2010	  Kyoto	  Policy	  Forum	  Sustainable	  Institutions	  and	  Infrastructure	  for	  Safe	  Communities	  Agenda	  Tuesday,	  May	  18,	  2010	  |	  Kyoto	  University,	  Kyoto,	  Japan	  	  	  8:00-9:00

Registration and coffee

9:00-9:30

Welcome and opening remarks
Keiji Yamada, Governor of Kyoto Prefecture
Hiroki Owaki, Deputy Director General, International Cooperation Bureau, Ministry ofForeign Affairs, Government of Japan, GFDRR Co-Chair
Zoubida Allaoua, Director, Finance, Economics and Urban Department, World Bank,
Acting CG Co-Chair
Prof. Tetsuo Sawaragi, Assistant to Executive Vice-President of Kyoto University

9:30-9:40

Overview of agenda and aspirations for meeting
Saroj Jha, Program Manager, GFDRR

9:40-10:00

Inaugural address:
Toru Shikibu, Executive Director for Japan at the World Bank

10:00-10:30

Keynote presentation (1)Margareta Wahlström, Special Representative of the Secretary General for Disaster
Risk Reduction, ISDR

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

11:00-11:30

Keynote presentation (2)Prof. Yuzuru Matsuoka, Project Leader of GCOE-HSE, Kyoto University

11:30-12:00

Introduction to Working Groups
Prof. Sawako Takeuchi, Kyoto University
The facilitators will give a brief explanation to the format of the working groupsessions and instructions to the participants.

12:00-13:30

Lunch13:30

Afternoon session
Working groups

13:30-16:00

WG1. Making criticalinfrastructure more
resilient

WG2. Effective urban
management

WG3. Local institutions
and community
engagement

Chairs: Prof. Kaoru Takara
Disaster Prevention
Research Institute, Kyoto
Universityand Murat Bursa, Chief
Executive Officer of theZorlu Energy Group

Chairs: Prof. Kiyoshi
Kobayashi, Kyoto Universityand Dr. Mohamed Farghally,
President of the ArabAcademy for Science,
Technology and Maritime
Transport

Chairs: Prof. Hirokazu
Tatano, Kyoto University andAmod Dixit, General
Secretary and Executive
Director of the National
Society for Earthquake
Technology-Nepal (NSET)

Presenters:- K. Gökhan Elgin,Director, Istanbul
Seismic Risk Mitigationand Emergency
Preparedness project- Dr. Nagahisa Hirayama(Associate Professor,Global COE Project,Kyoto University)- Mr. Mikio Ishiwatari,
Senior Advisor indisaster management,
JICA

Presenters:- P.G. Dhar Chakrabarti,
Executive Director ofIndia’s National Instituteof Disaster Management& Director of South Asia
Disaster Management
Centre- Prof. Hiroyasu Ohtsu,
Faculty of Engineering,
Kyoto University

Presenters:- Rajib Shaw, Associate
Professor, Graduate
School of Global
Environmental Studies,Kyoto University- Prof. Keiichi Toda
(Disaster Prevention
Research Institute, Kyoto
University)

Rapporteurs: Mohammad
B. Javanbarg (ResearchFellow, Faculty ofEngineering, Kyoto
University), GFDRR Team(Mitsunori Motohashi, AyazParvez)

Rapporteurs: Prof. Kakuya
Matsushima (AssociateProfessor, Kyoto
University),GFDRR Team(Francis Muraya, Shyam KC)

Rapporteurs: Dr. Yoko
Matsuda (NPO RSYNagoya), GFDRR Team(Michel Matera, Catherine
Burtonboy)

16.00-16:30

Coffee break

16:30-17:30

Plenary session
Facilitator: Prof. Sawako Takeuchi
Brief presentations on the outcome of the three working group sessions, followed by
an open discussion to reach consensus on main recommendations going forward.

17:30-18:00

Closing remarks
Kyoto University (Prof. Sawako Takeuchi), GFDRR (Saroj Jha) and UNDP (AlainLambert)

18:00

Meeting ends