ADRC Highlights
Asian Disaster Reduction Center Monthly News
● Announcement
Vol. 350
May2022
TOPICSAnnouncement
Upcoming Online
Tsunami Seminar
FY2022, 15 June 2022
Promoting Cooperation
with Member Countries

Upcoming Online Tsunami Seminar FY2022, 15 June 2022

Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC) will hold the Online Tsunami Seminar
FY2022 on 15 June 2022.
Although understanding of tsunami risk has improved, further discussions arestill needed to enhance practical countermeasures. The Online Tsunami Seminar
FY2022 will take a deep dive on the practical countermeasures for tsunami risk,such as awareness raising, early warning, and evacuation procedures.
For more information, please check the website below. Also shown below is thelink, where you can pre-register. The website will be updated with informationsuch as profiles of the speakers as well as copies of their presentations. We arelooking forward to your active participation in the Online Tsunami Seminar
FY2022.

ADRC DRR Lecture
Series: Report of Survey
Results
ADRC Staff Profile¶ Ms TATEBE Chihori,
Researcher¶ Ms TERASAKA
Kazuko, ADRC Research
Department
Recent Disasters in Asia
Floods and landslides inIndia and Bangladesh

Date:
Time:
Website:Register:

15 June 2022 (Wednesday)
15:00 - 16:30 (Japan Time UTC+9)
https://www.adrc.asia/acdr/2022tsunami.php
https://bit.ly/Regi_TsunamiSeminar2022● Promoting Cooperation with Member Countries
ADRC DRR Lecture Series: Report of Survey Results
Asian DisasterReduction Center
Higashikan 5F, 1-5-2
Wakinohamakaigan-dori,Chuo-ku, Kobe
651-0073 Japan
Tel: 078-262-5540
Fax: 078-262-5546
editor@adrc.asia
https://www.adrc.asia© ADRC 2022

ADRC held a DRR Lecture Series in March 2022 to support the VR (VisitingResearcher) research themes as outlined in previous issue of ADRC Highlights. Atotal of 722 people attended from ADRC partner organizations and eight VRs
joined in this 8-part series. Here we present the results of the survey that ADRC
conducted among the eight VRs after the DRR Lecture Series. All questions wererated on a 5-point scale.
The figures below show the results to several questions. First, they were asked,"Were the topics provided in the ADRC DRR Lecture Series appropriate?" All ofVRs responded that they were either "Very good" or "Excellent." On the nextquestion, "Did you get the information that you expected?" all of the VRs
responded "Very good" or "Excellent." Finally, the respondents were asked, "Wereyou able to learn from the ADRC DRR Lecture Series something that you would be1

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able to reflect to your DRR works?" The VRs rated the series to be either "Useful" or "Very useful."
ADRC will continue to strengthen its network of DRR experts and to disseminate information to ADRC
member countries.

Survey Results (examples of questions):(Left) "Were the topics provided in the ADRC DRR Lecture Series appropriate?", (Middle) "Did you get the information that youexpected?", (Right) "Were you able to learn from the ADRC DRR Lecture Series something that you would be able to reflect toyour DRR works?"● ADRC Staff Profile
Ms TATEBE Chihori, Researcher

My name is TATEBE Chihori, and I joined theResearch Department this April.
I used to work for an NGO in Kobe, where I
managed recovery assistance projects for disasteraffected areas overseas and handled the planningand publicity of various events and seminars.
During my time as a master's and doctoral student
in the Graduate School of Disaster Resilience andGovernance at the University of Hyogo, I studied
approaches to mutual support and social concepts
through disaster recovery, surveying civicorganizations in disaster-affected areas. I have done
fieldwork in some communities in Central Visayas in the Philippines, which was hit by the 2013 Typhoon
Yolanda, and also in Saka Town, Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan, which experienced heavy rains in 2018.
Before that, I worked for a private company in civil engineering, where I was in charge of sales and overseas
business for slope disaster mitigation.
Through my work at ADRC, I will do my best to learn from people in Asia and other countries, and tohelp create a society that protects people's lives and livelihoods from disasters.

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Ms TERASAKA Kazuko, ADRC Research Department

My name is TERASAKA Kazuko and I have beenworking as an assistant in the Research Departmentof ADRC since April.
I used to work for an organization that supports
the overseas business development of small andmedium-sized enterprises (SMEs), where I was incharge of organizing seminars and coordinating
publicity. This is my first time working in thedisaster risk reduction field, and I will do my best to
support the research department to achieve better
results. I look forward to working with you.

● Recent Disasters in Asia
Floods and landslides in India and Bangladesh

Severe flooding and landslides have occurred in India and Bangladesh as a result of heavy rainfall that hascontinued since mid-May, causing widespread damage in both countries.
In India, river overflows and floods have caused many deaths in the north-east, particularly in the states ofArunchal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya (GLIDE number: FL-2022-000217-IND).
In Bangladesh, widespread flooding and landslides have caused extensive damage in the north-east,
including power outages and shortages of drinking water, resulting in largescale human suffering (GLIDE
number: FL-2022-000217-BGD).
For more information, see the latest disaster information on the ADRC website (https://www.adrc.asia).

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