ADPC'S TRAINING COURSES
Bespoke training curricula available.

Disaster Management Course (DMC)

Disaster Management Course is the Regional flagship core course of ADPC, which has been delivered since the ADPC’s inception. The course provides comprehensive disaster management knowledge and skills to enhance the capabilities of executive managers who have key disaster management responsibilities. It is designed to enable professionals working in disaster management, development and donor agencies to effectively integrate disaster management into their development programs and policies. Participants will be encouraged to develop key skills and adopt proactive attitudes through participation in interactive lectures and reflection on a range of key issues raised during discussions and practical activities.

The course will promote the sharing of relevant technical and managerial skills and knowledge and will equip participants with appropriate decision making, strategic and analytical processes.
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Flood Disaster Risk Management (FDRM)

Flood Disaster Risk Mitigation Course is a Regional flagship core course with an integrated approach to development of flood risk reduction strategies that involves engineering, settlement, development, public administration, community-based strategies and land use planning (with environmental considerations). This multi-disciplinary treatment of the flood problem and of the requirements of flood risk management is expected to enable a holistic view of the situation and the needed preparedness measures. Cases of responses at the national and local levels are presented to give the mitigation measures concrete applications.

The four modules impart the information and skills in flood problem analysis, understanding and appreciation of the various approaches to flood risk reduction, determination of appropriateness of the strategies and/or measures to achieve the desired goal of flood risk/damage reduction.

The course is linked to a number of current ADPC flood-related initiatives, including the Flood Preparedness Information Network (FINE) in South Asia; the Extreme Climate Events (ECE) program; and the cooperation between ADPC and Mekong River Commission. Participants will be exposed to these endeavors, to learn from their experience and to establish linkages with them. Download brochure

Community Based Disaster Risk Reduction (CBDRR)

The CBDRR course, a Regional flagship core course of ADPC, evolved over the years provide an opportunity for practitioners to learn  essential skills and knowledge in community based disaster risk management to address implementation challenges in a systematic manner. CBDRR participants acquire tools and obtain knowledge on  “how to” design and implement programs for reducing disaster risks and vulnerability and building community capacity to promote a ‘culture of safety.’ Through exercises and simulations participants practice risk assessment and risk management planning. The participants will have a chance to learn about globally acknowledged programs and projects on community based disaster risk management from leaders of these initiatives, with a particular focus on examples from South and South East Asian and Pacific regions. The CBDRR course tackles the issues in disaster risk management from a developmental perspective, discusses the issues and problems concerning sustainability, replication/ adaptation of CBDRR practice and integration of risk management plans with government and non-government development plans.

End-to-End Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems for Disaster Risk Reduction (EWS)

The  course  offers  to  build  the  capacity  of  professionals  to  design, manage,  evaluate  and  undertake  improvements  in  people  centered  end-to-end  early  warning  systems  for  hydro-meteorological  &  geological hazards  and  extreme  events  associated  with  climate  change  and variability. It  builds  upon  ADPC’s  two  decades  of  experience  in  disaster management,  facilitating  regional  cooperation  and  building  capacities  of disaster  management  institutions  at  all  government  levels,  disaster management  practitioners  and  communities.  It  extends  to  a  decade  of experience  in  institutionalizing  weather  and  climate  information applications  for  disaster  mitigation  and  recently,  in  the  implementation of Indian  Ocean  and  South  East  Asia  end-to-end  early  warning  system  for tsunami  and  hydro-meteorological  hazards.  Upon  completing  the  course, participants  will  be  able  to:  1)  understand  operational  mechanisms  and procedures  for  the  prediction,  forecasting,  monitoring  and  response  to warning;  2)  design  end-to-end  early  warning  systems  for  hydro-meteorological/geological  hazards  including,   action  planning  for   disaster preparedness,   emergency  management  and  social  response  with  respect to  early  warning;  3)  develop  tools  for  early  warning  audits,  identify current  gaps  in  existing  early  warning  systems  and  put  in  place enhanced  people-centered  early  warning  system  with  addressing  the “last-mile”  users;  4)  harmonization  of  early  warning  system  and  disaster mitigation  for  effective  disaster  reduction;  5)  develop  tools  to  incorporate  emerging  new  generation  climate  prediction  technologies.  

Training  Modules include Introduction  to  end-to-end  multi-hazard  early warning  system  and  management, Risk  identification  and  assessment, Hazard  detection,  monitoring,  forecasting  and  warning,  Early  warning dissemination  and  communication,  Community  based  early  warning systems, Building  hazard-ready  communities and  Monitoring  and  evaluation of  early  warning  system. Download brochure