1st Meeting
19 December 2016, Seoul, Korea
Key Decisions
  • APDRC Five Year Work Plan endorsed
  • APDRC 2017 Operations Plan agreed
  • Four National Societies identified (Bangladesh, China, the Philippines and New Zealand) to be invited as the APDRC Steering Committee members - in total, 8 members in the future
  • Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to be recommended - five each by IFRC and KNRC.  
  • The Reference Centre's Working Title decided - to be the Asia Pacific Disaster Resilience Centre (APDRC)

Location

Sopa-ro 145, Jung-gu, Seoul 100-043, Republic of Korea

About Us 

The Republic of Korea National Red Cross (KNRC) and the International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) have jointly initiated the establishment of the very first Asia-Pacific Region Disaster Centre. We aim for disaster risk reduction and the building of resilient communities and play the role of both intermediary service as well as we develop and introduce new technologies to our 38 Asia-Pacific National Societies partners. 

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