The Regional Consultative Committee (RCC) on Disaster Management was established by the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) in 2000 and comprises of members who are working in key Government positions in the National Disaster Management systems of countries of the Asian region. To date, 26 countries are represented by 30 RCC Members from the Asia and Pacific regions, namely, Afghanistan, Bangladesh Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Timor Leste and Vietnam. Annual meetings are convened by ADPC and are co-organised by the Government of the host country. The first two meetings of the RCC were held in Bangkok, Thailand in November 2000 and October 2001, the third meeting in New Delhi, India in October 2002, the fourth in Dhaka, Bangladesh in March 2004, the fifth in Hanoi, Vietnam in May 2005, the sixth in November 2006 at Kunming, Yunnan Province, China and the seventh in Colombo, Sri Lanka in May 2008. The annual meetings of the RCC have been made possible through the generous support of the Government of Australia and AusAID.
