JICA Grassroots Technical Project
JICA has offerred through ADRC the training program in disaster management as detailed in the attached document. It is open only to NGOs who are members of ADRRN IN 6 countries as listed and ONLY ONE NGO per country. It is an excellent opportunity and fully sponsored....[more]
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ADPC Announcement: ProVention Research & Action Grants for DRR 2007-2008
(Round 3)
ProVention Consortium in partnership with ADPC announces the launch of Research and Action Grants for Disaster Risk Reduction (2007-2008, Third Round of Grants)
Deadline for proposal submission:
15 Jul 2007 (earlier submissions are encouraged) ........[more] |
Partners in Rhyme: CBDRM in Kabul
In yet another example of regional cooperation among members of the network, Coalition of Afghan Relief (CoAR) is implementing Community Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) in a province called Badghis in Afghanistan, with the support of Christian Aid and in collaboration with SEEDS India...[more] |
Transcending Borders: BDPC team’s visit to Barmer (April 2007)
The ADRRN has always provided a platform for collaboration among South Asian nations. The recent visit of members of the Bangladesh Disaster Preparedness Center (BDPC) to the desert state of Rajasthan in India was yet another manifestation of close regional cooperation.......[more] |
IDPs HELPING IDPs: THE TABANG MINDANAW NUTRITIONALFEEDING FOR IDP CHILDREN IN INDANAN
For at least 20 days in February and March 2007, Tabang Mindanaw (TM) facilitated a nutritional feeding program for a maximum of 850 children spread across three evacuation areas in Indanan. These are 200 children at the Bato Bato Elementary School, ....[more] |
ADRRN members join together to promote school safety
Representatives from Care Society Maldives, SEEDS India, and MERCY Malaysia teamed up address how safe our children are during emergencies...[more] |
MERCY Malaysia and SEEDS Team Up for Flood Assessment
....Experts from MERCY Malaysia and SEEDS came together in southern Malaysia to assess how disaster risk reduction and preparedness could benefit communities in Johor Province. The two-day assessment included interviews with community members, local leaders, government officials, and national authorities....[more] |
Building Safer Organizations Management Workshop
.. The international Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA) organized a Management Workshop under the Building Safer Organizations (BSO) project from the 19th to the 21st March 2007 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.[more] |
SULU HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
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Not known to many, hundreds of men, women and children continue to be displaced from their homes in Sulu [more] |
Acehnese Student go to Australia
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FBA has selected 2 boys, Agus Firman from SMA 1 Lhoknga and Izzan Nur Aslam from SMA 3 Banda Aceh to visit Scotch College, in Perth Australia for a month in march 2007 [more] |
The Third Training of Facilitators for Disaster Education
.. The training was held in the UN Office Jakarta by the Consortium for Disaster Education (CDE) [more] |
The Launching of the National Action Plan for Disaster Reduction 2006-2009
.. The Indonesian National Development Planning Agecy (Bappenas) launched the Natinoal Action Plan for Disaster Reduction 2006-2009 on January 24 2007 [more] |
The
Pursuit of Peace in Sulu – A Transformation of
Hearts and Minds
.. A speech by Milet Mendoza at the
9th Ayala Young Leaders Congress [more] |
Training
on Essentials of Humanitarian Practice (EHP)
.. Here is what some of the participants
have to say about their experience of the workshop .[more] |
Program
Update
.. FBA has assisted 504 businesses
increases up to 11, 25% from December 2006, 453 businesses
assisted covering 36 sub-districts in Aceh...[more] |
The
Kuala Lumpur Experience
..It
is an experience of a lifetime…thanks to Milet Mendoza’s
belief in capacitating local partners for peace and development
work that paved the way for my Kuala Lumpur training on
the Essentials of Humanitarian Practice..[more] |
CoAR
Projects in Afghanistans
.. Coordination of Afghan Relief (CoAR) is an independent,
non-governmental and non-political organization, created
at the initiative of a group of Afghans in October 1989
to contribute in the rehabilitation process of Afghanistan..[more] |
| ..As
I write this, my fellow Malaysians in the south are facing
severe floods with more than 60,000 displaced - a large
number considering Malaysia is not as disaster prone as
many countries in the region. Our colleagues in Philippines
are also challenged by the recent typhoons..[more] |
Disaster
Risk Reduction and Disaster Management: An Outline of
the Organizational Activities
.. As
one of main actors CHA had its important role in initiating
Disaster Risk Reduction Consortium (DRRC) in Afghanistan
in which number of national and international NGO have
membership. [more] |
Program
Update
.. FBA has assisted 453 businesses under revolving fund jprogram in four districts: Banda
Aceh, Aceh Besar, Pidie and Aceh Jaya covering 36 sub-districts
in Aceh. Out of 245 businesses, 106 are run by women. [more] |
ADRRN
Member Provides Critical Support to Philippines in the
Wake of Typhoon Durian
... MERCY
Malaysia sent its first relief team into Region 5, with
a focus on Albay and Catanduanes, on the 5th of December
2006. [more] |
Jemilah gets
award from US college
... Mercy Malaysia President Datuk
Dr Jemilah Mahmood has been conferred the Gandhi, King,
Ikeda Award. She is the first Malaysian. [more] |
Resilient in the face
of tragedy
... MANY
of us were only beginning to cope with the effects of
the Boxing Day Asian Tsunami in 2004 – the world's greatest
natural disaster. Yet, barely a year later, I woke to
the news of a massive earthquake in Pakistan on Saturday,
Oct 8, 2005. [more]
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With the Best of Intentions:
Singapore Volunteers and Donors and the Tsunami Reconstruction
...Charities and humanitarian
organisations here in Singapore that were involved in
post-Tsunami relief and reconstruction work keep getting
the same queries from volunteers, donors, and journalists.
The world has pledged and donated billions to Tsunami
relief and reconstruction, [more]
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Reconstruction of Earthquake-Affected
Areas in Pakistan
....In partnership with
UNDP-Pakistan, the National Society for Earthquake Technology
(NSET) responded to the Pakistan earthquake of October
2005 by providing technical assistance to the early
recovery program of the Government of Pakistan. [more] |
Meeting simple needs of refugees
....
Sariah Tufail is a 17-year-old from the city of Baalbek
in North Lebanon. She is bright-eyed, intelligent and
speaks some English. Before the bombs dropped on her city, [more] |
Lone doctor gets help treating mud flood
victims
....DR GRACE Santa
Lucia, 42, is the only doctor working in the Claro M.
Recto Memorial District Hospital in Infanta, Quezon Province,
in the Philippines, for the past 10 days. She works 24
hours a day, has her meals in the hospital and lives in
the hospital. [more] |
