SAARC Regional Workshop on "Disaster Risk Reduction"

A day-long SAARC Regional Workshop on Sharing Best Practices on "Disaster Risk Reduction" was inaugurated here today by Dr P. K. Mishra, Additional Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister, in the presence of Mr. Arjun Bahadur Thapa, Secretary General of SAARC .The aim of the Regional workshop is to provide a platform to member countries for sharing best practices in the field of disaster risk reduction, experience sharing on Nepal Earthquake April 2015 as well as deliberating upon the outcomes of the South Asian Annual Disaster Management Exercise (SAADMEx -2015). 
About South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
  SAARC is an economic and geopolitical organization of eight countries that are primarily located in South Asia.The SAARC Secretariat is based in Kathmandu, Nepal.
the first summit was held inDhaka on 8 December 1985, when the organization was established by the governments of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives , Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Afghanistan