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ECB shares learning with Humanitarian Partnership Agreement (HPA) Australia

Published on 23 March 2011

Matt Bannerman, ECB Project Director ,shared the ECB Project's latest learning with agencies that form the new Australian Humanitarian Partnership Agreement (HPA)*. This consortium of agencies recently received funds from the Australian Government's Overseas Development Program (AusAID) to develop Disaster Risk Management Capacity building with partner countries. The ECB Project hopes to work with our ECB consortium in our DRR programs, such as the implementation of training activities for our new Practitioner's Guide to Disaster Risk Reduction.

* The HPA includes CARE, Caritas, Oxfam, Plan, Save the Children and World Vision. The project is currently being led by interim Director Chris Cattaway.

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