UOP Disaster Preparedness And Management (CDPM)commemorates Int'l Day For Disaster Reduction

In continuation of National Disaster Resilience Day Commemoration, the Center for Disaster Preparedness and Management (CDPM) commemorated the International Day for Disaster Reduction here at SAAQ Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, University of Peshawar.

PESHAWAR, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 18th Oct, 2018 ) :In continuation of National Disaster Resilience Day Commemoration, the Center for Disaster Preparedness and Management (CDPM) commemorated the International Day for Disaster Reduction here at SAAQ Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, University of Peshawar.

The event was organized by the Mobilise Project at the CDPM, said a press release issued here.

Addressing the audience, UoP Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences Dean, Prof. Dr. Bashir Ahmad said, occurrence of disasters was a common phenomenon in the worldwide. Its intensity varies from region to region due to topographic and climatic variations.

The whole nation should have to concentrate on taking initiatives to reduce vulnerabilities to disasters to prevent losses of precious lives and damages to livelihood and infrastructure.

Dr. Bashir Ahmad said the faculty members and students of the University of Peshawar were equally contributing to national and global obligations through their research and development activities.

The University was coping with the needs and challenges of the local and the global dynamics in the best possible manner. The faculty was trying its level best to address the social, academic, cultural and economic problems in a befitting manner, he added.

"Our teaching faculty and researchers pride themselves in teaching and high standards of research,"Bashir said and added that one such example was the Mobilise Project of the Center for Disaster Preparedness and Management.

The project work will investigate enhancement of current collaboration processes in order to exploit the benefits of the interactive collaborative technologies that will be developed within the project.

Director CDPM Dr. Noor Jehan, said the team of the Center was trying their level best to work together with the national and international agencies for disaster resilience in Pakistan.

The CDPM has planned to organize an International Conference on Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction in February 2019, she added.

In connection to target (c) of the UN Sendai Framework for DRR i.e. "Reducing the Economic Losses from Disaster" Dr Kamal Ahmad delivered a presentation on Disaster Risk Financing. The Government of Pakistan has established the National Disaster Risk Management Fund at the National Level.

The fund aim to grants for sub-projects that contribute to enhanced resilience to extreme weather and geophysical hazards (DRR), and strengthen the government's ability to quickly respond to disasters triggered by natural hazards (DRF), he said.

While delivering presentation on Progress, Challenges and Way forward for Disaster Risk Reduction in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Deputy Director PDMA Tajdar Khan said that PDMA want to shift from analogue to digital mechanism in order to enhance the flow of information to the vulnerable people during emergency situation.

In this regard, PDMA-PEOC revamping project has been launched to strengthen the capacity of the authority for real time monitoring of disasters. CDPM and PDMA will work together to reduce vulnerabilities of the province to future disasters through Mobilise Project.

The event was attended by 200 delegates from 45 different organizations and institutions from across the country.

Special Dua was offered for the Martyrs and victims of disasters in the country.