The Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) is a non-profit organization supporting the advancement of safer communities and sustainable development, through implementing programs and projects that reduce the impact of disasters upon countries and communities in Asia and the Pacific, by:

• Developing and enhancing sustainable institutional disaster risk management capacities, frameworks and mechanisms, and supporting the development and implementation of government policies;
• facilitating the dissemination and exchange of disaster risk management expertise, experience and information; and
• raising awareness and enhancing disaster risk maagement knowledge and skills.

• Meeting on Regional Cooperation on Early Warning Arrangement, Preparedness and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, 12-14 July 2006 Miracle Grand Hotel Bangkok, Thailand
  
• ADPC and WHO plans the 6th inter-regional PHEMAP Course
  http://www.unhabitat.org/wuf/2006/wed12.asp
• Launch of the Roadmap for Integrated Disaster Risk Management in Sri Lanka
• TCELS Seminar for the Business Sector on Pandemic Preparedness, 29 June 2006: Program for AI Seminar-Eng , Program for AI Seminar-Thai , Brochure , Form
• ADPC Board of Trustees Meeting, Bangkok, 16 June
• Map Asia 2006

• Assessment Report of Mass Casualty Management Exercise
• Monthly Updates-July 2006
• Mr. S.H.M. Fakhruddin from ADPC's Climate Risk Management team will attend the 16th World Conference on Disaster Management in Toronto, Canada, 18-21 June to present papers on Tsunami Alert Rapid Notification System (TARNS)-Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System (IOTWS) and Community-based multi hazard early warning and dissemination systems development.
• Looking to the future: The Maldives after the December 2004 Tsunami
• Networking Community on Community-Based Disaster Risk Management
• Indian Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami Reports