Training the trainers in Asia-Pacific
The Asia-Pacific Technical Working Group on Anticipatory Action recently led a three-day course on 'Anticipatory Action: Training of Trainers' in Bangkok, Thailand.
Bringing together over 30 participants from 13 countries, alongside the 10 facilitators, this aimed to ensure that partners across the Asia-Pacific region – from National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the UN, NGOs, international NGOs and governments – speak with a 'unified voice' when delivering training on anticipatory action to governments and humanitarian partners in their respective countries. This in turn will lead to greater clarity and synchronicity when explaining the anticipatory action approach, rather than the fragmented or differing ideas that have often been shared to date.
During the training, the facilitators asked some of the participants how they would apply their news skills and knowledge once back in their own countries. One of the participants Mariano Ana Lopes from the Civil Protection Authority in Timor-Leste, shared his thoughts about the training.
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Following this training, we will roll out national anticipatory action... to technical working groups and relevant stakeholders.
Althea Muriel L. Pineda, from the Department of Social Welfare and Development in the Philippines, offered her reflections.
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We are already… allocating budgets to [anticipatory action] and the development of new tools.
And Rajendra Sharma, from Nepal’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority, explained what he will do with the information gained during the training.
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We will take the experiences from other countries so that it will be helpful for us… to overcome the issues.
The training was organized by the Asia-Pacific Technical Working Group on Anticipatory Action. It was made possible thanks to funding from Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations, the German Federal Foreign Office and the American Red Cross.