1st AKNZ-Congress Care in Civil Protection – Future Perspectives andConcepts (2017/11/29 - 12/1）
Topics: Civil Protection in Catastrophy
Venue: Rheinhotel Vier Yahrzeit（Bad Breisig, Germany）

The 1st AKNZ-Congress Care in Civil Protection – Future Perspectives and Concepts held in
Bad Breisig, Germany invited Prof. Egawa of IRIDeS as a special lecturer. This congress aims topromote interdisciplinary and multi-organizational understanding and implementation of thepractice of civil protection and disaster risk management.
Germany encountered 2002 Flood disaster, 2004 victims by Indian Ocean Tsunami, and 201516 Refugee crisis. The Government of Germany organized the Department of Civil Protection andits research institute (AKNZ) to cope with catastrophic events. This congress was very successful
to promote mutual inter-disciplinary and inter-organizational understanding and collaboration.
The delegates are from federal and local governments, various humanitarian agencies andvolunteer organizations. Breakout sessions on evacuation, logistics, competencies, interfaces
between organizations, psychosocial support, intervention concept and actual implementation. The
co-chairs of each breakout groups summarized the discussion in the plenary session. The
delegates shared good practices and gaps that the government, humanitarian agencies andvolunteer organizations are facing. All the conversation was in German, but simultaneoustranslators helped sufficiently.
Prof. Egawa joined the breakout sessions actively. Prof. Egawa insisted that in order to make thesupport realistic, it is important to respect the dignity and culture of affected people and let themmake their own decision and self-caring as much as possible. Also he insisted the improvement ofaccessibility for everybody including people with disability. He commented on the importance ofefficient utilizing the ability of affected people rather than considering the disability of affectedpeople.
Prof. Egawa lectured on the last day. He showed the actual trend of displaced people in Great
East Japan Earthquake from March 11, 2011 up to now. He showed the spatial and temporaltransition of the radioactively contaminated area in Japan, too. Prof. Egawa mentioned the damage
to the health of people with the back ground of Japan’s disaster risk reduction and aging community
and the change of medical needs in disaster. Prof. Egawa provided the concept of Build Back Betterbased on the Japan’s coping history with disasters. He also provided the structure of Priorities andGlobal Targets in the Sendai Framework according to Prof. Takeya’s guidance. Simultaneoustranslation helped both sides for the mutual understanding.
Another special lecture was about the recent earthquake disaster in central Italy. The
Government of Italy has the Department of Civil Protection to cope with calamity. The delegatesshared the importance of disaster risk reduction prior to disaster and the common features in theaftermath. Implementation of Sendai Framework is imperative.
Report by Shinichi Egawa (Disaster Medical Science Division)(continues to the next page)Many delegates from federal and local
governments, humanitarian agencies andvolunteer organizations

Prof. Egawa talking on the Great East Japan
Earthquake, Sendai Framework and Disaster Risk.

Prof. Egawa joined the breakout session with the help of simultaneous translators.