regional organization, international in status and non-political in management, staffing, and operations.
ADPC has been created for scientific, educational, developmental, and humanitarian purposes to build
people s and institutions resilience to disasters and climate change impacts in Asia and the Pacific
region. ADPC has more than 34 years of working experience in Asia and the national and local
Governments of its founding charter member countries and countries of the Regional Consultative
Committee (RCC) on Disaster Management. ADPC works to strengthen disaster risk reduction at all
levels, from regional to national, sub-national, and even community levels. ADPC aims at supporting
governments, strengthen institutions, and build capacity for mainstreaming DRR into development