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Disaster
Mitigation in Asia
Issue No. 10
31 January 2004
A. From
the Region
B. Calls for Submission
C. Conferences & Courses
D. Useful Resources
CONFERENCES
AND COURSES
Public Health and Emergency Management Courses
The
Public Health in Emergencies (PHCE) team of the Asian Disaster Preparedness
Center (ADPC) partners with various health organizations to organize
the following health-related disaster management courses:
- LEADERS
Course in Asia, 29 March-10 April 2004, Bangkok, Thailand This is
an international course on Development and Disasters with special
focus on health. The World Health Organization (WHO) and its Southeast
Asia Regional Office will tailor the English-language LEADERS Course
held last February 2003 in Jamaica, and present it to a global audience,
primarily Asia, with support from the Asian Disaster Preparedness
Center (ADPC).
For
more information on the LEADERS course, visit the WHO website at
<http://www.disaster-info.net/LIDERES>
- The
Fourth Inter-regional Training Course on Public Health and Emergency
Management in Asia and the Pacific (PHEMAP-4), 19 April-1 May 2004,
Bangkok, Thailand In collaboration with WHO, ADPC will organize
this course to help countries of the region develop more effective
policy procedures, plans, guidelines and standards of best practices
for health sector emergency management.
For
more information, please contact Ms. Janette Ugsang <janette@adpc.net>.
Southeast
Asian Disaster Management Practitioners' Workshop, 26-29 April 2004,
Bangkok, Thailand
Organized
by ADPC, the workshop, with the theme "Institutionalizing CBDM
in government policy making, planning and program activities",
will discuss disaster risk management issues, concerns and practices
common to all ASEAN countries. The workshop aims to:
a)
promote knowledge building on community-based disaster risk management
in the region;
b) learn lessons from sharing amongst ASEAN countries as well as
from the global disaster risk management practices on community-based
programming;
c) contribute to region´s policy and strategy formulation
for the benefit of governments, NGOs and donors and multi-lateral
agencies;
d) offer an opportunity to identify national and local activities
to which peers commit themselves to provide support to each other;
e) foster and strengthen connections among practitioners and organizations;
and
f) publish and disseminate written materials on community-based
disaster risk management useful to the end users within and outside
the ASEAN region.
For more details,
please contact Ms. Imelda Abaraquez <iabarquez@adpc.net>
Workshop on Technological tools in the information management: Working
model and its components, 16-20 February 2004, Guatemala City
The
workshop, to be organized by the Regional Disaster Information Center
(CRID) with the support of the Pan American Health Organization
(PAHO), aims to strengthen the training process developed as part
of the activities of the Central American Health and Disaster Information
Network Project. Among the topics to be discussed are:
(a) LISDE: Disaster
Information Locator;
(b) WinIsis: Database management program;
(c) Document digitalization process; and
(d) Interface iAH for database availability in Internet.
For
further information, please visit CRID Website <http://www.crid.or.cr/crid/ing/index_ing.html>
or
e-mail, <crid@crid.or.cr>
Disaster
Recovery Planning:
Insuring Business
Continuity 1-3 March 2004, Atlanta, Georgia 21-23 April 2004, New
York, New York 17-19 May 2004 Las Vegas, Nevada Organized by the
American Management Association International, these workshops are
participant-oriented and will provide the knowledge and tools to
develop a comprehensive program to mitigate against, prepare for,
respond to, and recover from both large and small disasters. Topics
include step-by-step project plans; methodologies for identifying
and analyzing threats; processes for identifying essential business
functions; how to develop and conduct a training and testing program;
and how to plan for continued communication with stakeholders.
Workshop
details can be viewed at <http://www.amanet.org/seminars/cmd2/6273.htm>
or
send e-mail <customerservice@amanet.org>
International Conference on Managing Seismic Risk in Developing
Countries, 17-19 March 2004, Bhopal, India
Sponsored
by the Disaster Management Institute (DMI), Ministry of Home Affairs,
Government of India, and the Department of Science and Technology
of Madhya Pradesh, this conference will provide a platform for practitioners,
administrators, and disaster management professionals to review
and evaluate recent developments in contemporary technology and
experiences in earthquake disaster management, as relevant to developing
countries, to enhance efforts at combating such disasters effectively.
For
registration information and conference details, please contact
Arun Kumar Singh Parmar,
e-mail<msrdc2004@dmibpl.org>
or
visit: <http://www.dmibpl.org/int-conf.htm>
International Workshop on Information Systems for Crisis Response
and Management (ISCRAM2004), 3-4 May 2004, Brussels, Netherlands
Organized by
Tilburg University and the Belgian Nuclear Research Center SCK-CEN,
this workshop will focus on planning for crisis response, including
organizing training exercises; responding to a crisis situation;
and evaluating performance during and after crises. The sponsors
welcome the active participation of policy makers involved in crisis
response and management at the local, regional, national, and international
level.
For
more information, contact Bartel Van de Waal <bartel@uvt.nl>
or visit <http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/faculties/few/iscram2004>
National
Severe Weather Workshop 2004, 4-6 March 2004, Oklahoma
This three-day
workshop, with the theme "Partners Keeping the Public Warned
and Informed," is designed to enhance partnerships among severe
weather forecasters and researchers, emergency managers, broadcast
meteorologists, businesses, storm spotters and other weather enthusiasts.
Free storm spotter and radar training will be offered.
Workshop
details are available at <http://www.norman.noaa.gov/nsww2004>.
XVth Global Warming International Conference and Exposition (GWXV),
20-22 April 2004, San Francisco, California
This conference
includes sessions on remote sensing and global surveillance, extreme
event impacts, energy and transportation, agricultural and forestry
resources management, sustainable environment and health for the
21st century, biodiversity, human health in a changing climate,
international law and mitigation, state and local government response
to climate-related disasters, and more.
For
more information, please contact GWXV Secretariat <Abstracts@globalwarming.net>
Website
<http://www.globalwarming.net>
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