9 December 2024 - 20 February 2025
ADRC conducted a JICA Knowledge Co-Creation Program "Comprehensive Disaster Risk Reduction (Toward a Resilient Society)" from 9 December 2024 to 20 February 2025, with the cooperation of JICA Kansai. Six government officials from five countries: Kosovo, Pakistan, Turkiye, Viet Nam, and Yemen, participated in this course, learning how to formulate and implement local DRR plans to promote DRR measures in each country.
It was conducted in a hybrid format, where participants attended online programs before coming to Japan for the in-person program. During the five-week program in Japan, the participants attended site visits and lectures at disaster-related organisations/facilities in Hyogo, Nara, and Kumamoto prefectures, and participated in events related to the 30th commemoration of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, to learn about Japanese experiences and countermeasures of DRR. Furthermore, they exchanged information and discussed each country's budget and policy issues to promote DRR. At the end of the course, they presented a draft local DRR plan, which they formulated through the program.
(2025/02/27 15:00)