The sixth International Course on Community Based Disaster Management (CBDM-6) is currently being held in Bangkok, Thailand. Twenty-six participants from 13 countries in South, East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific, including Switzerland and the US are attending the two-weeks course. The course aims to build participants' capacity in designing, piloting and conducting community-based disaster management course on their own and in implementing community-based disaster management programs and projects in disaster-prone rural and urban areas.

The Asian Disaster Preparedness Center conducts the CSDM course annually for organizations that are either supporting or implementing community-based disaster mitigation or disaster response programs in their respective countries.

Prof. Krasae addressing the participants in the opening ceremony
of the sixth International Course on Community Based Disaster Management (CBDM-6)

 

Participants and ADPC officials at the opening ceremony
of the sixth International Course on Community Based Disaster Management (CBDM-6)