Cabaret project – achievements and benefits

Abstract

CABARET (Capacity Building in Asia for Resilience EducaTion) is a co-funded by an EU Erasmus+ programme project run for three years and led by the University of Huddersfield’s Global Disaster Resilience Centre, based in the UK. They are joined by a group of experts from a consortium of 14 European and Asian higher education institutions from Bulgaria, Indonesia, Latvia, the Maldives, Malta, Myanmar, the Philippines, Spain, Sri Lanka, and the United Kingdom. The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC-UNESCO), the Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre and the Federation of Sri Lankan Local Government Authorities are Associate Partners helping to promote the benefits across Asia and beyond. http://cabaret.buildresilience.org/images/CABARET_flyer.pdf CABARET emphasises the role of Higher Education in supporting global priorities and targets on disaster risk reduction. The project provides capacity development to support regional cooperation on multi-hazard early warning systems (MHEWS) in coastal communities, with a particular focus on Asia. The paper deals with the main tasks of the project, their execution and outcomes and benefits after it finished.