The Faculty of Geography, Universitas Gadjah Mada has privileged to join the international workshop conducted at Vietnam Academy for Water Resource, Hanoi, Vietnam. The international workshop is an extended activity promoted by Center for Natural Resource Development (CNRD) and DAAD, engaged among multi parties such as ITT (Germany), UGM (Indonesia), IUB (Bangladesh), IAT (Thailand), ADPC and many local stakeholders at Vietnam.
The main idea of the activity is to get comprehensive information towards what has been existed in each of the institution relevant to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation programs. The following aspects to be discussed is actually what gaps, failure, and opportunities possible to work on among stakeholders. The outcome of the activity is to formulate a master program with alternative approach to tackle distance and temporal gaps among nations.
The Faculty of Geography, represented by Dr. Dyah Rahmawati Hizbaron, M.T, M.Sc and Utia Suarma, MSc, presented the curriculum of Master Program of Geography and Master Program of Watershed and Coastal Management and Planning in the agenda. Basically, each institution has established relevant programs with different notation and focus of attention. There are overlaps and gaps among institution programs, therefore, this activity try to observe and analyze how these overlaps and gaps influential towards possible job market needed in the relevant programs. During the meeting, the discussion also involved colleagues from many institutions to agree upon curriculum for DRR and CCA