EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS WORKING GROUP (EPWG)
APEC WorkshopTsunami Disaster Risk Reduction in APEC economies
st16 August 2016, San Borja 1 room, 1 floor, Lima Convention Center, Peru

Background“APEC Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) Framework: APEC Strategy to Build Adaptive and DisasterResilient Economy” endorsed last autumn, stresses at the beginning that most APEC economies aresituated in the Pacific Ring of Fire, where strong earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanic eruptions pose
constant threats. Many economies have been directly suffering from damages of Tsunami disasters,
while today’s increasingly integrated and interlinked production, and supply chains in APEC
economies could indirectly be affected, once a huge tsunami will hit some of the economies.
In the latter half of the 1990s, tsunami disasters hit Peru in 1996, repeatedly struck Indonesia, andPapua New Guinea in 1998. The Indian Ocean Tsunami in 2004 damaged broad areas includingIndonesia, Thailand and Malaysia, and many tourists from APEC economies staying at the tsunami
affected areas lost their lives as well. In the second half of the 2010s, tsunamis claimed lives inIndonesia again and in 2010 in Chile. The year 2011 saw the devastating tsunami caused by theGreat East Japan Earthquake, which reached later the opposite side of the Pacific Ocean, leading toloss of lives in Indonesia and USA.
As one of follow-up to the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction and the 2030
Agenda for Sustainable Development, the resolution which designates November 5th as the World
Tsunami Awareness Day was adopted by consensus at the United Nations (UN) General Assembly inNew York last year. To complement the work, this half-a-day workshop will be organized under theEmergency Preparedness Working Group at the margin of SOM3, and aims at identifying present
tsunami related policies and challenges in APEC economies by highlighting the effects on economic
activities as well as human lives.

Purpose of the Workshop
Tsunami disaster reduction relates to all the phases of DRR including prevention, preparedness, early
warning, evacuation and other emergency operation, and recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction.
Tsunami directly affects both maritime cities and rural areas near the coast dependant on diverse
economic activities, in particular, fishing, aquaculture and fish processing industries, agriculture atcoastal areas, petrochemical complexes and other factories, and coastal and marine tourism including
seaside commercial areas. Anti-tsunami measures need also to be designed by taking well into
consideration of all the vulnerable groups in need of assistance for evacuation.
Anti-tsunami policy is supported by broad inter-disciplinary knowledge extending from seismology,
oceanography, disaster prevention engineering, land use and urban planning to sociology,psychology, and communication studies. History and archaeology also provides us lessons learnt in
the past that will help us to get prepared against tsunamis in the future. Both structural and nonstructural measures are necessary to face tsunami, and the best mix of cross-sectoral measuresneeds to be identified for individual economies.
With the above understanding, the main objectives of this workshop will be to:

identify the status of anti-tsunami policies and measures in member economies
discuss major challenges to be addressed by EPWG
strengthen partnership with private sector in promoting anti-tsunami measures

This half a day workshop is expected to be the first step to discuss an APEC wide initiative for anti
tsunami DRR based on the APEC DRR framework through public-private partnership across thePacific.

Agenda13:30 -14:00

Registration

14:00 – 14:05

Welcome and opening

14:05 – 14: 20

Opening Remarks
Mr. Icochea Iriarte, Director, National Institute of Civil Defense, INDECI, Peru
Mr. Masafumi Yamashita, First Secretary, Embassy of Japan
Dr. Le Quang Tuan, co-chair, EPWG, Head of Division, Directorate of Water Resources,
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, MARD, Vietnam
Introduction by Kyoko Kondo, co-chair, EPWG, Executive Director, ADRC

14:20 – 14:30

Session 1: Anti-Tsunami measures by APEC economies: Sharing experiences
Chair :Mr. Edwin M.Salonga, Chief, Disaster Risk Governance Division,
Office of Civil Defence, Philippines
14:30 – 16:00

Presentation on anti-tsunami measures in APEC economies
14:30-14:35:Introduction
14:35-14:50: Anti-tsunami measures in Peru
Ms. Lourdes Giovanna Gomez Bolivar, Deputy Director of Resources toResponse Management, Preparedness Direction, INDECIMr.Raul Vásquez Gianella, Deputy Head of the Department ofOceanography –Direction of Hydrography and Navigation of Peru(DHN)
14:50-15:05: Lessons learnt from the Indian Ocean Tsunami
Mr.Arun Pinta, Director, International Cooperation Affairs Sub-Bureau
Research and International Cooperation Bureau,
Dept.of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, Ministry of Interior, Thailand
15:05-15:20: Anti-tsunami measures in Chile
Ms.Natalia Andrea Silva Bustos, ONEMI, Chile
15:20-15:35 Anti-Tsunami measures after the Great East Japan Earthquake
Cabinet Office, Japan
15:35-15:50 Anti-Tsunami measures in Asian Pacific region
Ms. Yuko Morikawa, Head of Operations, JICA Perú Office

Followed by Q&A

16:00- 16:20

Coffee BreakSession 2：Collaboration with private sector facing Tsunami Disaster Reduction
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Chair: Dr. Li, Wei-Sen Ph.D. Secretary General, National Science and Technology Center
for Disaster Reduction
16:20 – 17:50 16:20-16:25 Introduction
16:25-16:40 The United States Tsunami Warning System
Ms .Emily Fischer, Principal APEC Coordinator & Economic Policy Advisor
16:40- 16:55 Tsunami and local economy: Presentation on activities by private
Sector in Peru
Mrs. Cecilia Rosell Grijalba, National Society of Industries, SNI, Perú16:55-17:05 Comment from Toyota, Perú
Mr. Joel Ninanya, Head of IT Strategy
Mr. Gilmar Rebolledo, Responsible for the Administration and SST
17:10-17:40 Roundtable of the participating economies
Discussion on APEC activities for anti-tsunami measures to support APECDRR framework
17:40-17:50 Wrap-up
17:50 – 18:00

Closing

Participation
The workshop is supported by Cabinet Office, Japan and organized by Asian Disaster Reduction
Center, ADRC.

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