4th Regional Training Course on End-to-End Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems
Duration: 8 Jun 2015 - 12 Jun 2015
Department: ACD
Donor Agency: Course fee
Location: Thailand,
Themes:ACD
ADPC conducted the 4th Regional Training Course on End-to-End Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems from June 8 to 12, 2015 in Bangkok, Thailand. This course built the capacity of professionals in designing, managing, evaluating and undertaking improvements in people-centred end-to-end early warning systems for hydro-meteorological and geological hazards and extreme events associated with climate change and variability.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
- Undertook risk assessments and design multi-hazard end-to-end early warning systems (EWS) for disaster risk reduction (DRR)
- Integrated scientific and technical inputs into early warning dissemination
- Developed strategies to institutionalize early warning systems as part of DRR, development planning, emergency response, and preparedness activities
- Developed risk communication strategies and technologies
- Interpreted and translated scientific information into user-friendly formats
- Designed and established people-centered community-based EWSs
- Introduced public education programs on community based on EWSs
- Applied emerging climate prediction technologies in managing disaster risks