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The APTERR team visited the Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre (ADPC) in Bangkok on 18 October 2022 for exploring a future collaboration on disaster-related information and management.

 

 

Dr. Choomjet Karnjanakesorn, General Manager of the APTERR Secretariat, along with Mr. Toshiki Tojo, Japanese Expert, as well as the APTERR staff received a warm welcome from Mr. Hans Guttman, Executive Director of the ADPC, together with Dr. Peeranan Towashiraporn, Director of Geospatial Information Department. Both teams broadly discussed and exchanged views and experience on their disaster-related works. As the APTERR’s main task is to strengthen food security in the ASEAN Plus Three region by providing rice assistance during emergency disaster, the discussion with the APDC team, which prioritises on a disaster management and supported solutions for disaster risk reduction, could benefit for the APTERR’s operation, particularly the disaster-related information.  

 

 

The APTERR team was also informed about the ADPC’s various projects; one is the SERVIA – Mekong, which publicly provides a geospatial data for the development by using the satellite technologies to address climate-related challenges, such as disaster preparedness and response, water resource and land management, in the Lower-Mekong region. This could be useful for the APTERR Secretariat in monitoring disaster and food security situation in the member countries.

 

 

At the end of the discussion, Dr. Karnjanakesorn reiterated the needs for further cooperation between the APTERR Secretariat and the ADPC on disaster-related information exchange to create a mutual benefit for the works of both organisations in disaster management and response in the future.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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