Location
RAJAMAHENDRAVARAM,Andhra Pradesh
Organization
CADME (Coastal Area Disaster Mitigation Efforts)
Subject(s) I Teach or Learning Interest Area
Community resilience
Child-centered Disaster risk reduction
COVID 19- Children- School Going Children
Climate Change -Children-Farmers
Natural resource management
Personal Interests and Passions
Organizing training events on CCDRRR, Awareness on COVID 19, Community resilience and consultancy services on Disaster Management
Personal Website / ePortfolio / Personal Web Presence (PWP)
https://www.cadmeindia.org
More About Me
CURRICULUM VITAE
Name : Meda Gurudutt Prasad
Profession: Disaster Manager
Experience: 35 years in Disaster Management and Climate Change perspective
Date of Birth: May 21st, 1957
Place of Birth: Rajahmundry, India
EXPERIENCE
.More than 35 years of experience in disaster risk reduction in India, developing strategies to Community based disaster risk management and training events, School Safety, and Climate Smart interventions.
• Climate change Specialist over 25 years working on Low carbon farming, integrating disaster risk reduction with climate change interventions.
• More than 20 years of experience as a consultant on disaster risk reduction for Government of Andhra Pradesh (APARD) /India, CASA, LWF, and so on.
• Brought out Trainers training manual on “Child-centered disaster risk reduction”
• Brought out trainers training manual on Community based disaster risk reduction
• Published articles on Safe schools and CBDRM/ Sustainable Agriculture
CURRENT POSITION:
• Consultant to Govt. of AP –/Disaster risk reduction
• Trainer on CBDRM &Safe Schools
• Chief functionary/Disaster Manager to CADME a coalition of thirty five development organizations working together on DRR and Climate Change in Andhra Pradesh and Orissa.
ACHIEVEMENTS:
• 563 Taskforce groups trained in 480 vulnerable villages to mitigate the effects of impending disasters.
• 256 safe schools are formed.
• 6932 acres of barren land has been developed as Agroforestry
INVITED AS A SPEAKER TO THE FOLLOWING CONFERENCES
• Disaster preparedness – Best practices UN-ISDR 3rd February 1998
• Disaster management - Development – Best practices, Homeless International 10th August to 15th August. UK(London 2001.
• International Award on Early warning 14th October to 20th October, 2003, Bonn Germany
• UN-ISDR Workshop on Best Practices of Disaster Management. 2nd February to 5th February 2005 Geneva Switzerland.
• Disaster Preparedness: World conference on disaster medicine from 13-16 May 2007, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
• International conference on Climate Change actions, integrating with Disaster Risk Reduction. 10th June to 15th June.2010, Capetown, South Africa
• “Towards Safer World” conference” UN World Food Programme” 2011, Rome Italy
• Participated as a panelist in “Understanding Risk” organized by World Bank in collaboration with the South African Government. 2-6 July 2012.
EDUCATION:
• M.A Social Work from Andhra University, Visakhapatnam.
• Diploma in community Empowerment through Cooperatives in 1993, from International Institute for Labour, Development and Cooperative Studies, Afro Asian Institution, Telaviv, Israel.
• Disaster Management Course – 18 in 1994, from Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, Thailand.
• Certificate course on “Gender in Policy Development for Sustainable Land Use” done at IAC, the Netherlands.
• Certificate course on “Micro Finance” organized by R.S.C, Malaysia in 1997 done at Sungai Petani, Malaysia.
• Diploma in Health Emergencies in Large Populations (HELP) Hawaii University, HONOLULU, USA.
