ADRC Highlights
Asian Disaster Reduction Center Monthly News
● Announcement
Vol. 375
June2024
TOPICSAnnouncement

ADRC Welcomes a New
Member: BruneiDarussalam
Promoting Cooperation
with AffiliatedInstitutions¶ 7th ASEAN Committee
on Disaster Management(ACDM) + Japan Meeting¶ 7th GLIDE Steering
Committee Meeting
Participation inInternational
Conferences

Participation in the TCSUNDRR Inter-Regional
Dialogue 2024

ADRC Welcomes a New Member: Brunei Darussalam
In response to an application from Brunei Darussalam tobecome a member, Asian Disaster Reduction Center(ADRC) has welcomed them as the 33rd ADRC member
country as of 1 May 2024.
ADRC anticipates that the active participation ofBrunei Darussalam will further enhance ADRC’s
activities.
● Promoting Cooperation with Affiliated Institutions
7th ASEAN Committee on Disaster Management (ACDM) + JapanMeeting
The 7th ASEAN Committee on Disaster Management (ACDM) + Japan Meeting
was held on 9 May 2024 in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. As a part of the program,
Mr SASAHARA Akio, Executive Director of ADRC, gave presentations on thefinal outcome of two projects: “Promotion of Database Linkage and Capacity
Enhancement through Utilisation of GLIDE” and “Pilot Project on Utilisation ofState-of-the-Art Communication Technologies for CBDRM and Disaster
Emergency Management,” which were implemented to promote the “ASEANJapan Work Plan on Disaster Management 2021-2025.” Regarding the CBDRM
activities, the delegates from Malaysia, the target country of the project, expressed
their gratitude for its successful completion. Additionally, proposals for theintended next phase of these projects were explained. In the meeting, there werealso reports on the progress of various activities of the ASEAN-Japan Disaster RiskReduction Action Plan. Furthermore, ADRC participated in a field visit held on thelast day, which facilitated interaction among the meeting participants.
Side Meetings with Representatives of Member Countries and Relevant
Organisations
As Brunei, the host country of the ACDM + Japan Meeting, officially became amember of ADRC on 1 May 2024, a meeting was held with the Director ofBrunei’s National Disaster Management Centre (NDMC) to discuss futurecooperation activities. We also had meetings with representatives from Malaysia,
the ASEAN Secretariat, and the AHA Centre.

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https://www.adrc.asia© ADRC 2024(Left) ADRC Executive Director Mr SASAHARA at ACDM + Japan Meeting,(Right) Commemorative photo with Brunei NDMC

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7th GLIDE Steering Committee Meeting
The 7th GLIDE Steering Committee Meeting was held online on 13 June 2024. A total of 15 participantsfrom the Steering Committee member organizations discussed the annual priority activities and agreed tohave closer communication among the three Subcommittees (API, SOP, and Product Development) tofacilitate the integration of GLIDE functionalities. They also shared recent activities relevant to GLIDE
application, including a presentation from ADRC on GLIDE utilisation in an ESCAP/WMO Typhoon
Committee project.

● Participation in International Conferences
Participation in the TCS-UNDRR Inter-Regional Dialogue 2024
ADRC participated in the Inter-Regional Dialogue2024, with the theme “Tools and Technologies forMulti-Hazard Risk Assessment and Early Warning:
Sharing Experience among Countries in the Asia
Pacific Region,” held on 27-29 May 2024 inIncheon, Republic of Korea. This event was jointly
organized by the Trilateral Cooperation Secretariat(TCS) and the United Nations Office for Disaster
Risk Reduction Office for Northeast Asia & Global
Education and Training Institute (UNDRR ONEA& GETI) in support of the Early Warnings for All
initiative, which the UN Secretary-Generallaunched in 2022 to ensure a universal coverage ofearly warning systems by 2027.
TCS-UNDRR Inter-Regional Dialogue 2024
In this dialogue, participants from the trilateral
cooperating countries China, Japan, and Korea (CJK) shared their respective experiences, tools, andtechnologies on multi-hazard early warning systems (MHEWS) with other countries in Asia-Pacific region,
including Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, East Timor, and Viet
Nam as well as Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, andKazakhstan.
The common MHEWS issues in these countries are: 1) warning information is not targeted to specificcommunities-at-risk; 2) warning information dissemination is usually one-way communication, and there isno feedback on whether the communities-at-risk have successfully evacuated; and 3) different warning
agencies maintain their own databases that need to be integrated to achieve reliable forecast and warning.
Japan made two presentations at the plenary. One concerned the “QZSS DC Report,” an early warning
message dissemination service of Japan using the “Michibiki” satellites system known as “Quasi-Zenith
Satellites System,” presented by Mr Gerry Potutan, senior researcher at ADRC. The other concerned the“Nankai Trough Earthquake Warning Information,” delivered by Mr UMETSU Togo, Policy OfficeInternational Cooperation Division Disaster Management Bureau, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan.
This inter-regional dialogue facilitated greater regional collaboration in terms of: 1) available MHEWS
tools and technologies; 2) effective practices for risk reduction among disaster-prone countries in relation toearly warning; and 3) community-level capacity development in disaster risk reduction between Northeast
Asia and other sub-regions of the Asia Pacific region.

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