Dear Colleague,

Greetings from the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), Bangkok, Thailand.

It is with pleasure we invite you to the one week Regional Training Course on “Incident Command System for Disaster Management” from 10-16 August 2009 in Phuket , Thailand .

A new initiative from ADPC and designed to enable practitioners to operate efficiently during an incident or event within the Incident Command System (ICS). This course focuses on the management of single resources. The course will offer an in-depth knowledge on Incident Command System, describe the ICS organization appropriate to the complexity of the incident or event and use ICS to manage an incident or event efficiently.

The module outline of the training course is provided in the attached course brochure. You may also visit the ADPC website (http://www.adpc.net/v2007) for more information. The course will be delivered by the Emergency Management Experts from US Forest Service and ADPC who have extensive experience working in the field of Emergency Response and an extensive alumni league comprising of international experienced practitioners and experts from different organizations and government institutions across the world.

Participants interested to attend the course are requested to fill up the ADPC Training Application Form. Please download the application from the ADPC website.

We look forward to your participation in this first regional training course. We would appreciate if you could also nominate staff or share this information with partner organizations.

You may confirm your participation to the training course by sending an email to tedadpc@adpc.net with cc to fakhruddin@adpc.net. Should you need any further information related to this course, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Sincerely

Falak Nawaz

Manager,

Training Resource Group

Asian Disaster Preparedness Center

Download Brochure