| AUDMP
Program Description and Accomplishments Recent
Achievements and Upcoming Initiatives
During this reporting period, AUDMP’s main focus has been
placed on replication and consolidation of mitigation initiatives,
which are proved cost effective in the respective country contexts.
The program activities continue under replication phase in Bangladesh,
Indonesia and Sri Lanka whereas activities under consolidation phase
are being carried out in Nepal. The demonstration phase started
in Lao PDR and Thailand, respectively have been added to the program.
The strategies and proposals for projects in India and Vietnam were
reviewed and amended as per the recommendations of the Monitoring
Mission and the Core Group.
In
respect to new country projects in Lao PDR and Thailand, respectively,
many activities are being implemented. A grant agreement to start
the Lao PDR project, which focuses on urban fire and road accidents,
was signed in June 2002 between AUDMP/ADPC and the National Disaster
Management Office, the focal point on disaster management in Lao
PDR. Its phase I activities were successfully completed in December
2002. Thailand Urban Disaster Mitigation Project (TUDMP) commenced
its phase I activities in October 2002. An MOU signing ceremony
between ADPC and the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation
(DDPM), the new Thai Government agency responsible for disaster
management, took place on 14 February 2003. A seminar on “Thailand’s
Disaster Management Strategy” was recently held, providing
a forum for the participants, which consisted of high-level government
officers from different government offices and organizations, to
develop a strategic framework for disaster management in Thailand
under the newly restructured DDPM.
For
ongoing projects in Indonesia and Sri Lanka, activities under replication
phase are being carried out. The Indonesian Urban Disaster Mitigation
Project (IUDMP) identified the need for and establishment of a Research
Center at the Institute of Technology Bandung (ITB) in January 2003
with support from AUDMP in developing the Center’s Business
Plan. The Sri Lanka Urban Multi-Hazard Disaster Mitigation Project
(SLUMDMP) plans to organize the 2nd Disaster Safety Day in Ratnapura,
one of its demonstration project sites, on 16 March 2003 to coincide
with the 8th AUDMP Annual Working Group Meeting, co-organized by
the Centre for Housing, Planning and Building, SLUMDMP implementing
organization.
A proposal
for the vulnerability reduction project in Ahmedabad city of Gujarat
state of India has been developed in collaboration with Center for
Environmental Planning and Research (CEPT). USAID India Mission
will be consulted to further refine the proposal to build synergy
between ongoing and pipeline activities of the country mission and
this proposed project. A project for establishing housing delivery
mechanisms for communities living in flood prone areas in Central
Vietnam has also been developed and forwarded to the AUDMP Core
Group for review. A workshop on Safer Shelter in Vietnam was organized
in September 2002 to review, analyze and discuss main issues pertaining
to the impact of flood and typhoon on housing in Vietnam.
Although
the replication phase of Cambodia and Nepal under AUDMP was completed
in November 2001, several activities have been continued through
the assistance of non-AUDMP sources. PACT/ Cambodia submitted a
proposal for the consolidation phase, which was reviewed by the
Core Group during the latest Core Group Meeting in December 2002.
In collaboration with the NSET-Nepal, AUDMP has organized the Earthquake
Vulnerability Reduction for Cities (EVRC) training course twice
in Kathmandu, Nepal—one in May and the second in November
2002 during the 4th General Assembly of Asian Seismological Commission.
Activities under consolidation phase in Nepal are also being implemented
by NSET-Nepal.
One
of the major achievements during this reporting period under the
Information and Networking component is a Regional Workshop on Best
Practices in Disaster Mitigation, which was successfully organized
in September 2002 and attended by more than 150 participants from
17 countries all around the world. Development of a Primer on Urban
Disaster Mitigation in Asia to share the advances in knowledge and
experience in this regard is also underway by AUDMP. A mini-workshop
to seek advice on this from a panel of international experts was
held in September 2002, following the Regional Workshop. A number
of working papers and case studies has been developed to capture
the best practices of projects implemented under AUDMP on different
themes. As AUDMP’s continuous effort to further disseminate
information and promote replication, the AUDMP website has been
regularly revised and updated.
Under
the Training, Resource Materials, and Continuing Education (TRMCE)
component, the Urban Disaster Mitigation Curriculum (UDM), the Urban
Flood Mitigation (UFM) Curriculum and Curriculum for Technological
Hazard Risk Mitigation course for Cities (TRMC) - have been developed
and field-tested. It has been transferred to Training and Education
Division (TED) of ADPC and TED takes initiatives to conduct them
under its regular training calendar. A new course on the Earthquake
Vulnerability Reduction for Cities (EVRC) was developed and two
courses were successfully conducted during the reporting period.
Following the first delivery of EVRC in May 2002, the course curriculum
was reviewed by a panel of experts in September 2002. The EVRC-2
was conducted in November 2002 prior to the 4th General Assembly
of Asian Seismological Commission in Kathmandu, Nepal by ADPC in
association with the International Institute for Geoinformation
Science and Earth Observation (ITC), the Netherlands, International
Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and NSET-Nepal.
AUDMP is developing a fifth course on Disaster Risk Communication
(DRC). The DRC course outline has been developed and development
of course content is underway.
The
Asian Disaster Mitigation Training Network (ADMIT), which was launched
on May 17, 1999, has shown a very slow progress during the reporting
period. Six MOUs have been signed between ADPC and six national
organizations in four countries, namely India, Nepal, Philippines
and Sri Lanka. To date, five courses on Natural Disaster Mitigation
(NDM) in Sri Lanka, three courses on Disaster Management in India
and three courses on Urban Disaster Mitigation in Lao PDR have been
conducted by the NPTIs in the respective countries. These courses
are planned to be integrated into the respective NPTIs’ annual
regular training calendar.
Another
important ongoing initiative under TRMCE is the dialogue to integrate
the subject of Urban Disaster Mitigation (UDM) into the curricula
of undergraduate/postgraduate courses in Schools of Urban Planning
of related academic institutes as a way to sustaining disaster mitigation.
Currently, discussions in this connection are underway with 13 planning
schools in six AUDMP countries. A workshop on “Institutionalization
of Urban Disaster Mitigation” was held by AUDMP in July 2002
in Bangkok, Thailand, bringing about more than 20 academic professionals
from countries in Asia and Europe to discuss the strategy in this
respect. In this regard, the ADPC and ITC Netherlands will be implementing
a joint project with financial support from ECHO. The project is
titled as “Sustainable Capacity Building for Urban Disaster
Mitigation in Asia using ITC Technologies”. The project will
start in April this year.
In
terms of Monitoring and Evaluation, an external monitoring mission
team visited AUDMP country projects to review and assess progress
made towards AUDMP’s second phase objectives and expected
results, document successes and identifyi areas for improvement
The team also reviewed the information products, dissemination strategy
as well as the national and regional courses developed and conducted
under AUDMP. At the end of the mission, the team reported that the
AUDMP has had an important impact and tangible results in a number
of countries in Asia and has been instrumental in helping to bring
disaster mitigation a higher profile in the region. It has raised
awareness of all stakeholders in disaster mitigation in its project
countries. Also, it has developed a number of models and approaches
to address disaster mitigation in a variety of situations. According
to the team, reviewing the program strategy for the future is recommended
to ensure the sustainability of the mitigation concept and to consolidate
the achievements of the program. The focus of the program activities
in the future years will be to consolidate the achievements of the
AUDMP to date.
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