ADRC Highlights
Asian Disaster Reduction Center Monthly News
● Promoting Cooperation with Affiliated Institutions
Vol. 377
August2024
TOPICS
Promoting Cooperation
with AffiliatedInstitutions
The JICA Knowledge CoCreation Program“Comprehensive DisasterRisk Reduction for Central
Asia and Caucasus”
Participation inInternational
Conferences¶ Participation in the 19th
Meeting of WGDRR

The JICA Knowledge Co-Creation Program “Comprehensive Disaster
Risk Reduction for Central Asia and Caucasus”
Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC) conducted a JICA Knowledge CoCreation Program “Comprehensive Disaster Risk Reduction for Central Asia andCaucasus” from 17 June to 8 August 2024, with the cooperation of JICA Kansai.
Six government officials from four countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic,Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, participated in this course, learning how to formulate
and implement local DRR plans to promote DRR measures in their respective
home countries.
The first four weeks of the course consisted of online lectures and exercises,
and in the latter three weeks, face-to-face programs were conducted in Japan. The
programs in Japan included lectures at DRR-related organisations in Hyogo,
Osaka, and Nara prefectures and site observations to learn about landslidecountermeasures after the 2004 Niigata Chuetsu Earthquake and erosion control
and flood control measures for the Joganji River basin in Toyama Prefecture. Inaddition, the participants formulated a draft local DRR plan through the exercisesand discussions. They participated actively in the programs, considering how toapply what they learned from this course to their future work and DRR measures intheir home countries.

¶ Participation in theDenizli AFAD Seminar¶ Participation in theAPEC Vietnam Workshop

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Site visit to inspect flood control measures along Joganji River (Toyama Prefecture)● Participation in International Conferences
Participation in the 19th Meeting of WGDRRThis year’s annual meeting of the Typhoon Committee’s Working Group on
Disaster Risk Reduction (WGDRR) was held on 25-28 June 2024 in Seoul,
Republic of Korea on the theme “EW4All: Bridging Gaps for Effective Disaster
Risk Reduction.” ADRC participated in this event on behalf of the Cabinet Office
Japan with the following contributions and outcomes:
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1) Presented Japan’s member report highlighting themilestones on disaster risk reduction (DRR)
activities implemented by ADRC in 2023 (e.g.,GLIDE, Sentinel Asia, QZSS, training, webinars,ACDR, website, and other information-sharing
activities)
2) Announced the host, theme, dates, and venue ofthe next Asian Conference on Disaster Reduction(ACDR2024) to the members of the WGDRR
3) Noted the key technical presentations related tothe theme of ACDR2024, particularly the “Urbaninundation response technology using deeplearning and sensor data” by the National
Disaster Management Research Institute(NDMI)/Republic of Korea and the “Role ofImpact-Based Forecasting in Early Warnings for
WGDRR Participants
All initiative” by United Nations Economic andSocial Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)
4) Affirmed a continuing collaboration with WGDRR in information sharing through GLIDE, the website,and online databases to be reflected in the working group’s Annual Operations Plans (AOPs)
5) Discussed with the participant from Vietnam regarding ADRC’s engagement in the forthcoming APECVietnam Online Workshop on “Improving the Resilience of Vulnerable Coastal Communities toClimate Change,” 24-25 July 2024.
The WGDRR is one of the working groups under the UN-ESCAP/World Meteorological Organization(WMO) Typhoon Committee, comprising 14 members (i.e., 12 countries and 2 regions) in Asia-Pacificregion.
Participation in the Denizli AFAD Seminar
In recent years, a lot of DRR activities have been conducted between ADRC and Disaster and Emergency
Management Presidency of Türkiye (AFAD), including international conferences and field survey missions.
Dr IKEDA Makoto from ADRC attended the AFAD seminar in Denizli, Türkiye as a speaker and madeseveral presentations. He shared information about DRR structures in Japan and DRR efforts at thecommunity and national level. Dr Fatma Canaslan Çomut reported on recent AFAD’s DRR programs suchas an information sharing system. The participants also engaged actively in discussion with the twospeakers, and the workshop proved to be a useful occasion for considering how to achieve better DRR inTürkiye going forward.

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Participation in the APEC Vietnam Workshop
APEC Vietnam organized an online workshop on “Improving the Resilience of Vulnerable Coastal
Communities to Climate Change” on 24-25 July 2024. This workshop comprised four thematic sessions, andADRC moderated Session 1 on the topic Resilience of Vulnerable Coastal Communities to Climate Change
in the Asia-Pacific: Prospects and Challenges.
Five speakers presented in this session. The two speakers from Vietnam reported the climate-related
challenges at the national and local levels respectively, such as sea-level rise that caused intense typhoons
and frequent flooding.
Other speakers presented the prospects of addressing climate-related challenges:i) UNDRR reported that the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction provides guidance for
integrating climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction measures;ii) Republic of Korea reported that new tools are now available to monitor and predict storm surges; andiii) Australia reported its leadership in promoting strategic partnerships for coastal resilience in the AsiaPacific region.
In Session 2 (topic: Scaling up efforts on strengthening resilience of vulnerable coastal communities toclimate change), ADRC made a presentation about “Utilizing climate change impact projection data tostrengthen the resilience of coastal communities.” ADRC, along with a number of research institutes andagencies, introduced its engagement in the Advanced Study of Climate Change Project (SENTAN4) indeveloping integrated hazard models on storm-and-flood hazards and water resources for the Asia-Pacificregion. In particular, ADRC highlighted the utilization of downscaling tools to produce localized climatechange impact projection data to inform adaptation and mitigation measures.
ADRC’s participation in this workshop provided an opportunity to learn from other economies’experiences and actions in addressing climate-related challenges at the local level.

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