4-2. Seminars and Training Courses
ADRC has been conducting training courses which are funded by the Japan International
Cooperation Agency (JICA) and others. These courses are planed based on characteristics ofregions or countries. These courses are basically conducted from 2 weeks to more than onemonth. It is expected that participants transfer knowledge and experiences which they gained
during training courses to their own countries for further promoting disaster risk reduction(DRR) after their returning home.
The training courses that ADRC conducted in FY 2019 are summarized below.

4-2-1. JICA Knowledge Co-Creation Program:“Comprehensive Disaster Risk Reduction for Central
Asia and Caucasus”
ADRC conducted a training program for disaster management officials from Central Asiaand the Caucasus from 18 June to 26 July 2019, with cooperation of JICA Kansai Center.
The program was designed to convey basic knowledge and experiences related to natural
disaster management, and to encourage the disaster management activities that have been
conducted in the Central Asia and Caucasus. The area frequently experiences disasters such as
floods, droughts, landslides, and earthquakes. Also, heavy snowfall in the winter can lead toflooding when mountain glaciers thaw in the warmer seasons.
The program was conducted in Russian and attended by a total of eight central and local
government officials representing five countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan,Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
During the program, participants were asked to identify a major problem in their own
countries and to formulate a sample of the local D R R plan to improve DRR system in eachparticipant’s organization to achieve the global targets of the Sendai Framework for DRR(SFDRR).
They attended lectures and visited central and municipal government agencies, research
institutes, a meteorological organization, a disaster management base and private companies,
in Hyogo Prefecture, Tokyo, Tsukuba, and Niigata, to comprehensively enhance theirunderstanding of Japan's disaster management system.
In Kobe Local Meteorological Office, they have learned about the various facilities forweather forecasting and DRR data management in order to issue the effective warning andadvisory.
In addition, they participated in “Town Watching and Community-based DRR Mapping”activities. The field trip was conducted for observing the affected areas of big earthquakes andfloods.
It is hoped that the participants will make good use of the knowledge, technologies, andmethods they learned from this training program to implement various projects and help
strengthen the disaster management systems in their home countries and Central Asia andCaucasus.

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Fig. 4-2-1-1 Kobe Local Meteorological Office

4-2-2. JICA Knowledge Co-Creation Program:“Comprehensive Disaster Risk Reduction for theAfrican Region”
From 24 September to 1 November 2019, ADRC, in collaboration with JICA, conducted acourse entitled “JICA Comprehensive Disaster Risk Reduction for the African Region.” Thetraining was attended by 14 government officials in charge of disaster risk reduction for sevencountries, namely Algeria, Cape Verde, Egypt, Eswatini, Ghana and Malawi.
During this training, participants attended a series of lectures on such topics as the Japanesedisaster management system at the central and local levels, Japanese measures against
flooding, sediment disasters, and earthquakes, school disaster education, community based
disaster risk management, and the role of meteorological observatories. In addition, they
participated the ADRC’s town watching exercise, in addition to visiting the areas affected by aflooding disaster along the Kinugawa River. The trainees showed great interest in Japanesedisaster management systems and efforts at DRR and were keen to learn from every lectureand exercise offered during this training course. It is hoped that the participants will makegood use of the knowledge and methods they learned during this course to help strengthen thedisaster management systems in their home countries.

Fig. 4-2-2-1 Visit to the flood disaster area along the Kinugawa river3737

4-2-3. JICA Knowledge Co-Creation Program: “School-basedDisaster Education in Turkey”
ADRC conducted a “School-based Disaster Education in Turkey” course from 2 to 13
September 2019 for the first edition and from 20 to 31 January 2020 for the second edition
with the cooperation of JICA Kansai International Center. The course was designed to share
Japanese knowledge and experiences and to help further enhance the holistic Teacher Training
System for School-based Disaster Education in Turkey. The first edition was attended by 14people and the second one was attended by 20 people, including officials from the Ministry ofNational Education (MoNE) and school teachers from Turkey.
The training focused on practical approaches to teaching students about disasters and DRR
in schools. Participants visited various schools, observed DRR lessons, and talked withteachers at schools including Takasago Elementary School and Hirose Junior High School in
Sendai, Yuriage Compulsory Education School in Natori, Nakadai Junior High School inTokyo, and Maiko High School and Kobe Kindergarten in Kobe. Further, they learned how
educational tools and materials, such as card games, practical exercises, and picture stories,
can be used in DRR education. In the second edition, the participants also observed andattended the Miyagi Junior Leader Training Program which was organized and designed by
Tagajo High School in Takajo for high school students from throughout Japan to jointly learn
disaster risk reduction through group work, a poster session, and a seminar. The participants
recognized the effectiveness of active and practical learning for DRR.
All the participants, who were selected based on the results of an online training testconducted by MoNE before the JICA course and on their passion for promoting DRR
education, were very actively engaged in the training course.
The Deputy Minister of MoNE just happened to be visiting Japan for another purpose at thesame time of the second edition, and joined portions of the training program, including thefinal presentation of action plans proposed by the participants.
It is hoped that all 34 participants will become leaders for promoting school DRR educationin Turkey. And also, it is hoped that they will make good use of the knowledge, technologies,
and methods they learned from these training courses, and will be able to take advantage ofthe network of personal contacts they established by participating in the courses.

Fig. 4-2-3-1 Workshop used educational tools for DRR studies DRR drill38

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4-2-4. JICA Knowledge Co-Creation Program:“Comprehensive Disaster Risk Reduction”
From 8 January to 21 February 2020, ADRC, in collaboration with JICA KansaiInternational Center, offered a course entitled “JICA Comprehensive Disaster Risk Reduction.”
The training was attended by seven government officials in charge of DRR for six countries,
namely Bangladesh, Brazil, Egypt, India, Myanmar and Nepal.
During this training, participants attended a series of lectures on such topics as the Japanesedisaster management system at the central and local levels, Japanese measures against
flooding, sediment disasters, and earthquakes, school disaster education, community-based
disaster risk management, and role of the meteorological observatories. In addition, they
participated in the ADRC’s town watching exercise and visited areas affected by a flood
disaster in Asakura city, Fukuoka prefecture.
The trainees showed great interest in Japanese disaster management systems and DRR
efforts, and were keen to learn from every lecture and exercise offered during the training. It is
hoped that the participants will make good use of the knowledge and methods they learned
during this course to help strengthen the disaster management systems in their home countries.

Fig. 4-2-4-1 Visit to the flood disaster area of Asakura city

4-2-5. JICA Knowledge Co-Creation Program:“Comprehensive Disaster Risk Reduction for Centraland South America”
From 16 June to 3 August 2019, Kobe International Center (KIC), in collaboration withJICA Kansai International Center, conducted the JICA Comprehensive Disaster RiskReduction for Central and South America Course for 9 countries, namely Bolivia, Colombia,Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua. The
participants consist of national and local government officials in charge of DRR. Those whohave vary backgrounds and expertise took part in the 7 weeks training. ADRC joined thiscourse as course leader from the planning to conclusion. This course aimed to enhance basicability for DRR and to formulate local DRR plans as zero-drafts in their responsibilities3939

toward elaboration of comprehensive DRR strategies/plans in each organization under specificand unique situations in their respective countries.
This course has approximately 20-years experiences and moderate collaboration with JICA
technical cooperation project. Therefore, the course contents are yearly modified according tospecialties and concerns of trainees, and feedback of previous training course. The training
provides various contents, for instance, the lecture series of Japanese disaster management
policy, participation in activities implemented by communities or private sectors, and casestudies of past disasters in Japan. Therefore, the participants could comprehensively
understand DRR efforts taken all over Japan after this training course. ADRC also conducted
field trip for observing some local sites which experienced disasters in the past such as flood,
flash flood, volcanic eruption, earthquake, and tsunami, ongoing DRR measures, andmuseums for public DRR awareness.
In order to formulate local DRR plans, which is the purpose of this course, five-days
workshops were held and their local DRR plan presentation was conducted at the end of thetraining course.
Participants were strongly impressed with DRR efforts taken in Japan and learnt throughexchange their perspectives among the participants from various countries. These implications
were adapted into their local DRR plan, and ADRC hopes that the participants will utilize thezero-draft of local DRR plans to promote developing a local DRR plan in each municipality.
Also it is hoped that they will make good use of what they experienced during this course todevelop and strengthen DRR capacity in their home countries.

Flood Level

Fig.4-2-5-1. Visit to local inundation sign beside the Kinugawa river

4-2-6. JICA Knowledge Co-Creation Program:“Promotion of Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction”
ADRC took a role as course leader of the JICA Knowledge Co-Creation Program“Promotion of Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction” conducted by JICE (JapanInternational Cooperation Center) in collaboration with JICA Kansai International Center from
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government officials in charge of DRR from 11 countries, namely Bangladesh, Fiji, Indonesia,Mexico, Mongolia Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Viet Nam. Thiscourse aimed to enhance basic capacity for DRR and to formulate local DRR plans aszero-drafts in their responsibilities toward elaboration of comprehensive DRR strategies/plansin each organization considering specific and unique situations in their respective countries.
The course attended by high-level officials who have varied backgrounds and expertise ischaracterized by the key words: “Innovation” and “High Quality”. Approximately six JICA
headquarters staffs were involved in the course not only as lecturers but also as support
members. Further, the course contents were modified according to the specialties and concernsof trainees, and based on the feedback of previous training course. For facilitating theparticipants to comprehensively understand DRR efforts in all over Japan through this training
course, it provided a variety of contents. These include the lectures and site visits to explore
such topics as Japanese disaster management policy, efforts for DRR mainstreaming, casestudies of past disasters in Japan, and water management in Tokyo Metropolitan area.
In order to formulate local DRR plans, which is one of the main purposes of this course,
three workshops were conducted by ADRC in collaboration with the university professors andJICA staff members. The local DRR plan presentation formulated by the participants wasconducted at the end of the training course.
The participants were strongly impressed with DRR efforts taken in Japan and learnt fromexchanging their perspectives with the participants from various countries. These implications
were adapted into their local DRR plan, and ADRC hopes that the participants will utilize thezero-draft of local DRR plans to promote developing a local DRR plan in each municipality.
Also it is hoped that they will make good use of what they experienced during this course toimprove and strengthen DRR capacity in their home countries.

Fig.4-2-6-1. Visit to Underground Regulating Reservoir, Tokyo

4-2-7. Study Tour on School and Community-based Disaster
Risk Management for UNICEF Kyrgyzstan
ADRC conducted a study tour on school and community-based disaster risk managementfor 13 government officials and policy makers of the Kyrgyz Republic in cooperation with4141

UNICEF Kyrgyzstan. The tour was conducted for one week, from 31 August to 5 September
2019 during “Disaster Preparedness Week” in Japan. It enabled the participants to get to know
one another, and to share and learn methodologies and best practices in DRR in Japanese
schools and communities.
The participants started their tour with a visit to Sona Area Tokyo, a disaster prevention
experience-learning facility, and learned practical knowledge about earthquake disasters andways to protect themselves. On 1 September, they observed a joint disaster management drill
conducted by nine districts in Funabashi City, Chiba Prefecture. First, they visited exhibitionbooths displaying DRR knowledge and technologies. Next, they observed a drill exercise
whose elements included road opening, information collection, search and rescue at many
types of affected sites, and medical relief collaboratively conducted by various organizations
at the main venue. The participants were impressed by the large scale of the collaborative drill
and learned lessons on good coordination practices to ensure effective action.
The participants also visited schools in Yokohama and Kobe to observe DRR education inschools and develop ideas on practical DRR lessons. They were given an overview of theDRR education system in Japan by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science andTechnology and Hyogo Education Board (MEXT) and learned how Japan enhanced DRR
education based on lessons learned from the experiences of past disasters.
It is hoped that the participants will make good use of the knowledge, technologies, andmethods they learned from the study tour to effectively implement the “Project for Supporting
Safe School Program” in Kyrgyz Republic.

Fig. 4-2-7-1 Observing lessons at Shukugawa Elementary School42