Second International Symposium on Scientific Knowledge Based Decision Making Schemes for Disaster Reduction (DR)

Nepal Engineers' Association (NEA) hosted Asian Civil Engineering Coordinating Council (ACECC) Meet 2017 from April 23 and April 24, 2017 at Hotel Yak and Yeti, Kathmandu. It was attended by altogether 65 international delegates from 11 member countries and more than 200 expert participants from Nepal. 

Second International Symposium on Scientific Knowledge Based Decision Making Schemes for Disaster Reduction (DR) was held on April 23, 2017 at Hotel Yak and Yeti, Kathmandu. The Symposium was divided into two parts. The first session focused on Nepal, and had four papers. The Key Note Speech was delivered by the Secretary of MOUD Er. Dipendra Nath Sharma. Similarly, the second session had six presentations deliberating on post disaster lessons learnt in Pakistan, Japan, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines and Taiwan. The Panel Discussions also covered queries and comments from the audience floor, and at the end.

On April 24, 2017 the Technical Committee # 21 (TC21) committee members had one to one interaction with the major DRR Stakeholder Agencies in Nepal. Along the sides of DRR Stakeholders Meeting and Technical Committee # 21 (TC21) International Symposium, the 32nd Executive Committee Meeting of Asian Civil Engineering Coordinating Council (ACECC) was also held in the morning hours of April 24 in Durbar Hall of Hotel Yak and Yeti.

Download symposium documents in PDF (www.acecc-world.org/TC21/index.files/Symposium_Nepal.zip)