Asian Urban Disaster Mitigation Program (AUDMP)

The Asian Urban Disaster Mitigation Program (AUDMP) is a ten-year (1995-2004) program designed to respond to the need for safer cities in Asia. The goal of the program is to reduce the disaster vulnerability of urban populations, infrastructure, critical facilities, and shelter in selected cities throughout Asia.

The AUDMP is implemented by the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) with an extensive coalition of partner organizations, including local and national government agencies, NGOs, academic institutions, and others. Financial support for the AUDMP is provided by the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and by the participating national and local governments and other organizations.

The program aims to highlight the importance of proactive approach in disaster risk mitigation, facilitate development of sustainable mechanisms for disaster mitigation, build capacity of all stakeholders to mitigate disaster risks and promote replication and adaptation of successful mitigation measures to other cities and countries worldwide.

Working in conjunction with collaborating institutions in each target country, the program strategy takes a three-tiered approach:

1. National demonstration projects
2. The Information and Networking
3. The Training, Resource Materials, and Continuing Education

The AUDMP projects are being implemented in eight countries, namely Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand.

Following restructuring of ADPC, the AUDMP is now being managed by the Urban Disaster Risk Management Team.

For a complete overview of AUDMP, please download

• AUDMP Program Completion Report (Oct 1995-Dec 2003)

• AUDMP Program Completion Report (Jan 2004 - Jul 2005)

• AUDMP Library more >>

• Proceedings of the Regional Workshop on Best Practices in Disaster Mitigation, Bali, Indonesia, 2002 more >>