ASIA & PACIFIC REGIONAL WORKSHOP ON EDUCATION FOR DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

The ENDRR-L recently circulated this notice of a workshop in Bangkok on education for DRR:

Please see this announcement about this important conference Oct 8-10th in Bangkok. Hopefully those of you from the region already know about this and are making plans to attend.

Please consider this, then, a special invitation to all in the Asia & Pacific Region to please bring (or send) at least a couple of copies of your best drr education materials for display and collection. The materials will become part of the developing Global Online DRR Education Library, and will also be available for participants to review and respond to. PLEASE include games, toys, models for
children to experiment with.

Materials for display can be sent directly to:
Steven Usher, Senior Programme Assistant
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD)
UNESCO
Second Floor
920 Sukhumvit Road, Prakanong
Bangok 10110
Thailand

If you are planning to attend the conference and have important experiences to share, you may want to follow up with the organizing committee members responsible for each section:
For integrating DRR Education into curricula please contact your
UNESCO National Commission or ADPC For informal and community-based education please contact IFRC (Michael Annear) Michael.annear@ifrc.org
For Safe School Construction please contact UNCRD (Bishnu Pandey) bishnu@hyogo.uncrd.or.jp
For planning for youth participants please contact UNICEF (Gary Ovington) govington@unicef.org