4-2. Seminars and Training Course
4-2-1. JICA Knowledge Co-Creation Program: “Comprehensive
Disaster Risk Reduction for Central Asia and Caucasus”
ADRC
Knowledge

conductedaTrainingCourse,Co-CreationProgramfor“theDisaster

Management Officials from Central Asia and theCaucasus” from 27 June to 29 July 2016. This event
was organised in cooperation with the Japan
International Cooperation Agency (JICA) KansaiInternational Center. Central Asia and the Caucasus
frequently experience disasters such as earthquakes
and landslides, as well as flash floods and otherfloods caused by spring snow melts in the mountains.

Fig. 4-2-1 Explanation about landslides ofChuetsu Earthquake.

In addition, some of these natural disasters extend
across several countries. Promoting regional cooperation on disaster risk reduction in theseregions is therefore a significant challenge.
This course aims to convey basic knowledge and experience related to natural disastermanagement in the participants’ countries. Participants were asked to identify a major problem intheir own country and to formulate an action plan for addressing it.
The course was conducted in Russian for 14 central and local government officials representing
six countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan in Central Asia,and Armenia in the Caucasus. Participants attended lectures and visited central and local
government agencies, research institutes, private companies, a meteorological organization, andNGOs in order to comprehensively enhance their understanding of disaster management.
Following in the footsteps of last year’s participants, they visited the city of Hiroshima andlearned about the importance of passing down lessons learned from major disasters to future
generations. In addition, they learned about the experience and lessons from the 2014 Hiroshimalandslide and visited the construction site of an erosion control dam being built as one of thestructural countermeasures.
Further, during their Tohoku study tour, they learned about the complex disaster caused by
Tsunami and Nuclear accident under the Great East Japan Earthquake. They learned about thedisaster, evacuation, and reconstruction while visiting Kawauchi village in Fukushima prefecture.
During their Niigata study tour, they visited the area affected by the Chuetsu Earthquake andlearned about earthquake recovery and the landslide and erosion control countermeasures beingimplemented. In addition, thanks to the cooperation of the Niigata prefectural government and theSnow and Ice Research Center of the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster
Prevention, they learned about countermeasures implemented by the Niigata prefectural
government for heavy snow regions, and learned a great deal about snow and ice disasters.
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learned during this training course to implement various projects and help strengthen the disastermanagement systems in their home countries. ADRC would like to express its sincerest gratitude
to all the organizations that contributed to the success of this course.

4-2-2. JICA Knowledge Co-Creation Program: “Comprehensive
Disaster Risk Management”
4-2-2-1. Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management (A)From 10 January to 24 February 2017, ADRC, in collaboration with JICA, conducted theJICA Comprehensive Disaster Risk Reduction (A) course for 14 countries, namely Afghanistan,Argentina, Bhutan, Colombia, Indonesia, Liberia, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar,Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam.
15 participants were mostly government officials in charge of DRR, including academicresearchers, geographical engineers and rescue staffs. Those who have various backgrounds andexpertise took part in the 7-week training course.
This course aimed to contribute to formulate and further develop disaster management
activities and plans in participating countries byenhancing their understanding of Japanese disastermanagement systems and countermeasures ofcentral/local government and multi-stakeholders.
The training provides a various contents, forinstance,thelecturesofJapanesedisastermanagement policy, activities implemented bycommunities or private sectors, and case studies ofpast disasters in Japan. Therefore, participants

Fig. 4-2-2 Community-based hazard mapping

comprehensively understood DRR efforts of Japan.
Furthermore, we introduced some practical workshops for DRR to make a community-based
hazard map, and conducted observatory tours to the affected area of big earthquakes, volcanic
eruptions and water induced disasters.

4-2-2-2. Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management (C)Comprehensive Disaster Risk Management (C)course was conducted in collaboration with JICA,
for 7 central and local government officials of Brazil
in Portuguese language, from 2 October to 5
November 2016.
Natural disasters especially flood and land slide
frequently occur in Brazil claiming human lives andhuge economic loss.
Thiscourse

sharedtheknowledge

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Management Centerexperiences in Japan including prompt actions against flood and landslide, at different levels:from central/local government to the community. Participants had a lot of lectures on current
situations in Japan, especially on the good practice of the coordination between the Local
Meteorological Office and the Prefectural Government for the effective early warning andevacuation.
They were strongly impressed with DRR efforts in Japan and learnt through exchange theirperspectives among the participants. These implications were adapted into their action plan, and
it is hoped that they will make good use of what they experienced during this course to develop
and strengthen DRR capacity in their home country.

4-2-3. JICA Knowledge Co-Creation Program: “RaisingAwareness of Disaster Reduction”
This program was conducted for 18 disaster reduction personnel from the following 17
countries, Armenia, Antigua and Barbuda, India, Egypt, Sri Lanka, Saint Kitts and Nevis, SaintVincent and the Grenadines, Saint Lucia, Solomon Islands, Chile, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Honduras,Marshall Islands, Malaysia, Myanmar, Mongolia by English from 9 January to 11 February
2017.
Particularly, they joined to the opinion exchange
meeting with theresidents of Nobiru area affectedby the Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami in2011 at Oku-Matsushima Hostel in Miyagi Prefecture.
They were able to listen about serious experiences ofevacuation and rescue by the tsunami at that time.
Since most of participants were from archipelagos,
this meeting became

agood opportunity to

re-recognize the fear of Tsunami. Further all of themhighly appreciated this meeting because the efforts

Fig. 4-2-4 Lecture in Higashimatsushima
City Government

and ingenuities of residents in Nobiru district ongroup relocation for disaster prevention and substitute of residential land was one of the good
examples of “Build Back Better” .
The participants were very interested in the efforts of disaster reduction in Japan and eagerly
participated every lecture and observation and finally made presentation of action plan for owncountry. ADRC would like to express its sincerest gratitude to all the organizations that
contributed to the success of this course.

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4-2-4. Japan-Singapore Partnership Program for the 21stCentury "Disaster Risk Reduction and Management"
ADRC conducted the Japan-Singapore Partnership Program for the 21st Century "Disaster
Risk Reduction and Management" for disaster management officials in ASEAN countries from27 November to 9 December 2016. This event was conducted in cooperation with the JICA andthe Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore.
The Japan-Singapore Partnership Programme for the 21st Century (JSPP21) was establishedin May 1997 to signify a widening of the scope of technical cooperation between Singapore andJapan with the intention of enhancing ASEAN integration and sharing the two countries’
experience in their areas of expertise. Priority is placed on training and capacity building for
officials who are in charge of disaster management. This year marked the first time for thetraining course to be held in Japan. The course was conducted for 16 central and local
government officials representing seven countries: Cambodia, Fiji, Indonesia, Lao PDR,
Myanmar, Philippines, and Vietnam.
Participants attended lectures and visited
central and local government agencies, research
institutes,

andNGOs

tocomprehensively

enhancetheirunderstandingofdisastermanagement. For instance, staff members of theSingapore Civil Defence Force had a two-day
lesson on disaster management in urban areas.
This lesson focused on emergency response,
firefighting activities, and training for capacity
building. In addition, participants also visitedFig. 4-2-5 Lecture by Singapore Civil
Defence ForceMinami Sankiru town, one of the areas devastatedby the Great East Japan Earthquake. There they learned about “Recovery in Industry” from theTourist Agency of Minami-Sanriku Town.
It is hoped that the participants will make good use of the knowledge, tools, and methods
they learned during this training course to implement various projects and help strengthen thedisaster management systems in their home countries. ADRC would like to express its sincerest
gratitude to all the organizations that contributed to the success of this course.

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