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Disaster Mitigation in Asia
Issue No. 8 
30 November 2003

A. From the Region
B. Calls for Submission 
C. Conferences & Courses
D. Useful Resources

FROM THE REGION

Australia's Safer Communities Awards highlight strength of cooperation

Twelve national winners among the 32 finalists were recipients of the 2003 Australia's top emergency management awards. An initiative of the Emergency Management Australia, the Safer Communities Awards aimed at highlighting and encouraging innovation and cooperation across the emergency management sector. The selected organizations had demonstrated strength of cooperation in preparing for and managing the consequences of disasters.

For further information, please refer to
<http://www.ema.gov.au/ema/emaInternet.nsf/AllDocs/RWP587D785016A48EDBCA256C F4007C226E?OpenDocument#sca>.

DMC-30 highlighted effective disaster management and prevention strategies

The Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) recently concluded the Thirtieth Regional Disaster Management Course (DMC-30) which was held in Bangkok, Thailand from 3-21 November 2003.

The course was attended by 26 participants from 15 countries including Bangladesh, Bhutan, Fiji, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Malaysia, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Spain, Sri Lanka, Thailand, USA and Vietnam. Government and non-governmental organizations, donors and various disaster management and development agencies were represented. The course dealt with the development of effective strategies and systems for disaster prevention, mitigation, response and recovery; applying risk management processes in order to identify, assess and deal with disaster risks; utilize an emergency operations center to manage disaster events; and assess key implementation issues and requirements in disaster management. Her Excellency Mrs. Leela K. Ponnapa, the Ambassador of India to Thailand presided over the opening ceremony of the course. The DMC-30 was also supported by United Nations-International Strategy for Disaster Reduction through a Fellowship Programme.

The next DMC-31 will be organized in November 2004. Interested participants
and organizations can write to Mr. Gaurav Ray <gauravray@adpc.net>.

FEMA Curriculum for Community-Based Disaster Mitigation

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) announces a new, on-line curriculum. The community-based pre-disaster mitigation curriculum is designed to involve emergency management and community and faith-based organizations (CBOs/FBOs) in pre-disaster mitigation activities at the local level. The goals of the curricula are to enable participants to discover the role that CBOs/FBOs can play in mitigation activities, determine possible mitigation projects in which they might engage, and better understand ways that CBOs/FBOs and emergency managers can work together.

The curriculum can be seen at <http://www.fema.gov/tab_education.shtm>.

To learn about pre-disaster mitigation successes in other communities or share how these training materials were used to launch a successful mitigation project, success stories are available at
<http://www.fema.gov/mitigationss/sstory_seek.jsp>.

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