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Issue No. 31

January 2014

Research
Capacity Development
Networking Activity
Other Topics
Publication List

Message from Director
ICHARM has started the year 2014 with a refreshed enthusiasm under a renewed
agreement between UNESCO and the government of Japan signed last July. The newagreement requires us to establish the Governing Board, which was the Advisory
Board in the previous agreement. We expect that the Governing Board of top international executives will examine ICHARM’s activity plan to ensure proactive implementation. We are making our best effort to prepare for the first board meeting,scheduled on February 25.
Near the turn of the year, we had another devastating disaster, when storm surges by
Typhoon Haiyan (locally called Yolanda) hit Leyte Island of the Philippines on November 8. It was reportedly the strongest typhoon ever recorded among the landed.
Many houses and towns were completely swept out, and more than 6,000 people
were killed. It was only 7 years ago when Leyte
experienced a giant landslide, which occurred
after weeks of heavy rains and killed more thanten thousand people. Meanwhile, in Japan, people in Oshima Island were still at a loss after adeadly debris flow, unable to make any plans yet
for recovery. Right after the turn of the year, we
also saw many pictures of floods in Southwest
Wallingford, England
England and Wales. Indeed, extreme hydro-met
photo by John Rodda 2014.1.11
phenomena have been increasing.
Under such circumstances, the role of ICHARM is growing. One of the reasons is thatit assumes the responsibility of the most critical part of disaster prevention; that is,
as Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu says, “If you know the enemy and know yourself, youneed no fear even against a hundred battles.” In disaster prevention, to know theenemy is to know the characteristics of the hazards and their forecasts, and to know
yourself is to assess exposure and vulnerability of human activities, coping capacities
and institutional arrangements.
ICHARM, together with foreign students, is concentrating on acquisition and production of such knowledge on hazards and society in combination with capacity development programs, and apply the research results to local practices by helping practitioners of national and regional governments. Based on such substantive experiences,
ICHARM also takes part in international efforts of policy and strategy making.
We hope ICHARM receives even further cooperation and support from the world tocontinue activities under the renewed agreement.
31 January 2014
Kuniyoshi Takeuchi
Director of ICHARM

East Samar, Leyte Island
photo by Mamoru Miyamoto 2013.12.13

ユネスコのカテゴリー 2 センターに関わるルールの見直しに伴い、昨
年 7 月、 ユ ネ ス コ・ 日 本 政 府 間 の協定も改定されました。したがって 2014 年は、ICHARM にとって新協定下での新年になります。セン
ター員一同、気持ちも新たに活動を開始しました。新協定では、従来の諮問委員会に代り、運営理事会にICHARM の運営を審査頂くことになります。理事会には内外関係機関のトップを迎え、大所高所からの審査とご指導を期待しています。第一回
理事会は 2 月 25 日に開催の予定で、それに向けた準備を進めています。
昨年末には、また悲惨な災害が起きました。11 月 8 日にレイテ島を中心に襲ったサイクロン・ハイヤン ( 台風 30 号 ) による高潮で、多くの町が壊滅し 6000 人以上の方々が亡くなりました。上陸した台風としては観測史上最大規模だったと報じられています。レイテ島ではわずか 7 年前、巨大地すべりで 1000 人以上の方が亡くなったところです。日本ではこれに先立つ台風 26 号で、大島の土石流災害により 50 人近くの方が亡くなり、避難された方々の帰還の計画も立たない時期でした。新年早々にはイギリスから、暮れからの雨で各地で洪水が発生したニュースが届けられています。気象の極端事
象は進化の一途をたどっています。
そんな中で ICHARM への期待はます
ます高まっています。水防災という戦いの中で最も重要な、「敵を知り己を知れば百戦危うからず」と言うところを分担しているからです。敵を知るのはハザードの特性研究、予報であり、己を知るのは人間活動の暴露と脆弱性の評価です。対策や社会の仕組みの評価も含まれます。これら敵と己を知る技術の研究を、能力開発プログラムを一体に、留学生と一緒に研究し、その成果を現地の実務者を通じて実践に移しています。その上で、リスク削減の国際政策や体制作りにも参加しています。
新しい協定の下での ICHARM の発展に、一層のご支援をお願いします。

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Research
ADB Project in Myanmar: Transformation of Urban Management (CDTA 8456)
ミャンマーを対象とする「能力開発技術支援：都市管理に関する技術移転（CDTA 8456）」 が、2013 年 9 月
20 日、 ア ジ ア 開 発 銀 行（ADB） の承認を受けました。CDTA は、地方政府組織の組織力を強化し、必要な社会基盤をニーズに基づいて優先的に提供し、基本的な洪水リスク評価も実施することで、同国都市部の持続可能な開発を促進することを目的としたプロジェクトです。CDTA は、
第 1 部都市管理、第 2 部洪水管理の2 部で構成されています。第 2 部の洪水管理は、3 つの主要地域（ヤンゴン、マンダレー、モーラミャイン）
を対象に、推進することになっています。気象水文局などの専門家には研修の機会を設け、また高度な水文
気象解析の導入を予定しています。
ICHARM は洪水管理の監督機関に指定されていることから、岡積上席研
究員、Shrestha 研究員、山崎専門研
究 員 が 2013 年 11 月 18 日 ～ 23 日にミャンマーを訪問、ADB、建設省、
気象水文局との合同打ち合わせ会議に出席し、併せて、ヤンゴン川、バゴ川、ヤンゴン市の洪水多発地区の調査を行いました。
ミャンマーは、常に洪水による災害に悩まされてきました。沿岸部やデルタ地帯は高潮の影響が深刻な地帯であり、2008 年には、サイクロン・
ナルギスによって壊滅的な被害を被り、少なくとも 13 万 8 千人の死者が出ました。こうした状況から、同国に洪水リスク管理を導入することは喫緊の課題であり、都市管理の基盤として、適切な洪水リスク管理を実施することは、必ず同国発展の一助となると考えられます。

The Capacity Development Technical Assistance (CDTA): Transformation of Urban
Management (CDTA 8456) was approved by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on
September 20, 2013, to implement in Myanmar. The CDTA will promote sustainableurban development in Myanmar towns by building institutional capacity of local authorities, leading to the prioritized needs-based provision of essential infrastructure
as well as basic assessment of flood risk in this flood prone-country. The CDTA has
two parts, i.e., Part I: Urban management and Part II: Flood management. Part II will
focus on three key areas of the country (Yangon, Mandalay, and Mawlamyine), andinvolve two main counterpart institutes: the Myanmar Ministry of Construction (MOC)
and the Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH), the Ministry of Transport. Flood and storm-surge risk assessment will be carried out in the Yangon plain,
Ayeyarwady and Thanlwin river basins. The capacity of specialists in related government organizations, such as the DMH, will be developed by introducing training programs and incorporating advanced hydro-meteorological analysis methods.
Since ICHARM is designated as the supervising agency of Part II of the CDTA, a team of
ICHARM experts, Chief Researcher Toshio Okazumi, Research Specialist Yusuke Yamazaki and Researcher Badri Shrestha, visited Myanmar on 18-23 November 2013 to joina consultation meeting with ADB, MOC and DMH. MOC and DMH warmly welcomed
implementation of this project in Myanmar.
The team also conducted a field investigation
along the Yangon and Bago Rivers and also in
the flood prone areas of the Yangon city.
Flooding has always been one of the major
hazards in Myanmar. Heavy rains and overflowing local rivers cause flooding in various
Meeting at DMH, Nay Pyi Taw
parts of the country and many people are exposed to flood hazard every year. The coastal and delta areas are also severely affectedby storm surges. Cyclone Nargis was a strong tropical cyclone that caused catastrophic
destruction and at least 138,000 fatalities along its way in 2008. There is thus urgent
need for flood risk management in Myanmar, and the implementation of the CDTA willdefinitely help the country to carry out proper flood risk management as the foundation for urban management.
(Written by Badri Shrestha, project led by Toshio Okazumi)

29th Meeting of ISO/TC 113 at Mexico
2013 年 11 月 11 日 ～ 15 日 にか け て、 メ キ シ コ 国 メ キ シ コ シ
ティーにあるメキシコ政府機関の CONAGUA(Comisión Nacionaldel Agua) に お い て 第 29 回 ISO/
TC113(Hydrometry：開水路における流量測定 ) メキシコ総会が開催されました。ISO/TC113 の国内審議団体である土木学会から国土交通省大臣官房技術調査課電気通信室、河川情報セン
ター、建設電気技術協会ｖポンプ国際規格審議会、ICHARM の担当者の合計7 名が派遣されました。ICHARM からは、SC1（Velocity area methods） の日本代表として岩見上席研究員、萬矢研究員が参加しました。同総会では、萬矢研究員が非接触型流速計に関する技術のプレゼンを実施し、同技術の基準化に向けた技術書を作成するための主たる執筆者に任命されました。
ま た 次 回 の 第 30 回 ISO 総 会 は 2015
年 5 月に日本（東京）で開催することが承認されました。

On November 11-15, 2013, the 29th meeting of ISO/TC 113 was held at CONAGUA(Comisión Nacional del Agua), a government agency, located in Mexico City, Mexico,
to discuss issues under the title of “Hydrometry: Method of measurement of openchannel discharge.” ICHARM sent Chief Researcher Yoichi Iwami and Researcher Atsuhiro Yorozuya to attend a sub-committee on velocity area methods in addition to
five other Japanese representatives from various offices including the Electricity and
Telecommunication Office of the Technology Research Division of MLIT Ministry’s
Secretariat, the Foundation of River and Basin Integrated Communications, the Association of Electricity and Telecommunication Engineering for Land and Infrastructure, and the International Pump Standard Commission. In this meeting, Yorozuya
delivered a presentation on non-contact velocity meters and was appointed as acommittee member to draft technical guidelines for standardizing noncontact velocity meters. The meeting also agreed that the 30th ISO/TC
113 group meeting will be held in
May 2015 in Tokyo, Japan.
(Written by Atsuhiro Yorozuya, Project led by Yoichi Iwami)
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Research

Sentinel Asia
The first joint project team meeting of Sentinel Asia Step 3 was held in Bangkok, Thailand, on November 27-29, 2013. Chief Researcher Yoichi Iwami of ICHARM attended
the meeting as the chair of the Flood Working Group (Flood WG) along with 82 participants from 51 organizations of 15 countries.
Sentinel Asia was first proposed in 2004 by the Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency
Forum (APRSAF) to promote the effective use of satellite observation data provided
by space agencies for disaster management purposes. More specifically, APRSAF intended to facilitate the use of such information by disaster management organizations
through information and communication technology to mitigate disaster damage in
the Asian region. Sentinel Asia has been in operation since 2006 in collaboration with
relevant organizations of the member countries.
Sentinel Asia has since gone through three multiple-year stages called Steps. At Step 1(2006-2007), it started a pilot effort to explore how the members can share informationby using its newly-launched website. In addition, the Flood and Wildfire Working Groups
were set up, and the Global Flood Alert System started offering its service. At Step 2(2008-2012), as the number of satellites used for the project increased, the Data Analysis
Node was organized as a center to analyze and process satellite data. Two more working groups for glacial lake outburst floods and tsunamis were also added to the previous
two at this step. Step 3 has started since 2013. The project is expected to operate at its
full potential and working towards sharing and using a wide swath of information in adisaster management cycle from pre-event preparedness to post-event restoration.
At the first joint meeting of Step 3, Iwami made a presentation as the chair of the Flood WG
regarding satellite-based flood area detection, the development and operation of a flood
forecasting system using satellite rainfall information, a satellite-data calibration technology
as well as a future direction of disaster management. At the Flood WG meeting, the AsianDevelopment Bank and the International Water Management Institute were invited to report their current activities, which were followed by exchange of views among participants.
Sentinel Asia has finally started its operation at a full scale and is expected to play avital role in quickly providing satellite data for the mitigation of damage caused by increasingly frequent floods. In recognition of the importance of the project, ICHARM iscommitted to provide continued assistance in its activities.
(Written and Project led by Yoichi Iwami)

センチネルアジア・ステップ３第 1 回
合同プロジェクトチーム会合が、2013
年 11 月 27 日～ 29 日にタイのバンコクで開催され、ICHARM からは岩見上席研究員が、同会合の洪水ワーキンググループ座長として参加しました。
センチネルアジアは、アジアにおける災害軽減のために、ICT を活用し、宇宙機関が提供する衛星観測データを
防災関係機関が有効利用することを目的にした取り組みです。ステップ 1（2006-2007 年）では、情報共有のためのウエブサイトが設立され、データ共有のパイロット的取り組みが開始されました。ステップ２（2008-2012 年）
では、利用衛星数が増加し、提供された衛星データを分析・加工する機関連合が組織されました。2013 年からは、本格的な実施段階 ( ステップ３) に入り、衛星データの幅広い共有と活用を目指しています。
ステップ３の初回の合同会議である今次会合では、ICHARM の代表者は洪水
WG の議長として、衛星データを活用
した洪水氾濫域把握、衛星降雨データを活用した洪水予測システムの開発・運用、衛星データの補正技術等これまでの取り組みと今後の方向性についての発表を行いました。また、洪水 WG
セッションでは、ADB、IWMI の活動
報告を招聘し、意見交換を行いました。
Sentinel Asia は本格実施段階に入りましたが、ますます頻発する水災害の軽減のために重要な役割を果たしていくと考えられ、ICHARM は、今後もSentinel Asia の各種活動を支援していく所存です。

Capacity Development
IFAS Training in the Philippines
On October 8-11, 2013, ICHARM conducted training on the Integrated Flood Analysis
System (IFAS) in Manila, the Philippines. This training was provided for 26 engineers incharge of flood forecasting and warning over the
Cagayan River basin as part of the joint technicalassistance project (ADB TA8074-REG) organizedby the Asia Development Bank (ADB) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
This project has been assisting local engineers in
the development of technological tools for improving the accuracy of satellite rainfall data (i.e.,
GSMaP) used as IFAS input data as well as the installation of more ground rain gauges.
Improved GSMaP will then be used for IFAS to carry out runoff analysis. IFAS and GSMaP with better accuracy will help issue more effective flood forecasts and warnings.
The training consisted of three phases: a lecture on IFAS, practice of IFAS operation
with the participants’ personal computers, and presentations of the training results.
In the practice phase, the participants started with the installation of the IFAS software, moved on to setting the target basin, creating a river channel network, setting
and calibrating the target rainfall, and finally simulating a past flood while calibrating
various parameters. Four instructors from ICHARM were at the training, making surethat the participants understood the procedures, giving comments and advice, andanswering questions. In the final phase, they presented simulation results with improved accuracy, which clearly shows that they successfully strengthened the ability
32013 年 10 月 8 日～ 11 日まで、フィリピン国マニラ市において、アジア開発銀
行 (ADB) と ( 独 ) 宇宙航空研究開発機構(JAXA) が共同で実施する ADB TA8074REG プロジェクトの一環として、フィリ
ピン国カガヤン川の洪水予警報を担当する技術者など 26 人を対象とした IFASのトレーニングを実施しました。
当該プロジェクトでは、IFAS の入力データとして用いる人工衛星雨量デー
タ (GSMaP) の精度向上ツールの開発
や、地上雨量計の増設が行われています。この精度を向上させた GSMaP を
IFAS に入力して流出解析を行うこと
で、IFAS と GSMaP を洪水予警報を補助するツールとして活用することを目的としています。
ト レ ー ニ ン グ は、IFAS に つ い て の 講
義、受講者が持参したパソコンを用いた IFAS の操作トレーニング ( ハンズオ
ンエクササイズ )、成果のプレゼンテー
ションにより構成されました。ハンズ
オ ン エ ク サ サ イ ズ で は、IFAS ソ フ ト
ウェアのインストールからパラメータのチューニングによる既往洪水の再現計算までを一通り行いました。
これにより受講者の IFAS に係る技術

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Capacity Development
力が向上し、プレゼンテーションにおいて精度の高い再現計算結果が示されました。今後もフィリピン国の技術者が、継続的な水文観測体制の増強、トレーニングを行う事によって、効果的な洪水予警報の実現が期待できます。

to operate IFAS through the training.
The Philippines should be able to realize more effective flood forecasting and warning as long as its engineers continue working to enhance the hydrological observation system in the country and to increase their skills through further training.
(Written by Yusuke Yamazaki, Project led by Yoichi Iwami)

Training Course Updates
ICHARM は、（独）国際協力機構 (JICA)
及び政策研究大学院大学 (GRIPS) と連携して、2013 年 10 月から 7 年目となる修士課程「防災政策プログラム
水災害リスクマネジメントコース」（JICA 研修「洪水防災」）を実施しています。12 名の研修生は ICHARM 内での講義に加えて、日本の洪水対策についてよりよく理解するために、現地訪問を通して学んでいます。
10 月 30 日～ 11 月 1 日にかけて、利
根川中流部及び鬼怒川上流部にかけての現地訪問を行いました。概要は
以下のようになります。
・1947 年のカスリーン台風による利
根川と渡良瀬川合流点付近の被害状
況を中心とした講義を受けた上で、渡良瀬遊水地を訪問し、遊水地を活用した治水及び利水技術について学
びました。
・鬼怒川上流部に位置する川治ダム
及び湯西川ダムを訪問し、それぞれのダムの機能及びダムの統合管理に関する技術を学びました。
・日光、足尾地区の砂防堰堤等の施設を訪問し、山地における土砂管理技術について学びました。
また、12 月 4 日～ 6 日にかけて、関東地方整備局、気象庁への訪問および鶴見川流域内の総合治水対策の訪問を行いました。総合治水対策とは、
都市河川を対象に、ダムなどを活用した対策に加えて、地下貯留施設を設けるなどといった対策のことです。
概要は以下のようになります。
・関東地方整備局及び気象庁において、洪水予警報に関する講義を受けました。雨量観測～洪水予測～
警報まで一体として講義をして頂き 、日本の洪水予報技術及び警報のシステムについて学びました。
・鶴見川流域内において、川和遊水
池、恩廻公園調節池等の施設を訪問し、都市域の地下空間を活用した治水技術について学びました。
当日は、研修生は熱心に見学を行っており、活発な質問も行われました。
特 に、 洪 水 予 測 に 関 し て、ICHARM
内での講義に関係する内容を現場担当者の方へ質問している様子も見受けられました。
お忙しい中、現地訪問のご対応を頂いた国土交通省関東地方整備局、利根川上流河川事務所、鬼怒川ダム統合管理事務所、日光砂防事務所、渡良瀬川河川事務所、神奈川県横浜川
崎治水事務所、気象庁の皆様には大変お世話になりました。ここにお礼申し上げます。

ICHARM offers a master’s program entitled “Disaster Management Policy Program
Water-related Risk Management Course,” which is jointly organized with the Japan
International Cooperation Agency and the National Graduate Institute for Policy
Studies. Currently, 12 students are enrolled
at this 7-year-old course, attending lecturesand visiting places for better understandingof flood management in Japan. The following
reports recent activities in which the students
participated as part of their study at ICHARM:

At the Watarase retarding basin

Last year, from October 30 to November 1, thestudents visited places in the middle Tonegawa
River basin and the upper Kinugawa River basinand had opportunity to learn the following:- They attended a lecture about damage caused
by Typhoon Kathleen in 1947 around the confluence of the Tonegawa and Watarasegawa
Rivers, and then visited the Watarase retarding basin and learned water use management
using the retarding basin.
- They visited Kawaji and Yunishigawa Dams
in the upper Kinugawa River basin andlearned dam functions and integrated dam
management.
- They visited erosion control dams in the
Nikko and Ashio areas and learned sediment management in mountains.

From December 4 to 6, the students visited the Kanto Regional Development
Bureau and the Japan Meteorological
Agency. They also visited the Tsurumigawa
River basin to learn comprehensive flood
control. Comprehensive flood control is a
package of flood control measures combining the use of conventional flood control structures like dams with undergroundstorages. The following are brief descriptions of the visits:

At Yunishigawa Dam- They attended a lecture about rainfall observation and flood forecasts and warnings
at the Kanto Regional Development Bureau
and the Japan Meteorological Agency andAt an erosion control dam site in Nikko
learned Japan’s flood forecasting technologies and warning systems.
- They visited Kawawa and Onmawashi Park retarding basins in the Tsurumigawa River basin
and learned urban flood control using underground spaces.

The students participated in the visits very seriously and asked many questions to local flood control experts. Some of them even asked local experts questions based onwhat they learned from lectures beforehand.
Finally, we would like to thank all offices for their cooperation despite the busy
schedules.
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Capacity Development

Salvadoran and Chinese Engineers Visit ICHARM
Eight members of the Public Works Ministry of El Salvador and six members of the
Changjiang Water Resources Commission (CWRC) visited ICHARM for one-day
lectures on December 3 and 5 respectively. El Salvador participants were part of
the Maintenance, River and Urban Drainage and Climate Change directions under
the Public Works Ministry, being therefore in charge of design and maintenanceworks in hydraulic infrastructure with adaptive analysis. Chinese visitors are part of
the Chinese Ministry of Water Resources and are responsible for development andmanagement of water related structures and flood control. The objective of the visits was for the visitors
to learn about integrated river basin
management, disaster management
and implementation of emergency
measures. To achieve the objectives,
participants received lectures about“Introduction to ICHARM’s Activities
and Training” and “Integrated Flood Risk Management and Basin-Wide Modeling”.
(Written by Fernandez Reynosa Rodrigo and Masood Muhammad,
Project led by Minoru Kamoto)

エルサルバドル・公共事業省職員
8 名と中国・長江水利委員会委員 6名が、それぞれ 12 月 3 日と 5 日に、研修のため ICHARM を訪問されました。エ国公共事業省からは主に水理施設の設計・管理や気候変動に対する適応策を担当する職員、長江水利委員会からは水関連施設の開発・管理や洪水管理を担当する委員の方々でした。研修では、統合的流域
管理、災害対策、緊急対策などに関連して、研修・教育活動を含めた
ICHARM の活動の紹介、統合的洪水リスク管理と流域規模のモデリン
グに関する講義を受講されました。

Networking Activity
THE 2nd ISDR ASIA Partnership Meeting
Co-organized by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)
and the Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM) of Thailand, the
2nd ISDR Asia Partnership (IAP) meeting was held on November 5-7, 2013, in Bangkok, Thailand. As a channel toward the Asia-Pacific consultation to establish the
Hyogo Framework for Actions beyond 2015 (HFA2), this meeting gathered morethan 150 participants consisting of representatives from UN entities, 20 governments in Asia, inter-governmental institutions, private organizations, international
research institutions, universities, civil society organizations, and so on.
The meeting was divided into three sessions as follows:
I. IAP Working Group on AMCDRR : IAP members discussed conference programs (especially during its Technical Session) for the 6th Asia Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (AMCDRR), which is the major milestone
toward the 3rd World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction.
II. IAP Working Group on HFA monitoring and HFA2 : UNISDR and Key Area Coordinators reported the current status of the HFA2 consultation process and the
Asian-Pacific contributions. IAP members identified the information gaps foreach Key Area of the HFA2 consultation process.
III. Updates from partners and governments : In order
to update the HFA2 consultation process, many members gave presentations on their background studies.
ICHARM sent Chief Researcher Toshio Okazumi and Research Specialist Sangeun Lee to this meeting to deliver
ICHARM’s intent to make contributions to the HFA2,
present various technologies available for water-related risk indicators, and maketechnical comments at the events. During this meeting, IAP members also welcomed
ICHARM’s participation and encouraged participants to discuss collaboration.
(Written by Sangeun Lee, Project led by Toshio Okazumi)
52013 年 11 月 5 日から 7 日にかけて、
国連国際防災戦略（UNISDR）とタイ
国災害防止軽減局の共催で、第 2 回
ISDR アジアパートナーシップ会議がタイ・バンコクで開催されました。
会議は以下のように 3 つのセッションに分かれて行われました。
I. ア ジ ア 防 災 軽 減 閣 僚 会 議（AMCDRR）に関する部会 : この部会
で は、 第 6 回 AMCDRR の 会 議 内 容について議論されました。この閣僚会議は、2015 年 3 月に日本で行われる第 3 回世界防災会議に向けた非常に重要な会議となります。
II. HFA の監視と HFA2 に関する部会 :この部会では、UNISDR と主要分野
コーディネーターから、HFA2 に関する審議の現状とアジア・太平洋地域による審議への貢献に関する報告がありました。参加者にとっては、
各主要分野に関する情報不足を確認する機会となりました。
III. 連携機関および各国政府からの報
告 : このセッションでは、HFA2 の審議に関わる情報提供が行われ、多くの参加者による研究発表がありました。
ICHARM からは、岡積上席研究員と李専門研究員が参加し、HFA2 採択へ向けた協力を表明、また、水関連リ
スク指標開発に関わる様々な技術について発表を行い、技術的な助言も行いました。参加者は、この活動への ICHARM の参加を歓迎すると同時に、さらに連携を深めるための議論を行いました。

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Networking Activity

14th Governing Council Meeting of APWF and the Consultation Workshop on Asian
Water Information System, November 25-27, 2013 in Manila, Philippines
ア ジ ア・ 太 平 洋 水 フ ォ ー ラ ム（APWF） 執 行 審 議 会 第 14 回 会 合（2013 年 11 月 25 日）及びアジア
水情報システム（AWIS）に関する
ワ ー ク シ ョ ッ プ（ 同 26 ～ 27 日 ）がフィリピン・マニラで開催されました。

The 14th Governing Council Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Water Forum (APWF) took
place in Manila, the Philippines, on November 25, 2013. The workshop on the Asia
Water Information System (AWIS) hosted by Asian Development Bank (ADB) followed on November 26-27.

Since its official launch on September
27, 2006, APWF organized the 1st
Asia-Pacific Water Summit in Beppu,
APWF は 2006 年 9 月 27 日 に 正 式Japan, in 2007 and the 2nd meetingに設立され、2007 年別府、2013 年
in Chang Mai, Thailand, in 2013. Unタイ・チェンマイで、それぞれ第der priority themes common across
１回、第２回のアジア・太平洋水
the Asia-Pacific region including
サミットが開催されました。水関14th APWF Governing Council in Manila
on November 25, 2013,
連災害対策を含め、アジア・太平
water-related disaster management,
the picture contributed by APWF Secretariat(Japan Water Forum)
洋地域に共通して見られる重点課
APWF has been trying to provide
題の解決が目標です。今回が第 14
top-quality and user-friendly network coordination services on a highly participatory
回になる執行審議会は通常年 2 回
bottom-up approach supported by a light managerial and administrative structure
開 催 さ れ て お り、ICHARM は 水 関
responsible for coordinating the activities. Its Governing Council meeting is normally
連災害対策分野の統括機関として
held twice a year, including the participation of lead organizations under the three
参 加 し て い ま す。ICHARM か ら は
priority themes. At the 14th Governing Council, ICHARM, as the lead organization
水および災害に関するリスク管理
for water-related disaster management, expressed its willingness to contribute toへの貢献として、タイおよびカン
water and disaster risk management and introduced case studies in Thailand and
ボジアの取組み、バングラデシュ
およびインドネシアでの現地実践、 Cambodia as well as local practices for achieving reduced vulnerability and increased
resilience in Bangladesh and Indonesia, and capacity building for practitioners
実務者対象の能力開発研修や現地
through training and collaboration with local governments and institutions so that
政府や関連機関との連携などを紹
the application of technological tools can be appropriately processed, understand介しました。ADB からアジア水情報システム、UNESCAP、UNESCO、 ing the APWF as an important platform to create partnership with international and
UN-Habitat から水と環境等がそれ
national institutions. The other themes, highlighted for APWF activities in the previぞれ報告されています。各重点分
ous Governing Council, were also followed up: Asian Water Information System by野における活動や進捗状況を明ら
ADB, Water and Green Economy by UNESCAP, UNESCO and UN-Habitat, Urban Waかにし、今後取り組むべき行動計
ter Management by UNESCO, UN-Habitat and PUB, and Integrated Water Resources
画を具体化していくことが今回のManagement by NARBO. The Governing Council confirmed that the APWF’s activi会議で確認されました。
ties and achievements to each priority area should be clarified to help visualize how
AWIS ワークショップは AWIS の進much its activities have contributed to increasing water security in the region and
め方、とりわけ 2015 年 3 月を目標
identified APWF’s concrete future action plans.
にパイロット事業の取組みについて議論するために開催されました。
第 2 回アジア・太平洋水サミット
で も、 こ の AWIS の 促 進 が 宣 言 の中で述べられています。ADB による AWIS の 概 略 説 明 で は、 組 織 内のデータ管理の改善と、データ管理について協力関係を構築するために、国内組織とどう連携するか
問題提起がなされました。ICHARM
からは、世界的に入手可能なデー
タを利用した、現地重視の水関連
災 害 リ ス ク 管 理 と い う 視 点 か ら、
IFAS、
RRI、
Global BTOP、
浸水深地図、
全球洪水リスク評価、能力開発などの活動を紹介しています。本ワー
クショップでは、2015 年 4 月、韓国・テグで開催される第 7 回世界
水フォーラムで AWIS パイロット事
業の発表を目指していくことが確認されました。

The main object of the following AWIS workshop was to develop time-bound targets
and strategies for AWIS establishment, and to identify a core-group of institutions
and countries to lead development of a pilot demonstration of the AWIS by March2015. AWIS is one of the APWF priority areas, as declared to “invite the Asia-PacificWater Forum to mobilize initiatives in support of all these recommendations, and toencourage consideration, as appropriate, of green economy policies in the context
of sustainable development and poverty eradication, as well as the establishmentof Asia Water Information System” at Chiang Mai, Thailand, during the second AsiaPacific Water Summit on May 20, 2013. At the initial stage of the workshop, ADB
gave an overview of AWIS. The first key issue for AWIS is to improve internal data
management and learn how to work with other agencies in the same country to establish partnership on data management. ICHARM showed its activities in the context of globally available data and local practices to manage the risk of water related
disasters, such as IFAS, RRI, Global BTOP, Flood Inundation Depth Map, Global Flood
Risk Assessment, and related capacity development. Following on from the discussion around the concept of the AWIS, participants discussed the expected outcomeof such a demonstration phase which was to be completed for presentation at the
7th World Water Forum in Daegu, Korea in April 2015.
(Written by Masahiko Murase)
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Networking Activity

Budapest Water Summit:
The Role of Water and Sanitation in the Global Sustainable Development Agenda
Leaders, academics, decision- and opinion-makers gathered in Hungary for the Budapest Water Summit on October 8 to 11, 2013. Representing ICHARM, Professor
Takeuchi and Research Specialist Kelly Kibler were in attendance. This meeting was
an opportunity for the international water community to organize support for a
dedicated Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) on Water and to discuss how sucha goal may be structured, financed, implemented, and monitored. In his opening
address, the Secretary General of the United Nations, H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-Moon, called
for full engagement across all sectors and actors to design SDGs, which are bold
and ambitious, yet simple in design, inclusive and applicable to all, and which support equitable provisions of human rights. The key themes of discussion included
the Water- Energy-Food nexus, building green economies, importance of strong
water governance to support SDGs, and the need to forge new partnerships, mostnotably with the private sector.
Many speakers referenced relationships between water-related disaster risk andsuccessful attainment of a comprehensive sustainable water goal; however, ICHARM’s Professor Takeuchi was the only speaker to confront this issue head-on in
his keynote address. As a strong voice for those whose human rights are compromised by burdens of repeated disasters, Professor Takeuchi and ICHARM worked
to ensure that the outcome document of the meeting, the Budapest Statement, included water-related disasters as one of the four recommended priority themes ofa dedicated water goal. As a crucial milestone leading up to adoption of the SDGs,
opinions created at the Budapest Water Summit will likely be echoed in SDG proposals from many agencies which will appear in coming months.
(Written by Kelly Kibler)

各国の指導者、学識経験者が集まり、2013 年 10 月 8 日～ 11 日、ハンガリーでブタペスト水サミットが開かれました。ICHARM からは、竹内センター
長とキブラー専門研究員が出席しました。今回の会合は、水に関する持続可能な開発目標（SDG）の設定のために開催されたもので、いかにその目標を立て、財政支援し、実行し、監視するかなどの議論が行われました。開会にあたって、潘基文国連事務総長から、大胆かつ野心的、しかしシンプルな仕組みで、誰もが参加
し、取り組むことができ、また人権に十分配慮した目標設定となるよう、分野にかかわらず、全員が全力で取り組むよう要請がありました。
多くの発表者が、水に関する包括的で継続可能な目標を達成することが、
水関連災害リスクの軽減にもつながると主張する中、竹内センター長の基調講演は、唯一、水災害軽減に正面から取り組む必要性を唱えるものでした。繰り返される災害のために人権を脅かされている人々を代弁し、水関連災害が、水に関する４つの重点テーマのうちのひとつとして、ブタペスト宣言に盛り込まれるべきと主張しました。今回の水サミットは
SDG 採択に向けた重要な節目でありましたが、会合での見解が今後多くの組織から提出される SDG 草案にも反映されると考えられます。

Typhoon Committee Integrated Workshop
The 8th Typhoon Committee Integrated Workshop was held at Macau on December 2-7, 2013. Chief Researcher Minoru Kamoto and Principle Senior Researcher
Yoshikazu Shimizu of ICHARM participated in this event.
This time, a special session was set up to discuss issues concerning Typhoon Haiyan, a extremely strong tropical storm that hit the Philippines last November. In thesession, a group of experts intently listened to reports about the storm and had
an intensive discussion on what can be done and what should be done. Filipino
experts told the participants that warnings of 6-meter-high storm surges had beenout hours before, but no storm-surge risk maps were available and no information
was provided about where to evacuate.
The Hydrological Working Group session was also held during the workshop.
Kamoto chaired the meeting, and Shimizu reported on a research project aiming at detection of debris flow and shallow landslide risk byusing satellite-based rainfall data. Experts fromThailand commented in favor of the project, recognizing that it will be effective in their country.
On the final day of the workshop, Kamoto reported the discussion results of the Hydrological
Working Group session at the plenary meeting.
(Written by Yoshikazu Shimizu, Minoru Kamoto)72013 年 12 月 2 日 ～ 12 月 7 日、 マ
カオにおいて台風員会第 8 回合同
ワークショップが開催され、ICHARM
から加本上席研究員、清水総括主任
研究員が参加しました。
今回の台風委員会では、11 月、フィリ ピ ン を 襲 っ た 台 風 Haiyan の 特 別セッションが設けられ、台風の状況に加え、今後何ができるか、何をするべきか等について活発な議論が行われました。フィリピン国からは、6ｍの高潮の警報を何時間も前から伝えていたが、高潮で浸かる地域を示したリスクマップやどこに逃げるのかなどの情報は、伝達していなかったとのコメントがありました。
水文分科会では、加本が座長を務め会議を主導し参加国の報告をとりまとめました。同部会において、清水が衛星降雨量データを用いた土砂災
害危険度評価手法研究プロジェクトの進捗報告を行った。タイ国参加者
からタイにおいて本プロジェクトが有益であるとの意見が得られました。
会議最終日、全体会議において加本が水文部会の討議結果をとりまとめ
報告しました。

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Other Topics
New ICHARM Members
Yoko HAGIWARA
Research Specialist

Japan

Before joining ICHARM, I worked with UNISDR,
and supported national and regional efforts andcooperation for reducing disaster risk that originatesfrom natural hazards. At ICHARM, I would like to work together
with rapidly-growing Asian countries to strengthen the region's capacity in managing the risk of water-related hazards
by shedding light on socio-economic impacts of such hazards.

Md. Nasif Ahsan
Research AssistantBangladesh

Comments fromthe internship students

Over the years, I have enjoyed
the research experience during
my undergraduate and post graduate program along with my work ex- perience as a university faculty-member. My
long-term objective is to instigate and continue innovative and cutting edge works inthe area of disaster risk management withspecific focus on social sciences with a view toforming individual research group as well as
establishing collaborations with renowned research groups in the scientific community allover the world. Hence, I am happy to choose
ICHARM for my Ph.D study on Disaster Management which will help me to gain comprehensive insight into the recent developed
methodologies and techniques of analyzing
impacts of natural hazard led risk reduction.

Mahsa Farhangi

Naoko NAGUMO
Research Specialist

Bangladesh

Research Assistant

Wish you all a year of success andhappiness!
Suspended sediment transport process in large braided rivers like the Brahmaputra
and the Ganges is causing river bank erosion
which is a unique water related disaster in Bangladesh. Every year river bank erosion causes
people to lose their houses, livelihood, institutions etc. and thus often found themselves into
the vicious cycle of disasters and endless poverty. I would like to devote my efforts to reduce
the havoc of at risk society from the effects sediment induced hazards. With my experienceand knowledge, I would also like to contributeto ICHARM’s mission of water related disastermanagement at regional and global level. I feelmuch honored to be part of ICHARM family.
Iran

Japan

I studied physical geography and geomorphology, andanalyzed landform development processes of fluvial lowland under tropical monsoon influences and the relationship between fluvio-geomophic environment and establishment of
human societies. At ICHARM, from a geographic point of view, I
would like to contribute to mitigation of water disaster risk aroundthe world, which has various natural and cultural backgrounds.

Robin Kumar Biswas

I am a PhD student at University of Tehran,
Iran and I had a chance to visit ICHARM forthe internship from Oct.15 to Nov. 9, 2013
under the supervision of Prof. Takeuchi. Thisvisit was full of new experiences. Communicating with researchers in various fields of water resources
gathering from all over the world has profoundly inspired
me. During my stay at ICHARM I was working on a distributed hydrologic model, BTOPMC, developed by Prof.
Takeuchi and his team.
To put in a nutshell, I would like to say that my time spent at
ICHARM left a memorable experience for me and I am sure I
could not ask for a better internship. I am looking forward tocontinuing my relationship and strengthen it in the future.

Publication List

Five new members joined ICHARM.
They would like to say brief hellos to the readers around the world.

Duong Duc Toan

Andrea Juarez
Research Assistant

GuatemalaPreviously, I studied the water
recharge potential in different
river basins in Guatemala tosupport the development of payment forecosystem services schemes. As part ofmy graduate studies I explored the governance and institutional change of flood
management initiatives developed undera socio-ecological approach in Spain and
the Netherlands. Currently, as a PhD student at ICHARM I would like to continue
exploring how the natural, social and water related engineering systems are interlinked in order to understand better andassess comprehensive and sustainableactions for water hazard risk management.
Vietnum

I am a PhD student at Kyoto University, originary from Vietnum Water Resources University in Hanoi and I had a chance
to visit ICHARM for the internship from Nov., 5 to Nov. 15,
2013. The weeks internship at ICHARM was very useful andgood experience for me. The working environment in ICHARM
is very professional and international. People in ICHARM are not only
hardworking, full of expertise but also very friendly and supportive.
I attended some lectures on Integrated Flood Risk Management, Flood
Hazard Mapping, and Rainfall-Runoff-Inundation Model (RRI). I also hada chance to learn to utilize RRI model and discuss with Dr. Sayama andother ICHARM researchers about applications of RRI model in flood risk
assessment in some river basins in Asia. During my stay at ICHARM, I
gained not only the knowledge and working experiences but also goodfriendship and connection with many ICHARM members. I do hope that I
have another chance to collaborate with people in ICHARM in the future.

Peer-reviewed Papers●Toshio OKAZUMI, Shigenobu TANAKA, Youngjoo KWAK, Badri Bhakta SHRESTHA, Ai SUGIURA, Flood Vulnerability Assessment in the light of Rice Cultivation Characteristics inMekong River Flood Plain in Cambodia, Paddy and Water Environment, Journal of theInternational Society of Paddy and Water Environment Engineering/ Springer, Dec. 2013
● Shinji EGASHIRA, A. Yorozuya and E. K. P. Rajbanshi, Importance of riverbed evolution
in predicting inundation process, Proc. HYDRO 2013 International, "IIT, Madras",
pp.646-654, Dec. 2013.
● A. Sugiura, S. Fujioka, S. Nabesaka, T. Sayama, Y. Iwami, K. Fukami, S. Tanaka and K.
Takeuchi, Challenges on modelling a large river basin with scarce data: A case study ofthe Indus upper catchment, In Piantadosi, J., Anderssen, R.S. and Boland J. (eds) MODSIM2013, 20th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and
Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, pp. 2346-2352, Dec. 2013.
● A. Yorozuya, H. Kamimera, T. Okazumi, Y. Iwami, and Y. Kwak, Estimation of water
surface elevation on inundated area using satellite based information, In Piantadosi,J., Anderssen, R.S. and Boland J. (eds) MODSIM2013, 20th International Congress on
Modelling and Simulation. Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New
Zealand, pp. 2353-2359, Dec. 2013.

● Kelly Kibler, Minimizing geopolitically ungauged catchment area of transboundary river basins to support disaster risk reduction , Hydrology in a Changing World:
Environmental and Human Dimensions, IAHS, Vol.363, Nov. 2013
● Desiree Tullos, Eric Foster-Moore, Darrin Magee, Aaron Wolf, Kelly Kibler, "Biophysical, Socioeconomic, and Geopolitical Vulnerabilities to Hydropower Developmenton the Nu River, China", Ecology and Society, Resilience Alliance, Vol.18, Nov. 2013
● K. Taki, Shinji Egashira, Method for evaluating flood disaster reduction measures inalluvial plains, Jour. Of Flood Risk Management, Wiley, Vol.6, pp.210,-218, Oct. 2013
● Yoshikazu SHIMIZU, Toshio OKAZUMI, Tadanori ISHIZUKA, "Prediction on sediment related disaster through the satellite rainfall data", USMCA2013, Oct. 2013● Kelly Kibler, Arne Skaugset, Lisa Ganio, Manuela Huso, "Effect of contemporary
forest harvesting practices on headwater stream temperatures: Initial response of
the Hinkle Creek catchment, Pacific Northwest, USA", Journal of Forest Ecology
and Management, Elsevier, Vol.310, pp.680-691, Oct. 2013
Other Publications● 佐山敬洋, 世界の大規模洪水を監視・予測する先端技術 -2011年タイ洪水を事例に-,河川文化, 日本河川協会, 39号, pp.93-127, 2013年10月● ADB TA 7276: Supporting Investments in Water-Related Disaster Management,
ADB Technical Assistance Partner’s Report, ICHARM, 2013, http://www.adb.org/
projects/documents/supporting-investments-water-related-disastermanagement-tacr

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