2. Establishment of Network in the Asian Region

2-3-5 ADRC Highlights
ADRC has been using the Internet and e-mail to share information with its counterparts in member
countries, and with other interested parties. As one of its mainstay tools for information
dissemination, ADRC has been issuing the twice-a-monthly newsletter “ADRC Highlights” sinceJune 1, 1999. This newsletter is made publicly available on the Web. It is also e-mailed in Englishand Japanese to ADRC’s counterparts, participants in past ADRC expert meetings, ADRC personnel
at home and abroad, visitors to ADRC, and participants in international conferences ADRC havetaken part in.
The subscriber mailing list of the newsletter dramatically expanded by 580 persons between theend of March 2003 and the end of March 2004 – from 380 domestic and 1,050 overseas readers to470 and 1,540, respectively – a 40% year-on-year increase.
The contents has included articles on the latest ADRC activities, reports of events, such as
international conferences, which ADRC staff attended and gave presentations in, as well as national
reports by ADRC visiting researchers from member countries. At international conferences and otherevents, ADRC staff have frequently been asked questions related to the contents of the newsletter.
ADRC often receives responses to the newsletter immediately after it is e-mailed. Thus, thenewsletter is considered an effective tool for information sharing.
In awareness of the newsletter’s effectiveness for information sharing, and of the fact that Russian
is more convenient than English in some of the member countries including Russia a Federation andNIS countries, ADRC started to web-publish and e-mail the Russian version of the newsletter in 2002.
As of the end of March 2004, the number of subscribers to the Russian version totaled 70 persons.
The number is expected to increase as more disaster management training programs are implementedfor Central Asian and the Caucasus.

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Table 2-3-5 Headlines from ADRC Highlights (FY 2003)
Vol.

Issue
Date

Main Feature

Other Topics

67

4/1

ISDR/ADRC joint session "Living with ISDR-IATF Working Group 3
Risk - towards effective disaster Vulnerability and Impact Assessment
reduction" at WWF3
Relocation of ADRC

68

4/16

United Nations Disaster Assessment and ADRC Visiting Researcher's Report
Coordination (UNDAC)
Notice of change of address

69

5/1

7th ISDR Inter-Agency Task Force 3rd ISDR Support Group Meeting
Meeting
The Opening of 'Hitomiraikan'

70

5/16

ADRC/NCDM Training Workshop for 5th US-Japan Workshop on Urban Earthquake
Cambodia Provincial Committee for Hazard Reduction
Disaster Management
United Nations Award for Disaster Reduction

71

6/1

72

6/16

73

7/1

Workshop 'In Search of a Common ADRC Visiting Researchers Made Lectures atMethodology on Damage Estimation' Yamaguchi University
was held in Netherlands
Recent Natural Disasters in Asia: Tajikistan Floods

74

7/16

International Training Program on TDRM held atKobe
ADRC Dispatched Research Team to2003 Australian Disaster Conference will be held atTurkey
Canberra, 10-12 September 2003
Recent Natural Disasters in Asia: Floods in India

75

8/1

Introducing ADRCs newly published International Symposium on Integrated Disaster"2002 Natural Disasters Data Book"
Risk Management held in Kyoto

76

8/16

26 July, Earthquake in Nothern Japan: Recent Natural Disasters in Asia: Nepal - Floods
Observations by ADRC
and Landslides

77

9/1

Public Forum "Living with Risk - are
Flood Situation Report: Assam /Bihar in India
we prepared for the next big one? -" willADRC Visiting Researcher's Reportbe held on October 49/16

Visitors to ADRC ： Military Officers from 13
ADRC Participated Exhibition and Asia-Pacific countries
Workshop for Earthquake Disaster ADRC dispatched a survey team to Sri LankaReduction at Marikina City, Philippines Recent Natural Disasters in Asia ： South Korea-Typhoon Maemi

78onRisk,

Recent Natural Disasters in Asia; Severe
SOPAC "Communities@Risk" Conference held indeluge washed away southern andFijisouthwestern Sri Lanka
7th US-Japan Workshop on Urban Earthquake
Sri Lanka floods: Observations by Terje Hazard Reduction
Skavdal, RDRA in Asia, Head of United Nations Award for Disaster Reduction 26
OCHA, Kobe
May, South-Sanriku Earthquake in Japan:
Observations by ADRC

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79

10/1

Introduction of ADRC's Visiting Researcher
Public Forum "Living with Risk" on
Recent Natural Disasters in Asia ： Japan "TheOctober 4 is just around the corner
Tokachi-oki Earthquake in 2003"

80

10/16

Japan –'The Tokachi-oki Earthquake in Public Forum "Living with Risk" has attracted over2003': Survey Mission by ADRC
250 audience on October 481

11/1

82

11/16

83

12/1

84

12/16

ADRC Conducted Field Survey on the Minamata
Introducing newly enhanced ADRC Debris Flow Disaster in Japan
websiteA Survey Mission to Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz, andAzerbaijan
ADRC participated in the Second UNESCO Mid-term Meeting on the Cross-cutting
International Conference on Early Theme Initiative was held in Paris
Warning (EWC II) held in Bonn, TDRM Conference will be held on Dec 2-4, inGermany
Kobe, Japan
ADRC was invited to Workshop co-organized byADRC
Visiting
Researcher’s EC and UN-ISDR
Report-Mr.Om Prakash from India
Euro-Mediterranean Forum on Disaster Prevention
was held in Madrid
ADRC participated in the UN ISDR 8thInter-Agency Task Force Meeting

TDRM Conference was held in Kobe, JapanThe UN General Assembly adopted a resolution tohost World Conference on Disaster Reduction
ASEAN Committee on Disaster Management(ACDM) was held in Brunei
RecentNaturalDisastersin Visitors to ADRC: The Delegation of Ministry ofAsia:Earthquake in Iran
Civil Affairs,China
ADRC Participated the Third East Asia Cluster
Meeting in Kobe
SMiRT Conference held in Prague, Czech Republic
Notice: Change of ADRC Website
ADRC Staff Profiles No. 16: Mr. Tetsushi Kurita,
ADRC Cooperative Project FY2003:Senior Researcher
Seminar on Flood Disaster Management
JSCE Earthquake Engineering Symposium held inin Vietnam
Osaka85

1/1&1686

2/187

2/16

The Asian Conference on DisasterReduction 2004 was held in Siem Reap,Cambodia

3/1

ADRC collaboration
Disaster Center

3/16

ADRC was invited to Workshop
Co-organized by Iran and UNDP
Public Forum "Catastrophic Floods ： Hidden
ADRC Participated in the Third Vulnerability of Mega Cities" will be held on March
International Workshop of WSSI in 23
Bangkok

8889

withPacific

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Capacity in India
ADRC joined the Seminar hosted by JBIC