The Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) is a non-profit organization supporting the advancement of safer communities and sustainable development, through implementing programs and projects that reduce the impact of disasters upon countries and communities in Asia and the Pacific, by:

* Developing and enhancing sustainable institutional disaster risk management capacities, frameworks and mechanisms, and supporting the development and implementation of government policies;

** facilitating the dissemination and exchange of disaster risk management expertise, experience and information; and

*** raising awareness and enhancing disaster risk management knowledge and skills.

Since its establishment in 1986, ADPC programs demonstrate a wide diversity in application, address all types of disasters, and cover all aspects of the disaster management spectrum- from prevention and mitigation, through preparedness and response, to reconstruction and rehabilitation. The center has been continually adapting its approach to caater more effectively to the specific needs of Asian countries. Today, ADPC is a focal point for raising disaster awareness and a leading prmoter of total risk management in Asia and the Pacific.

The primary activities of ADPC include training and education, technical servies, information, research, networking support, partnership development, advocacy and regional program management.



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