The course, Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction into Development, aims to cultivate a thorough understanding of the link between disasters and development and provide guidance on how DRR can be incorporated into national and local development planning and implementation frameworks. This begins by identifying ‘entry points’ for integrating DRR into development processes; and targets capacity building to mainstream DRR at the national and sub-national level and across all sectors.

Sponsored by the Australian Agency for International Development, AusAID, the five-day training course is facilitated by Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC).

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