8th Meeting of the regional consultative committee for disaster management

Within the framework of the Advisory Council, an ADPC Regional Consultative Committee on Disaster Management has been established since 2000. The Committee comprises members of the ADPC Board of Trustees/Advisory Council who are Heads of National Disaster Management systems of countries of the Asian region.

The role of the Consultative Committee is to provide an informal consultative mechanism for development of action strategies for disaster reduction in the region and promotion of cooperative programs on a regional and sub-regional basis; so as to guide ADPC's work.

To date, annual meetings have been held in 2000 and 2001 in Thailand, 2002 in India, 2004 in Bangladesh, 2005 in Vietnam, 2006 in China, and the 7th RCC meeting has been held in Sri Lanka in February 2008. Meetings are convened by ADPC and co-organized by the Government of the host country and have been attended by participants from over 30 countries. Deliberations have been focused on identifying priority needs of member countries for disaster reduction and on learning lessons from experience.