{"id":25431,"date":"2024-07-28T06:16:33","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T00:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=25431"},"modified":"2025-04-07T17:54:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T12:24:02","slug":"asian-disaster-preparedness-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/asian-disaster-preparedness-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>autonomous international organization<\/strong> established in 1986.<\/li>\n<li>It is for cooperation in and implementation <strong>of disaster risk reduction<\/strong> and building climate resilience in Asia and the Pacific region.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vision:<\/strong> Safer communities and sustainable development through disaster risk reduction&#8221; and its geographical remit is Asia and the Pacific<\/li>\n<li><strong>Member countries:<\/strong> India, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand are the founding members.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Governance:<\/strong> The organs of ADPC, defined in the ADPC Charter include the <strong>Board of Trustees<\/strong>, the Executive Committee, the Advisory Council and the Regional Consultative Committee (RCC), which are the governing or advisory bodies of ADPC.<\/li>\n<li>ADPC&#8217;s international Charter was signed by nine founding member countries and it was put into effect in 2018 through the ratification by all the founding members.<\/li>\n<li>As of January 2020, ADPC is operating as an autonomous international organization governed by the Board of Trustees.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Headquarter: Bangkok, Thailand<\/strong> and sub-centers in the country of operations are the operational parts of ADPC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Disaster risk reduction?<\/h3>\n<p>It is the concept and practice of reducing disaster risks through systematic efforts to analyse and reduce the causal factors of disasters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2037441\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>India assumes the Chair of Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre (ADPC)<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre is an autonomous international organization established in 1986.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-25431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}