International Cooperation

Meeting with the delegation from Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC)

25/04/2018

On 25 May 2018, Deputy Director - Thai Gia Khanh and representatives of Institute of Water Resources Planning - welcomed and had a meeting with the delegation from Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) - led by Prof.Dr. Farrukh Chishtie.

The meeting was held following established contact and collaboration between the two organizations in research and capacity building in the area of remote sensing technology in water resources management. Earlier, ADPC/SERVIR Mekong and IWRP signed  a Memorandum of Understanding in 2016.

In the meeting, ADPC - SERVIR-Mekong introduced the RDCYIS tool and informed IWRP about the ongoing effort to improve the tool resolution from 25 km to 5 km, and from 3 months to 6 months forecast. IWRP presented the focus areas, such as rainfall forecast (short term and long term), water demand, disaster risk management (floods and droughts) and water balance modelling, especially in transboundary river basins.

At the end of the meeting, the two organizations agreed on future cooperation areas including:

  • Forecast of drought and seasonal output
  • Rainfall forecast
  • Water balance modelling.

The specific action plan will be discussed further.