Tag Archive for ‘India Habitat Centre’ at LIRNEasia

Tag Archive for 'India Habitat Centre'

Call for papers: Mobile2.0: Beyond voice
Deadline: 31 October 2008.

Second HazInfo Dissemination Workshop held in India

on November 25, 2007

On Monday, November 19th, Rohan Samarajiva, Nuwan Waidyanatha, and Natasha Udu-gama of LIRNEasia, along with Menake Wijesinghe of Sarvodaya’s Community Disaster Management Centre went to New Delhi, India for the second in a series of workshops on the “Evaluating Last-Mile Hazard Information Dissemination” (HazInfo) entitled “Sharing Knowledge on Disaster Warning: Community-Based Last-Mile Warning Systems” at the India Habitat Centre in conjunction with the All India Disaster Management Centre (AIDMI).

The workshop included a variety of stakeholders from Indian government, civil society, international organizations, private sector, and NGOs. Mr. Mihir Bhatt, Honorary Director of AIDMI, along with Mr. Mehul Pandya, Risk Reduction Transfer Initiative Coordinator and Ms. Vandana Chauhan, Urban Risk Reduction Coordinator were in attendance from AIDMI’s Ahmedabad, Gujarat headquarters.

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Tags: AIDMI, All India Disaster Management Centre, Community, community-based last-mile warning systems, Gujarat, Gujarat headquarters, Honorary, India, India Habitat Centre, Indian government, Mehul Pandya, Methodology, Mihir Bhatt, Mile Hazard, Natasha Udu-gama, New Delhi, Nuwan Waidyanatha, Preparedness, Rohan Samarajiva, Sarvodaya \'s Community Disaster Management Centre, Suresh Mariaselvam, Training & Community Organization, Vandana Chauhan, Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya.

HazInfo Dissemination Workshop in Bangladesh on October 25th

Natasha Udu-Gama

on October 8, 2007

On October 25, 2007, LIRNEasia will hold its first regional dissemination workshop for the “Evaluating Last Mile Hazard Information Dissemination” (HazInfo) pilot project at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) through its Bangladesh Network Office for Urban Safety (BNUS) in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The purpose of the workshop is to gather experts, practitioners and community organizations to discuss the findings of the HazInfo project and determine ways in which the project may be developed to suit community-based hazard information dissemination regionally. The “Sharing Knowledge on Disaster Warning: Community-based Last-Mile Warning Systems” workshop in Dhaka will feature five presenters from government, academia and NGOs. Dr. A.M.M. Safiullah, Vice-Chancellor of BUET, will be Chief Guest during the workshop inauguration. Presenters from LIRNEasia include Dr. Rohan Samarajiva, Mr. Nuwan Waidyanatha…

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Tags: A.M.M. Safiullah, All India Disaster Mitigation Institute, Bangladesh, Bangladesh Network Office for Urban Safety, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Community, DHAKA, India, India Habitat Centre, Indonesia, last-mile warning systems, Mile Hazard, Natasha Udu-gama, New Delhi, Nuwan Waidyanatha, Rohan Samarajiva.

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