ADRC Highlights
Asian Disaster Reduction Center Monthly News
● Announcement
Vol. 367
October
2023
TOPICSAnnouncement¶ Register for the ADRC
Online Tsunami Seminar,15 November 2023
¶ ADRC Welcomes a
New Member: Republic ofFiji¶ Asian Conference on
Disaster Reduction 2023
was successfully held

Promoting Cooperation
with AffiliatedInstitutions

Register for the ADRC Online Tsunami Seminar, 15 November 2023

Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC) will hold this year’s Online Tsunami
Seminar on 15 November 2023 on the theme of “State and Challenges ofCommunity-Based Tsunami Preparedness.” The seminar will encouragediscussions among participants on the progress and challenges in tsunami
preparedness, highlighting the experiences from Japan, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam.
- ADRC Online Tsunami Seminar 2023
“State and Challenges of Community-Based Tsunami Preparedness”- Date and Time
14:00-15:30, 15 November 2023 (JST, UTC+9)- Website
https://www.adrc.asia/acdr/2023tsunami.php- Zoom Registration
https://bit.ly/TsunamiSeminar

Study Visit in Affected Areasof Türkiye Earthquake(Hyogo Prefecture TürkiyeEarthquake Recovery andReconstruction SupportProject)

Participation inInternational
Conferences
8th Joint Project TeamMeeting (JPTM) and 29th
Session of the Asia-PacificRegional Space Agency
Forum (APRSAF-29)

Asian DisasterReduction Center
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Tel: 078-262-5540
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https://www.adrc.asia© ADRC 2023

For details and registration, kindly click on the above-mentioned website link.
We look forward to meeting you online!
ADRC Welcomes a New Member: Republic of Fiji

In response to their application to join a member ofADRC, ADRC has welcomed Republic of Fiji as the32nd ADRC member country as of 1 October 2023.
ADRC anticipates that the active participation of theRepublic of Fiji will add to the enhancement ofADRC’s activities.
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Asian Conference on Disaster Reduction 2023 was successfully held

The Asian Disaster Risk Reduction Conference 2023 (ADRC 2023) was held in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on 20October 2023. The conference was originally scheduled to take place in Tajikistan in 2020, but waspostponed due to the spread of COVID-19.
The conference, entitled “Effective Implementation of DRR Measures — Enabling Digital Transformationin DRR,” was organised in collaboration with the Committee of Emergency Situations and Civil Defense
under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan (CoES) and the Cabinet Office of Japan. The onsite
venue was lively with participants including officials from 17 Member Countries, members of CoES andmany other international organisations, research institutions and NGOs. We had 111 viewers joining theconference online including participants from 7 Member Countries, as well as others from a wide range ofaffiliations including academic and media institutes.
Detailed results of each session and links of the recording of the conference will be provided in the nextissue. We would like to thank the Government of Tajikistan for co-hosting this conference and all theparticipants for your active participation.

ACDR2023 Participants● Promoting Cooperation with Affiliated Institutions
Study Visit in Affected Areas of Türkiye Earthquake (Hyogo Prefecture Türkiye Earthquake
Recovery and Reconstruction Support Project)
ADRC visited Türkiye from 24 September
to 2 October 2023, staying six days inTürkiye, to study the state of their recovery
in field of education in areas affected by theTürkiye-Syria Earthquake that occurred inFebruary 2023. This study was supported by
the “Hyogo Prefecture Türkiye Earthquake
Recovery and Reconstruction Support
Project” and conducted in collaboration withMr SUWA Seiji, Visiting Professor,
University of Hyogo. In addition, Dr EminÖzdamar of the Turkish JapaneseFoundation greatly cooperated in thisproject.
The delegation visited schools that wereWorkshop (Hatay Province)

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damaged by the earthquake in the Province of Gaziantep, Kahramanmaraş, and Hatay, and had interviews
regarding school education and the situations of teachers and children after the earthquake. Workshops werealso conducted with education communities to share the experiences of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake
and the Great East Japan Earthquake, including the response of the actual education sites and the recovery
efforts they have made.
It seemed that the teachers were still in deep grief from the earthquake but they were working hard toreopen schools, continue education, and care for children. The Ministry of National Education (MoNE) has
been providing mental health and psychosocial support for teachers and children by dispatching specialists
and holding seminars for teachers, however, for a long-term recovery, continuous supports for teachers andchildren in schools are necessary. Moreover, reconsideration of future disaster education based on theexperience of this earthquake is also essential. ADRC will create opportunities to share experiences ofdisasters between Türkiye and Japan through communication exchanges with teachers and children.
● Participation in International Conferences
8th Joint Project Team Meeting (JPTM) and 29th Session of the Asia-Pacific Regional Space
Agency Forum (APRSAF-29)

The 8th Joint Project Team Meeting was heldfrom 17 to 18 September 2023 in Jakarta,Indonesia as well as the 29th Session of the Asia
-Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum(APRSAF) held from 19 to 22 September 2023
following JPTM. APRSAF was co-organized by
the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan, theJapan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA),
and the National Research and Innovation
Agency (BRIN) of Indonesia.
ADRC participated in both conferences, andreported on Sentinel Asia's activities. On 17
September, ADRC participated in a panel
discussion and reported on the situations ofSentinel Asia’s emergency observation requests(EOR) and end-user feedbacks on the various
data provided to them in time of disaster. On 18
Presentation by Dr TATEBE Chihori
September, ADRC joined the organization
reports session and introduced about theStandard Operation Procedure (SOP) which is an EOR manual being developed in member countries andregion of Sentinel Asia.
ADRC will continue to actively participate in activities related to the utilization of space technology in thefield of disaster prevention.

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