Asian Disaster
Preparedness Center
URL:
http://www.adpc.net/
The Asian Disaster Preparedness
Center is a leading regional, non-profit
organization supporting the advancement of safer
communities and sustainable development, through
programs and projects that reduce the impact of
disasters upon countries and communities in Asia
and the Pacific. Our vision is of safer
communities and sustainable development through
disaster risk reduction.
ADPC has responded dynamically to
the paradigm shift in disaster management,
readily and actively adjusting its operational
strengths to address the evolving developments
in disaster risk management by structuring its
technical focus on climate risk management,
community-based disaster risk management,
disaster management systems, urban disaster risk
management and public health in emergencies.
This vigorous and comprehensive approach is
further reinforced by ensuring that ADPC’s
projects and programs enhance institutional
capacities, apply community-based disaster risk
management practices, and promote and support
mainstreaming of disaster risk reduction into
development processes. These activities
complement ADPC’s involvement in building
national, provincial and local disaster risk
management systems, identifying disaster risk
management needs, and developing strategic
solutions.
ADPC’s standing and over twenty
years of experience in the region is confirmed
by the substantive encouragement and support
from various multilateral and bi-lateral
development and donor agencies, as manifested in
the implementation of its extensive array of
projects and programs. As it moves forward, ADPC
will continue to build upon its operational and
technical strengths and to evolve in its role as
a regional resource center to that of a regional
tsunami watch provider and support national
meteorological centers in severe weather
forecast research.
Habitat for Humanity
International (Asia Pacific)
URL:
http://www.habitat.org/ap/
Habitat for Humanity
International is a nonprofit, ecumenical
Christian housing ministry. HFHI seeks to
eliminate poverty housing and homelessness from
the world, and to make decent shelter a matter
of conscience and action. Habitat has built more
than 225,000 houses around the world, providing
more than 1 million people in more than 3,000
communities with safe, decent, affordable
shelter.
Habitat has built and
rehabilitated more than 45,700 homes and served
nearly 230,000 people around the Asia-Pacific
region (as of December 2006). Every year
thousands of other families are helped with
repairs, and financial and technical assistance.
In addition, up to 30,000 families are expected
to benefit from Habitat programs to help victims
of the 2004 Asian tsunami.
The Habitat name can be found in
such places as Afghanistan, Australia,
Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Fiji, Guam, India,
Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Mongolia,
Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea,
the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand,
Timor Leste (East Timor), Vanuatu and Vietnam.
In Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong (part of
Habitat for Humanity China), Habitat is
principally involved in fund-raising, advocacy
and organizing volunteers. There are limited
building repair activities.
