Mihir R Bhatt, director of the All India Institute for Disaster Reduction, has been invited to join the board of the World Humanitarian Forum (WHF).
Bhatt, who heads the Ahmedabad-based All India Institute for Disaster Mitigation, has worked in more than 59 cities and 89 districts in India and more than nine countries in the Asia Pacific, co-locations, widespread risks and threats of currently affected populations. Working on accountability. In deserts, deltas, metro cities and high altitude communities.
“It is an honor for me to receive this invitation and I will take India’s humanitarian work on a global scale and bring new ideas and technology from global experience to India,” Bhatt said.
Bhatt’s recent global report on adapting humanitarian action to the effects of climate change has attracted the attention of foundations and UN bodies engaged in humanitarian crisis around the world.
The World Humanitarian Forum is the largest and most inclusive non-partisan forum in humanitarian aid and international development that guides actions and thinking around humanitarian crises.
Established after the Gujarat drought of 1987–89, the All India Institute for Disaster Mitigation (AIDMI) is a registered public charitable trust based in Ahmedabad.
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