National Civil Defense and Disaster Management Training Institute (NDTI) of Korea

Over the decade, the National Civil Defense and Disaster Management Training Institute (NDTI), Ministry of Interior and Safety (MOIS), the Republic of Korea has been instrumental in organizing multiple trainings and shared best practices to strengthen disaster risk management / governance for Korean and foreign governments as well as nongovernmental organizations. The main vision of NDTI is to enhance disaster risk governance at home and abroad through interactive residential learning. NDTI is comprised of 3 divisions: Planning & Cooperation Division, Disaster & Safety Training Division, and Civil Defense & Emergency Preparedness Training Division.

The main vision of NDTI is to enhance disaster risk governance at home and abroad through interactive residential learning. To this end, NDTI offers wide range of training and education courses at national and international levels, conducts participatory disaster management policy reviews, promotes disaster risk reduction based knowledge co-creation and facilitates to implement disaster risk, response and resilience planning activities highlighted in international and regional roadmaps (i.e. Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction SFDRR 201 To this end, NDTI offers wide range of training and education courses at national and international levels, conducts participatory disaster management policy reviews, promotes disaster risk reduction based knowledge co-creation and facilitates to implement disaster risk, response and resilience planning activities highlighted in international and regional roadmaps (i.e. Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction SFDRR 2015-2030, ASEAN Vision 2025 on Disaster Management and Disaster Management Research Road Map for the Asian Region).

 

Since 2006, NDTI has held a total of 42 courses of international training program, targeting 643 government officials from 61 developing countries including the majority of AMS. AMS which have participated in NDTI training program as of today are: Indonesia (41 participants), Vietnam (42 participants), Philippines (37 participants), Myanmar (33 participants), Laos (5 participants), Cambodia (15 participants), and Thailand (1 participant)