Period: 2020-2024

Project Description

Over the last decade, disaster incidents in Southeast Asian countries have been increasing due to rising vulnerability to multiple hazards and disaster risks. The increased vulnerability to climate change and associated local hazards in most ASEAN countries has often eroded economic gains and could be alleviated with comprehensive disaster governance. Disaster governance includes a range of economic, physical, historical, cultural and social dimensions to identify and manage “the root causes of disaster”

The project aims to strengthen disaster governance system and adaptive capacity in ASEAN countries by exploring and coping with the challenges faced by each country, factors of vulnerability, and local disaster and hazard risks.

The program is in line with the ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Response (AADMER). The AADMER has been effectively facilitating regional cooperation between and among ASEAN Member States (AMS) that seek to build a resilient ASEAN Community to reduce disaster losses and collectively respond to disasters. In addition, the project also works towards realizing the ASEAN Socio Cultural Community by 2025. The ASEAN Socio Cultural Community by 2025 states a resilient community with enhanced capacity and capability to adapt and respond to social and economic vulnerabilities, disasters, climate change as well as emerging threats and challenges.

Capacity Development on integrated disaster management is a key priority for National Disaster Management Office (NDMO) to enhance disaster risk reduction, governance knowledge on response and resilience, and multi-agency coordination skills of the senior, middle and entry level government officials. Building the capabilities of officials who represent the three levels working for the ASEAN member state governments is essential to strengthen local disaster risk governance for sustainable development.

In accordance with AADMER and ASEAN Socio Cultural Community, the project will offer a disaster management training course for AMS NDMOs on emerging technologies for effective planning and decision support. It will provide the training course to 320 officials from 10 countries, conduct integrated disaster management training for each type of disasters, and carry out the Training of Trainers (TOT) program by using Virtual Reality (VR) as an education tool for strengthening disaster risk governance

The main objectives of the project are to:

i. Build capacity of local and central government officials of the ASEAN countries

ii. Improve disaster risk governance of ASEAN member states

iii. Facilitate the exchange of disaster risk management knowledge

iv. Promote AMS NDMOs to lead collaborative disaster risk information using advanced technology such as VR

Introduction of Proponents/Implementing Agencies

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)