ADPC’s Disaster Management Systems team focuses on strengthening institutional capacities for disaster risk management of countries of the region. DMS team undertakes activities in the following key areas:
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Strengthening and Building Capacities of National,Provincial
and DistrictGoverments.
- Promoting regional cooperation and supporting
the work of regional and sub-regional cooperation mechanisms
in disaster management;
- Mainstreaming disaster risk management into
development policy, planning and implementation in Asia; and
- Supporting the development of systems’ tools and techniques, research and documentation of practices for disaster risk management.
The team is currently implementing the following Projects/Studies:
Capacity Building at National, Provincial and District levels
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Capacity Building for Planning and Implementation
of Flood Preparedness Programs at
Provincial and District levels in the Lower Mekong Basin
(Phase II) – in the 4 Mekong countries of Cambodia, Vietnam,
Lao PDR and Thailand
March 2005-April 2006, funded under the Fourth DiPECHO Action
Plan for South East Asia
- ADB
Community
Self Reliance and Flood Risk Reduction in Cambodia
Promoting regional cooperation in disaster management
4. Fourth
Meeting of the Regional Consultative Committee on
Disaster Risk Management
5. Fifth Meeting of the Regional Consultative Committee on Disaster
Risk Management
Mainstreaming disaster
risk management into development policy, planning and implementation
in Asia; and
6. RCC
Program on Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Management
(MDRM)
into
Development Policy, planning and implementation
in Asia 2004-2007, funded by Government of Australia
Development of systems’ tools
and techniques, research and documentation of practices for disaster
risk management
7.
Developing a Methodology
for Assessing Damage and Estimating
Losses – Gujarat,
India Jan 2004 – December 2005,
funded by Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority
8. Study
on Regional Analysis
of the Socio-Economic Impacts
of the Indian Ocean Tsunami -
in the 5 highly affected
countries of Asia namely Indonesia, India, Thailand, Maldives
and Sri Lanka April 2005-September 2005, funded by the
World Bank’s Hazard
Management Unit and the ProVention Consortium
9. Coastal
Risk Analysis of Tsunamis and Environmental Remediation,
pilot implementation for selected sites in Phuket
and Phang Nga provinces of Thailand
May 2005 – March
2006, funded by Italian Ministry for Environment
and Territory
(IMET)
10.
Study on
Community based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM)
Needs Assessment,
targeted
at the Tsunami affected
provinces in Thailand August-October
2005, for the World
Vision
11.
Social Aspects of Integrated Flood Management
(IFM)
July – December 2005, funded by the World Meteorological
Organization
12. Applied
Grants for Disaster Risk Reduction,
grants to be disbursed
in Asia 2005-2006, Funded by ProVention Consortium
(World Bank)
13.
Asian Hazards
and Vulnerabilities Atlas - Pilot National
Atlas for
Vietnam and Thailand 2004-2005, with funding from the
Pacific Disaster Center
14.
Research on Risk-Vulnerability
Assessment Tools
in Asia Under
ISDR-Working
Group
and funding from UNHABITAT 2004 – 2005,
Case studies from Asia
15. Feasibility
Study on Regional Emergency Response and
Strategic
Planning Institute for ASEAN countries
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