Regional workshop on multi-hazard end-to-end early warning, Mauritius

10 APRIL to 10 MAY 2007

In collaboration with Mauritius Meteorological Services, ADPC is organizing a regional workshop on multi-hazard end-to-end early warning from 17-20 April 2007 in Vacoas, Mauritius.  The workshop brings together national focal points for early warning and disaster risk management of Comoros, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles and Tanzania to:  a) identify warning information needs of disaster risk managers, b) present available early warning information products and services, c) recommend activities to improve early warning information products, their delivery and responses, and d) share tools and experiences.

Technical experts meeting to prepare for the establishment of the regional facility for tsunami watch provision at ADPC.

Members of the Regional Technical Committee of the ADPC-facilitated regional early warning system will meet from 23-24 April 2007 in Bangkok to review the workplan and provide expert guidance for establishing the regional facility for tsunami watch provision at ADPC.  Meeting participants include technical experts from the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center; Bureau of Meteorology, Australia; Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology; Seismological Bureau of the Meteorological Department, Thailand; and the Asian Institute of Technology. 

User-need assessment for early warning information, Sihanoukville, Cambodia

Under the Enhancing Community Resilience to Natural Disasters in Southeast Asia (ECRSEA) project, ADPC will be on mission to Sihanoukville Province, Cambodia from 23-27 April 2007 in order to map out the information flow processes and linkages amongst local institutions, undertake research on institutions and current forecast applications, and assess user needs for early warning information. A follow up mission will be conducted from May 3-11 in order to constitute local working groups for project implementation in Polder User and Touk L’ak communities. These activities will be carried out with the Groupe De Recherche et D'Echanges Technologiques (GRET). The project is supported by the Danish Agency for International Development (DANIDA).        

Incident Command System training in Indonesia

ADPC will facilitate National Basic and Intermediate Incident Command System (ICS) Training in Jakarta, Indonesia from 30 April-4 May 2007. The training will be conducted in partnership with the US Department of Agriculture and US Forest Service under the US Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System (IOTWS) program. A similar training was organized in Sri Lanka in 2006 to support the institutionalization of ICS in the country.

Regional Workshop on Incident Command System for Disaster Management

Under the US Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System (IOTWS), ADPC will facilitate a “Regional Workshop on Incident Command System for Disaster Management” from 8 to 11 May 2007 in order to 1) share best management practices of ICS and lessons learned from disaster response management; 2) share information on ICS as practiced in the US and other countries; and 2) share lessons learned from the recent implementation of ICS in Sri Lanka.  Aside from discussing good practices and lessons learned, the workshop will also serve as a platform for discussing key issues and challenges in developing a standard emergency system in the Indian Ocean countries.  The regional workshop will be conducted in partnership with the US Department of Agriculture and US Forest Service.