It offers departments and agencies of Australian

federal, state and territory governments, as well

as Australian public universities, the opportunity

to compete for grant funding. These funds will allow

them to transfer capacity building skills and expertise

to their public sector counterpart institutions in

partner countries and will support strengthening

of sustainable development focused public sector

bilateral and regional linkages.

The Emergency Medical Training project is devel 

oping systems for training of emergency medicine

doctors. It aims to build organizational capacity

within the Bangkok hospitals and emergency

management system to establish training in spe 

cialist emergency medicine, and to enhance future

disaster management capacity, and emergency

health responses.

AusAID s future tsunami activities:

The Disaster Preparedness efforts will focus on

implementation of a risk management strategy for

Phuket. It will provide for integrated management

of government and industry responses to risk

events, rapid acquisition and dissemination of

government and industry responses to risk events,

rapid acquisition and dissemination of event criti 

cal information, coordinated and fast tracked con 

sideration of policy response, and real time link 

ing with national and provincial security, disaster

relief and economic agencies. In this, Thailand will

gain the ability to maintain this strategy and rep 

licate it in other areas of the country from within

its own resources.

A Thai Australian Hospitality and Tourism Training

Centre will be established to enhance the capac 

ity of Thai vocational training instructors in hospi 

tality and tourism at affected vocational, techni 

cal and community colleges through the use of

Australian vocational training expertise.

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