2007 February

ADPC on mission to Philippines, 5-15 February   

ADPC, together with the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), is on mission to the Philippines in order to finalize arrangements for the implementation of the Climate Field School in Dumangas, Iloilo Province under the USAID-supported Climate Forecast Applications (CFA) for Disaster Mitigation program. Responding to the invitation of the Antique Provincial Agriculture Office, ADPC and PAGASA will also visit San Jose, Antique in order to start discussions about the potential replication of CFA program in the said province. In Manila, ADPC will conduct research about the PAGASA-led Climate Forum – an institutional mechanism that allows PAGASA to dialogue with and get feedback from the forecast user community.   

ADPC on mission to Dhaka, 7-16 February 

Under the Flood Forecast Technology for Disaster Preparedness Project in Bangladesh (also known as Climate Forecast Applications in Bangladesh II), ADPC will be on mission to Dhaka in order to (1) meet with the Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre and Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) and discuss follow-up activities after the December 2006 project-wide workshop and Institute of Water Modeling (IWM) training program;  (2) collect data in all five pilot sites for the site profiling report to be submitted to CARE-Bangladesh; (3) initiate discussion on potential participants for the training program, which will be organized by the Climate Forecast Applications Network (CFAN) in March 2007; and (4) finalize expenditure statement and third quarter activities report to CARE-Bangladesh. The project is supported by USAID Bangladesh through CARE Bangladesh.

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