3. Collection and Dissemination of Disaster Information

3-2. Database on Disaster Risk Reduction
3-2-1. Latest Disaster Information
Once a disaster occurs, many DRR related organizations in and outside the affected country
such as media, governments, international organizations, research institutions and civil societies
start disseminating information about damage situations, relief and so on. Usually suchinformation is issued separately and thus it has been difficult to collect necessary informationfrom separate information sources at emergency.
ADRC has been sharing and updating latest disaster information of its member countries andmajor disaster information of the world including overview of the disaster (date of occurrence,area and outline) and damage situations, relevant links (reports, articles, map, relief, informationfrom partners, imagery data and so on).

Fig. 3-2-1-1 Top Page of ADRC Website

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Such latest disaster information is posted on top page of the ADRC’s website as well as on
Disaster Information page, linking to further detailed information (Fig. 3-2-1-1~ Fig. 3-2-1-3).
This section takes up a heavy rain, flood and landslide event occurred in Japan in August
2019 to show the structure of providing disaster information on the ADRC website (Fig.
3-2-1-1~Fig. 3-2-1-6).
Disasters that have occurred in Asia and the world are posted on the top page as the Latest
Disaster Information (Fig. 3-2-1-1), as well as on the (Latest) Disaster Information page (Fig.
3-2-1-2) after some time passes. Then you can click a disaster you are interested in, and it takes
you to Details of Disaster Information (Fig. 3-2-1-3). In upper part of the page, there are links toGLIDE number (Fig. 3-2-1-4) of the said disaster (FL-2019-000097-JPN) and Emergency
Observation of Sentinel Asia. Then situation reports by relevant organizations are placed in themiddle part. On the bottom part, there is a link to the Country Information which contains theinformation on trends of natural disasters, disaster management systems of member countries(Fig. 3-2-1-5). This information is updated accordingly with the original links, which would

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facilitate users’ information collection.

Fig. 3-2-1-3 Details on the disaster occurred in Japan

Fig. 3-2-1-4 Link to GLIDE

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Fig. 3-2-1-5 Information on DRR of Member Country

Since FY2007, the website has been linked to JAXA’s Disaster Management Support
System, giving further value added information, namely satellite imageries of the affected areas(Fig. 3-2-1-6). As of 29 February 2020, a total of 2,372 disasters have been registered in thedatabase.

Fig. 3-2-1-6 Emergency observation by Sentinel Asia

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3-2-2. Asian Disaster Reduction Center Newsletter:ADRC Highlights
ADRC has been using Internet and e-mail to share information with its counterparts in themember countries, and other relevant parties. As one of its important tools for information
dissemination, ADRC has been issuing the newsletter “ADRC Highlights” since 1 June 1999. It
had been issued twice a month until FY 2007, and has been issued once a month since therenewal of its design in FY 2008.

Fig. 3-2-2-1 ADRC Highlights(December 2019: English edition, Japanese edition, Russian edition)

The newsletter is made available on the website. Its text version is also e-mailed in English,
Russian and Japanese to ADRC counterparts and former visiting researchers, former GLIDE
visiting researchers, participants in the past ADRC annual meetings, visitors to ADRC, trainees
in JICA's training courses which ADRC were involved in, and participants in international
conferences which ADRC took part in to. Also ADRC registers e-mail addresses of those whowish to subscribe the newsletter upon the receipt of request e-mail. The numbers of subscribers
in English, Russian and Japanese, are 2,158, 203 and 898 respectively as of 1 March 2020.
The contents include articles on the latest ADRC activities, reports on participation ininternational conferences, and other events which ADRC staff members attended and gave
presentations in, as well as reports by ADRC Visiting Researchers from member countries andinterns.

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Vol.

Main Articles

313

Meeting of Three Education and Training Institutes on Disaster Management
Notice of the ADRC website renewal

314

Exchange of Opinions with the Legislative Counseling Office of the National
Assembly of the Republic of Korea (2019 April 24)
ADRC Staff Profile – KOBORI Kazuyuki, Senior Administrative Manager

315

Global Platform 2019316

The 14th Meeting of the Typhoon Committee Working Group on Disaster RiskReduction
The 6th Earthquake Technology Expo in OSAKA

317

9th Annual UN-SPIDER Regional Support Offices (RSO) Coordination Meeting
Public forum "Trilateral Disaster Risk Reduction and Relief Cooperation Among
China-Japan-Korea"

318

APEC-related Events
Report from ADRC Intern: Intern, Ms. TAKAI Tamaki

319

Study Tour on School and Community-based Disaster Risk Management for
UNICEF Kyrgyzstan
Expert Group Meeting to Combat Sand and Dust Storm, UNESCAPADRC Visiting Researcher Report: Mr. Ozgur Tuna Ozmen (Turkey)

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JICA Knowledge Co-Creation Program: "School-based Disaster Education inTurkey"
The UN International Conference on Space-based Technology for Disaster RiskReduction and 10 Years Commemoration of the UN-SPIDER Beijing Office
Announcement: Asian Conference on Disaster Reduction 2019321

Asian Conference on Disaster Reduction 2019
JICA Training "Comprehensive Disaster Risk Reduction for the African Region"

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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2020: HAMADA Masanori, Chairman, ADRCJICA Training Course: Promotion of Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction
26th Session of the Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency Forum (APRSAF-26)

323

ADRC Visiting Researcher Report - Mr. Beda Nidhi Khanal (Nepal)- Mr. Nima Tshering (Bhutan)
Report from ADRC Intern: Mr. MATSUSHITA Takuma

324

JICA Knowledge Co-Creation Program: Second Batch “School-based Disaster
Education in Turkey”
APEC-related Meeting (Malaysia)
ADRC Visiting Researcher Report: Mr. Ranjith ALAHAKOON (Sri Lanka)

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