evaluate discussion and functional exercises To practice these skills and knowledge in the development and conduct of exercises focusing on outbreaks of influenza in humans in international border provinces To adapt and refine the draft exercise materials utilized in the workshop for discussion exercises to be held in 2008 To prepare a work plan for the preparation of exercises in 2008   Climate Forecast Applications for Disaster Mitigation in Timor-Leste Stakeholder Meeting, 25 Feb, Timor-Leste The Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) of USAID is providing support to expand the Climate Forecast Applications for Disaster Mitigation Program to Timor-Leste. ADPC and the National Meteorological and Geophysical Agency of Timor-Leste will convene a Climate Forecast Applications for Disaster Mitigation in Timor-Leste Stakeholder Meeting in Dili. The meeting will bring together 20 participants from various government agencies, international organizations, and non-governmental organizations in order to constitute a national working group to guide program implementation and discuss program activities.      FAO expert meeting on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management, 28-29 Feb, Italy ADPC will attend the expert meeting on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management in Rome, Italy. The meeting will be hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). It is one of a series of expert meetings being organized to support a high-level conference on World Food Security and the Challenges of Climate Change and Bio-energy to be held in Rome in June 2008.      ADPC holds Regional Consultative Committee for Disaster Management (RCC), 8-10 May, Colombo, Sri Lanka The 7th Meeting of the Regional Consultative Committee for Disaster Management (RCC) will be held from Thursday, 08 May to Saturday, 10 May in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The meeting is being co-hosted by the Government of Sri Lanka and ADPC with support from the Government of Australia.   The special theme of the 7th RCC Meeting will be on rights based, Community led disaster risk management. The Meeting will also have sessions on lessons learnt from recent disasters, progress made on the implementation of the RCC Program on Mainstreaming disaster risk reduction into development (RCC MDRD), the ongoing global campaign on Hospitals Safe from Disasters and on progress on implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) in Asia in light of the Delhi Declaration on Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia, adopted at the Second Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, New Delhi, October 2007.  5th Disaster Management Practitioners (DMP) workshop for South East Asia, 2-4 April 2008   The workshop theme focuses on Building on the themes of previous DMP workshop, the 5th DMP workshop will focus on “Sustaining Partnerships: Meeting the Challenges of Scaling-Up CBDRM Programs.” The theme will provide continuity to the earlier DMP workshops held in 2006 and 2007: 3rd Disaster Management Practitioners’ Workshop for SEA 2006-Institutionalizing CBDRM in Government Policy Making, Planning and Program Activities: Building Partnerships for Risk Reduction 4th Disaster Management Practitioners’ Workshop for SEA 2007-Learning from Community-Based Practices: Strengthening Policy and Partnerships Download Brochure