Thursday, June 14, 2007

3rd National Symposium on CBDRM

(Baca versi Bahasa Indonesia)

National Symposium on CBDRM "Framework Building and Positioning CBDRM as a Key Strategy of DRR in Indonesia: Network between Stakeholders" was held in Jakarta on June 12th - 13th 2007. The main sponsores of of this event are:


The objective of symposium is to share practices, launch a guide book on CBDRM, the Compendium project and Best Concept/Acknowledgement support for CBDRM activities.

Assistant DRR and Community Organizer – Penjaringan attend the symposium. One of the activity conducted are focus group discussion on 5 main topic of CBDRM:
1.Ideology
2. Vision and Mission
3. Knowledge
4. Approach
5. Techniques and Methods

The results are the main sources to be develop in to a living guide book of CBDRM. The development process will be done by formulation team. Several names and institutions have voluntarily proposed as the member of the team.
On the event, MBPI as one of the sponsor offers an affiliation. This affiliation will enable various organization cooperates with MPBI in terms of technical expertise support or joint activity. More information about the affiliation can be found on MPBI website.

Writer : Erma Maghfiroh
Translator : Erma Maghfiroh