7. Public Relations Activities

7-2. Participation in International Conferences
In order to develop organic networks with international organizations and NGOs in addition tomember countries, ADRC attended the following international conferences to increase its
presence and to participate in discussions with relevant organizations on international cooperation
for disaster risk reduction.
Table 7-2-2-1

International Conferences

Conference
The 1st IAP (ISDR
Asia Partnership)
Meeting

DateApril
9-11,
2012

Venue
Indonesia(Bari)

Sponsors
UNISDR

Attendee
Ono
SugiuraContributions
Made a presentation
on "BusinessContinuity
Management inPrivate Sector forRegional
Resiliency"

Roundtable on
Business Continuity
Planning Between
the Philippine
Private Sector andUNISDR
The 7th Meeting ofTyphoon
Committee Working
Group on Disaster
Risk Reduction

May 3,
2012

Philippines(Makati)

UNISDR

Ono

Made a presentation
on “BCP in Japanand Thailand”

May
30-31,
2012

Rep. ofKorea(Seoul)

UNESCAP,WMO Typhoon
Committee,
National
Emergency
Management
Agency(NEMA) of Rep.
of KoreaMoriwaki

Gave a presentation
about recent
international
cooperation
activities, such as
human resources
development,
technical support andso on

The 2nd IAP (ISDR
Asia Partnership)
MeetingAug.
7-9,
2012

Indonesia(Jogjakarta)

UNISDR

NatoriMoriwakiSentinel Asia Data
Provider Node
Meeting on Step3

Aug.
30,
2012

Thailand(Bangkok)

JAXA

Natori

Participated indiscussions with
Asian countries andinternationalorganizations on the
5th Asian Ministerial
Conference on
Disaster Risk
Reduction
Participated onbehalf of disasterorganizations andintroduced theirneeds on emergency
observations to space
agencies

Workshop on
Stock-taking andWays Forward in
Capacity
Development for

Sep.
19-21,
2012

Rep. ofKorea(Incheon)

UNISDR

Shiomi
Potutan69

Discussed ways for
scaling up capacitybuilding programsfor resilient cities
such as promoting

city-to-city learning
as well as
strengthening thenetworks of service
providers to facilitate
wider access to cities

Making Cities
Resilient

Consultative
Meeting on Incheon
REMAP

Oct.
3-5,
2012

Rep. ofKorea(Jeju)NEMA ofRep. of Korea

Natori

The 5th Asian
Ministerial
Conference on
Disaster Risk
Reduction(AMCDRR)

Oct.
22-25,
2012

Indonesia(Jogjakarta)

Government ofIndonesia

NatoriSugiuraMoriwakiDiscussed on theimplementation ofIncheon REMAP
adopted at the 4thAMCDRR for
disaster risk
reduction throughclimate changeadaptation and input
for the 5thAMCDRR
Attended opening
and closing
ceremonies,
co-organized side
events, and served
as a facilitator of
pre-conference
Served as thefacilitator of thepre-conference
meeting

Oct. 22,2012

BNPB ofIndonesia,
Japan
International
Cooperation
Agency (JICA)

Oct. 23,
2012

JICA
ADRC

Consultation of
the post-HFA
framework

Oct. 24,
2012

UNISDR

Discussed on thecontents ofpost-HFA
framework on
disaster risk
reduction after 2015

Improve DRR
practices basedon the lessons
learned frommajor disasters
in Asia

Oct. 25,
2012

UN-SPIDER

The 5th Sentinel
Asia Joint ProjectMeeting (JPTM)

Nov.
14-16,
2012

Made a presentation
entitled"Considerations for
effective use of space
based information toassess Tsunami
impact - Lessons
learned from recent
Tsunami in Japan"
Reported on thestatus of theemergency
observations,

Expert Meetingfor the Disaster
Risk Reduction
Cooperation
betweenIndonesia andJapan
Mainstreaming
DRR toward
post-HFA andLessons Learnt
from Mega
Disasters

Korea(Daejeon)

UNESCAP,JAXA andKorea

70

Made a presentation
entitled "Lessons
Learned from Mega
Disasters andImplications for
Mainstreaming ofDRR"

SugiuraIkeda

7. Public Relations Activities

Aerospace
ResearchInstitute (KARI)

The 7th Integrated
Workshop of theTyphoon
Committee

Nov.
26-27,
2012

China(Nanjing)

The 45th Session of
the Typhoon
Committee

Jan.
27-29,
2013

China(Hong Kong)

The 50th Session of
UN-COPUOS andthe 4th UN-SPIDER
Regional Support
Office (RSO)
Meeting
Workshop on Space
Applications for
Disaster Risk
Reduction andManagement andthe 2nd Workshop
on Use ofMulti-Global
Navigation Satellite
Systems for
Sustainable
DevelopmentFeb.
11-13,
2013

Mar.
5-7,
2013

UNESCAP,WMO Typhoon
Committee,
China
Meteorological
Administration,
etc.
UNESCAP,WMO Typhoon
Committee,Hong Kong
Observatory

MoriwakiAustria(Vienna)

UN-COPUOS
UN-SPIDER

SugiuraBangkok(Thailand)

UNESCAPJAXA

Sugiura71

Moriwakisurvey results on
how the satellite data
provided was utilizedin each country, andthe result of Glacier
Lake Outburst Flood(GLOF) project in
BhutanIntroduced ADRC
activities such as theVisiting Researcher
Program

Discussed action
plan of thecommittee in thenext fiscal year aswell as theircountries' activities
in this fiscal year
Presented ADRC’s
activities andaccomplishments as
RSO as well as its
future plans
Presented on "Thepresent situation ofemergency
observation anddemands of disastermanagement
organizations" inSentinel Asia
activities

Table 7-2-3-1

Conference
Successful
Reconstruction Looking into theFuture - A
Discussion onDisaster
Reconstruction andDevelopment
Strategy in the
Beichuan Earthquake
Ruin Area

Asia Public Policy
Forum “Disaster
Management inAsia”

Academic Conferences and Sympodia

DateMay
14,
2012

Venue
China(SichuanProvince)May
14-15,
2012

SingaporeSponsors
Sichuan
University,
IRP, ADRC

HarvardKennedy
School,National
University ofSingapore

Table 7-2-4-1

Attendee
Kawawaki

Ono

Articles

Newspaper/Journal
Kindai Shoubou

DateJun. 2012

AuthorShiomi

Kindai Shoubou

Aug. 2012

Ikeda

Kindai Shoubou

Nov. 2012

NatoriSugiura

Kindai Shoubou

Feb. 2013

Chinoi72

Contributions
Co-organized aforum on the postdisaster recovery
issues including
establishment of new
Earthquake Museum
and mechanism forpromotinginternational
cooperation based on
the lessons from theSichuan Earthquake
Served as amoderator in asession on BusinessContinuity
Management andshared goodpractices on private
public partnershippolicy frameworks

Title
Capacity building
project for local
government officials in
ASEAN countries
Education for disasterprevention in Indonesia
Utilization of Satellite
Imagery for disastermanagementtion
Workshop for sharing
experiences of recovery
from mega-disasters