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 management knowledge and skills.
At the recommendation of UN
Disaster Relief Organization (UNDRO) - now known
as UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian
Affairs (UN-OCHA) - ADPC was established in
1986 as an outreach activity of the Asian Institute
of Technology in Bangkok , Thailand , with the
aim of strengthening the national disaster risk
management systems in the region. In 1999, ADPC
became an independent entity, which is governed
and guided by a Board of Trustees (21 members
representing 15 countries) and advised by a
Regional Consultative Committee (29 members
from 24 countries) and Advisory Council (56
members from a wide range of agencies, representing
16 countries).
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