ACDR2023

Asian Conference on
Disaster Reduction 2023
Effective Implementation of DRR Measures— Enabling Digital Transformation in DRR —20 October 2023

9:00 - 17:00 (Tajikistan Time, UTC+5)
Conference Format: Hybrid
Venue for onsite participants
Hyatt Regency Dushanbe

26/1, Ismoili Somoni Prospekt,Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 734026

Background
Asian region is often impacted by recurring and overlapping multiple
disasters that require new initiatives to effectively manage thesituations. Under the lingering effect of the COVID-19 pandemic, on 6
February 2023, the Türkiye-Syria Earthquake with a magnitude of 7.8
occurred in the south-east of Türkiye. The earthquake andsubsequent aftershocks killed around 60,000 people and affected
hundreds of thousands in Türkiye and Syria. In Türkiye, as in otherearthquake-prone countries around the world, earthquake disasterprevention has long been a priority, but the damages caused byearthquakes never cease to be observed.
Sea level rise is frequently discussed as the effects of global climatechange, however, it is also giving a serious negative impact tolandlocked countries. The number and size of glacial lakes are
increasing significantly in the Asian High Mountain Area (HMA)
putting more people at risk from glacial lake outburst floods. The
floods in Pakistan, which lasted from June to October 2022 weretriggered by unprecedent monsoon rains and heat waves causing
glacial melting and glacial lake outburst floods. It affected more than
15% of the total population and economic losses were estimated toamount to more than USD 40 billion.
In this increasingly complex disaster landscape of Asia, enabling
digital transformation (DX) in our disaster risk reduction (DRR)
systems could contribute in the effective implementation of DRR
measures.

Registration

ORGANIZERSThe Committee of Emergency Situation andCivil Defense under the Government ofTajikistan (CoES)
Cabinet Office of Japan
Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC)

ThemesThe Asian Conference on Disaster Reduction (ACDR2023) recognizes
the importance of implementing effective disaster management
projects in response to recurring disasters (e.g., Türkiye-Syria
earthquakes and the floods in Pakistan) and adopts digitaltransformation in disaster risk reduction (DX in DRR) as theoverarching theme. ACDR2023 will be an avenue to exchange views on
disaster reduction measures that should be accelerated by 2030
based on the occurrence of disasters in each member-country and theprogress made in promoting the global goals of the Sendai Frameworkfor Disaster Risk Reduction.
We will exchange opinions on the importance of investing in disasterprevention prior to the occurrence of disasters (e.g. earthquakes,floods, tsunamis) for which pre-mitigation measures are effective,
highlighting effective disaster prevention technologies in nonstructural and structural countermeasures.
We will also discuss about DX-based measures that deal with disasters
that are difficult to mitigate in advance, such as GLOFs and landslides,from the perspective of providing effective preparedness and DRM in
areas at high risk of disaster occurrence.
The ACDR 2023 will focus in particular on: i) progress in strengthening
DRM systems by sharing experiences on landlocked disasterspecificities; ii) experiences and lessons learned from recent majordisasters in Member Countries; and iii) new initiatives and approaches
by Member Countries and partner organizations to prepare forcomplex and overlapping disasters.

To register for the event, scan this QR codes orclick on the link below.

Participate at the VENUEACDR2023 Website & Registration
https://acdr.adrc.asia/home/acdr2023
Participate ONLINE (ZOOM)ZOOM Webinar Registration
https://bit.ly/acdr2023

Contact (ACDR 2023 Secretariat)
acdr2023tjk@adrc.asia

Agenda20 October 2023

9:00 - 17:00 (Tajikistan Time, UTC+5)

09:00 - 09:30 Opening CeremonyMC:
Mr Rustam Nazarzoda, Chairman, Committee on Emergency Situations andCivil Defense under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan

Opening speeches:- Ms Sattoriyon Matlubakhon Amonzoda, Deputy Prime Minister of theRepublic of Tajikistan- Ms Mami Mizutori, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-Generalfor DRR (video message)- Mr MATSUMURA Yoshifumi, Minister of State for Disaster Management,
Japan (video message)- Prof. HAMADA Masanori, Chairman of the Asian Disaster Reduction
Center (online or video message)- Mr Rustam Nazarzoda, Chairman, Committee on Emergency Situations
and Civil Defense under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan
09:30 - 10:00 Group photo, press interview, Coffee break
10:00 - 11:30

Round Table: Information from ADRC member countries on theimplementation of the Sendai Framework for DRR 2015-2030
Moderators:- Mr Rustam Nazarzoda, Chairman of the Committee on Emergency
Situations and Civil Defense under the Government of the Republic ofTajikistan- Ms TSUNOZAKI Etsuko, Board member of SEEDS Asia
- Mr Sebastian Penzini, Acting Head of the Regional Office for Europe andCentral Asia, UNDRR
Rapporteurs:
1. Mr Seb﻿astian Penzini, Acting Head of the Regional Office for Europe andCentral Asia, UNDRR
2. H.E. Dr Mohammad Hassan Nami, Head, National Disaster Management
Organisation (NDMO), Iran3. Armenia – Dr Sos Margaryan, Director, National Survey for Seismic
Protection (NSSP)
4. Bhutan – Mr Kado Zangpo, Director, Department of Disaster Management(DDM), Ministry of Home Affairs
5. Indonesia – Mr. Raditya Jati, Deputy Minister, National Disaster
Management Authority (BNPB)
6. Malaysia – Mohd Faizal Bin Ab. Hamid, Senior Principal Assistant Director,
National Disaster Management Authority (NADMA)
7. Maldives – Mr Hisan Hassan, Chief Executive, National Disaster
Management Authority (NDMA)
8. Mongolia – Brigadier General Batmunkh Uuganbayar, Deputy Chief,
National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA)
9. Nepal – Mr. Panth Mahadev, Joint Secretary, Disaster and Conflict
Management Division, Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA)
10. Pakistan – Mr Zaman Badar, Director General R&R, Earthquake
Reconstruction and Rehbilitation Authority (ERRA), National Disaster
Managemenet Authority
11. Papua New Guinea – Mr Laso Mana Dusete, Acting Director, National
Disaster Centre (NDC)
12. Philippines – Mr Markus V. Lacanilao, Assistant Secretary, Office of Civil
Defense (OCD)
13. Singapore – Mr Wesley Ho, Director Planning and Organisation
Department, Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF)
14. Sri Lanka – ﻿Major General Retired Sudantha Ranasinghe, DirectorGeneral, Disaster Management Centre (online﻿)
15. Tajikistan – Mr Rustam Nazarzoda, Chairman, Committee on Emergency
Situations (CoES)
16. Thailand – Ms Chatchadaporn Boonpeeranat, Deputy DirectorGeneral, Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM)(online)17. Viet Nam – Ms Nguyen Thi Xuan Hong, Viet Nam Disaster and Dyke
Management Authority (VDDMA)

11:30 - 11:40

Coffee break(as of 20 Oct. 2023)
11:40 - 13:00

Session 1: Innovative Solutions for Resilient Societies: DRR Technologies
for Earthquakes and Geological Hazards
Moderators:- Mr Pulod Aminzoda, Director of the Institute of Geology, Earthquake
Engineering and Seismology of the National Academy of Sciences ofTajikistan- Dr Sos Margaryan, Director, National Survey for Seismic Protection,
Armenia
Speakers:- Mr Pulod Aminzoda, Director, Institute of Geology, Earthquake
Engineering and Seismology, National Academy of Sciences, Tajikistan- Mr Ulan Abdybachaev, Lead Researcher / Deputy Head of Department“Geodynamics and Georisks”, Central-Asian Institute for Applied
Geosciences (CAIAG), Kyrgyz Republic (online)- Dr David N. Nguyen, Concurrent Associate Professor, InternationalResearch Institute for Disaster Science (IRIDeS), Tohoku University/Researcher, National Research Institute for Earth Science and DisasterResilience (NIED), Japan (online)- Mr Dilshod Kodirov, National Coordinator, UNDRR, Tajikistan- Mr Azizjon Azizmurodzoda, Researcher, CoES, Tajikistan- Mr Majid Hamedani, Director, Department of Refugees and Natural
Disasters, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Iran- Prof. Dr Orhan Tatar, General Director for Earthquake and Risk Reduction,
Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), Ministry ofInterior, Türkiye (presented at Session 2 due to the delay of arrival)

13:00 - 14:30 Lunch14:30 - 16:00 Session 2: Adaptation to the Climate Crisis: Innovative Approaches toMonitoring and Responding to Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOFs),Forest Fires and Intensifying Floods
Moderators:- Prof. Abdulhamid Kayumov, Director of the Center for Glacier Studies of
the National Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan and a representative ofanother ADRC member country- Dr Changje Kwak, Research Officer, National Disaster Management
Research Institute (NDMI), Republic of Korea

Speakers:- Prof. Abdulhamid Kayumov, Director, Centre for Glacier Studies, NationalAcademy of Sciences, Tajikistan- Mr Majid Hamedani, Director, Department of Refugees and NaturalDisasters, Ministry of foreign affairs, Iran
- Mr Serik Aubakirov, Director, Centre for Emergency Situations andDisaster Risk Reduction (CESDRR)- Dr Mandira Singh Shrestha, Senior Water Resources Specialist,
International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD)(online)- Dr Changje Kwak, Research Officer, National Disaster Management
Research Institute (NDMI), Republic of Korea- Ms Firuza Tursunzoda, Head of the National Disaster Risk Management
Project, CoES, Tajikistan- Mr Najib Yaminov, Head of Emergency Situations Department, Habitat
Branch of the Agha Khan Agency, Tajikistan16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 17:00 Closing Ceremony
Presenter:- Mr Rustam Nazarzoda, Chairman, Committee on Emergency Situations
and Civil Defense under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan

Award Ceremony:- ACDR2023 Summary by Mr SASAHARA Akio, Executive Director, Asian
Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC)
Closing speeches:- Dr OGAWA Yujiro, Executive Secretary, Asian Disaster Reduction
Center (ADRC)- Mr Rustam Nazarzoda, Chairman, Committee on Emergency Situations
and Civil Defense under the Government of the Republic of Tajikistan