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Workshop to review Mangrove Plantation - Disaster Risk Reduction project | 15-16 December 2015 | Hanoi, Vietnam
2015-12-15 08:00 - 2015-12-16 17:00 (Asia/Krasnoyarsk)
The Vietnam Red Cross Society organized the workshop to review the 5-year implementation of the Mangrove Plantation – Disaster Risk Reduction project on 15 and 16 Dec 2015. Over 5 years, 108 ha of mangroves were planted and another 9,000 protected in 205 communes of 10 provinces, contributing significantly to climate change adaptation, awareness raising as well as providing livelihood support. The project was supported by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies with funding from the Japanese Red Cross Society.
See also related publication: Final evaluation of the mangrove plantation and disaster risk reduction in the period of 2011-2015 in Vietnam, Viet Nam Red Cross, IFRC, Japanese Red Cross and Asian Management and Development Institute

First ASEAN Conference on School Safety | 16-17 December 2015 | Phnom Penh, Cambodia
2015-12-16 08:00 - 2015-12-17 17:00
The ASEAN Committee on Disaster Management (ACDM), the ASEAN Safe Schools Initiative (ASSI) and the ASEAN Secretariat held the first ASEAN Regional Conference on School Safety on 16-17 December 2015, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
The objectives of this conference are as follows:

Exchange knowledge and share learnings on school safety programming
Discuss and promote the ASEAN Common Framework for Comprehensive School Safety as an operational modality for regional collaboration and cooperation towards a programmatic approach for school safety implementation, and a tool for monitoring national and regional progress.
Discuss the ways forward for school safety in the ASEAN region vis-à-vis new regional and global developments on disaster risk reduction, taking into consideration of the Sendai Framework for DRR 2015-2030 and the upcoming AADMER Work Programme 2016-2020.

For more information, please visit AADMER partnership website.

Below are the presentations delivered and discussed during the conference:

Presentation: ASEAN Common Framework for Comprehensive School Safety
Presentation: Overview of ASSI and AADMER
Presentation: Comprehensive School Safety Framework and World Initiative for Safer Schools
Presentation: Overview of ASEAN Cooperation on Education

Presentation: Worldwide Initiative for Safe Schools (and ASSI’s Contribution)
Presentation: Country Baseline and Targets Template – Comprehensive School Safety
Presentation: Thailand – The Ways Forward for School Safety in Thailand
Presentation: Singapore – Keeping Schools Safe and Secured

Red Cross Red Crescent Movement Engaging in the ASEAN School Safety Initiative (ASSI) (IFRC, 2015)
Red Cross Red Crescent engagement in School Safety – a focus on Southeast Asia

For more information on ASSI and the case studies, visit: ASEAN Safe School Initiative (ASSI) page
