ADRC Highlights
Asian Disaster Reduction Center Monthly News
● Promoting Cooperation with Affiliated Institutions
Vol. 374
May2024
TOPICS
Promoting Cooperation
with AffiliatedInstitutions
AHA Centre ACELEDMP: Study Visit toJapan
Participation inInternational
Conferences
Participation in the APEC
Senior Disaster
Management Officials
Forum (SDMOF)ADRC Staff Profile
Mr TAKAISO Mamoru,
Senior Administrative
Manager

AHA Centre ACE-LEDMP: Study Visit to Japan
From 3 to 9 March 2024, Asian
Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC)
coordinated the Study Visit to Japanfor the ASEAN Coordinating Centre
for Humanitarian Assistance on
Disaster Management (AHACentre) Executive Leadership inEmergency Management
Programme (ACE-LEDMP) Middle
Level. The ACE-LEDMP Middle
Level is a programme to develop
human resources that are capable ofleading ASEAN disastermanagement efforts and isGroup photo in front of DRI building
composed of a one-month online
course, a one-month on-site course
in Indonesia and a week-long study visit in Japan. A total of 20 middle level
managers from nine ASEAN member states (AMS), each with more than five yearof experience working in disaster management organizations in their country,
participated in the Study Visit along with 4 staff members from the AHA Centre.
They received lectures from the Cabinet Office of the Government of Japan,
Hyogo Prefecture, Sumida City Office in Tokyo, the International Recovery
Platform (IRP) and ADRC. They also visited Koshigaya Lake Town and theDisaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution (DRI) to deepen theirunderstanding of Japan’s disaster management policies.
During the concluding session of the visit, the participants discussed the future
promotion of further disaster reduction measures in the ASEAN region, drawing
insights from the lessons learned in Japan. The participants returned to Indonesiafor further training and to continue to review these experiences.
● Participation in International Conferences
Participation in the APEC Senior Disaster Management Officials
Forum (SDMOF)

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As host economy for 2024, Peru has been hosting a series of APEC Senior
Officials’ Meetings (SOM) this year. During the second senior officials’ meeting(SOM2), the Emergency Preparedness Working Group (EPWG) took theopportunity to organize the 17th session of the Senior Disaster Management
Officials Forum (SDMOF-17) on 13 May 2024 at Cerro Juli Convention Center inLima, Peru. It adopted the theme, “Emergency Preparedness for Sustainable Growthand Sound Development with an Inclusive and Community Approach.”
ADRC Project Director SUZUKI Koji, who co-chaired the EPWG from 20202023, headed the Japan delegation and introduced the project “Public private
partnership for decision making support system with AI technology” in one of theSDMOF’s sessions. At its core, this collaborative project advances the use ofsatellite big data and spatial artificial intelligence (AI) to model decision-making
processes related to disaster risk reduction and management. In particular, Mr1

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SUZUKI highlighted the following features of the project:
1) integration of social factors in applying scientificinnovations, e.g., remote sensing technology, AI data
analysis science, and digital twinning; 2) modeling ofdecision criteria for decision-making based on scientificfacts, including collaboration between public and private
sectors in verifying test results; and 3) real-timeunderstanding of damage situations based on big data
analysis and research prediction.
Participants of the SDMOF gained greater insights on
the importance of cooperation through public-private
partnerships to improve responsiveness with a focus oninteroperability of information systems for decision making.
SDMOF-17
Mr SUZUKI noted that the lead agency of this project is theCenter for Environmental Remote Sensing of Chiba University with ADRC, Japan Aerospace Exploration
Agency (JAXA), Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITech), Oriental Consultant Global (OCG), Weather
News INC., and Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Co., Ltd as participating agencies. The project also partners
with the Italian space agency, Centro Italiano Ricerche Aerospaziali (CIRA).

● ADRC Staff Profile
Mr TAKAISO Mamoru, Senior Administrative Manager
My name is TAKAISO Mamoru, and I was dispatched fromHyogo Prefecture as of 1 April 2024. In my previousposition, I was in charge of the administration department at
the Hyogo Prefectural Industrial Technology Center, which
provides technical support to small and medium-sized
manufacturing companies in Hyogo Prefecture.
I worked for a long time in the promotion of theprefecture’s industries and for internal management andcoordination inside the prefectural office. My experience indisaster risk reduction is limited including that I have notdirectly experienced the shock of the Great Hanshin-Awaji
Earthquake, as I was dispatched to the Ministry of Economy,
Trade and Industry in Tokyo at that time. However, threemonths after the earthquake, I returned to Hyogo Prefectureand for five years since then, I was mainly involved in restoration and reconstruction projects for theprefecture’s industries.
With disasters on the increase in recent years, ADRC’s role is becoming more and more important indeveloping projects and multilateral networks to enhance disaster preparedness of its member countries andto create communities where people can live safely.
In this context, I am happy that I was given this opportunity to work for ADRC regardless of my lack ofexperience in the field of international disaster risk reduction. I am determined to fulfill my responsibilities
and to contribute to the ADRC activities.

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