DRR Capacity
development training
and education in SouthAsia
MJH Jabed
Jabed,, Director, Agriculture & RuralDevelopment
SAARC Secretariat, Kathmandu One of the most disaster prone regions of the world
 Home to one quarter of humanity and roughly 40%of the gglobal ppoor.
 Vulnerable to frequent calamities such as flood,
cyclone,cyclone earthquake Located on the seismic faultfault-line (April 25, 2015
great earthquake
hk b
bears an example)l ) In line with the Hyogo Framework of Action (2005(200515) a comprehensive
h i fframework
k on didisastermanagement was adopted in 2006.
 The SAARC Disaster Management Centre, locatedin New Delhi, was launched in the same year The 15th SAARC Summit (held in Colombo, August2008)) decided that Natural Disaster Rapidp Response
pMechanism (NDRRM ) shall be created under theframework of SDMC

 Two important regional capacity building projects
implementedi ldbby theh SDMC are:
 South Asia Disaster Knowledge
g Network
 Digital Vulnerability Atlas of South Asia The 7th SAARC Summit held in 2011 signed themilestone Agreement on South Asia Rapid Response toNatural Disaster (SARRND) which has been ratified by
all SAARC Member States except Afghanistan.
 The Agreement’s successful implementation to: put in effective regional mechanism for rapid response
to disaster ensure significant reduction in losses of lives andproperties better respond to disaster emergencies

Recent training and education promotion initiatives from SDMC:
2014
1) Regional Consultation Workshop for South Asia Road Map
for DRR beyondbeyond-2015 (India)
2) Training Programme on Techniques for Retrofitting &qResistant Structures in South Asia ((India))
Earthquake3) Training Programme on GIS & Remote Sensing Technology
in Disaster Risk and Emergency Management in South Asia(India)(I di )
4) Training Programme on Post Disaster Need Assessment inSouth Asia (Sri Lanka)

2015
1. SAARC Regional Training Programme of Key PlanningOfficers on Child Centred Risk Assessment (India)
2. Implementation of SAARC Training of Trainers for
Mainstreaming DRR and Climate Change (India)
3. SAARC Regional Training/Refresher Course on Child
Centred Risk Assessment and Child Centred DRR
4. Training on Post Disaster Rapid Impact Assessment forSAARC Region: Development of tools, techniques andway forward

The following four Regional Centres of SAARC are to be merged
proposedp“SAARC Environment Disaster Managementgunder the pCentre (SEDMC):
1SAARC Coastal Zone Management Centre (located inMaldives)

2

SAARC Forestry Centre (located in ThimpuThimpu,, Bhutan)

3

SAARC Meteorology Research Centre (located in Dhaka,Bangladesh)

4

SAARC DisasterDi t Management
Mt Centre
C t (located(l t d iin N
New DDelhi,lhiIndia) The venue of the new Centre yet to be decided

Initiative from the SAARC Development Fund (SDF) Regional InterInter-Professional Masters Programme on“Rehabilitation Science” offered byy the Centre for
Rehabilitation of the Paralyzed (CRP) , Bangladesh Scholarships are offered to students from SAARC
Member countries
 The
h programme has
h successfully
f ll enteredd its seconddphaseThanks a lot for your kindattention!
For any queries:
dirban@saarc--sec.org
dirban@saarc
dirbhu@saarc--sec.org
dirbhu@saarcg