Collaboration with Asia Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC)

Introduction

As large cities grow, populations starts to spread along coastlines thereby resulting in flood-prone rivers and fault lines as well as increased emissions. Therefore Asia, being a populous continent as well as having a large proportion of developing countries is particularly susceptible to natural disasters. It has also been shown that developing countries shown the largest increase in the number of natural disasters, a total increment of 142%. Hence, the Asia Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) initiated a programme called Urban Disaster Risk Management (UDRM).

Collaboration with ADPC through Urban Disaster Risk Management (UDRM)

UDRM aims to "manage and enhance the capacity of cities to reduce disaster risk in an atmosphere of sustainable development, while enhancing the quality of life of urban populations". The UDRM's vision and mission which is to prevent and/ or reduce the natural disaster vulnerability and to educate people to increase their awareness on mitigation methods coincide with our aims.

Hence, collaboration with the UDRM will not only accentuate both of our aims but it will also allow us to reach our goals of providing aid to those victims of disaster stricken areas in a more effective manner.