3. Collection and Dissemination of Disaster
Information
ADRC has been disseminating a wide range of information related to disaster risk reduction(DRR) on its website (http://www.adrc.asia) aiming at ensuring appropriate disaster response,mitigation, and preparedness activities.

3-1. Disaster Risk Reduction Activities ofMember Countries
With support by its 31 member countries, ADRC has been collecting information on systems,plans, and policy measures of individual countries’ disaster risk reduction as well as thesituation of natural disasters. ADRC has also been collecting information from relatedmaterials, various countries/organizations and through Visiting Researchers (VRs) from theADRC member countries and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian
Affairs (OCHA). ADRC will continue collecting and sharing with member countries
information on the following items, in particular: 1) Disaster management systems (legal andinstitutional frameworks, disaster management plans, and manuals), 2) Disaster response andrecovery activities (emergency response activities in affected area/country), and 3) Natural
disaster events (descriptions of natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, cyclones, and soon, and the damages).

3-1-1. Information Collection from Member Countries
In fiscal year 2019, as in the previous year, ADRC collected DRR-related information on
member countries through the following methods.
(1) Information provided from ADRC Member Countries
Besides the voluntary provision from the member countries, ADRC collected the information
on DRR systems, plans, and policy measures of individual countries as well as situations ofongoing natural disasters through VRs.
(2) Collecting Information through International Conferences
ADRC collected and updated DRR information about current status, challenges, policies,
actions and others of countries and relevant organizations through international conferences. In
particular, in the Asian Conference on Disaster Reduction (ACDR) 2019 held in Ankara,Turkey, from 25 to 27 November 2019, ADRC shared the information and knowledge oninnovative approaches for disaster risk reduction, earthquake and tsunami risk management
practices, promotion of school DRR education, development of strategy for regional sand storm
disaster risk reduction, and recovery from mega disasters. See the details on ACDR 2019 in theChapter 2-1.

12123. Collection and Dissemination of Disaster Information(3) Utilization of Internet
Utilizing internet, ADRC has been collecting disaster related information efficiently. Internetbecame important to facilitate technical support and building disaster information databases.
Internet also helps ADRC to collect related information provided by academic research
institutions and international organizations. ADRC has been using Facebook for providing
information on latest activities of ADRC and VRs.
(4) Country Reports of Member Countries
Table 3-1-1 shows the list of the country reports provided so far by counterparts in member
countries, which are made available on ADRC website. The reports were also updated incooperation with VRs from member countries. Over recent years, many disaster risk
management organizations in Asia have been actively promoting information dissemination byeffective use of internet. Therefore, ADRC website has also provided direct links with thesewebsites, which offer easy access to the latest information of each country.
Table 3-1-1-1 List of reports from ADRC member countries
Country

Year prepared

Armenia

2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017

Azerbaijan

2011, 2014

Bangladesh

1998, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2011, 2013

Bhutan2008, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2019

Cambodia

1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2013

China

1998, 1999, 2005, 2006, 2012

India

1998, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2015, 2018

Indonesia

1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2012, 2016

Iran2013

Japan

1998, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2012

Kazakhstan
Korea
KyrgyzstanLaos

1998, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2006
1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008
2005, 2006, 2012
1998, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2006

Malaysia

1998, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2018

Maldives

2013, 2014, 2015, 2018

Mongolia

1998, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2010, 2011, 2013

Myanmar

2002, 2005, 2006, 2013, 2018

Nepal

1998, 1999, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2019

Pakistan2005, 2006, 2009, 2015, 2016, 20171313

Papua New Guinea
Philippines
Russia1998, 1999, 2005, 2006
1998, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012,2014, 2016, 2017, 2018
1998, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2006

Singapore

1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006

Sri Lanka

1998, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014, 2015,2016, 2019

Tajikistan

1998, 1999, 2003, 2005, 2006

Thailand

1998, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012,2016, 2017, 2018, 2019

Turkey2019

Uzbekistan

1998, 1999, 2005, 2006, 2013, 2015

Vietnam

1998, 1999, 2005, 2006, 2017

Yemen

2009, 2012, 2014Country Reports include the following topics provided by each member country.
I. Natural Hazards in the Country
1.1 Natural Hazards that could Affect the Country
1.2 Recent Major Disasters(Basic data of disasters, damage situation, response and recovery information)
II. Disaster Management System
2.1 Administration System
2.2 Legal System and Frameworks
2.3 Structure of Disaster Risk Management
2.4 Priorities on Disaster Risk Management
III. Disaster Risk Management Strategy, Policy and Plan
IV. Budget at National Level
V. Progress of the Implementation of Hyogo Framework for Action, Sendai Framework for
Disaster Risk Reduction
VI. Recent Major Projects on Disaster Risk Reduction
VII. Counterparts of ADRC

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3-1-2. Natural Disaster Data Book
(1) Background
Past disaster records are critical in policy making, review, survey and analysis of disastermanagement plan. ADRC concluded MOU on disaster data utilization with the Centre for
Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) and has conducted analyses on disaster
impacts based on the database, Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) maintained by CRED.
For instance, 20th Century Data Book on Asian Natural Disasters, and its revision released in2000 and 2002 respectively featured natural disasters, which hit its member countries whileannual Natural Disaster Data Book covers disaster characteristics in the world as well.
(2) Natural Disaster Data Book 2018
This section introduces the excerpts from NaturalDisaster Data Book 2018 (Fig. 3-1-2-1), which
covers regional and disaster-specific issues of theyear and long term.
The Data Book shows the disaster trend from Year

Natural Disaster Data Book 2018
An Analytical Overview

1989 to 2018. As for the number of occurrence, it has
been seen a decreasing trend, but still high in number.
The number of people killed has been drasticallydecreasing, while the amount of economic damage
has been in the increasing trend. The number ofpeople affected has been slowly decreasing, but it has
been depending on impacts of disaster eventsoccurred.
According to EM-DAT recorded in 2018, 331
disaster events occurred, 14,385 people were killed,

Asian Disaster Reduction Center

more than 80 million people were affected, and theFig. 3-1-2-1 Natural Disaster Data Book 2018

economic damage reaches to over 130 billion US
dollars. By disaster type, flood topped in the number of occurrence, and earthquake in thenumber of people killed, and storm in the amount of economic damage in 2018 (Fig.3-1-2-2 andTable 3-1-2-1) .
In year 2018, 4,340 people were killed by the earthquake and tsunami that hit Indonesia in
September, over 23 million people were affected by a flood occurred in India, and more than 68
billion USD was economically damaged by storm and wildfire events occurred in the U.S.A.
Compared with the previous year, 2018 data shows small increase in the number of people
killed, while the number of occurrence, people affected and the amount of economic damage
have been decreased.

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80.0%
70.0%
60.0%
50.0%
40.0%
30.0%
20.0%
10.0%
0.0%

Occurrence

KilledAffected

DamageDrought

Earthquake

EpidemicFlood

Landslide

Mass movement (dry)StormVolcanic activity

Fig. 3-1-2-2 Impacts of Natural Disasters by Disaster Type 2018

Table 3-1-2-1 Impacts of Natural Disasters by Disaster Type 2018
ImpactDisaster Type

Occurrence

KilledAffected(share in %)(share in %)(share in %)Damage (US$ million)

Drought

15(4.5%)0(0.0%)

22,968,345(28.3%)

9,554(7.3%)

Earthquake20(6.0%)5,264(36.6%)

1,515,269(1.9%)

7,114(5.4%)(share in %)Epidemic

16(4.8%)2,601(18.1%)

107,162(0.1%)0(0.0%)

Extreme temperature26(7.9%)536(3.7%)

396,798(0.5%)0(0.0%)(15.1%)

Flood

128(38.7%)

2,881(20.0%)

34,236,433(42.2%)

19,692Landslide13(3.9%)275(1.9%)

54,908(0.1%)928(0.7%)

Mass movement1(0.3%)

17(0.1%)0(0.0%)

0(0.0%)(53.3%)

Storm

94(28.4%)

1,712(11.9%)

19,693,372(24.3%)

69,697

Volcanic activity8(2.4%)

878(6.1%)

1,909,098(2.4%)869(0.7%)

Wildfire10(3.0%)221(1.5%)

261,287(0.3%)

22,802(17.5%)

Total

331 (100.0%)

14,385 (100.0%)

81,142,672 (100.0%)

130,655 (100.0%)

3-1-3. Disaster Information Sharing Using GLIDE Numbers
GLIDE is the acronym for the GLobal unique disaster IDEntifier system, in which commonlyformatted but unique numbers are assigned to disasters all over the world. The GLIDE system
was first proposed by ADRC and has been adopted and used by more than 20 internationalorganizations and research institutes. Please find more information on GLIDE at Chapter 2-2.

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