8th Practitioners’ Workshop
on Risk Reduction & Resilience in Asia

1. Workshop Introduction


The 8th Practitioners’ Workshop on Risk Reduction and Resilience in Asia will provide a unique opportunity for practitioners and organizations to jointly reflect on the outcomes of the Third World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction which took place in Sendai, Japan in March 2015. The workshop will be organized by and for practitioners with relevant technical expertise and knowledge of risk reduction in Asia. The participants will identify ways to translate the Sendai commitments into practice and implement the framework on the ground - putting policy debates aside. The outcomes of the workshop will be harnessed to support regional and global disaster risk reduction efforts in support of the motto “DRR is everyone’s business”.

 

The workshop program will revolve around the following four themes:
  • Enhancing Community Resilience
  • Expanding Preparedness for Response
  • Innovation and Risk-Informed Development
  • Mainstreaming DRR Within and Across Sectors - Focusing on Agriculture and Resilient Livelihoods

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2. Background: Practitioners’ Workshop


Since 1999, disaster risk management practitioners in Asia have gathered every two years with the objectives of sharing lessons learned in disaster risk reduction (DRR), stocktaking and consolidating good practices, and creating professional networks. The Practitioners’ Workshops are organized with the financial support of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (known as ECHO), and other contributors. Seven events have been hosted to date, organized in inter-agency collaboration between the Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre (ADPC), the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP).

 

Each meeting is organized around a topical and central theme related to disaster risk reduction, and the aim is to contribute to the national, regional and international DRR frameworks. Each of the previous meetings have gathered between 100–300 practitioners’ from both the development and humanitarian sectors, including institutions such as United Nations agencies, nongovernmental organizations, the Red Cross/Crescent Movement, civil society organizations, academia, think-tanks, and government line agencies.


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Link to Storify of the Practitioners’ Workshop in 2013

 

3. Date and Venue


The 8th Practitioners’ Workshop will be organized at Swissotel Nai Lert Park in Bangkok, Thailand on 23–25 November 2015.

 

4. Contact


For more information about the Practitioners’ Workshop, please contact

Ms. Mareike Bentfeld, Project Coordinator, mareike@adpc.net, Tel. +662 298 0681 Ext. 302.