ICHARM
Activity
Report
FY2014-2015

for the 2nd ICHARM Governing Board
on 3rd March, 2016

International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management
under the auspices of UNESCO (ICHARM),
Public Works Research Institute (PWRI), Japan

ICHARM Activity Report FY2014-2015

Contents
A. ICHARM Activities in FY 2014

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1. New directorship
2. Research ―Innovative Research―
2.1

Grant research

2.2

MEXT-led Program for Risk Information on Climate Change

2.3

JSCE Best Paper Award

2.4

16th Infrastructure Technology Development Award

3. Capacity Building

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3.1 Doctoral program: Disaster Management
3.2 Master’s program: Water-related Disaster Management Course of Disaster
Management Policy Program
3.3

FY2014 JICA Training Program: Capacity Development for Flood Risk

Management
3.4

IFAS local workshops and lectures

3.5

Joint training for Malaysian experts

3.6

Follow-up seminar in Indonesia

3.7Internship

4. Information Networking-6-

4.1 Contribution to Typhoon Committee: 47th session of the Typhoon Committee in
Thailand
4.2

Visit by Directorate General of Water Resources Indonesia

4.3

Information-sharing meeting with the Bangladeshi Ministry of Disaster

Management and Relief
4.4

21st Session of the IHP Intergovernmental Council

4.5

Side event of the 6th Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction

(SE3)
4.6

ICFM6 in Brazil

4.7

Visit by Iranian ambassador and RCUWM director

4.8

Participation in a UNSGAB meeting

4.9

Visit by Vietnam IT experts

4.10 Visit by a minister from Uttar Pradesh State in India
4.11

Second joint project team meeting of Sentinel Asia Step 3

4.12

Workshop in Myanmar

4.13 Visit by the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) member companies
4.14 Visit by Iranian parliamentary delegates
4.15 Visit by delegates from Asian countries
4.16 Visit to the Ministry of Public Works and Housing, Indonesia
4.17 PAGASA-UNESCO seminar in the Philippines
4.18 Visit by UNESCO officials
4.19 Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction
5. Local Practices-15-

5.1 UNESCO Pakistan project
5.2 ADB Myanmar project (TA8456)
5.3

Introduction of Auto IFAS in the Philippines (ADB TA8074-REG)

6. Outreach
6.1

International symposium by ICHARM and GRIPS

6.2

ICHARM Open Day 2014

6.3

JAXA Talk Event

6.4

Online publicity and newsletters

6.5

ICHARM R&D Seminars-17-

B. ICHARM Activity in FY 2015-23-

1. Special Topics
1.1 MOU with NIED
1.2 ICHARM Director honored the Science Award
1.3 Dr. Miyamoto presented with the PWRI President's Award
2. Research – Innovative Research –-24-

2.1 Grant-in-aid research
2.2

MEXT-led Program for Risk Information on Climate Change

2.2.1 Symposium on climate change impact and adaptation in water-related disasters
2.2.2 Meeting with the Ministry of Public Works and Housing, Indonesia
2.3 Research and International collaboration on discharge observation
2.3.1 Discharge measurement workshop in the Shinano River
2.3.2 30th ISO/TC113 meeting in Tokyo
2.3.3 Overseas river investigations
2.4 On-site investigation in flood-ravaged Joso City, Japan
2.5 Technical advice on the SAFE prototype project3.

Capacity Building-28-

3.1 Doctoral degree program “Disaster Management Program”
3.2

Master’s degree program “Disaster Management Policy Program – Water-related Disaster

Management”
3.3 Short-term Training Programs
3.3.1

FY2015 JICA Training Program: Capacity Development for Flood Risk Management

3.3.2

International summer program with Tokyo University

3.4 IFAS on-site workshops
3.4.1

IFAS training in Viet Nam

3.5 Internship4.

Information Network
4.1

7th World Water Forum

4.2

International Flood Initiative

4.2.1 Collaborative Research with BfG
4.2.2 Joint IFI/IDI session at the UNESCO 70th anniversary symposium
4.3 Visitors to ICHARM
4.3.1 Visit by NAHRIM-Malaysia DG and delegates-32-

4.3.2Visit by secretary-general II of Malaysia's Education Ministry

4.3.3 Visit by Taiwan Vice Minister
4.4 Participation in international conferences
4.4.1 Contribution to Expert Meeting on Developing Indicators for Disaster Risk Reduction
by UNISDR
4.4.2 Workshop on Risks and Impacts on Floods from Extreme Events in ASEAN Countries
4.4.3 Workshop on “Strengthening Water Partnerships for Climate Change and Disaster Risk
Management”
4.4.4 4th Conference of the Taiwan Integrated Research Programme on Climate
Change Adaptation Technology
4.4.5 Technical session at the 2nd UN Special Thematic Session on Water and Disasters
4.4.6

ICHARM contributed the UNESCO ENHANS project in South America

4.5 Typhoon Committee
5.

Local Practices-40-

5.1 UNESCO Pakistan project: Phase 2
5.2 ADB Myanmar project (TA8456): Transformation of Urban Management
6. Outreach

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6.1

ICHARM Open Day joined by local high school students

6.2

ICHARM R&D Seminar

6.3

ICHARM Newsletters

Annex 1

List of Number of Alumni

Annex 2Publication List

Annex 3

UNESCO-related activities

A. ICHARM Activities in FY2014
1. New directorship
On October 1, 2014, Professor of Tokyo University Toshio Koike became thesecond director of ICHARM after Professor Emeritus of Yamanashi
University Kuniyoshi Takeuchi. Professor Takeuchi stepped down from thedirector position on the same day after eight and half years since the official
establishment of ICHARM, and became the advisor of ICHARM.
Photo-A.1 New Director Toshio Koike

2. Research
2.1―Innovative Research―

Grant research

In 2014, ICHARM conducted a series of research in collaboration with other institutes and organizations both in Japanand overseas to observe and assess the risk of floods due to rainfall and contribute the results to risk management inplanning and implementing appropriate measures. Six research tasks were designed and conducted under three project
research schemes in the grant research category. The three project research schemes were: 1. Technologicaldevelopment for the prevention and mitigation of intensified water-related disaster damage due to climate change andother factors; 5. Study on technologies for the efficient use of information on disaster prevention and disaster damage;and 10. Understanding of the basin-scale behavior of substances and water-quality management technologies. The six
research tasks under those schemes were: study on the impact of global warming on floods and droughts withuncertainty considerations; study on flood forecasting for extremely fast water-level increase; study on technologies forthe effective use of information on disaster prevention and disaster damage; development of a basic system to support
comprehensive flood and water resources management; development of satellite-based technologies to assess floodinundation area, damage and hydraulic quantity; and study on the basin-scale behavior of substances.

2.2

MEXT-led Program for Risk Information on Climate Change

Since 2012, ICHARM has participated in MEXT-led Program for Risk Information on Climate Change. The purpose of
our task in this program is to make quantitative estimates, including uncertainty, on changes of water-related disasterrisks such as floods and droughts in selected vulnerable river basins and to evaluate socio-economic impacts due to suchchanges.
In 2014, we took on the development of basic technologies for basin-scale impact assessment. In this research task,
we performed physical downscaling of GCM data and projected future changes in rainfall at the basin scale.
We also conducted flood impact assessment for selected river basins in Asia. In the case of the Solo River basin inIndonesia, we employed the RRI model to analyze the relationship among rainfall, discharge and inundation and carryout frequency analysis on discharge and inundation, using different rainfall data from actual observation and
MRI-AGCM3.2S (for the present and future climate conditions). In the case of the lower Mekong River basin, we also
employed the RRI model with rainfall from APHRODITE and confirmed the reproducibility of the RRI model for thedischarge within the basin. We also analyzed the response relationship between rainfall and inundation in the Chao
Phraya River basin, using the RRI model with the rainfall from MRI-AGCM3.2S for the future climate condition andpotential evapotranspiration calculated from meteorological factors.

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Additionally, we performed flood and drought risk assessment at the basin scale. Drought impact was assessed for
the Pampanga River basin, using the BTOP model for runoff forecasting simulation. The duration and depth ofinundation were also assessed for the same basin, using the RRI model and assuming different scales of flood (the 2011
flood, a 50-year flood and a 100-year flood).
Furthermore, we conducted on-site investigations for the river basins of Mekong in Cambodia, Solo and Pampanga.
Information was collected and sorted out to evaluate the selected areas for flood and drought vulnerability and assess
socioeconomic impact of flood and drought.

2.3

JSCE Best Paper Award

The research paper on rainfall-runoff inundation prediction using the RRI model (produced by Takahiro Sayama, Yuya
Tatebe, Susumu Fujioka, Tomoki Ushiyama, Atsuhiro Yorozuya, and Shigenobu Tanaka) was awarded the 2013 Best
Paper Award by the Japan Society for Civil Engineers (JSCE). In this paper, they proposed a methodology applicable tolarge-scale floods worldwide and capable of analyzing rainfall, runoff and inundation simultaneously at the basin scale.
The paper also reported on a case study in which they applied the proposed method to the 2011 flood in Thailand toforecast its development and plan emergency response. The award was given for their contributions to the improvement
and progress of academic study and technology, i.e., proposing a new analysis methodology, performing emergency
response simulation, providing information for disaster prevention, and encouraging practical applications of themethod to prediction systems and risk assessment.

2.4

16th Infrastructure Technology Development Award

ICHARM Researcher Atsuhiro Yorozuya, ICHARM Research Specialist Yoshiki Motonaga and Hydro Systems
Development, Inc. CEO Takashi Kitsuda received the 16th Infrastructure Technology Development Award for thedevelopment of a system for observing river and sediment
discharges by the use of an acoustic Doppler current profiler(aDcp). This aDcp system had been an important project of
ICHARM for several years, and was finally recognized for its
outstanding capabilities of observing undersurface phenomena
highly accurately even during flooding.
The award-winning system comprises a set of technologies
ranging from observation to data processing and is a result of thedevelopment of peripheral devices, integration of observational
results, and creation of data algorithms. It will allow general users

Photo- A.2

Presentation at the ceremony

to perform highly accurate observation of river and sediment
discharges,

andassistriver

administratorsinobtaininghigh-quality data if widely used for discharge observation that
MLIT has been conducting across Japan.

3. Capacity Building
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Photo- A.3 Graduation ceremony for doctoral students

3.1

Doctoral program: Disaster Management

ICHARM started a doctoral program, “Disaster Management,” in 2010 in collaboration with GRIPS to produce experts
who are capable of making policies on water-related disaster risk management and taking the leadership in
implementing such policies. In 2014, Ms. Karina Vink graduated from the program after three years of hard work. On
September 12, 2014, she was awarded with a doctoral degree in disaster management at the graduation ceremony heldat GRIPS. For her thesis, she developed a quantitative method to evaluate flood risk management at national, regionaland ever wider-area levels from the viewpoint of the disaster vulnerable.
As of October 2015, a total of six students (first-year: one, second-year: three, third-year: two) are enrolled in the
doctoral program, studying climate change, risk assessment and other topics.

3.2 Master’s program: Water-related Disaster Management Course of Disaster Management Policy
Program
ICHARM provides a one-year M.Sc. program, “Water-related Disaster Management Course of Disaster Management
Policy Program (JICA Training Program: Training for Expert on Flood-Related Disaster Mitigation)”, as a joint effort
with JICA and GRIPS. The program started its seventh year on October 4, 2013, and ended on September 11, 2014.
On September 11,
2014,

the

ceremonyclosingoftheprogram was held at
the

JICA

Tsukuba

office, where PWRI
Chief

Executive

Taketo Uomoto, JICA
Tsukuba

Director

Senichi Kimura and
GRIPS’s

professor

Shoichi Ando made a

Photo- A.4

M.Sc and Ph.D. students after the graduation at GRIPS

congratulatory speech, and Mr. Cabrita Alfonzo Raul Figuera of Venezuela spoke in return on behalf of the students.
This year’s Excellent Researcher Award was presented to Ms. Onjira Pauline Ingado of Kenya and Ms. Ferrer Santy
Bumali of the Philippines. The Sontoku Award, which is given by ICHARM to the student that made the mostcontribution to the entire class during the program, was presented to Mr. Zaw Myo Khaing of Myanmar.
On September 12, the graduation ceremony was held at GRIPS, where the twelve students were awarded a Master’s
degree in disaster management.
Meanwhile, another set of students started the eighth year of the Master’s program on October 4, 2015. This year,
13 students joined this one-year program.

3.3

FY2014 JICA Training Program: Capacity Development for Flood Risk Management

ICHARM conducted the JICA training program, “Capacity Development for Flood Risk Management with IFAS,”
from July 8 to August 1, 2014. The training is designed to provide opportunity for meteorologists, river administrators,

3and disaster managers in flood-vulnerable developing countries to learn about disaster management, including
evacuation plans and flood response cases inJapan, as well as to develop an action plan
for

local

flood

managementofflood-vulnerable areas in their countries.
These training activities also aim to enhance
individual

flood-coping

capacities

andeventually to contribute to flood damage
mitigation in their countries.
In the final year of this three-year
Photo- A.5

training program starting in 2012, twenty

IFAS training at ICHARM

people participated from Bangladesh, Kenya,
Nigeria, the Philippines, Thailand, Butan and Vietnam, which was the largest participation that ICHARM had ever had
since it started providing the training programs.
They mainly learned how to operate the IFAS system along with additional training, such as disaster prevention
map training in Joso City and a study trip to the Shinanogawa River under the management of the Hokuriku Regional
Development Bureau. Through the training, they made a great improvement in operation of IFAS and also learned
about Japan’s longstanding experience in disaster management.

3.4

IFAS local workshops and lectures

ICHARM continued providing training at local sites todisseminate the use of IFAS.
We conducted IFAS training at University Tenaga National(UNITEN) in Malaysia from June 30 to July 4, 2014. The training
was held as part of the research project scheduled from 2011 to2015 on the reduction of damage by floods and landslides in
Malaysia. The project was led by Tokyo University Professor
Hiroyuki Tosaka and one of the research assignments organizedPhoto- A.6

IFAS training at UNITEN in Malaysia

by Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) and JICA
as Science and Technology Research Partnership for
Sustainable Development (SATREPS).
For this training, ICHARM sent Chief Researcher
Yoichi Iwami, Researcher Mamoru Miyamoto andResearch Specialist Duminda Perera as instructors.
Participants from the university and local disastermanagers were highly motivated to learn how they could

Photo- A.7

IFAS workshop at Tokyo

apply IFAS locally, as the Malaysian government wasplanning to put a flood forecasting system in place for the Kelantan and Dungun rivers.
On July 11, 2014, we conducted a workshop on free software, IFAS and iRIC, for hydrology and water resources as4the 7th seminar by the Japan Society of Hydrology and Water Resources at a satellite office of the Muroran Institute ofTechnology. Chief Researcher Yoichi Iwami and Researchers Mamoru Miyamoto and Shun Kudo participated in theworkshop as instructors.
On October 6-10, 2014, a four-day training session on IFAS was organized under a program on “Capacity
Development for Immediate Access and Effective Utilization of Satellite Information for Disaster Management” inJakarta, Indonesia. The training program was hosted by JICA and the ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian
Assistance on Disaster Management (AHA Centre).
Eighteen participants attended the training from nine member countries of ASEAN except Singapore, which were
Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam.
The IFAS session consisted of lectures and hands-on practice. From the lectures, the participants learned an outlineof flood forecasting models, advantages to use satellite rainfall products as input to the models, and the importance ofmodel parameter identification in comparison with in-situ hydrological observations. The participants also learned that
all necessary procedures in hydrological modeling (model construction, input data processing, parameter identification,and model validation) can be easily carried out with IFAS. Through the hands-on practice, they additionally learned an
objective technique for hydrological prediction using IFAS.
In 2014, a total of 153 people from 16 countries participated in IFAS local workshops and lectures.

3.5

Joint training for Malaysian experts

ICHARM and the University of Tokyo teamed up for five-day joint training on February 23-27, 2015, for a group of
Malaysian researchers led by Dr. Lariyah Mohd Sidek from Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN) of Malaysia. This
training was held also as part of the research task described in the previous section (3.4).
Nine invited Malaysian researchers were divided into twogroups; Group I to attend the workshop at ICHARM on theoperation of a flood forecasting model called the Integrated
Flood Analysis System (IFAS) and Group II to participate in
the workshop on GETFLOWS at Prof. Tosaka’s laboratory of
the University of Tokyo. The ICHARM group worked onflood analysis using IFAS over the Kelantan River basin andinundation analysis by applying the RRI model to the
Dungun River basin.
On February 25, the two groups joined for a study trip to

Photo- A.8

UNITEN researchers attending the joint
workshops

the lower Tone River area. They first visited the
Tonegawa-Karyu River Office of the Kanto Regional Development Bureau of MLIT for a lecture by Director Tetsuya
Nakamura on their operation. They also had a chance to take a look at the disaster management headquarters of the riveroffice. They also walked along the Ono River, took a ride on a Harukaze patrol boat to the opposite side of the river,where they studied the Yokotone lock. The study trip helped the UNITEN researchers to have better understanding offlood control measures in Japan.

3.6

Follow-up seminar in Indonesia
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ICHARM convenes an annual seminar in a country ofgraduates from ICHARM educational programs to provide
follow-up assistance. Follow-up seminars are a great
opportunity for ICHARM to see how they are using what
they learned at ICHARM and also to learn actual issues
they face in their local practice, which later help ICHARM
to improve its training programs and enhance its research
activities.
The 2014 follow-up seminar was held in Jakarta,

Photo- A.9

Participants in the follow-up seminarIndonesia, on March 3-4, 2015, in collaboration with theWater Resources Department of the Ministry of Public Works and Housing of Indonesia, the JICA Indonesia Office andother JICA experts in integrated water-resources policy. Four out of the seven Indonesian graduates from our master’s
program joined the seminar along with some personnel of the Public Works and Housing Ministry participating as
observers.
On the first day, ICHARM Chief Researcher Minoru Kamoto gave a greeting speech with Mr. Hideki Katayama, anadviser of JICA Indonesia, and Ir. Hartanto. Dipl. He., the secretary of the director general of Water Resources. Then,
three speakers, including ICHARM Research and Training Advisor Shinji Egashira, delivered a special presentation,
followed by six category-A general presentations including water-related issues in Indonesia. ICHARM Chief
Researcher Yoshio Tokunaga facilitated the meeting, mixing Indonesian from time to time. On the second day, themaster’s program graduates made a presentation along with category-B general presentations including flood risk
management in Jakarta.

3.7

Internship

ICHARM offers an internship program, accepting interns from both Japan and overseas. In 2014, we had five interns,
two from Kyoto University, one each from UNESCO-IHE, United Nations University and the Federal Institute ofHydrology in Germany. They stayed several weeks at ICHARM and learned about IFAS, the BTOP model, and the RRI
model with help from ICHARM researchers.

4. Information Networking
4.1

Contribution to Typhoon Committee: 47th session of the Typhoon Committee in Thailand

The Typhoon Committee is an intergovernmental community jointly organized in 1968 by the Economic and Social
Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to promote andcoordinate the development and implementation of plans to minimize human and physical damage caused by typhoons
in the Asia and Pacific region.
The 47th session was convened in Bangkok, Thailand, on February 9-13, 2015, along with the 3rd joint meetingwith the Tropical Cyclone Panel (PTC) of countries in southern and western Asia. ICHARM Chief Researchers, Minoru
Kamoto and Yoshio Tokunaga, participated in the meeting.
As the chair of the hydrological component of the committee, Mr. Kamoto led the review of activities by the6hydrological component and discussions on the collaboration with PTC and other additional issues.

Photo-A.10

4.2

The 3rd Joint Session of ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee
and WMO/ESCAP Panel on Tropical Cyclone

Visit by Directorate General of Water Resources Indonesia

On May 20, 2014, two guests from the Directorate General of Water Resources Indonesia, Director General of Water
Resources Dr. Ir. Mohamad Hasan and Director of Directorate of Water Resources Management Dr. Arie Setiadi
Moerwanto, visited ICHARM with JICA expert Mr. Kunihiro Moriyasu to discuss issues on the Memorandum ofUnderstanding (MoU) to be concluded between the two
institutes.
At the meeting, ICHARM first explained ADB
projects, the SOSEI project, and other activities inwhich it has been involved along with achievementsfrom such projects, and shared the list of Indonesiantraining

participants

whostudiedin

ICHARM

educational programs. In return, Dr. Arie explained thewater resource strategy of Indonesia.
In the question and answer session, the Indonesian

Photo-A.11 Director General Dr. Hasan (right foreground) andDirector Dr. Arie from the Directorate General of Water
Resources Indonesia

officials asked questions on the results of droughtdamage assessment andmeasures for natural dams.

4.3

Information-sharing

meeting with the
Bangladeshi Ministry ofDisaster Management andReliefSeven

officials,

including

Assistant Secretary Jnanendra

Photo-A.12 Group photo with visitors from MoDMR

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N. Biswas, from the Bangladeshi Ministry of Disaster Management and Relief (MoDMR) visited ICHARM on June 12,2014, and discussed issues on disaster management with ICHARM researchers.
ICHARM researchers introduced their research and technological development on water-related disaster risk
management for several Asian regions including Bangladesh. After that, the participants discussed various issues; forexample, type of data needed to monitor and predict floods, methods to collect such data, the importance of satellitedata, methods to deliver information for early warning and evacuation, and the importance of disaster education.

4.4

21st Session of the IHP Intergovernmental Council

The 21st session of the Intergovernmental Council of the International Hydrological Programme (IHP) was held at the
UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on June 18-20, 2014. Five delegates from Japan attended the session, including Chief
Delegate Kaoru Takara of the Japanese National Commission for UNESCO and Director Kuniyoshi Takeuchi of
ICHARM (now Advisor).
In this session, the council members discussed the strategic plan for the eighth phase of IHP (IHP-VIII, 2014-2021)
and other proposals including the establishment of new category I and II centers.
Mentioning the progress of the project entitled “Strategic Strengthening of Flood Warning and Management
Capacity of Pakistan,” Director Takeuchi expressed his gratitude for the support provided by the IHP Secretariat, andvowed to produce expected outputs for the country in cooperation with the secretariat. In the discussion on the strategicplan for the eighth phase of IHP, the director also emphasized the importance of implementing plans and, to do so,strengthening collaboration among category I and II centers.

4.5

Side event of the 6th Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (SE3)

During the 6th Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk
Reduction, MLIT and ICHARM organized a side event onJune 23, 2014, in Bangkok, Thailand. Under the title of“Water-Related Disaster Risk Information for Risk Reduction:
Flood Forecasting, Disaster Information & Risk Assessment
for Preventative Investment”. This side event gathered
government officers, experts and other various stakeholders inwater-related disaster management.
After the moderator, Prof. Shahbaz Khan of UNESCO,

Photo-A.13

Side event in Bangkok

delivered the opening remarks, Chief Researcher Hisaya
Sawano of ICHARM spoke, pointing out the importance of information in disaster management and addressing theneed for the development of an archiving strategy for water-related disaster risk information. He also introduced
examples of local practice led by ICHARM. JICA expert Kunihiro Moriyasu also spoke, stating that risk information
should be easily understood by not only decision makers but also the general public and that preventive investment isvery effective to reduce disaster risk.
Panelists from Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar and Thailand introduced their current practices of collecting,compiling and managing data at various phases of water-related disaster risk management, and also stressed theimportance of data and information to encourage preventive investment.

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4.6

ICFM6 in Brazil

The 6th International Conference on Flood Management (ICFM6) was held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on September 16-18,
2014. The conference was organized with the theme of “Floods in a Changing Environment” by the Brazilian Water
Resources Association and Acquacon Consultoria. More than 250 participants gathered from 31 different nations.
During the three-day conference, many participants shared their experience and efforts in flood management andactively discussed important issues and challenges in the field faced by individuals, communities, local authorities,businesses, nations and regions.
ICHARM

also

organizedapreliminary session on the International
Flood Initiative (IFI) with speakers
from the Federal Institute of Hydrology
in Germany, the China Institute of
Water

ResourcesandHydropower

Research, the U.S. Army Corps ofEngineers, IFI-LAC in Mexico, theWorld

MeteorologicalOrganization,

Photo-A.14 Panelists at the IFI preliminary session hosted by ICHARM

and UNISDR Brazil office, including
three ICHARM members. The session was well organized, attracting over 200 attendees, and created a new thrust for
the IFI flagship project to further promote benchmarking at global, national and community levels for flood risk
reduction.

4.7

Visit by Iranian ambassador and RCUWM director

On September 1, 2014, a ceremony for signing thememorandum of understanding between ICHARM and theRegional Centre on Urban Water Management (RCUWM)
in Tehran was held. Dr. Reza Nazar Ahari, the ambassadorof the Islamic Republic of Iran, and Dr. Ali Chavoshian the
director of RCUWM, visited PWRI for this purpose.
The MoU was signed in the presence of the ambassador
and the PWRI chief executive in the hope that the MoU
would

facilitate

research

exchange

andtechnical

cooperation for mutual benefits of both organizations.
Along with the participation in the signing ceremony,
the ambassador and the delegates paid courtesy visits to Dr.

Photo-A.15 Signing MoU between ICHARM and
RCUWM

Uomoto, the chief executive of PWRI, and Mr. Iwasaki, the director general of NILIM, and took a short institutional
tour to the dam hydraulics laboratory and the dynamic geotechnical centrifuge laboratory.

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4.8

Participation in a UNSGAB meeting

The 23rd United Nations Secretary General’s Advisory
Board on Water and Sanitation (UNSGAB) was held on
October 29-31, 2014, in Tokyo in the presence of his
Imperial Highness of Japan. UNSGAB was established in
2004 in response to the request by the UN secretary generalof the time to strengthen global efforts in addressing water
issues, which are considered as key challenges to alleviate
global poverty and achieve sustainable development.
ICHARM Director Toshio Koike participated as aspeaker for the technical discussion of the meeting anddelivered a speech entitled “Data Integration and Analysis

Photo-A. 16 ICHARM Director Koike at the UNSGAB
meeting

System (DIAS) Contributing to Disaster Risk Deduction and Sustainable Development”. In his speech, he introduced
the DIAS initiative designed as part of a country-level data processing system for data archiving in order to cope withever-increasing Earth observation data in quantity and quality. He also pointed out the importance of improving risk
assessment capabilities by integration and inter-linkage of knowledge beyond disciplines, as well as the importance of
co-design and co-production of good disaster management practices through collaboration between society and scienceand technology.

4.9

Visit by Vietnam IT experts

On October 22, 2014, five Vietnamese information
technology experts visited ICHARM to discusshydrological observation and flood management.
ICHARM

researchers

outlined

how

basin

monitoring and flood forecasting and warning arepracticed to reduce flood damage. They also explained
what measures may be effective to solve current
flood-related issues in Vietnam, based on experience

Photo-A.17

Meeting with information experts from Vietnam

accumulated from local practice cases ICHARM has
implemented throughout the world. In
the discussion, the importance of public
involvement starting from hydrologicalobservation to other activities that
follow was also emphasized duringlocal implementation.

4.10

Visit by a minister from

Uttar Pradesh State in India
On October 28, 2014, HE Shivpal Singh

Photo-A.18

Group photo with Indian officials and a water resources expert of
the World Bank

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Yadav, the honorable cabinet minister, Mr. Deepak Singhal, the principal secretary of the Irrigation and Water
Resources Department, and three water resource experts from Uttar Pradesh State, India, visited ICHARM with Mr. Jun
Matsumoto, senior water resources management specialist of Global Practice-Water at the World Bank, to collectinformation on innovative flood risk management.
The state is located in the Ganges River Basin and suffers flood damage frequently. In fact, a large-scale flood andinundation occurred last July in a northern part of the state, which shares the border with Nepal, and dozens of people
died or went missing during the event. Flood risk management has been recognized as an urgent matter and finallyaddressed as a project led by World Bank.
In the meeting, the Indian experts first explained about the current situations of flood disasters and risk managementin the state while ICHARM gave a presentation on flood forecasting and warning systems, flood risk assessment andother technologies in addition to an outline of ICHARM. The participants had a lively discussion, exchanging views andideas.

4.11

Second joint project team meeting of Sentinel Asia Step 3

Sentinel Asia is an initiative in which disaster management
and space agencies in the Asian region collaborate to use
satellite

observation

data

through

information

andcommunication technology in order to reduce disasterdamage in the region. The initiative has addressed a wide
range of challenges from research and development tosatellite information sharing. It is currently at the
full-fledged implementation stage (Step 3), which began in
2013, aiming to achieve sharing a broader array of satellite

Photo-A.19

data for wider application.

Sentinel Asia Step 3 meeting in Yangon,
Myanmar

The second joint project team meeting of Sentinel Asia Step 3 was held on November 19-21, 2014, in Yangon,
Myanmar. Forty-five people from 29 organizations attended the meeting to report and discuss issues on various topics.
ICHARM Chief Researcher Yoichi Iwami participated in the meeting and chaired the working group on flood. He also
reported on the current activities and future direction of the flood working group in the meeting, as well as relevant
activities of ICHARM.

4.12

Workshop in Myanmar

ICHARM Director Toshio Koike and Chief Researcher
Hisaya Sawano participated in a workshop, “River
Basin Management using Science and Technology”,
held on November 24, 2014, in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar.
The workshop was co-hosted by the JICA-JST
SATREPS Myanmar Project (led by Tokyo University
and Yangon Technical University), the Network of

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Asian River Basin Organization, and the Ministry of

11Participants of the workshop in Myanmar

Transportation, Myanmar.
The ICHARM director made a keynote speech, in which he emphasized the importance of the role of science andtechnology and data archiving that support them in order to operate optimal water resources management forsustainable development and security of mankind. He also explained that various organizations of Japan have cometogether as Team Japan to make orchestrated support for the efforts of Myanmar institutions to improve themanagement of water-related disaster risk. Chief Researcher Sawano delivered a presentation on a method forwater-related disaster risk assessment and its use in addition to outlining ICHARM’s activities and an ADB projectcurrently in progress in Myanmar.
They also joined a panel discussion and discussed the necessity of practicing data archiving and the importance of
producing leaders for sustainable capacity development.

4.13

Visit by the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) member companies

On December 17, 2014, 13 representatives from 11 member
companies of the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI) visited
ICHARM to exchange views and ideas on issues related to water
management. The participating companies belong to various
industry sectors in Thailand including water supply, energy,
petrochemistry, and pulp and paper. Through the meeting, they
showed great interest in Japan’s approaches to water resourcesmanagement and disaster management.

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Meeting with FTI member companies

The meeting started with a presentation by ICHARM Chief
Researcher Masahiko Murase, who outlined the organization and activities of ICHARM. Chief Researcher Hisaya
Sawano followed and explained about projects that ICHARM had been carrying out in Thailand. After asking questions
on the presentations, the FTI members shared their experiences with floods and droughts in the past.
This meeting revealed that few companies in the group suffered direct damage from the 2011 flood. Instead, manyof them suffered from drought events in the past. They presented cases of concerted area-wide effort to ensure effective
water use in eastern Thailand, where many of the companies arelocated and serious droughts were once common. Finally,
ICHARM and the visiting group agreed to continue sharing useful
information with each other.

4.14

Visit by Iranian parliamentary delegates

On December 19, 2014, parliamentary delegates from the Islamic
Republic of Iran visited PWRI with members of the Iranianembassy for the courtesy visit to the PWRI Chief Executive anddiscussion with ICHARM researchers.
The delegation led by Mr. Iraj ABDI, including members of the

Photo-A.22 Courtesy visit to the PWRI chief
executive by Iranian parliament delegatesparliament’s Social Commission and the embassy, visited PWRI Chief Executive Taketo Uomoto and received a brief
explanation on civil engineering research in Japan. They also visited ICHARM and discussed activities for12water-related disaster risk reduction and exchanged views on issues related to the depletion of Lake Urmia and related
technologies in Japan.

4.15

Visit by delegates from Asian countries

On February 2, 2015, five representatives from China, Korea,
Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam visited ICHARM as part of the
fellowship program organized by the Japanese National
Commission for UNESCO of MEXT. ICHARM has been
supportive of this fellowship program.
They took a short tour of PWRI facilities and visited thehydraulic laboratory to learn about research directly related to a

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public infrastructure project. After that, they paid a courtesy visit

ICHARM director and visitors from
Asian countries

to ICHARM Director Toshio Koike and discussed activities of UNESCO centres.

4.16

Visit to the Ministry of Public Works and Housing, Indonesia

ICHARM sent Chief Researcher Hisaya Sawano and SeniorResearchers Daisuke Kuribayashi and Morimasa Tsuda to Indonesia on
February 9-10, 2015, to visit its Ministry of Public Works and Housing,where they planned to meet with officials and experts and discuss
issues including the possibility of data collection.
On the first day, the ICHARM researchers paid a courtesy visit to
Mr. Basuki Hadimuljono, the minister of Public Works and Housing,with four JICA Experts, Messrs. Moriyasu, Watanabe, Miura andNakao, and JICA Advisor Mr. Katayama to exchange views andopinions. The minister showed great interest in activities of ICHARM

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Chief Researcher Sawano with
Minister Basuki

and requested for its participation in Indonesia’s Water Week,scheduled next May. They also met with Dr. Mudjiadi, the director general of Water Resources, Dr. Arie, the director of
Directorate of Water Resources Management, and Dr. Made, the head of Subdit of Hydrology & Water Quality, andexplained to them about the Solo River project of the SOUSEI
program and ICHARM’s training and educational programs inwhich several Indonesian students have studied, as well as
requested for arrangement for data collection.

4.17

PAGASA-UNESCO seminar in the Philippines

On February 24-26, 2015, the International Seminar on Enhancing
Resilience against Multi-Hazards through Effective Mitigation
Systems and Adaptation Strategies was jointly convened by
UNESCO and the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical andAstronomical

Services

Administration(PAGASA).

Chief

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Photo-A. 25

Chief Researcher Murase at theseminarResearchers Masahiko Murase and Yoichi Iwami and Senior Researcher Morimasa Tsuda attended the meeting fromICHARM.
The seminar was held to discuss how to improve the coping capacity for multiple disasters in light of lessons
learned from Typhoon Haiyan, which hit the Philippines in 2013 and caused an unprecedented catastrophe due to hugestorm surges and other hazards, affecting about 11 million people and claiming the lives of over 6,000.
Three ICHARM researchers delivered a presentation at the meeting. Chief Researcher Murase first expressed hisheartiest congratulations on organizing the seminar on behalf of the International Flood Initiative (IFI), a global effort in
integrated flood control, which ICHARM serves as its secretariat. He then spoke about the current activities of IFI.
Chief Researcher Iwami presented the characteristics of damage caused by floods, storm surges and tsunamis that Japan
has ever experienced as well as lessons and efforts to reduce disaster damage in consideration of those characteristics.
Senior Researcher Tsuda updated the participants with the latest information on flood forecasting and warningtechnologies, such as IFAS, the RRI model, the BTOP model, and Indus-IFAS, which was a system specificallydesigned for the UNESCO Pakistan project.
In addition, Ms. Santy B. Ferrer (NIA-UPRIIS, Dam and Reservoir Division) and Mr. Emar Guevara Basilan(Mines and Geosciences Bureau), who graduated from the master’s program organized by ICHARM and GRIPS, also
reported on their research at ICHARM.

4.18

Visit by UNESCO officials

On March 10, 2015, Dr. Alexandros K. Makarigakis and two otherexperts from the UNESCO headquarters visited ICHARM. They
were showed around ICHARM experiment facilities and received abrief explanation about quality management on hydrologicalobservation at ICHARM’s current meter calibration facility. After
that, they paid a courtesy visit to ICHARM Director Toshio Koike
and discussed the roles of science and technology for disaster risk
reduction, as well as activities of UNESCO centres.

4.19

Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk

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Visitors
from
UNESCO
headquarters at the current meter calibration
facility

Reduction
UNWCDRR is an international conference hosted by the United Nations to develop global disaster risk reduction
strategies. The first conference was held in 1994 in Yokohama, Japan. The second one was held in 2005 in Kobe, Japan,
which adopted a global disaster risk reduction policy, known as the Hyogo Framework for Action. The Sendai
conference is the third gathering joined by 187 of 193 UN Member States with a total participants of over 140,000.
According to the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), some 6,500 nations’ leaders, ministers,
representatives of international organizations and internationally accredited NGOs attended the intergovernmental andmulti-stakeholder segments, and many more participated in related events such as public forums.
“Working Session: Risk Identification and Assessment” was about risk information, which is essential in risk
identification and assessment. They discussed how the information can be used in policymaking effectively.

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ICHARM Chief Researcher Hisaya
Sawano was one of the panelists in thissession. He pointed out the need of risk
assessment, which encourages priorinvestment to assess the effectivenessof planned structural measures (i.e.,
simulation on changes in damage withor without measures), and stressed the

Photo-A. 27 Panelists at UNWCDRR

importance of data collection andmanagement, which is critical in accurate risk assessment. He also spoke about contributions of ICHARM in
international cooperation.

5. Local Practices
5.1

UNESCO Pakistan project

ICHARM completed the UNESCO Pakistan project, “Strategic
Strengthening of Flood Warning and Management Capacity ofPakistan,” in June 2014. The project started in the fiscal year of2011 after the huge flood disaster in 2010, which caused serious
damage over the country. ICHARM assisted this project in thedevelopment of a flood forecasting and warning system, thePhoto-A. 28

Participants in the workshop

detection of inundation area, and capacity development.
The flood forecasting and warning system is called
Indus-IFAS, which is devised by coupling two runoff
analysis models (IFAS, RRI) that have been developed
and continuously improved by ICHARM. Indus-IFAS is
designed to cover a large area of the Indus River with avast river basin alongside. Besides flood forecasting andwarning, the system is also capable of simulating
inundation area. It was initially put on trial run at the
Pakistan Meteorological Department in June 2013 andthen officially in operation in June 2014 for flood
forecasting

andwarning.

(PMD

Web

site:
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http://www.pmd.gov.pk/FFD/index_files/ifashyd.htm)

Sample display image of Indus-IFAS

In this project, capacity development training was
also provided for Pakistani engineers. A total of five trainees were sent by the Pakistani government to study in themaster course jointly managed by ICHARM and GRIPS. A ten-day workshop was also organized for middle to highranking administrative officers in 2012 and 2013, in which 11 trainees learned flood management strategy practiced inJapan.

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On June 25-26, 2014, a workshop on the use of remote sensing data for flood warning and management was held in
Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar. ICHARM researchers presented the results of the project.
During the project period, ICHARM conducted international workshops and on-site IFAS operation training 10
times in total.

5.2

ADB Myanmar project (TA8456)

An ADB-funded capacity development technicalassistance project for Myanmar, “Transformation of
Urban Management (TA8456),” was launched. The
objective of the project was to promote sustainableurban development in Myanmar cities through the
improvement of the management capacity of national
and local governments. It comprised two parts: Part I
for enhancing the capacity of urban public services
such as water supply, waste management, andPhoto-A. 30

Inception meeting in Nay Phy Taw

drainage and Part II for improving the capacity offlood management. ICHARM was assigned to the second component of the project to provide technical assistance incollaboration with Japanese companies. Part II was carried out specifically for the three Myanmar cities of Yangon,
Mandalay and Mawlamyine.
Part II supported the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH), the Ministry of Transport, which is
responsible for flood forecasting and warning. The project assisted DMH in flood and storm-surge assessment for the
project area, and in the institutional capacity-building through training on the use of the Rainfall-Runoff-Inundation
model and a storm-surge model. In addition, training activities were planned to improve the capacity of flood risk
assessment for the central and local governments in charge of flood management.
The inception meeting of Part II was convened in Nay Pyi Taw on September 16, 2014. A group of six ICHARM
researchers led by Chief Researcher Hisaya Sawano participated in the meeting along with officials from Myanmar’s
central and local agencies involved in flood management. ICHARM staff outlined the project and discussed the current
conditions of flood risk reduction efforts, challenges and opportunities regarding the three cities with the participants.
ICHARM researchers also visited the country on October 8-18 for on-site investigation in the project areas. They
also collected necessary data and information and had meetings with officials from government agencies, JICA, UN
agencies and those involved in Part I of the project. With more training and other activities already scheduled, theproject is expected to help Myanmar improve its flood management capacity to a greater degree.

5.3

Introduction of Auto IFAS in thePhilippines (ADB TA8074-REG)
As a support activity for the joint technical assistanceproject (TA8074-REG) organized by ADB and JAXA,
the Auto Integrated Flood Analysis System (AutoIFAS), developed by ICHARM, was test-installed at

Photo-A. 31

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Lecture on Auto IFAS for PAGASA engineersthe headquarters of the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical & Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA).
ICHARM Researcher Mamoru Miyamoto had been involved in the introduction of Auto IFAS until June 4-6, 2014,
including giving a series of lectures on the outline and operation of the system for engineers in PAGASA. Auto IFAS is
specifically designed as a real time flood forecasting system for the Cagayan River basin, where flood damage isfrequent. The most important characteristic of this system is to use GSMaP, satellite rainfall data provided by JAXA,
after calibrating it to ground rainfall. The forecasting results are made available at the PAGASA website on a real-timebasis to assist local governments to issue evacuation orders quickly at a proper timing. The system was given a test run
and calibration during the flood season in 2014, and is currently available for at the PAGASA website for policy
makers.

6. Outreach
6.1

International symposium by ICHARM and GRIPSOn September 30, 2014, ICHARM and GRIPS co-hosted aninternational symposium, “Together with the People Coping with
Increasing Water-related Disasters in the World,” in Tokyo.
This symposium was intended to report past and current activities
of ICHARM and to discuss what ICHARM should do andhow it should achieve them in the coming age of post-2015

Photo-A. 32

Keynote by Professor Takeuchi

sustainable development goals and post-Hyogo Framework
for Action with researchers and experts from Japan andoverseas.
The symposium opened with greetings by PWRI Chief
Executive Taketo Uomoto and GRIPS President Takashi
Shiraishi, followed by congratulatory remarks from Dr. Koji
Ikeuchi, the director-general of the Water and Disaster
Management Bureau, MLIT, and Mr. Masashi Akiba
executive secretary of the Japan National Commission for
UNESCO, MEXT. ICHARM Director (now Advisor)

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Professor Koike (left)

Kuniyoshi Takeuchi made a keynote speech entitled “Goals,
Strategies and Achievements of ICHARM,” outlining theeight-year effort of ICHARM including research, training,
information networking and local practices. Prof. Toshio
Koike of Tokyo University delivered a presentation,“Science and Technology Supporting Water-related Disaster
Risk Reduction,” explaining the importance of creation of
new knowledge by using information ever increasing inquality and quantity, as well as introducing the project of the
Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS).

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Photo-A. 34

Panelists at the symposiumThree speakers were invited to share the experiences and efforts related to a mega disaster. Dr. Kate White, a seniorlead of the US Army Corps of Engineers, first reported on Hurricane Sandy in 2012 in the U.S., Prof. Jonna Estudillo of
GRIPS spoke about Typhoon Haiyan in 2013 in the Philippines, and finally Prof. Dr. Shahbaz Khan, the deputy directorof UNESCO Jakarta, presented on the Indus flood in 2010.
A panel discussion, “Towards Water-related Disaster Risk Reduction, ICHARM’s Challenge,” was also held with
Prof. Koike as a moderator, joined by the three invited contributors and four additional panelists: Prof. Tadashi Yamada
of Chuo University, Prof. Kaoru Takara of Kyoto University, Prof. Taikan Oki of Tokyo University, and Mr. Yusuke
Amano, the director of the International Affairs Office, River Planning Division, MLIT. The panelists presented thelatest studies and international strategies on water disaster damage reduction, and had productive discussions with theaudience on various issues, such as difficulties in assisting localities in project implementation and the importance ofindividuals and institutes in facilitating the concept of “working together” in multi-disciplinary areas.
The symposium was attended by nearly 200 participants and successfully ended with the closing remark by PWRI
Executive Hiroshi Fujisawa.
A report on this symposium has been available at the ICHARM homepage as the Technical Note of PWRI No.4296“Report on ICHARM International Symposium.”

6.2

ICHARM Open Day 2014

ICHARM held the annual “ICHARM Open Day” on
April 18, 2014, as a part of the open house event of PWRI
during the Tsukuba Science & Technology Week in April.
Foreign researchers and master and doctoral students of
ICHARM prepared for this event. A total of 66 students,
exceeding the number of the previous year, visited
ICHARM from the Ibaraki Prefectural Takezono High

Photo-A. 35

School and the Ibaraki Prefectural Namiki Secondary

Students and ICHARM staff at the entrance
hallSchool.
ICHARM Director Kuniyoshi Takeuch welcomed the students in the ICHARM auditorium, and Research Specialist
Kelly Kibler from U.S. delivered a lecture on disaster damage in Colorado in 2013. Doctoral student Robin Kumar from
Bangladesh also delivered a lecture on Bangladesh including history and geography, water-related and other natural
disasters.
After the lectures, the students moved to the second floor of ICHARM to attend the poster session prepared by
ICHARM students from 11 countries including the Netherlands, Guatemala, China, El Salvador, Kenya, Myanmar, Sri
Lanka, Pakistan, the Philippines, Venezuela, and Bangladesh. During the question and answer session, local school
students enjoyed communicating in English, asking many questions to the researchers and students of ICHARM.
Many local students commented on this event that it was a great opportunity to be exposed to different English fromvarious countries. The ICHARM Open Day was an exciting and productive event for both participants and ICHARM
members.

6.3

JAXA Talk Event18

JAXA hosted a talk event, “Sora (outer space) Session,” on October25, 2014, in Tsukuba, Japan.
The event was held under the grand theme of “Capturing
Changes of Earth from Space” with small presentations anddiscussions. ICHARM Senior Researcher Morimasa Tsuda
participated as a panelist and spoke about the use of satellites indisaster management.
The event attracted about 140 visitors and was viewed by over
600 people through live Internet broadcasting. The footage of the
event

is

available

on

the

JAXA

Photo-A. 36 Panel discussion at the JAXA talkevent

website(http://fanfun.jaxa.jp/jaxatv/detail/3303.html).
The senior researcher presented a brief introduction on IFAS, a flood forecasting and warning system using satellite
rainfall data, which has been developed and continuously improved by ICHARM. The presentation was well receivedby audience and other panelists, who pointed out the importance of using satellite data provided by JAXA for public
purposes and communicating information among relevant people and organizations.

6.4

Online publicity and newsletters

We have constantly updated our website with news and other information to
publicize our activities worldwide.
We have also published ICHARM Newsletters as a medium to periodicallydeliver a variety of information on research, training, local practices, andpublications. The newsletters have been published on a quarterly basis since
March 2006. In 2014, Newsletters No. 32 to 35 were published in March, July,
October and January, for example.

6.5

ICHARM R&D Seminars

We holds ICHARM R&D Seminars on an irregular basis as an opportunity for
researchers inside and outside ICHARM to keep up with the latest knowledge
and information from domestic and international experts in the field of hydrology

Photo-A. 37 ICHARM
Newsletter

and water-related disasters.
In 2014, four seminars were held as follows, inviting experts from home and overseas including Dr. Ursula
Schaefer-Preuss, the chair of the Global Water Partnership (GWP).
No.

Date

Speaker
1. Dr. Ursula

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June
10

Schaefer-Preuss
2. Dr.Ania Grobicki
3. Dr.Mohamed
Ait-KadPosition, Affiliation, etc.
1. Chair, Global Water Partnership(GWP)
2. GWP Executive Secretary
3. Chair,GWP Technical Committee

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Presentation Title
1. GWP strategy
2. GWP : Building water security, climate resilience andintegrated management of water-related disasters
3. THE GLOBAL WATER PARTNERSHIP: A
KNOWLEDGE NETWORK

1.Representation of Groundwater in
1. Dr. Takahiro

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Aug.
27

Rainfall-Runoff-Inundation Model

Sayama

1. Senior Researcher

2.Method of simultaneous measurement for water discharge

2. Dr. Yoshiki

2. Research Specialist

and sediment transport using Acoustic Doppler Current

Motonaga

Profiler ～Technology to understand the phenomenon
under water-surface during flood～
Director of Regional Center on Urban

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Sep. 1

Dr. Ali Chavoshian

Water Management (RCUWM) under

Water resources issues in Iran and RCUWM-Tehran

the auspices of UNESCO
1. Senior Lead for Global and Climate

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Oct. 1

1. Dr. Kate White
2. Dr. Shahbaz Khan

Change, Institute of Water Resources,
US Army Corps of Engineers
2. Deputy Director and Senior Program
Specialist, UNESCO Jakarta

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1. Sharing Lessons Learned About Future Water Resources
Infrastructure Challenges
2. Water Innovations and Cooperation -For Shaping the
Future We Want for All-

Feature Column: 3rd UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction
The 3rd United Nations World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (UNWCDRR) was convened on March 14-18,
2015, in Sendai, Japan.
The UNWCDRR is an international conference hosted by the United Nations to develop global disaster risk reduction
strategies. The first conference was held in 1994 in Yokohama, Japan. The second one was held in 2005 in Kobe, Japan,
which adopted a global disaster risk reduction policy, known as the Hyogo Framework for Action.
ICHARM made active contribution to the conference, participating in various sessions and sharing information andideas with international audience.

Table-1

Contributions to the world conference by ICHARM

For example, in “Working Session: Risk Identification andAssessment,” held on March 14, ICHARM Chief Researcher Hisaya
Sawano was one of the panelists in this session, representing Japan, which
was selected as one of the five nations that practices risk assessment
effectively.
He explained that risk assessment plays an important part inPhoto-1 Panelists at a working
sessionevaluating the effect of structural measures as an investment prior todisasters, and also stressed the importance of data collection and management, which is critical for accurate risk
assessment. He also spoke about contributions of ICHARM in international cooperation.
Public Forum: Asian Conference on Disaster Reduction 2015
ICHARM Chief Researcher Yoshio Tokunaga participated in the forum as a speaker to present the case of a debris
flow disaster in Indonesia. He outlined a landslide event that occurred on July 13, 2012, in Negeri Lima Village of21

Ambon and a subsequent event of debris flow caused by the collapse of the natural dam created by the landslide. The
dam collapsed on July 25, 2013, about a year after the landslide. He also spoke about the efforts in disaster damage
mitigation and Japan’s contribution in the efforts. Village Mayor Pesihatu was with him and explained that the debris
flow was an extremely large disaster, and that only three were victimized though villagers were doing things just as
usual until a few hours before the event, adding that he was grateful toJapan for its cooperation in the emergency.
During the conference, MLIT opened an exhibition about pastdisasters and current efforts in disaster management. ICHARM joined thisexhibition to inform the public of its contribution to the international
community (Photo 2).
The Sendai conference was the third gathering and joined by 187 of

Photo-2 Panel exhibition

193 UN Member States with over 140,000 participants in total. According to the United Nations Office for Disaster
Risk Reduction (UNISDR), some 6,500 nations’ leaders, ministers, representatives of international organizations, andinternationally accredited NGOs attended the intergovernmental and multi-stakeholder segments, and many moreparticipated in related events such as public forums.
The 3rd UNWCDRR adopted the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 as the new global
policy for disaster management. Member countries are expected to work towards disaster risk reduction in compliancewith this framework. ICHARM is strongly committed to further reduction of water-related damage in the world througha diversity of activities and partnership with relevant organizations.

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B. ICHARM Activity in FY 2015
1.

Special Topics

1.1

MOU with NIEDICHARM signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU)
with the Research Center for Reinforcement of Resilient
Function of the National Research Institute for Earth Scienceand Disaster Prevention (NIED) on December 16, 2015.
The MOU was to establish a framework for researchcooperation and related activities through comprehensive andsustainable collaboration, and to facilitate its implementation
by technical networking of research outputs for disaster risk

Photo-B. 1 ICHARM Director Koike (left) andreduction both within and outside Japan.

NIED Director Fujiwara at the MoU ceremony

1.2

ICHARM Director honored the Science Award

ICHARM Director Toshio Koike, also a professor of the University of Tokyo, washonored with the Science Award by the Japan Society of Hydrology and Water
Resources on September 10, 2015. This award is granted to those who have madesignificant academic contribution in the field of hydrology and water resources
through their outstanding academic work.
Professor Koike was awarded for his useful academic and social work throughan advancement of hydrological monitoring and modeling with satellite observation,
development of a hydrological data assimilation system and improvement of theunderstanding of the hydrological variation over the Asian monsoon region such as

Photo-B. 2 Director Koike
with the award certificate

precipitation and runoff processes, and realization of integrated river management with the Data Integration andAnalysis System (DIAS). He is currently promoting advancement in knowledge in the field of earth science andcreation of social advantages as a leader of the DIAS project.
1.3

Dr. Miyamoto presented with the PWRI President's Award

ICHARM Researcher Mamoru Miyamoto was honored by the President of
PWRI for his excellent work at the 2015 President’s Award presenting
ceremony, held in July 16, 2015.
He has been involved in the development of flood forecasting
systems for flood damage mitigation and also active in promoting theminternationally. He was particularly recognized for the uniqueness of his

Photo-B. 3 Dr. Miyamoto (left) receives

work in the research and development of new technologies to increase thethe award from the PWRI president

applicability of the systems and the ingenuities he had devised to localize
them.
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2.

Research– Innovative Research –2.1

Grant-in-aid research

The year 2015 was the final year of the PWRI mid-term plan, and ICHARM conducted various research tasks aspart of three research projects: 1. Development of technologies to prevent or mitigate water-related disasters
intensified by climate change and other factors; 5. Research on technologies for efficient use of information on
disaster management and disasters; and 10. Understanding of the basin-scale behavior of substances andwater-quality management technologies.

The research tasks are conducted on the following themes:-Impact of global warming on floods and droughts in consideration of uncertainty-Flood forecasting for a sudden increase in river discharge-Technologies for efficient use of information on disaster management and disasters-Disaster risk reduction considering the process from water-related disaster to reconstruction-Development of a base system to support the comprehensive management of floods and water resources-Development of satellite-assisted technologies to assess inundation area, damage and hydraulic quantities
over a wide area
-Characteristics of the basin-scale behavior of substances
ICHARM conducted research on these themes in collaboration with domestic and overseas organizations in order
to upgrade the accuracy in flood risk assessment in relation to rainfall and thereby improve risk management by
developing and implementing effective coping measures.
2.2

MEXT-led Program for Risk Information on Climate Change

2.2.1

Symposium on climate change impact andadaptation in water-related disasters
A symposium on climate change impact and adaptation in
the field of water-related disasters was held on May 29,
2015, in Tokyo. It was jointly organized by the Water andDisaster Management Bureau of MLIT and the SOUSEI
program, or the MEXT-led Program for Risk Information on
Climate Change.
Mr. Atsushi Suzuki, the deputy director of ICHARM of

Photo-B. 4 Presentation by Deputy Director Suzuki

that time, attended the symposium as a panelist andpresented the latest research results on water-related disaster risk assessment in Asia and production of
information for adaptation.
2.2.2

Meeting with the Ministry of Public Works and Housing, Indonesia

24Mr. Sawano visited the Ministry of Public Works andHousing at Jakarta to meet with Mr. Mudjiadi, the director
general of Water Resources, Mr. Widiarto, the director of
Directorate of Water Resources Network Development, andMr. Charisal, the head of Subdit of River Basin Planning.
Mr. Sawano gave a briefing on the research that ICHARM
has been conducting regarding the impact of climate change
on floods and droughts over the Solo River basin as part of

Photo-B. 5 Director General Mudjiadi (right) and Mr.

the MEXT-led SOUSEI program. Aware that droughts are a

Sawano (left, at center)

real possibility in the Solo River basin over the coming
years and adaptation may be necessary at a basin scale, Mr. Mudjiadi expects the research to deliver useful results
for their future basin management.
2.3

Research and International collaboration on discharge observation

In river planning, accurate, efficient discharge observation is critically important. The Hydrological Team of
ICHARM has been very active at pioneering this field both at home and overseas.
2.3.1

Discharge measurement workshop in the Shinano River

An on-site discharge measurement workshop was held on April 22-25, 2015, at the Shinano River Ojiya
observation station in Niigata Prefecture.
This workshop was organized by the sub-committee of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers on improvementof discharge measurement technology (chair: Professor Ichiro Fujita of Kobe University). About 100 people
participated from universities, hydrology-related sections of MLIT, construction consulting firms, andmeasurement instrument makers.
Since the objective was to upgrade measurement technology, this workshop compared different discharge
measurement instruments under the uniform conditions. On the day, the flow regime was rather rough with a flow

Photo-B. 6 Workshop participants at the observation point

velocity of over 4 m/s. This time, in addition to the conventional float measurement, several methods were tested,25

including electric wave current meters, electromagnetic velocity meters and image analysis. ICHARM test-ran
another method using an acoustic Doppler current profiler (aDcp) to share collected data with other participants.
This workshop was a great opportunity to learn about the latest measurement technologies, as well as existing
ones. For example, movie shooting for image analysis was performed in three different ways using regularhigh-definition cameras, nighttime far-infrared cameras and cameras mounted on a multicoptor for aerialshooting.
2.3.2

30th ISO/TC113 meeting in Tokyo

The 30th ISO/TC113 meeting was convened on May 25-29 at the Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE) in
Shinjuku, Tokyo. The scope of ISO/TC113 is the standardization of hydrometry, or measurement of liquid flow inopen channels. ICHARM participated in ISO/TC113 meetings previously held in other countries, representing
JSCE, the responsible body in Japan to discuss various issues related to ISO/TC113. ICHARM prepared for thisTokyo meeting in collaboration with relevant members of JSCE and the Water and Disaster Management Bureau
of MLIT. Chief Researcher Yoichi Iwami and Researcher (now Senior Researcher) Atsuhiro Yorozuya of
ICHARM attended the SC1 meeting on velocity area methods as Japanese representatives.
In the ISO/TC113 meeting, Yorozuya was appointed as convener to upgrade ISO/TR 24578 (Hydrometry –Acoustic Doppler profiler – Method and application for measurement of flow in open channels) to an international
standard. The meeting also approved that he would be the convener for ISO/NP 24577 (Hydrometry – Use ofnon-contact methods for measuring water surface velocity and discharge), which had been registered as new work
item proposal, and would lead the preparation of a technical report on the topic.

Photo-B. 7 ISO/TC113 Hydrometry 30th Meeting in Tokyo

2.3.3

Overseas river investigations

ICHARM has conducted river investigations in overseas countries to understand the characteristics of continental
rivers that are different from those of domestic rivers. In September 2015, a team of researchers were sent to
conduct investigations on the lower Mekong River basin in Cambodia and the Jamuna River in Bangladesh.
2.4

On-site investigation in flood-ravaged Joso City, JapanDue to historical heavy rain over the Tohoku and Kanto regions in September 2015, a severe flood attacked Joso
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City in Ibaraki Prefecture, adjacent to Tsukuba City, where ICHARM is located. Because ICHARM started
disaster-prevention town watching exercises in the last fiscal year as part of training for its master degree course
and JICA’s short-term programs with support from Joso City, we carried out an on-site flood damage
investigation on September 17. Although the breached levee was being restored and the inundated houses werebeing cleaned, it was also clear that it would take quite a long time to return to what things had been before theflood.
Learning from lessons from this flood event, ICHARM is planning to upgrade rainfall prediction into an
integrated process including discharge and flood prediction, to develop a timeline action plan for disaster response
to encourage safe evacuation at the local government level, and to prepare a plan for systematic disaster response
training, starting from the next fiscal year.

Photo-B. 7, 8 Collected flood waste

2.5

Destroyed area near the breached leveeTechnical advice on the SAFE prototype project

ICHARM Senior Researchers Morimasa Tsuda and Mohamed Rasmy Abdul Wahid participated in the kickoff
meeting for the SAFE prototype project, “Deploying GSMaP for Decision Support in Transboundary Catchmentsin the Lower Mekong Basin,” in Cambodia on September 16, 2015.
This project was organized based on the agreement between JAXA and the Mekong River Commission,
aiming to assess the applicability of satellite rainfall information to flood forecasting and drought monitoring overfarmland. ICHARM has joined the project to provide technical assistance.
ICHARM has been actively promoting the use of satellite rainfall correction technology coupled with IFAS
with support from JAXA. ICHARM’s role in this project is to assess the applicability of this technology to thelower Mekong Basin and provide technical advice to improve its applicability. It will also evaluate the validity ofsoil moisture estimated by the Mekong River Commission by means of LDAS-UT.
In the meeting, ICHARM researchers explained the methods for soil moisture estimation and satellite rainfall
correction, which was followed by a lively discussion with local experts who showed great interests andexpectations towards the use of satellite data in understanding the distribution of rainfall and soil moisture in thevast basin of the lower Mekong River. The project will be carried out for the next two years until December 2017.

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Photo-B. 9 Meeting participants3.

Capacity Building

3.1

Doctoral degree program “Disaster Management Program”

ICHARM, in collaboration with GRIPS, launched a Ph.D.
program, “Disaster Management Program,” in 2010 to nurture
professionals who can take the leadership in the development
and implementation of strategies and policies in the field ofwater-related risk management. Two students enrolled in thethird class of the program, Mr. Rodorigo Reynosa Fernandez
and Mr. Muhammad Masood, finished three years of study andawarded a doctoral degree in disaster management at thegraduation ceremony held at GRIPS on September 17, 2015.

Photo-B. 10 Doctoral degree awarding ceremony at

The titles of the doctoral dissertations they produced were

GRIPS

“Comparative Assessment of Hydrologic Functions at Large River Basins and Their Responses to Climate Change”
by Mr. Rodorigo and “Assessment of Climate Change Impact on Hydrology of the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna
Basin and Implications for Future Water Resource Management” by Mr. Masood.
In November 2015, the doctoral program accepted two new students from Bangladesh and Pakistan, totaling
six doctoral students consisting of two first-year students, one second-year student, and three third-year students.
They are studying on various topics related to disaster management including climate change and risk assessment.
3.2

Master’s degree program “Disaster Management Policy Program – Water-related Disaster

Management”
ICHARM conducted the eighth year of the Master’s degree program “Disaster Management Policy Program –Water-related Disaster Management (a JICA training program for flood disaster management)” in collaboration
with JICA and GRIPS from October 3, 2014, to September 17, 2015.

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The closing ceremony was held at
JICA Tsukuba on September 16, 2015,
where PWRI President Uomoto, JICA
Tsukuba Director Haga, and Professor of
GRIPS Ando made a congratulatory
remark for the graduating students. Mr.
Virk Muhammad Irfan of Pakistan spoke
in return on behalf of the students. This

Photo-B. 10 Closing ceremony at JICA Tsukubatime, the Excellent Researcher Award wasgiven to Mr. Otieno George Chilli of
Kenya and Mr. Syed Mohd Faiz of India.
Mr. Navarathinam Kirushnarupan of Sri
Lanka was honored with this year’s
Sontoku Award, a prize that is given by
ICHARM to the student who helped theclass most during the one-year program.
The graduation ceremony was held at
GRIPS on September 17, 2015, with thedoctoralstudents.

Thirteenmaster’s

Photo-B. 11 Graduation ceremony for master’s students at Grips

students were awarded the degree in disaster management.
The program has started its ninth year since October 2015 with a new set of 13 students.
3.3 Short-term Training Programs
3.3.1

FY2015 JICA Training Program: Capacity Development for Flood Risk Management

ICHARM conducted the JICA training program, “Capacity Development for Flood Risk Management with IFAS,”
from July 6 to 31, 2015. The training is designed to provide opportunity for meteorologists, river administrators,
and disaster managers in flood-vulnerable developing countries to learn about disaster management, including
evacuation plans and flood response cases in Japan, as well as to develop an action plan for local flood
management of flood-vulnerable areas in their countries. These training activities also aim to enhance individual
flood-coping capacities and eventually to contribute to flood damage mitigation in their countries.
The renewal version of three-year training program started this year. Twenty people participated from Bhutan,
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Djibouti, Kenya, Myanmar, Nigeria, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand. They
mainly learned how to operate IFAS along with additional training such as disaster prevention map training in
Joso City and a study trip to the Shinanogawa River managed by the Hokuriku Regional Development Bureau of
MLIT. Through the training, they made a great improvement in operation of IFAS and gained useful knowledge
from Japan’s disaster management.

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Photo-B. 12.13 Lecture on IFAS

3.3.2

Disaster prevention map training in Joso city

International summer program with Tokyo University

ICHARM and the University of Tokyo (UTokyo) jointly organized an international summer program,“Sustainable Water Management in an Era of Big Data,” from July 27 to August 7, 2015. The decision to organize
this program was motivated by the recognition of the rising importance of so-called big data (i.e., data of large
volume and variety) and the necessity of an interdisciplinary approach for sustainable water resourcesmanagement. A total of 33 undergraduate and graduate students and young professionals of different nationalities
participated in this program, which was conducted all in English.
This two-week program consisted of expert lectures and technical exercises at UTokyo and ICHARM, andexcursions to river management structures near Tokyo. ICHARM Director and UTokyo Professor Toshio Koike,then Chief Researcher Minoru Kamoto, Senior Researcher Mohamed Rasmy Abdul Wahid, Research Specialists
Duminda Perera, Yoshihiro Shibuo and Patricia Ann Jaranilla-Sanchez, and Research Assistant Robin Kumar
Biswas gave lectures or assistance in exercises. All activities were designed to promote problem-solving capacity
for water-related problems with an interdisciplinary approach by exploiting various data and data integration
functions of the Data Integration and Analysis System (DIAS) of Japan. The participants worked individually andin groups on actual problems focusing on developing resilience to disasters under climate change, preparedness
for risk of unforeseen disasters, and how to introduce this risk into social management and planning for safe andnaturally rich environment.
The footage of this program is available at: https://youtu.be/ricdfhPs3RU.

Photo-B. 14

Participants and organizers

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3.4 IFAS on-site workshops
IFAS on-site workshops were also conducted overseas in 2015 to further promote the use of the system. A total of
120 trainees from 31 countries participated in the workshops held in Japan and overseas. The number includes
trainees of ICHARM’s master course and short-term training courses. Countries such as Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Egypt, Singapore and Yemen sent their trainees to the workshops for the first time.
The total number of trainees who have learned the operation of IFAS in workshops, short-term training
courses, and the master’s course, has reached 1155 from 53 countries since the fiscal 2007. IFAS has been
spreading its use in many parts of the world beyond the Asian region.
3.4.1

IFAS training in Viet Nam

ICHARM Researcher Mamoru Miyamoto was sent to Viet Nam on April 19-25 as a JICA short-term expert tohelp implement a JICA technical cooperation project, “Building Disaster Resilient Societies in Central Region in
Vietnam (Phase 2).”This project was designed for the Ca River in Nghệ An Province to eventually conduct flood forecasting by
themselves, using satellite information. He lectured on flood forecasting technology and provided practicaltraining on IFAS. Ten participants joined the training from several government agencies: three from the provincial
Department of Dike Management and Floodand Storm Control (DDMFSC) of the
Department

ofAgriculture

Development(DARD),

two

and
from

Rural
the

provincial North Central Region Hydro
Meteorology Services, and three from Hatinh
Province (two from DDMFSC of DARD and
one from the Hydro Meteorology Services),

Photo-B. 15

IFAS training at DARD of Nghệ An Province

and two from Quảng Bình Province (bothfrom the Hydro Meteorology Services). Since some of the participants had already had experience with IFAS, theparticipants went on to learn more advanced operations such as calibrating parameters and coping withreproduction errors in analysis results. They are planning to introduce IFAS as their flood forecasting system
under the leadership of the DDMFSC of Nghệ An Province.
3.5 Internship
ICHARM has an internship program and has accepted interns from both Japan and overseas countries. In thefiscal 2015, two interns were accepted: one from the Bandung Institute of Technology of Indonesia and the otherfrom Yonsei University of Korea, who were recommended by Korea’s Meteorological Agency. Both stayed at
ICHARM for several months to learn hydrological models such as IFAS, BTOP and RRI with technical advice
from ICHARM researchers.

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4.

Information Network

4.1

7th World Water Forum

The World Water Forum (WWF) was originally proposed by the World Water Council, a France-based
international NGO, and has been held every three years. It is one of the largest international events in which
experts in water-related fields gather from all over the world and discuss and exhibit global water issues to findtheir solutions. The forum addresses a wide range of topics such as domestic water, agriculture, environment,
integrated water resources management, night-soil treatment, wastewater treatment, energy and disaster. The 7th
WWF was held on April 12-17, 2015, in Daegu and Gyeongbuk, Korea. About 41,000 participants from thegovernment and other sectors of 168 countries met at the forum, including Japanese delegates from MLIT andother governmental agencies, universities, private corporations and NGOs.
WWF is a conference on a voluntary basis but has been drawn more global attention than other water-related
meetings in terms of its scale and the diversity of participating
entities. It has contributed to initiating many global actions in recent
years as governments and organizations announce their new
commitments in this gathering and encourage relevant groups andorganizations to make their own commitments and take concrete
actions in a voluntary way. At WWF7, the ministerial declarationand the recommendations to ministers highlighted the importance ofstrengthening responses to disasters and climate change.
Nine members of ICHARM, including Director Toshio Koike,

Photo-B. 16

EXCO venue

participated in 15 sessions as either chair or speaker (see the table below). The following reports on four sessions
among them.
Water Showcase World Final (T.WS)
Water Showcase was a special program of the Thematic
Process of WWF7, which was a type of contest to select goodprojects on water issues. A project conducted in Ambon,
Indonesia, to empower residents for possible collapses ofnatural dams was jointly submitted for the contest by JICA
local staff, residents in the affected area, and NGOs.
The project was nominated as one of the nine final
candidates among from 115 projects submitted from all over theworld and finally given the Outstanding Award with a trophy.
The trophy was presented to ICHARM because its chief
researchers, Hisaya Sawano and Yoshio Tokunaga, led the

Photo-B. 17

Director Koike (left) and Chief

Researcher Tokunaga with the trophy for the
Outstanding Award

project and also because advice provided by PWRI played a key role in this successful project.

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Table of the sessions in which ICHARM was involved

4.2International Flood Initiative

The International Flood Initiative (IFI), initiated in January 2005 by UNESCO and WMO in close cooperation
with UNU and ISDR, IAHS and IAHR, has promoted an integrated approach to flood management to takeadvantage of floods and use of flood plains while reducing the social, environmental and economic risks. Its
secretariat is housed in ICHARM. The initiative’s objective is to support national platforms to practice33

evidence-based disaster risk reduction through mobilizing scientific and research networks at national, regional
and international levels. The initiative is now preparing for a new mechanism to facilitate the integrated approachfor flood management in the Asia Pacific (IFI-AP) through monitoring, assessment and capacity building.
4.2.1

Collaborative Research with BfG

ICHARM Research Specialist Maksym Gusyev visited the Federal Institute of Hydrology (BfG) of Germany todemonstrate the Rhine River basin flood hazard maps produced in collaboration between ICHARM and BfG.
These flood hazard maps represent an envelope of flood inundation extent for the entire Rhine River basin andprovide important information for flood risk management.
4.2.2

Joint IFI/IDI session at the UNESCO 70th anniversary symposium

ICHARM and the Regional Centre on Urban Water Management (RCUWM) organized a plenary session,“Preparatory Process for the International Initiative on Water and Disaster in the Asia Pacific Region,” on October
21, 2015, in Medan, Indonesia. The session was organized during the international symposium entitled “Integrated
Actions for Global Water and Environmental Sustainability” in conjunction with the 23rd UNESCO-IHP RSC
meeting for Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
Prof. Koike was the moderator and explained the intention of the session. After that, Prof. Shahbaz Khan,co-moderator and the director of the UNESCO Jakarta Office, made an opening remark, which was followed byspeeches and comments from representatives from ADB, ICHARM and RCUWM.
Based on the valuable inputs from presenters and participants, Prof. Koike summarized the session,emphasizing the practice for Integrated Flood Management (IFM) through sharing information and knowledge
with data by practitioners. Financing mechanism and network mobilization of science and research will be
discussed later.
The detailed session report including presentations is available at the IFI homepage: http://www.ifi-home.info/

Photo-B. 18 (from right to left) ICHARM Director Toshio Koike, Mr. Eric Quincieu (ADB),UNESCO Jakarta Office Director Shahbaz Khan, RCUWM Director Ali Chavoshian

4.3

Visitors to ICHARM

In the fiscal 2015, ICHARM also welcomed many visitors from around the world and exchanged views andideas on our activities and issues on water-related disaster management.
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Date
May 12

Countries/affiliations ofvisitors
Department of Hydro-Met
Services of the Ministry of
Economic Affairs, Bhutan

No. of visitors

Purpose of visit

Six

To learn about IFAS at a JICA training
session.

May 15ThailandTen

June 1Indonesia

Three

June 4
June 12
July 2
July 15

Director General, National
Hydraulic Research Instituteof Malaysia
Secretary-general II,
Education Ministry of
Malaysia
Officials, Ministry of Energy
and Water and othergovernment agencies
Vice Minister, Ministry of
Economic Affairs

Three
1名
One

To exchanges views and ideas onhydrological models.
To exchanges views and ideas on
hydraulic and hydrological models andrisk management.
To exchanges views and ideas on
research and training on water-related
disasters and risk management.
To exchanges views and ideas on
research and training on water-related
disasters and risk management.

Fourteen

To learn about IFAS, BTOP, anddisaster risk research.

Ten

To exchanges views and ideas on climatechange research and future cooperation.

July 29

Malaysia

Six

SATREPS-Malaysia project

October 26

K-Water, Korea

Two

Meeting

One

Meeting

Four

To learn about the ADB Myanmar
project.

Four

To exchange views and ideas onwater-related disasters in Japan.

One

MeetingThree

To learn about hydrometeorologicalresearch at ICHARM

November 11
November 12
November 25
November 27
December 1

Department
of
Water
Resources, IWHR, China
Yangon Technical University,
Myanmar
Yogjakarta Disaster
Management Agency,
Indonesia
Ntou GIS Center
Taiwan, ROC
National Unit for Disaster
Risk Management, etc.,
Colombia
Total

Sixty-eight

The following sections detail three of the visits listed above.
4.3.1

Visit by NAHRIM-Malaysia DG anddelegates
On June 4, 2015, the director general and two otherexperts of the National Hydraulic Research Institute of
Malaysia (NAHRIM) visited ICHARM. They were
showed around experiment facilities and discussed
water-related hazard and risk management with

Photo-B. 19

ICHARM Director for Special Research (now Deputy

Discussion with NAHRIM Director General anddelegates from Malaysia

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Director) Junichi Yoshitani and other experts.
4.3.2

Visit by secretary-general II of Malaysia's Education Ministry

Dr. Zaini Ujang, a secretary-general II of
Malaysia’s

Education

Ministry,

visitedICHARM on June 12, 2015, accompanied byProfessor

KuniakiProfessor

Masaki

Miyamoto,
Utsumiand

Associate
Assistant

Professor Naoko Kaida of the University ofTsukuba. The main purpose of his visit was to
learn

about

educational

curriculums

andPhoto-B. 20

facilities for the National Disaster Research

Discussion with Malaysia's Education Ministry officer
and visitors from Tsukuba University

Center, a new institute that Malaysia is currently
planning to build in a new academic district called Pagoh.
Dr. Ujang and the professors met with Advisor Kuniyoshi Takeuchi and Research and Training Advisor Shinji
Egashira of ICHARM, sharing information and exchanging views.
4.3.3

Visit by Taiwan Vice Minister

On July 15, 2015, Mr. Wei-Fuu Yang, the vice minister of the Ministry of Economic Affairs, and nine Taiwanesedelegates visited PWRI. The purpose of this visit was to follow up the joint session for adapting to change during
the 7th World Water Forum in Korea, April 2015.
After a courtesy visit to Mr. Koichi Noguchi, a deputy president of PWRI, the minister and the delegatesdiscussed technical issues related to climate change adaptation with ICHARM Director Toshio Koike and otherresearchers.

Photo-B. 21 Technical discussion at ICHARM with Taiwan Vice Minister

4.4

Participation in international conferences

ICHARM continued participating in many international conferences hosted by UN agencies and otherorganizations to report its activities and discuss global water issues and to promote its global presence.
4.4.1

Contribution to Expert Meeting on Developing Indicators for Disaster Risk Reduction by UNISDR
36The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk
Reduction (UNISDR) convened the Expert Meetingon Developing Indicators for Disaster Risk Reduction
on July 27-29, 2015, at the UN Geneva Office.
ICHARM Chief Researcher Hisaya Sawano attended
the meeting.
It was organized to discuss what indicators should
be developed to monitor the progress in theimplementation of the seven targets and the four

Photo-B. 22priority actions stated in the Sendai Framework forOpen-ended Intergovernmental Expert Working
Group (OIEWG)

Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, which was
adopted at the 3rd UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction. This time, the participants discussed thetechnical challenges and practical solutions for the indicators.
On September 29-30, experts nominated by their nations met at the UN Geneva Office for the first official
meeting of the Open-Ended Intergovernmental Expert Working Group (OIEWG) to develop a set of possible
indicators for the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction based on the documents compiled from theexpert meeting in July. Mr. Sawano also participated in this meeting with other participants. The participants
discussed issues on indicators for the seven targets, which will be followed up in the second official meetingscheduled sometime later and unofficial sessions in between.
4.4.2

Workshop on Risks and Impacts on Floods from Extreme Events in ASEAN Countries

ICHARM Chief Researcher Hisaya Sawano was invited, along with representatives from ASEAN countries, tomake a presentation in the session of Global and Regional Perspectives. It was held as part of the Workshop on
Risks and Impacts on Floods from Extreme Events in ASEAN Countries, organized by the Ministry of Public
Works and Housing of Indonesia and held in Bali, Indonesia, on August 5, 2015.
Mr. Sawano addressed the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, adopted at the 3rd UN World
Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, and relevant activities by Japan, as well as collaborative actions between
ICHARM and other countries.

Photo-B. 23 Workshop on Risks and Impacts on Floods from Extreme Events in ASEAN Countries374.4.3

Workshopon“Strengthening

Water Partnerships for Climate Change
and Disaster Risk Management”
A workshop entitled “Strengthening Water
Partnerships

forClimateChangeandDisaster Risk Management” was held on
August 11, 2015, at the ADB headquarters in
Manila, the Philippines. It was co-hosted by
ADB and MLIT.

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Mr. Sawano (far left) delivers a presentation

In this three-part workshop, the third
session was held under the theme of Integrated Flood Risk Management. ICHARM Chief Researcher Hisaya
Sawano spoke on flood risk management in the Asian region and ICHARM’s assistance in the effort including its
involvement in an ADB project in Myanmar.
A panel discussion followed. Mr. Yusuke Amano, the director of the International Affairs Office of the River
Planning Division, MLIT, stressed that it is important to archive disaster-related data and use them for the
cost-benefit analysis of disaster prevention measures in order to gain public understanding for theirimplementation. Mr. Sawano also highlighted the necessity of developing risk indicators at each country to reflect
the damage characteristics of each place, and explained ICHARM’s efforts in providing assistance for countries
working on such indicators.
4.4.4

4th Conference of the Taiwan Integrated Research Programme on Climate Change Adaptation

Technology
The 4th Conference of the Taiwan Integrated Research
Programme on Climate Change Adaptation Technology(TaiCCAT) was held on September 24-25, 2015, at the
National Central University (NCU) in Taoyuan, Taiwan.
ICHARM Chief Researcher Yoichi Iwami was invited as a
keynote speaker and delivered the presentation entitled“Impact of Climate Change on Water-related Disasters.”
Under the subtitle of “Scientific Evidence, Assessment
Framework and Decision-Making,” this international conference wasattended by roughly 50 researchers from universities and other institutions
to make presentations and discussions on environmental monitoring andadded value, vulnerability assessment and environmental resilience,climate change adaptation governance, adaptation technology and local
Photo-B. 25

action, and other topics.
Mr. Iwami introduced technologies on which ICHARM has been

Mr. Iwami delivers the

keynote speech at NCU

working, such as downscaling and bias correction for MRI-AGCM, runoff
inundation analysis and risk assessment, as well as Japan’s basic policy for climate change adaptation and risk
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management. A case study of the Philippines was especially recognized as useful since Taiwan shares similar
climate characteristics with the tropical country.
4.4.5

Technical session at the 2nd UN Special Thematic Session on Water and Disasters

On November 18, 2015, the Second United Nations Special
Thematic Session on Water and Disasters took place at the UN
Headquarters in New York City, the United States. ICHARM
Director Toshio Koike and two other ICHARM researchers
participated in the event. ICHARM and the Science Council ofJapan coordinated and moderated the Science Technology
Panel among its technical sessions. This high-level session
gathered an audience of more than 400, which consisted ofministers and other high level government officials, andexperts and leaders involved in the issues of water and disasterrisk reduction worldwide.
In the Opening Plenary, His Imperial Highness the Crown
Prince of Japan gave a key note lecture entitled “Quest for
Better Relations between People and Water,” a part of whichreferred to the Integrated Flood Analysis System (IFAS),

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Introduction of Science Technology

Panel Session by ICHARM Director Koike

ICHARM’s research tool. The Opening Plenary was followed by the High Level Panel Debate on Water andDisasters, which Mr. Keiichi Ishii, the minister of MLIT of Japan, attended. After that, two technical panelsessions, Major Group Panel and Science and Technology Panel, were held. Prof. Koike moderated the Science
Technology Panel. The Panel, “Science and Technology to Advance DRR on Water,” inviting representatives
from UNESCO, WMO and various other leading institutions promoting the advancement of science andtechnology for disaster risk reduction on water. The Panelist group consolidated their ideas into three main
directions: (1) improve data collection, sharing, integration and dissemination; (2) advance inter-disciplinary andtrans-disciplinary research on flood and drought risk reduction; and (3) promote regional cooperation bymobilizing existing international initiatives for supporting local/national efforts.
4.4.6

ICHARM contributed the UNESCO ENHANS

project in South America
ICHARM dispatched experts for the technical andscientific mission to Lima of Peru and Montevideo of
Uruguay to advise UNESCO on the implementation of
the project entitled "Enhancing natural Hazards resilience
iN South America (ENHANS)". At the technicalworkshops held in Lima on September 21-22, 2015, andin Montevideo on December 10-11, 2015, ICHARM

Photo-B. 27 ENHANS workshop in Montevideo, Uruguay

provided a presentation on flood disaster risk assessment and identified the needs and capacities of the different
39aspects of natural disasters during the workshop. In Montevideo, ICHARM also informed the basic information
on IFAS, or ICHARM’s hydrological model to facilitate the identification for the pilot river basin in Uruguay.
These contributions would be the ICHARM's next step forward in South America to strengthen the network fordisaster risk reduction through science and technology.
4.5

Typhoon Committee

The Typhoon Committee (TC) is an inter-governmental body organized under the joint auspices of the Economic
and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in
1968 in order to promote and coordinate the planning and implementation of measures required for minimizing
the loss of life and material damage caused by typhoons in Asia and the Pacific. ICHARM has been sending achief researcher to serve as the chair of the Working Group on Hydrology (WGH).
The 10th Integrated Workshop of the ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee was convened on October 26-29,
2015, in Kuala rumple, Malaysia, gathering 86 participants from 14 countries.
ICHARM Chief Researcher Yoshio Tokunaga attended the meeting as the chair for WGH and took part inmanaging the committee and the working group. In the WGH session, the progress of the on-going projects wasreported, including large-scale flood forecasting led by China, flood management led by Korea, and social impact
assessment of sediment disasters led by NILIM. Mr. Tokunaga spoke on the flood disaster in Joso City, Japan, due
to heavy rainfall in the Kanto and Tohoku regions in September 2015 and recent activities of ICHARM. The
WGH also discussed future project possibilities.

Photo-B. 28 Participants of Typhoon Committee 10th integrated workshop

5.

Local Practices

5.1

UNESCO Pakistan project: Phase 2

From the fiscal 2012 to 2014, ICHARM conducted Phase 1 of the UNESCO Pakistan project, “Strategic
Strengthening of Flood Warning and Management Capacity of Pakistan.” Subsequently, ICHARM has started
Phase 2 of the project since the fiscal 2015.
In Phase 1, ICHARM developed the Indus-IFAS, a version of IFAS specifically tailored for the application to
the large part of the Indus River. Short-term workshops were provided for Pakistani engineers to learn how to use
IFAS and address other related issues. Some of them were even given participation in ICHARM’s master degree40program to learn more about the matter.
In Phase 2, the improvement of Indus-IFAS was planned to further upgrade its functions: specifically, a new
function to calculate the impact of snowmelt in the upper Indus River basin and a new interface to use satellite
rainfall after correction with ground rainfall. Expansion of the area coverage of IFAS was also planned to include
the eastern tributaries of the Indus River in the joint effort with governmental agencies and universities of Pakistan.
Training and participation in the master’s program for Pakistani engineers were also scheduled in Phase 2. In
addition, a new training program for discharge observation using acoustic Doppler current profilers was preparedin order to improve observation accuracy in river discharge and river bed profile.
In the fiscal 2015, the snowmelt calculation function was developed, and possible technical improvements
were studied to increase the discharge forecasting accuracy of IFAS. Moreover, the applicability of Indus-IFAS
was tested by applying it to the flood that occurred from July to August 2015 in Pakistan, and the results wereanalyzed to solve issues for better applicability.

Photo-B. 29 Experts involved in the Pakistan project

5.2

ADB Myanmar project (TA8456): Transformation of Urban Management

An on-going ADB project, “Transformation of Urban Management (TA-8456): Part II Flood Management,” aims
at strengthening the capacity of the Myanmar government’s organizations in flood risk reduction and response forthe three target cities, i.e., Yangon, Mandalay and Mawlamyine. The Myanmar counterpart of this project is the
Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH) of the Ministry of Transport. ICHARM has been involved inthis project since July 2015 with CTI Engineering International Co., Ltd.
Parts of Myanmar suffered severe flood damage in 2015 due to Cyclone Komen and is still in the process ofrestoration. Its central and local governments have been showing strong interests and high expectations instrengthening its flood coping capacity that this project is designed to achieve. The following are theaccomplishments made during the fiscal 2015:(1)

Assessment was made to have an accurate understanding of the current conditions and needs associated41with flood management of Myanmar’s central and local governments of the three target cities, including
its bureau of meteorology and hydrology, and sorted out and analyzed the results of the assessment.
(2)

The technical training was conducted four times during theperiod between December 2014 and June 2015 for local
engineers to learn how to operate the RRI model and astorm-surge model. This training was specifically provided
for personnel of the bureau of meteorology and hydrology
and the bureau of irrigation to become future instructors. In
the training, the trainees were provided with assistanceneeded to develop the simplified flood and storm-surge
simulation models for the river basins where the three

Photo-B. 30 Training on the RRI andtarget cities were located. A follow-up training workshop

storm-surge models at the bureau of

was also conducted in October 2015.
(3)

meteorology and hydrology at Hay Phi Daw on

A flood model was developed for the river basins where

June 15-17, 2015

the three target cities were located with a scale adequate to
conduct simulation.
(4)

Flood assessment was conducted with the developed RRI and storm-surge models for the three target
cities, and drafted flood hazard maps for each target city.

(5)

Meetings were held with Myanmar’s governmental agencies to explain the usefulness of flood hazard
maps and their production method. The participants also discussed issues on the draft hazard maps andpossible ways of using the maps effectively.

(6)

The importance of risk assessment, as well as its method, was also introduced to the government agencies.
On-site investigations were conducted in the three target cities in terms of flood risk, and views and ideas
were exchanged regarding the current conditions and issues on flood damage reduction.

(7)

Partnerships were strengthened with international organizations, such as UN-Habitat and UNDP, andJapanese organizations, such as JICA and Tokyo University, which have been involved in similar projects.

(8)

Technical assistance was provided for Myanmar’s bureau of meteorology and hydrology to perform
simulation

using

the RRI model on
the flood eventthat was caused
byCyclone

Komen

and

inflicted
tremendous
damage on many

Photo-B. 31

partshydrology at Hay Phi Daw on October 14, 2015

countryoftheInterim meeting of the TA-8456 Part II project at the bureau of meteorology andduringJuly and August in 2015.
42

6.

Outreach

6.1

ICHARM Open Day joined by local high school students

ICHARM held the annual “ICHARM Open Day” on April 17, 2015, as part of the open house event of PWRI
during the Tsukuba Science & Technology Week in April. ICHARM’s foreign researches and students studying in
its master and doctoral degree programs worked hard to prepare oral and poster presentations for this event. This
year, 64 high school students and four teachers were invited; 41 from the Ibaraki Prefectural Takezono HighSchool and 23 from the Ibaraki Prefectural Namiki Secondary School.
The ICHARM Open Day began in the ICHARM auditorium, where ICHARM Advisor Kuniyoshi Takeuchi
welcomed students from the local schools. Two speakers followed, each delivering a presentation that tapped into
students’ curiosity. The first speaker was Research Specialist
Liu Tong from China, outlining water-related disasters andprojects on which ICHARM is currently working. Ahsan Md
Nasif, a doctoral course student from Bangladesh, spoke
about water-related and other natural disasters that his
country faces after explaining its geography and relevant
conditions.
The second part of the event took place in a casual
atmosphere, providing the students with an opportunity toencounter a more diverse range of people from ten different

Photo-B. 32

Presentation by doctoral student Nasif Ahsan

countries. The students moved upstairs to an open space, where ICHARM’s master and doctoral students preparedposters mainly to share disaster-related information about their countries.

43

Photo-B. 33 Students and ICHARM staff at the entrance hall

6.2

ICHARM R&D Seminar

ICHARM holds the ICHARM R&D Seminar on an irregular basis as an opportunity for researchers inside andoutside ICHARM to learn the latest knowledge and information from domestic and international experts in thefield of hydrology and water-related disasters.
During the fiscal 2015, the following seminars were held with many participants from PWRI and NILIM.
No.
Date
Speaker
Speaker’s affiliation
Presentation title
Institute of Tibetan
Plateau Research,
Climate changes and their impacts on water
Aug. 3,
Prof. Kun Yang
52
Chinese Academy ofcycle in the Tibetan Plateau
2015
Sciences
Distinguished Professor,
Maximum Precipitation Estimation over a
Sep. 7,
Prof. M. Levent
University of California,
River Basin by Numerical Atmospheric
53
2015
KavvasDavis
Modeling
Prof. Emeritus ofUniversity of Tokyo andFeb. 15,
Prof. Katsumi
54
Water Cycle Basic Act: Hopes and Challenges
2016
Mushiake
University ofFukushima

Photo-B. 34 Distinguished Professor M. Levent Kavvas

6.3

ICHARM Newsletters

ICHARM has published quarterly newsletters since March 2006 to publicize its activities on a regular basis
including research, training, local practice, and publication. During the fiscal 2015, the centre publishednewsletters No.36, 37 and 38 in April, July and October in 2015, respectively, and No.39 in January 2016.
Currently, newsletters are sent to about 3,900 subscribers.

No. 36

No. 37

No. 3844

No. 39Annex 1
Number of Alumni of ICHARM training program(as of February, 2016)

Ph.D. Program "Disaster Management"

1
2

1
1
1

1
4

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

0

2

0

0

1

0

0

0

0

0

2

1
1

0

1
1

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

1

0

(Number of students
conferred degree)

1
1

Total

VietnamZimbabwe

Venezuela

Tunisia

Timor-Leste

ThailandTajikistan

Sri Lanka

SerbiaRepublic of Albania

Philippines

1

Pakistan

Netherland

1

Nigeria

Nepal

MyanmarMaldives

Malaysia

Laos

Kenya

Japan

Indonesia

India

GuatemalaFijiDjibouti

Ethiopia

El Salvador

Colombia

China

Cambodia

2010-20132011-20142012-20152013-20162014-20172015-2018
Total

BrazilYear

Bosnia-Herzegovina

BhutanBangladeshCountry

1
3
2
3
2
2
13

1
1
2
4

11
9
13
12
19
12
12
13
13
114

10
7
12
12
19
12
12
13
97

M.Sc. Program "Water-related Disaster Management Course of Disaster Management Policy Program"
2007-2008
2008-20092009-20102010-20112011-20122012-20132013-20142014-2015
2015-2016
Total

2
2
2
2
2
2
2
1
2
17 0

3
2
1
2
2

1
1
1
1

3
1
3
1
2

1
1

1
1

1

1
1

1
1

2
1

1
0

1
1

0 11 3

1
1

2

0

2

1
3

2
1

3

7

4

4

0

2

1
1

1
1

1
1
1
1
6

1
6

2

3
2
1

1

1

1
9

1 2
2
2 1
1 12 6

1

0

2
1

1

1
1
2
2
2
1 10 0

1

1

1
1
1

3

1
1

1

2

1

1
1

JICA training program "Flood Hazard Mapping"
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
Total

2 2
2 2
2 2
2 2
1 2
9 10

2
2
2
3

3 2
2 2
2 2
2 3
2 2
11 11

9

2
3
2
2
1
10

2
1
2
3
1
9

1
1

1
2
2
2
1
8

16
16
16
20
10
78

JICA training program "Local Emergency Operation Plan with Flood Hazard Map"
2009
2010
2011
Total

1
1
1
3

1
2
2
5

2
2
2
6

1
1
2
4

1
1
1
3

1
1
1
3

1
1

1
1
1
3

1
1
1
3

1
1

10
12
11
33

2

JICA training program "Capacity Development for Flood Risk Management with IFAS"
2012(A)
2012(B)
2013
2014
2015
Total

3
3
3
9

3

3
1
4

2
2

2

3
3
2
11

1
1

2

2
3
2
9

4
4

3

3
3
4
12

2
2

2
3
2
10

12

13
7
16
20
20
76

1

1

7

7
3
2

JICA training program "Capacity Development for Adaptation to Climate Change"
2010

1

3

1

UN/ISDR Training course "Comprehensive Tsunami Disaster Prevention"
2008

2

4

2

3

11

UNESCO Pakistan Project workshop
2012
2013
Total

6
5
11

6
5
11

3

5 29 5 15 15 13 3 13 12 1 10 27 29 1

Total

2

1 19 3 25 1

1

3 22 1

343

Vietnam1

Zimbabwe

3

Tunisia1

Venezuela

9 21 3

Timor-Leste

1

Thailand2

Tajikistan

34 9

Sri Lanka

Total

SerbiaRepublic of Albania

Philippines

India

Pakistan

GuatemalaNigeria

Fiji

Netherland

Djibouti

Nepal

Ethiopia

Myanmar

El Salvador

Maldives

Colombia

Malaysia

Cambodia

Laos

Brazil

Kenya

Bosnia-Herzegovina

Japan

BhutanIndonesia

Bangladesh

ChinaCountryNo.

Md. Nasif
Ahsan
DumindaPERERA
Badri Bhakta
Shrestha

Karina Vink

Karina Vink

Morimasa
Tsuda
DumindaPERERA
Atsuhiro
Yorozuya
Muhammad
MasoodYoshiki
MOTONAGA

本永良樹

萩原葉子

牛山朋來

宮本守

松本和宏

佐山 敬洋

Robin K.
BISWAS工藤俊

Community-based flood damage assessment
approach for lower West Rapti River basin in Nepal
under the impact of climate change

Fundamental Analysis for Flood Risk Managementin the Selected River Basins of Southeast Asia

A Quantitative Estimate of Vulnerable People andEvaluation of Flood Evacuation Policy.

Transboundary water law and vulnerable people:
legal interpretations of the ‘equitable use’principle.

Quantification of the adverse effects of drought caused
by water supply restrictions considering the changes inhousehold water consumption characteristics

Fuzzy logic based flood forecasting model for the
Kelantan River basin,Malaysia

Estimation of Water Surface Elevation on Inundated
Area Using Satellite data

Model study of the impacts of future climatechange on the hydrology of Ganges–Brahmaputra–
Meghna basin

Direct measurement of river-bed form resistance inrivers with sand waves

流量算出に関する既往モデルの適用性に関する研究

タイ2011年洪水により影響を受けた日系企業の連鎖被害特性分析2011年台風12号・15号を対象としたアンサンブル降
雨流出予測実験

複数の洪水イベントにおける分布型流出モデルの最適パラメータの推定

分布型流出モデルのパラメータ同定への数理最適化手法の適用山体地下水の流動を表現する分布型降雨流出モデ
ルの開発

INFLUENCE OF LATERAL BED SLOPE ON
EROSION-DEPOSITION PROCESSES INSUSPENDED-SEDIMENT DOMINATED RIVERS

インドネシア・ソロ川流域における洪水流量及び氾濫量に着目した気候変動影響評価

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17

18

19

2. Paper

1 Journal

Effects of livelihood strategies on mangrove-forest
resource Do the consumption behaviour of households
jeopardise the forest resource base?

Author 1

2

Title (tentative
English name)
A.W.
Jayawardena

Title

A comparative study of fuzzy logic systems
approach for river discharge prediction

1

Category

ICHARM Publication List FY 2014

佐山敬洋

Shinji
EGASHIRA

小杉賢一朗

宮本守

松本和宏

佐山敬洋

栗林大輔

萬矢敦啓

Atsuhiro
YOROZUYAPat J.-F. Yeh

H. Kamimera

Livia Lahat

Shuzo Nishida

Kuniyoshi
TakeuchiToshioOkazumiAkiko HIROE

E.D.P. Perera

Author 2

長谷川聡

Atsuhiro
Yorozuya

岩見 洋一

山影譲

津田守正

岩見洋一

岡積敏雄

岩見洋一

Yoichi IWAMI

Naota Hanasaki

T. Okazumi

Masayasu Irie

Kelly M. Kibler

MamoruMiyamoto

D. Shrestha

Bing Zhu

Author 3

岩見洋一

津田守正

山影譲

三好建正

中須正

山坂昌成

Masashige
YAMASAKA

Kuniyoshi
TakeuchiY. Iwami

SeishiNabesaka

K. Fukami

J.D.
Amarasekara

Author 4

Journal of Disaster Research

Shigenobu
Tanaka,Ai Sugiura

穴井宏和

岩見洋一

Fuji Technology Press Ltd.

Springer

土木学会

土木学会

土木学会

土木学会

土木学会

土木学会

Copernicus Publications

EnviroWater Sydney

Elsevier

土木学会論文集B1(水工学)

土木学会

Journal of Japan Society of Civil Engineers,
Ser.
JSCE
B1 (Hydraulic Engineering)

土木学会論文集B1(水工学)

土木学会論文集B1(水工学)

土木学会論文集B1(水工学)

河川技術論文集

河川技術論文集

河川技術論文集River Flow 2014-Schleiss et al. (Eds)@2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences(HESS)

Journal of Hydrology and Environment
Research

Journal of Hydro-environment Research

Water Science & Technology: Water Supply IWA

Water International

Journal of Disaster Research

Natural Hazards

Y. KwakPublisher or Conference
organizer

Management of Environmental Quality- An
Emerlad Group Publishing
International Journal

Journal of Hydrology

Books or Conference

D. B. Basnyat

V. Vereivalu

Author 5

Vol. 71,
No. 4

Vol. 71,
No. 4,

Vol. 71,
No. 4

Vol. 71,
No. 4

Vol. 71,
No. 4

Vol.20Vol.20Vol.20Vol.14.5

19

I_271

I_1321

I_871

I_331

I_277

455

397

31

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747

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743

743

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Issue 5

858

669

696

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I_282

I_276

460

402

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750

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Muhammad
MasoodA. Yorozuya

Masahiro
Hashiba

Miho OHARA

DumindaPERERAK. M. N. K.
Ranasinghe
Badri Bhakta
Shrestha

Gusyev M.

Assessment of climate change impact on hydrology
through addressing model parameter-related
uncertainty: case study on Ganges-BrahmaputraMeghna (GBM) basin

Water Discharge Measurements with ADCP in High
Speed Flow with High Sediment Concentration

Field observation of the river flood flow andsuspended sediment distribution using ADCP

Current Issues Regarding the Incident Command
System in the Philippines

Point and non-point source nutrient loading
simulation for the Takasaki River basin, Chiba –Japan

Flood Hazard Modelling and Flood Damage
Assessment for the Kelani River Basin, Sri Lanka

Agricultural flood risk assessment in the Pampanga
river basin of the Philippines

Simplified Flood Hazard Assessment Methodology:
A step towards Global Risk Assessment.

23

24

25

26

27

28

29

30

佐山敬洋

宮本 守

清水孝一

郭 栄珠

南雲直子

宮本 守

岡積敏雄

津田守正

降雨流出氾濫(RRI)モデルの開発と応用

台風30号によるフィリピン国における高潮災害と予警報活動

衛星雨量データの土砂災害危険度分析への活用

MODIS時系列画像と数値標高データを用いた広域の洪水氾濫域抽出～2011年タイ国チャオプラヤ川
大洪水～

多言語で利用可能な洪水災害準備体制指標の開発

バングラデシュにおける効果的な洪水予警報システ
ム構築のための総合意思決定手法の開発

限られた情報下における洪水リスクアセスメントで生じる不確実性の評価

インダス川流域を対象とした洪水予警報システムの
構築

33

34

35

36

37

38

39

40

上野山智也

アジアにおける水災害リスク評価と適応策の研究

4. Article, others 国連世界防災会議へ向けてのICHARMの活動

32

31

栗林大輔

Atsuhiro
Yorozuya

Escalona
Martinez
RosiretMETHOD FOR DEVELOPING HAZARD MAP DUE
TO DEBRIS FLOW PREDICTION

22

杉浦愛

宮本 守

M.TsudaHisaya Sawano

岡積敏雄

岩見洋一

石塚忠範

安田誠宏

岡積敏雄

李商恩

Okazumi T.

Miho Ohara

T. Sayama

K. Fukami

Atsuhiro
Yorozuya

Y. Iwami

Naota Hanasaki

佐山敬洋

岩見洋一

シュレスサ バド グスエフ マクシ
リ バクタ
ム

清水孝一

信岡尚道

安田成夫

川崎浩司

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GUSYEVMAKSYM

土木研究センター

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ICSBE

Book of Abstracts 5th International
conference on sustainable build
environment 2014
Proceeding of the Tokyo Conference on
International Study for Disaster Risk
Reduction and Resilience

IWA

Proceeding Vol. 1. 9 IWA International
Symposium on Waste Water Management
Problems in Agro-Industries

thProceedings of the International Emergency
Management Society 2014 Annual
Conference56(11)

56(11)

56(10)

56(9)

56(9)

56(9)

56(6)

56(6)

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Vol. I
Proceeding Vol. 2 DC &
READM

125

9th International Symposium on Ultrasonic
Doppler Methods for Fluid Mechanics andFluid Engineering

45

21

JSCE

9th International Symposium on Ultrasonic
Doppler Methods for Fluid Mechanics andFluid Engineering

Proceedings of the 16th International
Summer Symposium

Proceeding of 6th International Conference
ICFM6
on Flood Management (ICFM6)

Proceeding of 6th International Conference
ICFM6
on Flood Management (ICFM6)

Kuribayashi, D. Proceedings of the Tokyo Conference on
Yasuda, N.
International Study for Disaster Risk
H. Sawano
Reduction and Resilience

H. SawanoK. Ogiwara

Y.IwamiProceeding of 6th International Conference
ICFM6
on Flood Management (ICFM6)

Lee S.

Naoko Nagumo

S. Tanaka

YoshikiMotonoga

T. Furuyama

Kuniyoshi
TakeuchiShinji Egashira Yoichi Iwami

S.Nabesaka

MamoruMiyamoto

ラビンドラ オス
岡積敏雄
ティ

中須正

萬矢敦啓

岡積敏雄

田島芳満

岩見洋一

岩見洋一

岡積敏雄

Kwak Y.

HisayaSAWANO

DumindaPereraY. Iwami

HisayaSAWANO

Tatsuya Kai

Y. Motonaga

Pat J.-F. Yeh

S.Fujioka

Ai Sugiura

DEVELOPMENT OF A FLOOD FORECASTINGSYSTEM ON UPPER INDUS CATCHMENT USING
IFAS

21

ToshioOkazumiBadri Bhakta
Shrestha

3. Abstract

Development of Flood Risk Assessment Method for
Data-Poor River Basins: a Case Study in the
Pampanga River Basin, Philippines

20

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5. PWRI
technical Note

ICHARM国際シンポジウム 実施報告書

タイ工業団地における洪水災害に対する教訓集～2011年洪水の経験から～

村瀬 勝彦

澤野久弥

栗林大輔

栗林大輔

萩原葉子

土木研究所資料第4296号

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No.

栗林大輔

南雲直子

藤生慎

大原美保

HiroshiNobutomo
TAKEBAYASH Masato SEKINEOSANAII

Md. Nasif Ahsan

Youngjoo Kwak

Badri Bhakta
Shrestha

梅田真吾

山田真也

小関博司

津田守正

RICE-CROPS FLOOD DAMAGE ASSESSMENT
IN THE PAMPANGA RIVER BASIN OF THE
PHILIPPINES

CCTVカメラと遠赤外線カメラを用いた画像処理
型流速測定法の実用化

CCTVカメラを用いた水位観測精度の向上に向けた検討

洪水中の河床高と粗度係数の変化が河川流量の算定に及ぼす影響

上水道の用途別月使用水量の時間的配分による用途別日使用水量の推計

地域データの乏しいアジアの洪Study on Basic Flood Risk Assessment Method
水常襲地帯における簡便な洪in Asian Flood Prone Area with Limited Regional
大原美保
水リスク評価手法に関する研究
Data -Case Study in Pampanga River Basin,
Miho OHARA－フィリピン共和国パンパンガ
Philippines川流域を対象として－Development of Application for Building Damage 水害向け建物被害認定アプリ
Inspection after Flood -Triak in Inundated Area ケーションの開発 ～平成27年9大原美保
dur to Heavy Rain in kanto and Tohoku Region in 月関東・東北豪雨の浸水地域で
September, 2015の試用～

Geographical Characteristics of Flood Occurd in 平成27年9月に茨城県常総市でJoso City, Ibaraki Prefecture in September,
発生した洪水氾濫の地理的特 南雲直子
2015.
徴Youngjoo Kwak

Rapid Damage Assessment of Rice Crop forLarge-scale Flood in the Cambodian Floodplain
Using Temporal Spatial Data

Enhancement of Flood Countermeasures of
2011年タイ洪水の教訓を活かし萩原葉子
Japanese-Affiliated Firms based on the Lessons た現地日系企業の洪水対策強
Yoko Hagiwara
Learned from the 2011 Thai Flood化

江頭進治
Shinji Egashira

Factors affecting the evacuation decisions ofcoastal households during Cyclone Aila in
Bangladesh

Sediment runoff processes and possibility of
sediment control structures in the 2013 event at
Izu-Oshima

Prompt Proxy Mapping of Flood Damaged Rice
Fields using MODIS-derived Indices

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2. Paper

澤野久弥

澤野久弥

Badri Bhakta
SHRESTHA

澤野久弥

工藤俊

梅田真吾

島本重寿

Miho Ohara

萬矢敦啓

Karina Vink

BhuyanYoichi Iwami
Arifuzzanman

岩見洋一

萬矢敦啓

坂井建太

柏田仁

HisayaSawanoBadri Bhakta
Shrestha

Kuniyoshi
TakeuchiKarina Vink

河本尋子

重川希志依

澤野久弥

岩見洋一

渡部康祐

宮谷綾子

Naoko Nagumo

澤野久弥

Jeroen Warner

Sangeun Lee

Assessing the vulnerability of different age
groups regarding flood fatalities: case study in
the Philippines

7

Yuya Tatebe

Shigenobu
TanakaTakahiro
SayamaAn emergency responsetype rainfall-runoff-inundation simulation for2011 Thailand Floods

6

ToshioOkazumiHisaya Sawamo

Badri Bhakta
Shrestha

Flood damage assessment in the Pampanga river
basin of the Philippines

5

Kibler, K. M.

MamoruMiyamoto

Juarez Lucas,
A. M.

Integrated Flood Management in developing
countries: balancing flood risk, sustainable
livelihoods, and ecosystem services

4

HisayaSawanoMiho OHARA

Current Issues Regarding the Incident Command
System in the Philippines

3

1 Journal

Sayama T.

Author 4

RodrigoFernandez

Author 3

Hydrological recurrence as a measure for large
river basin classification and process
understanding

Author 2

2

Title (tentative English name) Author 1

DumindaPERERA

Title

Point and non-point source nutrient loading
simulation for the Takasaki
River Basin, Chiba–Japan

1

Category

ICHARM Publication List FY 2015

Advances in River Engineering

田中聡

田中聡

Taylor and Francis

IWA

John Wiley & Sons Ltd

John Wiley & Sons Ltd

Fuji Technology Press Ltd.

Copernicus Publications

地域安全学会
Institute of Social Safety
Science

地域安全学会
Institute of Social Safety
Science

土木学会

土木学会

土木学会

JSCE

Remote Sensing

International Journal of Erosion Control
Engineering (DFHM6)

MDPI

公益社団法人砂防学会
Japan Society of Erosion
Control Engineering

地域安全学会地域安全学会第37回研究発表会（秋季）梗
Institute of Social Safety
概集
Science

地域安全学会地域安全学会第37回研究発表会（秋季）梗
Institute of Social Safety
概集
Science

地域安全学会論文集 No.27
Journal of Social Safety Science No.27

地域安全学会論文集 No.27
Journal of Social Safety Science No.27

土木学会論文集G（環境）土木学会論文集G（環境）配島俊一・萬矢敦
河川技術論文集
啓Vol.

Vol. 7, No.
12

No.37

No.37

No. 27

No. 27Vol. 71,
No. 6

Vol.71
No. 5

第21巻

第21巻

21

Vol. 8, No.
7

17 (6)

Vol.10,No.2

19International Water Association Vol. 10 No.
Publishing2

Publisher or Conference
organizer

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in AppliedIEEE
Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Environmental Hazards

Water Policy

Journal of Flood Risk Management

Journal of Flood Risk Management

International Journal of River BasinManagement

Journal of Disaster Research

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences(HESS)

Water Practice & Technology Journal

Books or Conference

浜口憲一郎・山﨑河川技術論文集
裕介・萬矢敦啓

Author 5

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出水時に河川を流下する土粒子の沈降現象

30

Odhiambo C.

Hasegawa A.

Flood and drought hazard reduction by proposed
dams and a retarding basin: A case study of theUpper Ewaso Ngiro North River basin, Kenya.

A comparative SPI approach for qualifying
historical and on-going droughts in the
Pampanga River basin, the Philippines.

39

40

42

Hasegawa A.

Kudo S.

Gusyev M.

Sugiura A.

Gusyev M.

Gusyev M.

工藤俊
Shun Kudo

Gusyev M.

Magome J.

Ushiyama T.

Magome J

小関博司
Hiroshi Koseki

岩見洋一
Yoichi Iwami

澤野久弥

A. Yorozuya

Umino HY. Iwami

K. Takeuchi

岩見洋一
Yoichi Iwami

H. Sawano

萬矢敦啓
Atsuhiro
Yorozuya

Integrated Approach of Inundation Analysis using
Hydrological Observation and Hydraulic Analysis
in Data Sparse Basins

38

Drought assessment in the Pampanga Riverbasin, the Philippines - Part 3: Evaluatingclimate change impacts on dam infrastructurewith standardized indices
Constructing damages functions for paddy fieldhit by water-related disasters based on MODISFPAR and a distributed hydrological model indata sparse context: the example of Solo Riverbasin, Indonesia

日本気象学会2015年度秋季大会
2015.10.28-30、京都テルサ、予稿集

長谷川聡
MaksymAkira Hasegawa Gusyev

気候変動評価のためのSPI の改良

3741

日本気象学会2015年度秋季大会
2015.10.28-30、京都テルサ、予稿集

岩見洋一
牛山朋來
長谷川聡
Tomoki Ushiyama Akira Hasegawa Yoichi Iwami

利根川流域における温暖化実験結果の力学的
ダウンスケーリング

栗林大輔

21st International Congress on Modellingand Simulation (MODSIM2015)

21st International Congress on Modellingand Simulation (MODSIM2015)

21st International Congress on Modellingand Simulation (MODSIM2015)

21st International Congress on Modellingand Simulation (MODSIM2015)

21st International Congress on Modellingand Simulation (MODSIM2015)

水文・水資源学会2015年度研究発表会要旨集

水文・水資源学会2015年度研究発表会要
旨集

36

工藤俊

萩原葉子

中村要介

2011年チャオプラヤ川洪水による在タイ日系企業の浸水の有無と洪水対策実施率の比較

近者敦彦

35

佐山敬洋

Proceeding of DFHM-6

栗林大輔

Yoichi IWAMI

Proceeding of DFHM-6

阿賀野川における降雨流出氾濫モデルの適用について

Shinji
EGASHIRA

土木学会水工学委員会環境水理部会

Natural Hazards Earth System
ScienceModelling and Simulation
Society of Australia and New
Zealand Inc.

Modelling and Simulation
Society of Australia and New
Zealand Inc.

公益社団法人 日本気象学会
Meteorological Society ofJapan
公益社団法人 日本気象学会
Meteorological Society ofJapan

水文・水資源学会

水文・水資源学会

DFHM-6

DFHM-6

Earth Observation for Water Cycle Science European Space Agancy (ESA)
2015, 20-23 October 2015, ESA-ESRIN,
Global Energy and Water Cycle
Italy
Exchange Project (GEWEX)

環境水理部会研究集会2015 in 京都

An interactive open-access journal of theEuropean Geosciences Union

21st International Congress on Modellingand Simulation (MODSIM2015)34

Atsuhiro
YOROZUYA

Hisaya Sawano

Shigenobu
TanakaK. Takeuchi

21st International Congress on Modellingand Simulation (MODSIM2015)

21st International Congress on Modellingand Simulation (MODSIM2015)

RosiretESCALONA

HajimeNakagawa

Badri Bhakta
Shrestha

小池俊雄
Toshio Koike

Yoichi Iwami

Hasegawa A.

澤野久弥
Hisaya Sawano

Fluvial Fan Process due to Swing Phenomena

岩見洋一
Yoichi Iwami

MohamedRasmy

Yuya Tatebe

Gusyev M.A.,

岩見洋一
Yoichi Iwami

栗林大輔
Daisuke
Kuribayashi

21st International Congress on Modellingand Simulation (MODSIM2015)
Modelling and Simulation
Society of Australia and New
Zealand Inc.

Modelling and Simulation
Society of Australia and New
Zealand Inc.
Modelling and Simulation
Society of Australia and New
Zealand Inc.

21st International Congress on Modellingand Simulation (MODISM2015)

MakotoNakatsugawa

馬籠純
長谷川聡
Akira Hasegawa Jun Magome

Yoichi Iwami

Modelling and Simulation
Society of Australia and New
Zealand Inc.

竹内邦良
21st International Congress on Modelling
Kuniyoshi Takeuchi and Simulation (MODSIM2015)

Proceedings of MODFLOW and More 2015

Proceedings of MODFLOW and More 201533

32

Gaps and Opportunities of Assimilating MultiFrequency Passive Microwave Satellite
Observations within a Mesoscale Model for
Improving the Predictability of Extreme Rainfall
Events in Developing Regions
Prediction of debris-flow and flood
characteristics caused by outburst of glaciallake

Takahiro
SayamaHydrologic sensitivity of flood runoff andinundation: 2011 Thailand floods in the Chao
Phraya River basin

29

海野 仁

Magome J.

31

馬籠純
Jun Magome

牛山朋來
長谷川聡
Maksym Gusye Tomoki
Akira Hasegawa
Ushiyama

River discharge simulation of a distributedhydrological model on global scale for the hazard
quantification

3. Abstract

Hiroshi Koseki

長谷川聡
馬籠純
Akira Hasegawa Jun Magome

H. HaitjemaMorgenstern U. Stewart M.

Maksym Gusye Duminda Perera

Atsuhiro
Yorozuya

長谷川聡
Maksym Gusyev Akira
Hasegawa

Nawai J

28

27

26

Flood and drought assessment with dam
infrastructure:
A case study of the Ba River basin, Fiji
Drought assessment in the Pampanga Riverbasin, the Philippines – Part 1: Characterizing arole of dams in historical droughts withstandardized indices
Drought assessment in the Pampanga Riverbasin, the Philippines – Part 2: A comparative
SPI approach for quantifying climate change
hazards

24

25

Construction of depth-discharge relation forinundation simulation

23

Shun Kudo

K. Navarathinam Maksym Gusye

Agricultural flood and drought risk reduction by aproposed multi-purpose dam: A case study of
the Malwathoya River Basin, Sri Lanka

22

Gusyev M.

Abrams D.

Comparison of methodologies for generatingtransit time distributions in watersheds: Insights
for upscaling.

21

Abrams D.

Gusyev M.

Development of nitrate response curves using
MODFLOW-MODPATH, MODFLOW-MT3DMS,
and lumped parameter model.

114

210

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2388

1586

1607

2137

1600

494

134

115

211

1599

2394

1592

1613

2143

1606

498

137

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岩見洋一
Yoichi Iwami

Tomoki
Ushiyama

Atsuhiro
Yorozuya

工藤俊

Naoko NAGUMO

南雲直子

大原美保

村瀬勝彦

E.D.P.Perera

Gusyev M.A

E.D.P.Perera

郭 栄珠

宮本守
MamoruMiyamoto
村瀬勝彦
Masahiko
Murase佐山敬洋
Takahiro
Sayama津田守正
Morimasa
Tsuda
Morimasa
Tsuda

Dynamical Downscaling and Bias Correction ofRainfall in the Pampanga Basin, Philippines,
for Flood Risk Change on Global Warming

Understanding the sensitivity of river bathymetry
in inundation analysis

メコン川の流水抵抗を踏まえた流量の推定

Characteristics of fluvial landforms and floods in
the Pampanga River basin, central Luzon

ルソン島中部における洪水常襲地帯の浸水特性に応じた地域区分

洪水常襲地帯における洪水災害対応シナリオ作
成手法の提案 -フィリピン共和国
パンパンガ川流域での取り組み-

災害リスクの不確実性に対する統合洪水管理に関する考察

Point and Non-point Source Pollution
Assessment Study

Drought assessment using tritium river watermeasurements for existing dam infrastructure in
the Ishikari River basin, Japan

River runoff and nitrate loading simulation forthe land use changes in the Takasaki River basin
in Chiba,Japan

巨大都市で想定される水害の現状と課題

バングラデシュ共和国の広域洪水及び水田被害

USABILITY ON DIFFERENT TYPES OF
RAINFALL DATA FOR FLOOD FORECASTING
AND CHARACTERISTICS OF THE 2014 FLOOD
IN THEKELANTAN RIVER BASIN, MALAYSIA

International Flood Initiative activities towardrobustness for flood management

Large scale flood predictions using a RainfallRunoff-Inundation Model and satellite based
information
Estimation of daily sectoral water consumption
from monthly data during water supply
restrictions

Estimation of daily household water consumption
during water supply restrictions

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52

53

54

55

56

57

58

59

60

63

62

61

岩見洋一
Yoichi Iwami

Tomoki
Ushiyama

Probabilistic rainfall and streamflow prediction
using EnKF for a narrow heavy rainfall event in a
Japanese small basin

45

大原美保

Takahiro
SayamaRainfall-Runoff-Inundation Modeling and
Sensitivity Analysis of Flooding in Asian
Monsoon River Basins,

44

Y. Iwami

岩見洋一
Yoichi Iwami

工藤俊
Shun Kudo

朴 鍾杰

澤野久弥

Y.IwamiU.
Morgenstern

Y.IwamiYoichi Iwami

Khairul I.

Arifuzzaman B.

バドリ・バクタ・
シュレスタ

小関博司

Shun Kudo

山﨑祐介
YusukeYamazaki

澤野久弥
Hisaya Sawano

Lariyah Mohd
Sidek

Yoichi Iwami

小林亘

Y.ChidaM. Stewart

Y.Chida岩見洋一
Yoichi Iwami

徳永良雄
YoshioTokunaga

Y. Yamazaki

澤野久弥

澤野久弥

岩見洋一

Yoichi Iwami

Akira Hasegawa Yoichi Iwami

Yoichi Iwami

YusukeYamazakiArifuzzaman B.

Khairul I.

バドリ・バクタ・
南雲直子
シュレスタ

大原美保

HisayaSAWANO

萬矢敦啓

DumindaPereraMamoruMiyamoto

Takahiro
SayamaShun Kudo

Gusyev M.A.,

Kwak Y.

Effectiveness of Water Infrastructure for River
Flood Management: Part 2 - Flood Risk
Assessment and Changes in Bangladesh

43
Kwak Y.

Gusyev M.A.

Effectiveness of water infrastructure for riverflood management: Part 1 - Flood Hazard
Assessment using hydrological models in
Bangladesh

加本実
Minoru Kamoto

K. Kashiwaya

中津川誠

Iwami Y.

Magome J.

日本地理学会XIX INQUA Congress

土木学会

日本地震工学会

The 6th IWA-ASPIRE Conference andExhibition

World Engineering Conference andCenvention 2015 WECC_Kyoto (November
28-December 4, 2015, Kyoto)
World Engineering Conference andCenvention 2015 WECC_Kyoto (November
28-December 4, 2015, Kyoto)
The 6th IWA-ASPIRE Conference &Exhibition, 20-24 September 2015 Beijing,
China

the International Water
Association

World Federation of Engineering
Organizations

World Federation of Engineering
Organizations

The 3rd International Conference on Water
University Technology Malaysia
Resources (ICWR-2015), 24-25 November(UTM), DID
2015, Langkawi, Malaysia

日本リモートセンシング学会第59回学術講日本リモートセンシング学会
演会論文集

日本地震工学会・大会－2015梗概集

UNESCO Workshop on the Strategic
Strengthening for South-South
Cooperation for Modelling and Managing
Hydro-Hazards
2nd International Conference on Land Useand Water Quality-Agriculture Production
and Environment

Unesco International Scientific Symposium

第70回土木学会年次学術講演会講演概要
土木学会
集

第70回土木学会年次学術講演会講演概要
土木学会
集

日本地理学会発表要旨集

第23回地球環境シンポジウム講演集

Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), Asia Oceania Geosciences
12th Annual Meeting
Society AOGS2015

Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), Asia Oceania Geosciences
12th Annual Meeting
Society AOGS2015

Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), Asia Oceania Geosciences
12th Annual Meeting
Society AOGS2015

Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS), Asia Oceania Geosciences
12th Annual Meeting
Society AOGS2015

Poster at the 26th IUGG General Assembly
2015

Oral Presentation at the 26th IUGG
General Assembly 2015

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白井隆

Report on 2013-2014 M.Sc. Program,“Water-related Disaster Management Courseof Disaster Management Policy Program”

R. K. Biswas

STUDY ON SANDBAR FORMATION AND
MIGRATION IN THE SUSPENDED SEDIMENTDOMINATED BRAHMAPUTRA RIVER

74

77

R. K. Biswas

Formation and migration of sandbars insuspended sediment dominated Brahmaputra
River

73

白井隆

Kwak Y.

Effectiveness of Water Infrastructure for River
Flood Management: Part 2 - Flood Risk
Assessment and Changes in Bangladesh.

72

5. PWRI
2013-2014 修士課程「防災政策プログラム
technical Note 水災害リスクマネジメントコース」実施報告書

Gusyev M.

Effectiveness of Water infrastructure for riverflood management: Part 1 - Flood Hazard
Assessment using hydrological models in
Bangladesh.

71

76

村瀬勝彦
Masahiko
MuraseNew mechanism under International Flood
Initiative toward robustness for flood
management in the Asia Pacific region

70

加本実

Takeuchi K.

Global Floods and Droughts Simulation to
Support International Flood Initiative andInternational Drought Initiative of the UNESCO
International Hydrological Program.

68

近年の台風委員会（Typhoon Committee）の活動

Magome J.

Global Hydrological Hazard Evaluation System(Global BTOP) Using Distributed Hydrological
Model

67

4. Article,
othersGusyev M.A.

Drought assessment using tritium riverwater measurements for existing dam
infrastructure in the Ishikari River basin, Japan

66

75

Tong Liu

Generation of the relationship between glacierarea and volume for a tropical glacier in Bolivian
Andes

65

A. Yorozuya

A. Yorozuya

Gusyev M.A.

Kwak Y.

小池俊雄
Toshio Koike

Gusyev M.

Gusyev M.,

MorgensternU.

Tsuyoshi
KinouchiS. EgashiraS. EgashiraArifuzzaman
Md.A.

Khairul Md. I.

Magome J.

Hasegawa A.

Stewart M.K.

Y. Iwami

Khairul Md. I.

Md. Bhuyan
Arifuzzaman

M. Masood

Takeuchi K.

Yamazaki Y.

Y. Iwami,
K.Takeuchi

H. Sawano, J.
Magome,K.Takeuchi

Kashiwaya K.

Yoichi Iwami,
Akira Hasegawa Morimasa Tsuda Yoshihiro Asaoka,
Javier MendozaYoungjoo Kwak Jonggeol Park Yoichi Iwami

Large-scale Flood Monitoring: Where is the most
exposed to large flood in Asia?

64

土木研究所資料第4306号

土木研究所資料第4299号

水文・水資源学会誌

Proceeding of the 17th Summer
Symposium

Proceedings of the 9th symposium of the
RCEM 2015

Proceedings of IAHS 2015

Proceedings of IAHS 2015

AGU Fall Meeting, 14-18 December 2015,
San Francisco, USA

American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall
Meeting2015 Poster Adstract

American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall
Meeting2015 Poster Adstract

American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall
Meeting2015 Poster Adstract

American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall
Meeting2015 Abstract

American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall
Meeting2015 Abstract

土木研究所

土木研究所

JSCE

CREAR

American Geophysical Union

American Geophysical Union(AGU）

American Geophysical Union(AGU）

American Geophysical Union(AGU）

American Geophysical Union(AGU）

American Geophysical Union(AGU）

Vol.28
No.3

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Annex 3

UNESCO-related activities
1. Participations in meetings related to UNESCO and UNESCO-IHP
Prof. Koike, Director, and Prof. Takeuchi, Advisor, have joined in the following meetings;
Attendance
Year

Date

Title

Organizer

Venue

from
ICHARM①11th UNESCO/IAHS Kovacs
2014① 16-17 June

Colloquium② 18-20 June

②21st session of the IHPIntergovernmental Council
Regional Dialogue on

2015

4-5 March

Sustainability Science Policy to
Support the Post-2015
Development Agenda

2015

14-Apr①UNESCO/IAHS
Kovacs Colloquium②UNESCO IHP

16-AprProf.

Lumpur,Takeushi,and the Pacific

Malaysia

Advisor

WWF7 "Advances in Drought

RCUWM

Analysis Tools and Coping· Co-Coordinator :Strategies"

IWHR)

UNESCO IHD/IHPand Stakeholders’2015

13-14 June

International Drought Initiative(IDI) Expert GroupThe 23rd IHP Regional Steering

2015

19-22 OctoberCommittee Meetingfor Southeast Asia and the Pacific,
UNESCO-IHP

Advisor

Kuala·Coordinator :Co-operation among Disciplines

Takeushi,for Southeast Asia

Panelists of Drought Session inand Sustainable Development:

FranceProf.

UNESCO IHP RSC

High-Level Panel ‘Water Security
2015

Paris,RCUWM

UNESCO IHP RSC
for Southeast Asiaand the PacificDaegu,
Republicof KoreaProf. Koike,
Director

Daegu,

Prof.

Republic

Takeushi,of Korea

Advisor

Tehran,Prof. Koike,

Iran

Director

Medan,
Indonesia

Prof.
Takeushi,
Advisor2. Collaboration with other UNESCO institutes/ centres
Prof. Koike, Director, is appointed as a member of the following UNESCO category 2
institutes and joined the following governing board;International Centre for Water Resources and Global Change in Koblenz, Germany
9 June, 2015 Governing Board Meeting

Regional Centre for Training and Water Studies of Arid and Semiarid Zones (RCTWS)
in Egypt
27 Feb, 2016, Governing Board Meeting (by Advisor Takeuchi on behalf of Director)