ADRC Highlights
Asian Disaster Reduction Center Monthly News● Participation in International ConferencesVol. 364
July2023
TOPICS
Participation inInternationalConferences¶ The 5th ASEAN
Committee on Disaster
Management (ACDM) +Japan Meeting¶ Participation in the
18th WGDRR Annual
Meeting¶ Participation in DRR
Talk
Promoting Cooperation
with AffiliatedInstitutions

JICA Knowledge CoCreation Program:Comprehensive Disaster
Risk Reduction for Centraland South American
Countries 2023

The 5th ASEAN Committee on Disaster Management (ACDM) + Japan
Meeting

On 15-16 June 2023, the 5thASEAN Committee on Disaster
Management (ACDM) + Japan
meeting was held in Da Nang,Viet Nam. As part of theprogramme, Mr SASAHARA,executive director of the Asian
Disaster Reduction Center(ADRC) gave two presentations
entitled “Promotion of Database
Linkage and Capacity
Enhancement through Utilizationof GLIDE” and “Pilot Project on
Presentation by Mr SASAHARA, ADRC
Utilization of State-of-Art
Communication Technologies for CBDRM and Disaster Emergency
Management”. AHA Center as well as the representative of Malaysia and someothers expressed their interest in these projects. Other activities at the meeting
included a report on the progress of each activity under the ASEAN-Japan Work
Plan on Disaster Management 2021-2025.
ADRC also participated in the site visit held on the last day of the ACDM
meeting. In the morning, the participants observed a disaster management drill
carried out by the residents of Binh Hai Commune, Quang Nham Province. Basedon the scenario that an early warning for an approaching typhoon was given, theexercise included the provision of pre-response funds and equipment andreinforcement of roofs of vulnerable houses conducted by a youth disastermanagement team. In the afternoon, the delegation visited a site where mangrove
conservation and reforestation project are being implemented by the Green Climate
Fund in Bau Ca Cai region, Quang Ngai Province.

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Site Visit

Participation in the 18th WGDRR Annual Meeting

As a member of the Typhoon Committee’s Working Group on Disaster Risk
Reduction (TC/WGDRR), ADRC participated in the 18th Annual Meeting held on
13-16 June 2023 at the Lotte Hotel in Ulsan, Republic of Korea. The NationalDisaster Management Research Institute (NDMI), chair of the WGDRR, hosted themeeting on the theme, “Future of the Disaster Risk Reduction: Leveraging
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Technology to Adapt Climate Change”.
Mr SUZUKI Koji, Project Director at ADRC, delivered a technical presentation entitled, “QZSSTechnology Application to Early Warning Message Platform” and Dr Gerry Potutan, Senior Researcher atADRC, presented on the ADRC activities in line with TC/WGDRR. Both presentations highlighted ADRC’s
contributions in achieving the TC/WGDRR objectives to reduce the number of deaths and minimize theeconomic impacts of typhoon disasters in the Asia-Pacific region.
One of the recommendations brought up by this meeting was to explore the linkage between the Typhoon
Committee’s Disaster Information System (TC-DIS) and the ADRC’s GLobal Unique Disaster IDEntifier
number (GLIDE) system. Under this proposed linkage, ADRC may be requested to provide an orientation tothe 14 TC/WGDRR member countries on how to input the disaster information to the GLIDE system,
focusing on tropical cyclone, storm surge, flood, and landslide. The progress of this potential linkage will bereported at the 18th Integrated Workshops (18th IWS) of the Typhoon Committee to be held on 27-30
November 2023 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Participants with the Vice Minister of MOIS and Mayor of the Ulsan

Participants with the Vice Minister of MOIS and Mayor of the Ulsan

Participation in DRR Talk

Upon invitation of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), U.S. Department of Homeland
Security , Senior Researcher Dr Gerry Potutan of ADRC participated as panelist in the Online DRR Talk on
the theme, “APEC in an Increasingly Complex Disaster Landscape: Preparing Asia-Pacific Economies forExtreme Conditions” on 27 June 2023. The panel tackled concerns of extreme weather events and thewidespread impacts of climate change to communities across the Asia-Pacific region.
At the outset, all panelists recognized the contributions of the APEC Disaster Risk Reduction Framework inadvancing climate resilience through shared-interventions, such as better risk mapping strategies, expanded
regional and global investment in early warning systems, innovation in resilient infrastructure, and naturebased solutions.
ADRC shared related activities, including: the advanced climate change impact projection study, theGLIDE number system, and the training program on “developing local DRR strategies” where information
on emerging climate risks are integrated. ADRC also mentioned some initiatives in Japan that thegovernment, the private sector, and the communities are promoting to proactively adapt to climate changerisks. Among those mentioned were: 1) Japan International Public-Private Association for Disaster RiskReduction (JIPAD), where private companies promote their DRR/CCA technologies; 2) National Resilience
Promotion, an initiative that contributes in preventing and mitigating disasters; 3) Joint Strategy between theCabinet Office (Disaster Management) and Ministry of Environment to mainstream synergy between
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Climate Action and DRR; 4) Amendmentsof Basic Act on Disaster Management
highlighting the importance of the Local
Disaster Management Plans to reflectlessons from local conditions in updating
the policies related to DRR-CCA; and 5)
Public-Private Partnerships in promoting
innovative early warning tools (e.g.,
SPECTEE that utilizes artificial
intelligences or “AI”).
All these initiatives are aimed atenhancing synergy in implementing largescale disaster countermeasures to minimize
silos among related agencies, providing
practical knowledge and skills of people atthe community level, and applying new
tools and technologies to proactively
reduce disaster risks as well as adapt to the emerging climate risks.

Online DRR Talk

● Promoting Cooperation with Affiliated Institutions
JICA Knowledge Co-Creation Program: Comprehensive Disaster Risk Reduction for Central andSouth American Countries 2023

ADRC conducted the JICA Knowledge CoCreation Program course entitled“Comprehensive Disaster Risk Reduction forCentral and South American Countries
JFY2023” from 9 May to 30 June 2023, incooperation with JICA Kansai. It was attended
by 10 participants from 10 Central and SouthAmerican countries: Colombia, Nicaragua, Peru,
Argentina, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Chile, ElSalvador, Ecuador, and Panama.
The program consisted of 4 weeks of online
and 3 weeks of face-to-face lectures andexercises to learn about Japanese experiences andtechnologies in disaster risk reduction. It also
included site visits to Hyogo and Kumamoto
prefectures to observe various countermeasures
including experiences in Hyogo PrefecturalEmergency Management and Training Center,
Earthquake Simulation Vehicle at Hyogo Prefectural Emergency
Management and Training Centercomprehensive flood control measures in Kako
River and sediment disaster control in the Asoregion. At the end of the course, the participants developed a draft local plan for DRR in their own countries
through the 8-step workshop. After each going back to their own country, they are expected to actively
engage in DRR measures to reduce humanitarian and economic losses due to disasters.
ADRC would like to express its sincerest gratitude to all the organizations and universities that
contributed to the success of this course.

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