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Monthly Updates Archive
2006
APRIL-JUNE
ADPC –
Vietnam finalized agreement on the establishment
of regional
multi-hazard early warning system (6-7 April)
Senior
technical experts from the CRM team were in
Hanoi to finalize the Memorandum of
Understanding with the Government of
Vietnam, represented by the Ministry of
Natural Resources and Environment, on
establishing the regional multi-hazard early
warning system and to discuss specific
activities for implementation. Meetings were
also held with the Hydro-meteorological
Service of Vietnam, the country focal point
of the new Danish International Development
Agency (DANIDA)-supported project entitled
“Enhancing Community Resilience to Natural
Hazards in Southeast Asia,” to brief and
engage officials in the program. They also
met with the Royal Danish Embassy in Vietnam
to link the program with other ongoing
DANIDA-supported projects in coastal areas
in Vietnam.
ADPC – Maldives
finalized agreement on the establishment of
regional
multi-hazard early warning system (13-18 April)
Mr.
A.R. Subbiah,
CRM Director finalized the Memorandum of
Understanding with the Government of
Maldives, represented by the Department of
Meteorology, on establishing the regional
multi-hazard early warning system. Specific
activities under the project were also
discussed, particularly the ISDR-supported
workshop on improving community response to
warnings.
Training on
Incident Command System (ICS) for disaster
management
held in Sri Lanka (21 April-2 May)
Under the
Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System (IOTWS),
ADPC technical experts assisted the US
Forest Service in conducting an orientation
workshop for senior officials and a five-day
training course on basic and intermediate
ICS. The orientation workshop made the
participants aware of the work that has been
done by the Government of Sri Lanka to
ensure that the country will have
well-trained disaster response teams. The
ICS course was attended by 39 participants
from various institutions and disciplinary
backgrounds. It was followed by a one-day
meeting to clarify the steps needed in
implementing ICS in Sri Lanka.
ADPC
finalized agreement with the Philippine
Institute for
Volcanology and Seismology (5-6 May)
Mr.
A.R. Subbiah, Director of ADPC’s CRM team
finalized the Memorandum of Understanding
with the Philippine Institute for
Volcanology and Seismology on cooperation
for early warning arrangements, preparedness
and mitigation of natural hazards.
Arrangements for establishing a sea level
station in Subic Bay and future work on
establishing seismic stations were also
discussed.
Regional
workshop on tool development for coastal
community
resilience (CCR) program held in Bangkok (23-25
May)
The regional
workshop on tool development for the CCR
program under the IOTWS program brought
together disaster and coastal management
experts from Indonesia, Thailand, India, Sri
Lanka, and Maldives to develop a toolkit for
the CCR program. The toolkit will serve as a
guide for planning and action to address
tsunami and other coastal hazards.
First Tsunami
Alert Rapid Notification System (TARNS) workshop
held in Thailand (23-27 May)
The first
TARNS workshop on System Design and Plan in
support of the US Government Indian Ocean
Tsunami Warning System (IOTWS) was held in
Hua Hin, Thailand. Program Integrator ADPC
assisted in facilitating and documenting the
workshop. The workshop was led by the US
Forest Service and US National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration under the IOTWS
Program in collaboration with Thailand
National Disaster Warning Center (NDWC).
ADPC conducted
national workshop on risk communication in
Maldives (9-12 June)
A senior level
delegation from ADPC, led by Mr. A.R.
Subbiah, Director of the CRM team was in a
mission to Male to facilitate a national
workshop on risk communication. With the
broad goal of improving community response
to warning, the workshop was organized by
the Department of Meteorology in
collaboration with ADPC and Asia Pacific
Broadcasting Union, and with funding support
from the UN International Strategy for
Disaster Reduction (UNISDR).
ADPC participated in regional
workshop on tsunami early warning
system in Thailand (14-16 June)
Mr.
A.R. Subbiah, Director of the CRM team and
Mr. A. J. Rego, Director of the DMS team
participated in the “Regional Workshop on
Mitigation, Preparedness and Development for
Tsunami Early Warning Systems in the Indian
Ocean Region.” Held in Bangkok, the workshop
was organized by the UN International
Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) and
United Nations Economic and Social
Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP),
in cooperation with the Intergovernmental
Oceanographic Commission (IOC). The workshop
formulated strategies to strengthen the
roles of disaster risk reduction and
planning in the development of tsunami early
warning systems.
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