Climate Forecast Application Program, New Delhi
(1- 4 May)
A senior representative of ADPC’s Climate Risk
Management (CRM) team attended a meeting in New
Delhi to initiate Climate Forecast Application
(CFA) Program in India. The meeting prepared a
work plan for implementing activities in the
first year. The CFA-India program commencing in
May 2006, is being implemented by ADPC in
collaboration with the Indian Institute of
Technology (IIT) and seven other partner
institutions, with funding support from the
Government of India.
Flood Forecast Technology for Disaster
Preparedness in Bangladesh , Dhaka (4-9 May)
A senior representative of ADPC’s Climate Risk
Management (CRM) team was on a mission to Dhaka
to attend a project initiation meeting for the
three-year program on Flood Forecast Technology
for Disaster Preparedness in Bangladesh (CFAB
2). This programme, implemented by ADPC, aims to
develop climate and flood forecast models that
will add predictive skills to the current
prediction efforts and to make them operational
within Bangladesh . Strengthening the technical
capacity of institution personnel to enable them
to operate the end-to-end climate/flood
forecasting and application system; thereby
strengthening disaster management in the
agriculture sector through the application of a
community-based climate forecast information
system.
Flood Forecast Technology for Disaster
Preparedness (CFAB-2) activity, Dhaka
(9-11
May)
Mr. A. R. Subbiah, Director of ADPC’s CRM team
is on mission to Dhaka , Bangladesh to discuss
activities to be carried out in the first year
of the CFAB-2 program with Prof. Peter Webster
from Georgia Institute of Technology, USA .
Activities include providing technical inputs on
climate and flood forecast modeling and the
scope and potential for issuing forecast for the
summer monsoon.
FAO Pre-Monsoon Season Workshop, Dhaka ( 10-11
May)
ADPC Climate Risk Management (CRM)
representative will attend the FAO Pre-Monsoon
Season Workshop.
National workshop on Climate Forecast
Applications for Managing Climate Risks,
Indramayu, (11-17 May)
ADPC Climate Risk Management (CRM) team will be
in Indramayu, West Java, Indonesia to organize
and facilitate the national workshop on Climate
Forecast Applications for Managing Climate
Risksat theBAPPEDA Office (district planning
agency), Indramayu. The workshop will discuss
the status of the existing climate forecast
generation and application in different sectors
for mitigating the impacts of climate hazards in
Indonesia . The workshop will also provide
opportunity for cross-fertilization between
project sites (Indonesia and the Philippines),
and to develop an action plan for addressing
constraints and exploiting opportunities for
institutionalizing climate forecast applications
in different sectors. The workshop will be
attended by about 60 participants from national,
provincial and local governments in West Java,
representatives from Philippines and the USAID
Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA).
Regional workshop on tool development for
coastal community resilience (CCR) program,
Bangkok , (23-25 May)
The regional workshop on tool development for
coastal community resilience (CCR) program under
the IOTWS will bring together disaster and
coastal management experts from Indonesia ,
Thailand , India , Sri Lanka , and Maldives to
develop a toolkit for the CCR program and
identify opportunities to implement the program
in the target countries.
First Tsunami Alert Rapid Notification System
(TARNS) workshop, Hua Hin (23-27 May)
The first Tsunami Alert Rapid Notification
System (TARNS) workshop: System Design and Plan
in support of the US Government Indian Ocean
Tsunami Warning System (IOTWS) is scheduled at
the end of the month in Hua Hin , Thailand .
Program Integrator, ADPC will assist in
facilitating and documenting the workshop. The
workshop will be implemented by US Forest
Service and US National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration under the IOTWS Program, in
collaboration with Thailand National Disaster
Warning Center (NDWC).
National workshop on Communicating Risks, Yangon
(26 May – 1 June)
ADPC CRM team will be in a mission to Yangon ,
Myanmar from 26 May-1 June to assess the warning
information flow and institutions that are
involved with providing inputs to the national
workshop on communicating risks. The workshop is
scheduled from 30-31 May and will be organized
by ADPC in collaboration with the Department of
Meteorology and Hydrology.
