Certificate Course on Earthquake Risk Mitigation
Background:
National Institute of Disaster Management in partnership with the World Bank (GFDRR), Washington offers a series of Online Courses on Disaster Management.
The aim of these programmes is to raise the level of awareness and preparedness as well as to enhance analytical skills and professional competencies of different key stakeholders in various areas of Disaster Risk Management. The NIDM online courses are first of its kind in India which help different users in acquiring knowledge base in the subject. The courses also facilitate participants to globally share their views, ideas and information on a common platform.
The courses provide excellent opportunities to learn about the Disaster Risk Reduction under professional guidance. The training materials in the form of CDs are sent through post which may also be accessed through online course platform. The programmes include discussions, queries, clarifications, assignments and end-of-course projects which are evaluated by experienced course facilitators. Successful candidates are provided certificates jointly issued by the NIDM and the World Bank (GFDRR).
About Earthquake Risk Mitigation course:
During the last decade more than one billion people were affected by natural disasters and assets worth of US$730 billion were lost. The 2004 UNDP report "Reducing Disaster Risk: A Challenge for Development" notes that the losses from natural hazards are increasing, and have a disproportionate impact on less developed countries.
Earthquakes are one of the most disastrous of natural hazards, coming without warning and affecting nations and peoples around the entire Pacific Rim, and from North Africa through the Balkans and Middle East, India and Indonesia, to Papua New Guinea and New Zealand. Countries as diverse as the Philippines, Mexico, India, Peru and Turkey, to name just a few, have suffered multiple earthquake disasters in recent decades. Earthquake with fatalities in the tens of thousands have the potential to occur in Manila, Istanbul, Teheran, Tokyo and other major cities in these regions.
Admission process:
Submission of Application form in soft copy as well as hard copy with prescribed fee in terms either Demand Draft or NEFT Bank Transfer. People from outside India can pay fees through Bank Transfer.
If you are interested in any of these courses, you may submit soft and hard copy of your Application form with copy of Demand Draft/Online Bank Transfer through NEFT in terms with fees (scan copy you can send by email [email protected] or [email protected]) and hard copy by registered post on our office address:
Executive Director
National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM)
5-B, IIPA Campus, IP Estate, Ring Road
New Delhi- 110002
Please note, the application in soft copy must reach NIDM 5 days before the Scheduled Course date. NIDM will send the Course Link and Enrollment key for particular course just before the scheduled date on your given email ID. All the instructions about Registration process for particular course will be provide in advance to all the applicants.
For more information and process of registration in course, please go through the course website below