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ADPC News & Events 2009

September 2010

  • 14 Sept 2010
    ADPC, in partnership with Myanmar Red Cross Society and French Red Cross, is organizing a workshop on 'Indigenous Knowledge on Disaster Risk Reduction in Myanmar' in Yangon, Myanmar
     
  • 6 - 10 Sept 2010
    ADPC is conducting a SET (Skills for Effective Trainers) course for 27 officials from Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA) and National Disaster Reduction Center of China (NDRCC) in Beijing, China. The course is funded by the Chinese government,
     
  • 1 Sept 2010
    ADPC is organizing the "National Consultation Meeting on Public Awareness for Flood Risk Reduction in Thailand" (Note: the Meeting will start at 9:30 am at the ADPC office in Bangkok, Thailand)
    Agenda

    Check out Photos of the event

August 2010

  • 29 - 31 Aug 2010
    Training on "Child Centered DRR" will be conducted in Dhaka, Bangladesh to facilitate the DRR component into the Plan Bangladesh core approach towards working with children, called Child Centered Community Development (CCCD). Plan staff will participate in the training. This is a part of UDRM program, Building Disaster Resilient and Safer Communities in Bangladesh, through which ADPC provides technical assistance for Plan-Bangladesh.
     
  • 24 - 27 Aug 2010
    Training on "Child Inclusive Urban Risk Assessment" will be conducted in Sylhet, Bangladesh with participants from all DIPECHO partners to introduce the urban risk assessment module and to bring the children's vulnerability into that framework. This is a part of UDRM program, Building Disaster Resilient and Safer Communities in Bangladesh, through which ADPC provides technical assistance for Islamic Relief-Bangladesh.

     
  • 16 - 17 Aug 2010
    A Community Action for Disaster Response course (CADRE) will be conducted in Da Nang, Vietnam aiming to skill-up community members to effectively respond to floods, landslides, typhoons, and other disastrous events. For more information, please visit PEER website.
    Press Release
     
    Check out Photos of CADRE Activities
     
  • 06 and 15 Aug 2010
    Two separate Workshops on 'Guideline on Township Disaster Management Plan' was organized on 6th and 15th August 2010 at Nay Pyi Taw and Pathein in order to orient the Township Disaster Preparedness Committees. ADPC, in collaboration with Relief and Resettlement Department, General Administration Department, Myanmar, have developed the ‘Guideline on Township Disaster Management Plan’.
    Check out photos of the workshop

     
  • 09 - 11 Aug 2010
    The Pacific Platform for DRM runs from 9th to 13th August and includes SOPAC’s launch of the Disaster Risk Reduction Project Portal, an initiative for sharing information on DRR projects in Asia and the Pacific for identifying gaps and areas of cooperation, and improving planning and programming for DRR. Project partners of this initiative include UNISDR, ADB, ADPC, ADRRN, IFRC, SOPAC, UNDP, UNESCAP, UNOCHA and the World Bank.
    For further information, click >>
     
  • 02 - 06 Aug 2010
    Workshop for the Pilot Testing for the new Zoonotic Diseases Training Package ‘One Health Initiative’ in Bangkok, Thailand
    more>>

June 2010

  • 01 June 2010
    Building Collapse in Dhaka: ADPC Dhaka team rushed to assess the damage and loss

     
  • 17 - 18 June 2010
    Orientation Training on the use of the Disaster Risk Reduction Project Portal developed under the initiative of the ISDR Asia Partnership (IAP) on Regional Stocktaking and Mapping of DRR interventions in Asia and Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand
    Schedule
     
  • 28 - 29 June 2010
    ADPC will provide technical assistance for the Second Workshop on ASEAN Defence Establishments and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) Cooperation on Non-Traditional Security (Disaster Management), co-hosted by Thailand, Brunei Darussalam and the Republic of the Philippines, at Royal Orchid Sheraton Hotel & Towers, Bangkok, Thailand

May 2010

  • 1 - 22 May 2010
    Community Action for Disaster Response course (CADRE) – part of the PEER program, is holding a training in the Philippines in May 2010, with trainees from the Bacolod region
    Press Release   Photos
     

  • 26-27 May 2010
    The ADPC Flood Preparedness Program team will participate in the 8th Annual Mekong Flood Forum (AMFF-8). in Vientiane, Lao PDR. The theme for AMFF-8 will be 'Flood risk management and mitigation in the Mekong River Basin.'
    ADPC paper for the forum

     

  • 30-31 May 2010
    The
    Second National Monsoon Forum will be held in Dhaka, Bangladesh
    Agenda

April 2010

  • 13 - 16 April 2010
    ADPC will be closed during the Thai New Year Holiday (Songkran)

March 2010

  • 18 March 2010
    Launch of the 'Handbook for Reconstruction after Natural Disasters,' developed by World Bank in partnership with the Earthquake and Megacities Initiative, Habitat for Humanity International, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Shelter Centre, UNISDR, and the World Housing Encyclopedia at 2pm, ADPC Office
    Press Release

FEB 2010

  • 1 - 19 Feb 2010
    ADPC is organizing Disaster Management Course (DMC-39) in Bangkok, Thailand for three weeks
    Brochure  
     
  • 16 Feb 2010
    ADPC Dhaka office in Bangladesh turns 2nd Anniversary! Check more
     
  • 17 - 18 Feb 2010
    ADPC and Bangladesh Disaster Preparedness Centre (BDPC) is organizing a Regional Conference on 'Climate Change and Extreme Cyclones: Disaster Risk Reduction and Emergency Response in a Rapidly Changing World' in Bangladesh. More>
    Conference Brochure
      Press Release
     

  • 22 - 24 Feb 2010
    The 8th Regional Consultative Committee on Disaster Management (RCC-8) was held from the 22-24th February 2010 in Manila, Philippines, inaugurated by the Hon. Norberto B. Gonzales Secretary, Department of National Defense and Chairman of the National Disaster Coordinating Council, of the Government of the Philippines. The meeting, attended by 22 officials from national disaster management offices representing 17 countries in the Asia and Pacific region, along with 14 observers from UN agencies, international organizations, NGOs, donor agencies and development banks adopted the Manila RCC-8 statement on Implementing national programs on CBDRR in high risk communities. more>

    RCC8 Meeting Brochure  Press Release
 
 
     
 
   
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