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4th ADPC Community-Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM)
Course Review 22-23 May 2007, Bangkok
A rich dialogue during the workshop resulted to a revised
curriculum being drafted integrating the reviewer’s inputs
on new/emerging CBDRM concepts, models, framework, tools,
focus, experiences and best practices. The final curriculum
with the enhanced modules will be integrated into the succeeding
ADPC CBDRM courses.
The 4th Community-Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) Course
Review was conducted from 22-23 May 2007 at the AIT Conference
Center, Bangkok. The workshop participants consist of experienced
practitioners from a range of regional and international organizations
and selected CBDRM course alumni.
The CBDRM course is one of the regional flagship courses of
the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC). The course
was initiated in 1997 in order to provide an opportunity to
practitioners to learn essential skills and knowledge to systematically
address disaster risk reduction challenges at the community
level. It has been reviewed periodically to ensure that it
meets the learning and professional development needs of practitioners.
Since its inception, the course has been reviewed three times,
in 1998, 2000, and 2002, in order to ensure that the course
content, context, and methods of delivery are still relevant
and coherent with the changing CBDRM practices in different
disciplines. There were 20 participants who served as key
reviewers for the workshop that are from the following organizations:
Thai Red Cross, All India Disaster Mitigation Institute (AIDMI),
Oxfam (America), World Vision, Richard - World Vision, Center
for Disaster Preparedness (CDP), and United Nations International
Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR). For more details,
please contact Dr. Mel Capistrano, CBDRM Program Manager:
mcapistrano@adpc.net
Advocating CBDRM into Government Policy and Programming
in Vietnam
To support local and international NGOs in providing assistance
to the national government of Vietnam in establishing an effective
system of integrating Community Based Disaster Risk Management
(CBDRM) into development planning, ADPC will conduct two sets
of training course entitled, “Advocacy for CBDRM: Integrating
CBDRM into Government Policy and Programming” on 4-6
June 2007 and 7-9 June 2007 in Hue and Hanoi respectively.
One major training output is the formulation of an strategic
advocacy plan which includes the identification of possible
champions on CBDRM within the existing government system whom
the NGOs and jointly with other stakeholders such as the private
sectors and the community themselves, will mobilize to bring
CBDRM to the top level of Disaster Risk Reduction governance
of the country and linking the decision making to Disaster
Risk Management towards expected goals of the HFA implementation.
The CBDRM Advocacy Network Initiative in Vietnam, with funding
support from DIPECHO, is sponsoring this event. Members of
the network includes CARE International in Vietnam, Save the
Children, Consortium of the Spanish Red cross and Netherlands
Red Cross, Development Workshop France, Consortium of the
United Nations Development Program and the Canadian Center
for International Studies and Cooperation and World Vision
Vietnam.
ADPC in collaboration with ProVention Consortium announces
the launch of Research and Action Grants for Disaster Risk
Reduction
(Third Round of Grants 2007-2008)
The Research and Action Grants for Disaster Risk Reduction
programme is designed to engage enthusiastic young students
and professionals in developing countries in creating innovative
links between research and action in disaster risk reduction.
Applicants are invited to seek ways to cut across professional
disciplines and to exchange knowledge and engage stakeholders
from scientific and academic, civilian, public and private
sectors.
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