Mercy Malaysia, ADRRN to hold online talk series

KUCHING: Malaysian Medical Relief Society ( Mercy Malaysia) and Asian Disaster Reduction and Response Network ( ADRRN) are back with their Building Resilient Communities ( BRC) Online Talk series this Sept 2.

Titled ‘Strengthening Regional Network and Cooperation in the Continuity of Covid-19 Preparedness and Response’, the upcoming online talk will explore and learn more from regional counterparts, particularly Indonesia and Japan, on their efforts in combating the Covid-19 pandemic and how regional cooperation and partnerships can be strengthened.

It will be happening on the video conferencing platform Zoom at 2pm. Registration is necessary and can be done at h ps://bit.ly/3 haUh.

Invited speakers are Takeshi Komino of Church World Service (CWS) Japan and Vanda Lengkong of Asean Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Response (AADMER) Partnership Group and Plan International Asia-Pacific.

The talk will be moderated by Mercy Malaysia’s head of BRC Hafiz Amirrol.

It is supported by Maybank through Mercy Malaysia’s Covid-19 Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan.

The BRC Online Talk series is aimed at sharing knowledge and information, while exploring and learning new key concepts and approaches, with the aim of building community resilience.

The BRC framework is a holistic approach that includes all levels of stakeholders in a community to increase capacity and capability by identifying and reducing vulnerability with the objective of building the community’s resilience in social well-being and equity, environmental stewardship, and economic prosperity and continuity.

For more information, visit Mercy Malaysia’s official website at h ps://www.mercy.org.my or follow its Facebook page at https:// www. facebook. com/

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