Asian Urban Disaster Mitigation Program Program Completion Report

The Asian Urban Disaster Mitigation Program (AUDMP) implemented by the Asian Disaster
Preparedness Center (ADPC) is an OFDA disaster mitigation success story. Due to its design, effective implementation, and duration over a remarkable nearly ten-year period, the program contributed substantially to the present recognition in the countries of the region of the importance of disaster mitigation to the process of sustainable development and economic growth and stability. AUDMP identified specific models that work in the Asian context to reduce vulnerability to disasters and documented those models in detail to support their replication in many other communities and countries. It established strong networks of regional and national disaster mitigation professionals and experts who can continue to help replicate disaster mitigation models unique to the Asian context throughout the region. AUDMP implementation partners now represent a network of diverse Asian institutions that can continue to promote disaster mitigation in their home countries as well as in neighboring countries. The program built the capacity of ADPC to be able to support regional disaster mitigation initiatives in Asia through these networks of institutions and professionals both technically as well as at policy decision making at the highest levels of government.
ADPC is now positioning itself to continue to support disaster mitigation initiatives throughout
Asia with its Asia 2020 Strategy. ADPC developed the Asia 2020 Strategy to be able to continue providing support in the ways that have worked the most effectively based on lessons learned from AUDMP. The strategy consists of the following three distinct programmatic thrusts that will be supported by the ADPC Urban Disaster Risk Management Team and its network of regional and international disaster mitigation professionals.