Meeting material of the 4th ICHARM Governing Board MeetingISSN 0386-5878 Technical Note of PWRI No....

ISSN 0386-5878Technical Note of PWRI No. 4403

Meeting material of

the 4th ICHARM Governing Board Meeting

July 2020

International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management under the auspices of UNESCO (ICHARM)

PUBLIC WORKS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (PWRI)

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Technical Note of PWRI No. 4403

Meeting material of


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International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management

under the auspices of UNESCO (ICHARM)

Synopsis:

水災害・リスクマネジメント国際センター（ICHARM）は、日本政府と UNESCO 間の協

定に基づき、UNESCO カテゴリー2 センターとして 2006 年 3 月に土木研究所の一部門とし

て設立された。2020 年 2 月にその協定が更新されたのを受け、協定第 6 条に基づいて 2020年 6 月 2 日に 4th ICHARM Governing Board Meeting（第 4 回 ICHARM 運営理事会会合）を

開催した。理事会は、土木研究所理事長を含む 9 名で構成され、その手続規則「Rules of Procedure」

の採択、2018 年 4 月から 2 年間の活動報告「ICHARM Activity Report」の審査、及び 2020年度の具体的な事業計画「ICHARM Work Plan」の審査・採択が行われた。本稿は当該会合

で了承された事項を会議資料としてまとめたものである。 Key Words: Water-related disaster, Activity Report, Work Plan

Meeting material of the 4th ICHARM Governing Board Meeting

- Table of Contents -

1. Agenda ................................................................................................................................................ 1

2. List of Participants .................................................................................................................................. 2

3. Rules of Procedure ................................................................................................................................... 3

5. ICHARM Program .................................................................................................................................. 5

4. ICHARM Activity Report ..................................................................................................................... 15

6. ICHARM Work Plan ........................................................................................................................... 110 Annex 1

AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF JAPAN AND THE UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION (UNESCO) REGARDING THE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR WATER HAZARD AND RISK MANAGEMENT (ICHARM) (CATEGORY 2) UNDER THE AUSPICES OF UNESCO

………………………………………………………………………………………………….120

Annex 2 Powerpoint on the Agreement by the Deputy Director of ICHARM (International Coordination) ………………………………………………………………………………………………….127

Annex 3 Powerpoint on ICHARM Activity report by the Executive Director ………………………………………………………………………………………………….129 参考資料）日本語版会議資料

ICHARM 4th Governing Board Meeting

Date: June 2, 2020, Tuesday, 16:00-18:00

Venue: Web Meeting

Agenda:

Opening by Chairperson, President of PWRI

Self-introduction by Governing Board Members

Introduction of the Agreement between UNESCO and the Government

of Japan regarding the Continuation in Japan of ICHARM

Rules and procedures for ICHARM Governing Board (Confirmation)

Examination of ICHARM Activity Report

Examination and adoption of ICHARM Work plan

Closing

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4th ICHARM Governing Board MeetingParticipants List

(Alphabetically order of the organization)

Akihiko TANAKAPresident, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS)

Fadi Georges COMAIRChair of UNESCO-IHP Intergovernmental Council, Director General of Hydraulic and Electric Resources, Ministry of Energy and Water, Lebanon

Eiji IWASAKIDirector General of Global Environment Department, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), on behalf of Mr. Shinichi KITAOKA, President, JICA

Kunihiro YAMADAVice Minister for Engineering Affairs, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT)

Kazuhiro NISHIKAWA (Chairperson)President, Public Works Research Institute (PWRI)

Yuki MATSUOKAHead of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) Office in Japan, on behalf of Ms. Paola ALBRITO, Chief of Branch, Intergovernmental Processes, Interagency Cooperation and Partnerships, UNDRR

Youssef FILALI-MEKNASSIDirector, Division of Water Sciences, Secretary of IHP, on behalf of Ms. AudreyAzoulay, Director-General, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

Kaoru TAKARA Chair Holder, Research and Educational Unit of UNESCO Chair on Water, Energy

and Disaster Management (WENDI), Professor and Dean, GSAIS in Human Survivability, Kyoto University

Johannes CULLMANNDirector, Water and Cryosphere, World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

(Secretariat)Hiroshi WATANABE, Vice President, PWRIHisaya SAWANO, Director of Planning and Research Administration Department, PWRIToshio KOIKE, Executive Director, ICHARMShinji EGASHIRA, Research and Training Advisor, ICHARMHiroyuki ITO, Deputy Director of ICHARM,

Director of Water-related Hazard Research Group, PWRITetsuya IKEDA, Deputy Director of ICHARM (International Coordination),

Director for Special Research, PWRIMasakazu FUJIKANE, Chief Researcher, ICHARMTomoyuki OKADA, Chief Researcher, ICHARMKatsuhiro ONUMA, Chief Researcher, ICHARM

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Rules of Procedure for ICHARM Governing Board

Article 1 IntentThese Rules of Procedure (hereinafter referred to as “the Rules”) shall

state the necessary matters which shall guide proceedings of the International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM) Governing Board (hereinafter referred to as “the Governing Board”) meeting, subject to Article 6 of the agreement between the Government of Japan and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) regarding the continuation, in Japan, of the International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (category 2) under the auspices of UNESCO, signed on 13 February 2020(hereinafter referred to as “the Agreement”).

Article 2 Composition 1) The members of the Governing Board will be composed as provided

for by Article 6 of the Agreement. The President of the National Research and Development Agency Public Works Research Institute, Japan will be designated as Chairperson of the Governing Board.

2) The members of the Governing Board shall be appointed by the Chairperson.

3) The term of office for each Governing Board member appointed by the Chairperson shall be three years. This term may be extended by re- appointment.

Article 3 Board Meetings, Quorum, and Minutes1) The functions of the Governing Board shall be prescribed as provided

for by Article 6 of the Agreement. 2) The Chairperson shall convene the Governing Board meeting.

Participation by a majority of Governing Board members shall be necessary to proceed with the Governing Board meeting.

3) The majority agreement of all attendees shall be necessary for the adoption.

4) The official language of the Governing Board meeting shall be English.

5) The secretariat of the Governing Board (referred to in Article 4) shall take minutes of the Governing Board meetings.

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Article 4 SecretariatICHARM shall function as the secretariat of the Governing Board.

Article 5 Amendment of the RulesThe Rules may be amended during a Governing Board meeting by

consent of the majority of attendees. The Chairperson can ask for electronic votes when urgent decision issues relevant to the Rules arise between meetings. The decisions in such cases shall be made by consent of the majority of the members who have voted by deadlines.

Article 6 Miscellaneous ProvisionsMiscellaneous provisions necessary for the management of the

Governing Board but not included in the Rules shall be decided by the Chairperson in consultation with the Governing Board members.

Supplementary ProvisionsThe Rules shall be enacted on 2 June 2020.

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ICHARM Program

1. Mission of ICHARMThe mission of ICHARM is to serve as the Global Centre of Excellence for Water Hazard and

Risk Management by, inter alia, observing and analyzing natural and social phenomena, developing methodologies and tools, building capacities, creating knowledge networks, and disseminating lessons and information in order to help governments and all stakeholders manage risks of water related hazards at global, national, and community levels. The hazards to be addressed include floods, droughts, landslides, debris flows, tsunamis, storm surges, water contamination, and snow and ice disasters.

We envision a Center of Excellence housing a group of leading people, superior facilities, and a knowledge base which enables conducting i) innovative research, ii) effective capacity building,and iii) efficient information networking. Based on these three pillars, ICHARM will globally serve as a knowledge hub for best national/local practices and an advisor in policy making.

2. Long-term Programme (around 10 years)ICHARM will engage in the following activities in order to fulfill the Mission, keeping in

mind localism, a principle that takes into account local diversity of natural, social and cultural conditions, being sensitive to local needs, priorities, development stage, etc., within the context of global and regional experiences and trends:

( i ) Innovative researchICHARM has accumulated a broad range of knowledge and produced high-quality research

outcomes to make practical policy recommendations and solve problems in the field of water disaster reduction, including methods for observing, forecasting and analyzing water related disaster hazards and methods for assessing, analyzing and monitoring exposure and vulnerability.

Important global decisions were made and came to fruition in 2015, with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 (Sendai Framework) in March, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change (Paris Agreement) in December. These decisions emphasized the current disaster risk reduction on water hazard through a holistic view of the changes in hazards arising from climate change, and in vulnerabilities and exposures arising from societal and environmental problems, and also stressed the importance of future disaster risk reduction through monitoring and prediction of water related hazard risks. Another area commonly pointed out in these agreements is the challenge of building disaster resilient communities, referring to ones practicing the enhancement of disaster preparedness to minimize damage and prevent disasters similar to

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previous ones, while, once hit by a disaster, quickly shifting their focus to emergency response efforts and then to restoration and recovery under the concept of “Build Back Better”.Additionally, it is worth noting that all these agreements strongly recommend maximizing the role of science and technology in these efforts.

Based on the background above, ICHARM will implement the following research in cooperation with other organizations:

(1) Data collection, storage, sharing, and statistics on water related disastersIt is often difficult for developing countries to formulate effective disaster management

plans suitable for the characteristics of water related disasters and local-specific natural and social conditions. This can be attributed to insufficient systems to collect, store, share and statistically arrange data on disaster damage and hydrological and meteorological events. Recognizing such attributions as the most fundamental gaps in disaster risk reduction, ICHARM will implement research on data collection, storage, sharing, and statistics on water related disasters as one of its major research themes.

ICHARM will conduct research on technologies to collect and store data and information regarding hazards, exposure and vulnerability, and to share them among stakeholders while facilitating national and local efforts to collect, store and share data through developing and applying feasible technologies for data collection and information sharing among stakeholders. ICHARM will also promote such efforts by developing methods of combininglocal data with satellite observation or numerical model outputs to produce data and information for a wide area that cannot be obtained if a system depends solely on local observation. Technical assistance will be provided in other related areas, for example, for countries to compile highly reliable statistical data and to develop a database for stakeholders to exchange and share data and information in real time.

As such, ICHARM will continue its contribution to disaster risk reduction through the research on data collection, storage, sharing, and statistics as the most fundamental infrastructure.

(2) Risk assessment on water related disastersICHARM has been developing technologies and methods for risk assessment of water

related disasters as an independent knowledge from each other; for example, hazard assessment technologies such as the Integrated Flood Analysis System (IFAS) and the Rainfall-Runoff-Inundation (RRI) model and vulnerability assessment methods such as an economic damage assessment method separately. However, it is important to effectively integrate the assessment of hazards, exposures and vulnerabilities in order to promote the shared understanding of water related disaster risk among all stakeholders on a basin-widescale.

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ICHARM will develop, verify and improve methodologies to integrate the assessment of hazards, exposures and vulnerabilities. ICHARM will conduct case studies into risk assessment of water related disasters, taking local conditions into account, and use the outputs to assist local communities in their own risk assessment and disaster risk reductiontailored to local backgrounds. Additionally, since monitoring methods for its global targets in the Sendai Framework has not been agreed, ICHARM tries to make a contribution to the development of a globally applicable method by conducting and comparing the results of such local case studies.

As such, ICHARM will contribute to the relevant information creation for supporting risk communication and understanding the risk of water related disasters.

(3) Monitoring and prediction of changes in water related disaster riskWater related disaster risk changes over time due to the changes in hazards arising from

climate change and also the changes in vulnerabilities arising from urbanization. Under such increases in risks, prevention measures based on the present risk information may not be effective on future disasters. Furthermore, without properly estimating the effects of measures planned under the increased risk, the economic efficiency of disaster-related investment might be underestimated. To avoid such misperception, ICHARM will continue research on forecasting future risk derived from the change between the past and the present.

Specific research themes include the development, verification and improvement of methods for monitoring and forecasting changes in hazards due to climate changes with various temporal scales ranging from season to a longer period of time under the influence of climate change, and also include the development, verification and improvement of methods for monitoring and forecasting changes in exposure and vulnerability to water relateddisasters due to development or social and economic changes. These methods will be applied to case studies, whose outcomes will be used to provide support for local communities to arrange the methods according to their needs and conditions so that they will effectively use the modified methods to mitigate future risks of water related disasters by themselves. The methods with various local adjustments will be further developed and compared with each other, eventually becoming applicable as global standards.

ICHARM will continue its contribution to effective disaster risk policymaking under the increased risk of water related disasters.

(4) Proposal, evaluation and application of policy ideas for water related disaster risk reductionIrrationally low priority of the investment in disaster risk reduction creates many disasters

and disturbs sustainable development in developing countries. ICHARM will propose andevaluate policy ideas for water related disaster risk reduction based on the local backgrounds

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in order to visualize the effectiveness and efficiency on investments in disaster risk reduction.The research includes the analysis on concrete policy ideas in terms of adaptability to the

actual field with considering the local lifestyle, socio-economic activities and future changes of risk, and building consensus among stakeholders regarding the significance of disaster risk reduction policies in the context of sustainable development under climate change, to support the formulation of independent and new policy proposal by each country. The research also develops methods and models capable of evaluating the socio-economic effect of individual disaster related policies. Applying the developed risk assessment methods in (2), methods and models for policy evaluation and decision making will be developed, verified, and improved.These case studies will be applied through international projects.

As such, ICHARM will continue its contribution to the decision-making on investments indisaster risk reduction by states and funding agencies.

(5) Support in constructing the applicability of water-related disaster managementAlthough some cases have reported that disaster reduction measures were highly effective,

other cases have also reported on unfortunate incidents in which the malfunction of communicating critical information to residents delayed their evacuation and resulted in acatastrophe. It has also pointed out that communities should take appropriate relief andemergency measures for prompt restoration and better recovery even at the unexpectedly large-scale disaster. This shows the necessity of technical support that local governments and residents should be well aware of disaster prevention and mitigation, and then implement them in practice. With the wide understanding of the structure of local communities and the patterns of human behavior, ICHARM will develop and apply the methods of planning and implementing a wide range of disaster management measures effectively during disasterswith consensus building among stakeholders.

ICHARM will support the implementation of means for effectively sharing information from an early warning system and other sources among administrators and residents, and also support the development, verification and application of the collaboration among various sectors for disaster risk reduction, continuity of operations planning based on local needs and conditions, and the improvement of interoperability during disaster responses linking administrative functions effectively at all levels.

As such, ICHARM will continue its contribution to constructing local applicability of water related disaster management through improving practitioners’ and people’s understanding on disaster risk and their practice.

( ii ) Effective capacity building

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Local capacity is essential to sound management of water related risks. Through provision of cutting-edge training which emphasizes development and application of advanced knowledge and solutions, ICHARM supports a global network of exemplary practitioners of water relatedhazard and risk management.

(1) Foster the development of solution-oriented practitioners and Training-of-Trainers (TOT) instructors, with solid theoretical and engineering competence who will contribute effectively to the planning and practice of disaster management at any levels, from local to international.

(2) Build a network of local experts and institutions equipped to address water related risks with accumulated knowledge and applied skill both in research and practice, through trainings on occasion of international projects and education/training activities at ICHARM.

( iii ) Efficient information networkingICHARM’s broad knowledge base and primary research findings support powerful and

comprehensive opinions which guide water related hazard and risk management solutions from global to local scales.

(1) Accumulate, analyze and disseminate major water related disaster records and experiences through worldwide practitioners’ networking.

(2) Mainstream disaster risk reduction policy by facilitating active collaboration and communication within an influential global institutional network, such as the International Flood Initiative, and through dissemination of technical knowledge for water related hazard and risk management.

3 Mid-term Programme (around 5 years)In order to achieve the Mission, we will focus ICHARM activities collaborated with other

organizations in the next 5 years to:

( i ) Innovative research

(1) Data collection, storage, sharing and statistics on water related disastersICHARM will conduct research on technologies to collect and store data and information regarding hazards, exposures and vulnerabilities in multiple locations both in and outside Japan, and to share them among stakeholders while facilitating national and local efforts to collect, store, and share data through developing and applying feasible technologies for data collection and information sharing among stakeholders. Technical assistance will be provided for countries to compile highly reliable statistical data.

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(2) Risk assessment on water related disastersICHARM will develop, verify and improve methodologies to integrate the assessments of hazards, exposures and vulnerabilities. ICHARM will conduct case studies in multiple locations both in and outside Japan into risk assessment on water related disasters, taking local conditions into account, and use the outputs to assist local communities in their own risk assessment and disaster risk reduction tailored to local backgrounds.

(3) Monitoring and prediction of changes in water related disaster riskICHARM will develop, verify and improve methods for monitoring and forecasting changes in hazards due to climate changes with various temporal scales ranging from season to a longer period of time under the influence of climate change, and in exposure and vulnerability to water related disasters due to development or social and economic changes.These methods will be applied to case studies in multiple locations both in and outside Japan,and outcomes will be used to provide support for local communities to arrange the methods according to their needs and conditions so that they will effectively use the modified methodsto mitigate future risks of water related disasters by themselves. The methods with various local adjustments will be further developed and compared with each other, eventually becoming applicable as global standards.

(4) Proposal, evaluation and application of policy ideas for water related disaster risk reductionICHARM will develop methods and models capable of evaluating the socio-economic effect of individual disaster related policies. These methods and models will be expected to build consensus among stakeholders regarding the significance of disaster risk reduction policies in the context of sustainable development under climate change, and will help develop policiesbased on local needs and conditions and make decisions on international assistance. Applying the developed risk assessment methods in 3-(2), the methods and models for comprehensive policy evaluation and decision making will be developed and verified.

(5) Support in constructing the applicability of water-related disaster managementICHARM will support the implementation of means for effectively sharing information from an early warning system and other sources among administrators and residents, and also support the development, verification and application of the collaboration among various sectors for disaster risk reduction, continuity of operations planning based on local needs and conditions, and the improvement of interoperability during disaster response liking administrative functions effectively at all levels in multiple locations both in and outside Japan.

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The following research projects (a) (e) will be set for the maximum reduction in water related disaster damage based on the mid-term research programmes above:

(a) Technology for constantly monitoring, storing and using disaster information (b) Support system for early warning capable of providing accurate information in a

shorter period of time(c) Assessment and planning technology for appropriate water resources management

with insufficient information(d) Technology for assessing the impact on local communities of water related disasters

in flood plains and for evaluating the effect of investments in disaster risk reduction (e) Technology for the effective use of water related disaster risk information to reduce

disaster damage

The relationship between the long-term and mid-term research programmes and the research projects (a) (e) is shown in Reference 1.

( ii ) Effective capacity building

(1) Foster the development of solution-oriented practitioners and those who can provide Training-of-Trainers (TOT) programs with solid theoretical and engineering competence who will contribute effectively to the planning and practice of disaster management at any levels, from local to international.

In stronger collaboration with GRIPS and JICA, ICHARM will continue to build and improve its Master’s and PhD programs in Water-related Disaster Management, as well as its short-term capacity development training programs. Training schedules and programs, particularly at the PhD level, will be integrated seamlessly with ICHARM research activities, creating new opportunities for student involvement in a greater scope of research topics and methods, and supporting mentorship from a wider range of ICHARM researchers. New approaches will be explored to offer training programs as a module/package, or through e-learning/remote style that can contribute to more flexible and efficient training.

(2) Build a network of local experts and institutions equipped to address water related risks with accumulated knowledge and applied skill both in research and practice.

As graduates from ICHARM training programs circulate across the globe, carrying with them the skills and knowledge they have acquired in their training, they become water hazard and

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risk management leaders in their own localities. The next generation of ICHARM capacity development will continue to support individuals in their pursuit of academic excellence and successful application of learned skills. However, ICHARM will also broaden focus to joint development of individual and institutional capacity, so as to enable supportive spaces in which ICHARM alumni are able to realize their potential. Support of ICHARM alumni networks are a key resource for former participants, which will be encouraged and facilitated through follow-up meetings for former participants and their colleagues, to be hosted within the local offices and agencies that employ ICHARM graduates. Such meetings will help ICHARM to build and strengthen a global network of experts and organizations, to maintain research and training directions which are attuned to the needs of participant agencies, and to continue building capacities and collaborations within key organizations.

( iii ) Efficient information networking

(1) Accumulate, analyze and disseminate major water related disaster records and experiences through worldwide practitioners’ networking.

ICHARM, as the global knowledge center for water hazards, will develop a database archiving information about water disasters. In order to collect and organize reliable data, ICHARM will strengthen partnerships with centers capable of archiving information related to water disasters. Meta-data collected from countries through ICHARM research and training will be sorted and accumulated as scientific knowledge which will be conductive to allowing appropriate behavior in field.

(2) Mainstream disaster risk reduction policy by facilitating active collaboration and communication within an influential global institutional network, such as the International Flood Initiative, and through dissemination of technical knowledge for water related hazard and risk management.

ICHARM will continue its contribution to worldwide efforts in implementing and mainstreaming disaster risk reduction in step with the Sendai Framework in March and SDGsin December 2015. ICHARM will strive to strengthen partnerships with other organizations,particularly through the International Flood Initiative, for which ICHARM serves as its secretariat. Effective interaction between ICHARM research and training activities will make it possible to engage a broad institutional network and allow appropriate behavior in field regarding water related hazard and risk management.

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Reference 1 Matrix of the relationship between the long-term and mid-term research programmesand the five research projects (a) (e)Long-term and Mid-term research programmes Key words Long term Programme (April 2016- March 2026)

Mid-term Programme (April 2016 – March 2021)


(1) Data collection, storage, sharing, and statistics on water related disasters

1) Development of an integrated hazard data production method using on-site observation, satellite observation, and numerical models, including functions for storing and sharing the produced data.2) Development of a method for producing information on land use, socio-economic activities, etc., to estimate vulnerability and exposure, including functions for storing and sharing the produced information.3) Development and implementation of a method for on-site damage data collection, including functions for storing and sharing the collected data.4) Development of an integrated method for producing damage information using on-site observation, satellite observation and numerical models, including functions for storing and sharing the produced information.5) Technical assistance in producing, storing and sharing reliable disaster statistics.6) Development of a water related disaster database.

(2) Risk assessment on water related disasters 1) Development, verification and improvement of models for flood, inundation, sediment disaster and drought.2) Improvement of downscaling and bias correction methods to strengthen the linkage between local- and global-scale data3) Development, verification and improvement of assessment methods for vulnerability and exposure4) Development, verification and improvement of a method for integrated assessment of the overall impact from a series of processes including hazard, exposure and vulnerability.5) Case studies on the identification of water related disaster risks and possible damage6) International comparison and standardization of water related disaster risk assessment methods

(3) Monitoring and prediction of changes in water related disaster risk

1) Development, verification and improvement of a method for monitoring and forecasting changes in hazard due to climate change. 2) Development, verification and improvement of a method for monitoring and forecasting changes in vulnerability and exposure due to development3) Case studies on monitoring and forecasting changes in water related disaster risk4) Study and comparison of international cases on changes in water related disaster risk.

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Long-term and Mid-term research programmes Key words Long term Programme (April 2016- March 2026)Mid-term Programme (April 2016 – March 2021)


(4) Proposal, evaluation and application of policy ideas for water related disaster risk reduction

1) Proposal and evaluation of policy ideas for water related disaster risk reduction based on local backgrounds in order to visualize the effectiveness and efficiency on investments in disaster risk reduction2) Development of methods and models capable of evaluating the socio-economic effect of disaster related policies.3) Development, verification and improvement of methods and models for policy evaluation and decision making.

(5) Support in constructing the applicability of water-related disaster management

1) Development of an early warning system.

2) Optimization of water management system operation3) Technical assistance in raising disaster risk awareness of residents and administrators (visualization of disaster processes, risk communication) 4) Technical assistance in strengthening coordinated disaster response involving different sectors.5) Technical assistance in development and implementation of a method for local-specific business continuity planning.6) Development and verification of a method for establishing disaster response governance to effectively linking administrative bodies at all levels.

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ICHARMActivityReport

FY2018-2019

For the 4th ICHARM Governing Board

On 2 June 2020

International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management under the auspices of UNESCO (ICHARM),

Public Works Research Institute (PWRI), Japan

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Contents

Abbreviation

Introduction 11.1 Research1.2 Education and training1.3 Information networking

Special topics 52.1 Development of a real-time agriculture drought monitoring and seasonal prediction

system2.2 Study on Flood Awareness by Flood Simulated Experience using Virtual Reality 2.3 Research Group on River Basin Design with Sediment Transport Processes2.4 New Ph.D. Training for “Water and Disaster” Policy Leaders in Collaboration with

GRIPS2.5 Key activities of IFI2.6 Special lecture by Mr. Koichiro Matsuura, the 8th Director-General of UNESCO

Research 123.1 Water-related disaster data archiving, sharing and statistics3.2 Risk assessment on water-related disasters3.3 Monitoring and forecasting water-related disaster risk changes3.4 Support through proposal, evaluation and application of policies for water disaster risk

reduction3.5 Support for improving the capacity to practice disaster prevention and mitigation

Training 234.1 Master’s program: Water-related Risk Management Course of Disaster Management

Policy Program4.2 Doctoral program: Disaster Management Program4.3 Short-term training4.4 Follow-up Seminar for ICHARM Alumni4.5 Internship

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5.1 International Flood Initiative5.2 Contribution to the international community5.3 Contribution to the Typhoon Committee5.4 Leading the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)/Regional Cooperative

Agreement (RCA) RAS/7/030 Project on “Assessing Deep Groundwater Resources for Sustainable Management through Utilization of Isotopic Techniques” in Japan

5.5 Visitors

Academic Field Surveys in Japan and Overseas Countries 466.1 Field Surveys of the July 2018 Torrential Rain Disaster in Western Japan6.2 Field Surveys of Disaster Damage by the Torrential Rainfall Due to Typhoon No.19

(Hagibis)6.3 Field Survey on Geomorphological Changes of the Sittaung River Estuary6.4 Field Survey on Sediment Transport Processes and Associated Changes in Coastal

Geomorphology in the Tonlé Sap Lake

Public relations and other important activities 497.1 Awards7.2 ICHARM Open day7.3 Virtual flood experience for the public7.4 Newsletters and website7.5 ICHARM R&D Seminars7.6 Research Meeting

ANNEX 1 Number of Alumni of ICHARM training program(as of March 2020, with possibility) 54

ANNEX 2 List of the Master Theses in 2017-18 & 2018-19 55

ANNEX 3 List of Ph.D Theses accepted in FY2018 & 2019 55

ANNEX4 List of internships in FY2018 & 2019 at ICHARM 56

ANNEX 5 ICHARM Publication List (January 2018 March 2020) 57

ANNEX 6 Appraisal of the ICHARM Work Plan adopted at Governing Board meeting on 14 February 2018 75

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Abbreviation

ACECC Asian Civil Engineering Coordinating Council

ADB Asian Development Bank

ADBI Asian Development Bank Institute

ADCP Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler

ADRC Asian Disaster Reduction Center

AGRHYMET AGRrometeorology, HYdrology, METeorology Regional Centre

AMSR2 Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2

AOGEO Asia-Oceania Group on Earth Observations

AOP Annual Operating Plan

APFM Associated Programme on Flood Management

APWF Asia-Pacific Water Forum

APWS Asia-Pacific Water Summit

Area-BCM Area- Business Continuity Management

ARIS Agatown Risk Information System

ASEAN

AWCI Asian Water Cycle Initiative

BOSS Bosai-Business Operation Support System

CECAR Civil Engineering Conference in the Asian Region

CHy Commission of Hydrology

CLVDAS Coupled Land and Vegetation Data Assimilation System

COIIS Commission for Observation, Infrastructures and Information Systems

CSA Commission for Weather, Climate, Water and Related Environmental Service

Applications

DIAS Data Integration and Analysis System

DSM Digital Surface Model

DWIR Directorate of Water Resources and Improvement of River Systems

EDITORIA Earth Observation Data Integration and Fusion Research Initiative

ET Evapotranspiration

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FUNCEME Fundação Cearense de Meteorologia e Recursos Hídricos

GCM General Circulation Models

GCOM-W Global Change Observation Mission – Water

GEOSS Global Earth Observation System of Systems

GFDL Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Climate Model

GLDAS Global Land Data Assimilation System

GRIPS National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies

GSMaP Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation

GUI Graphical User Interface

GWP Global Water Partnership

HELP High-level Experts and Leaders Panel on Water and Disasters

HMD Head Mounted Display

HLPF High Level Political Forum

HLPW High Level Panel on Water

IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency

IAHS International Association of Hydrological Sciences

ICFM International Conference on Flood Management

ICHARM International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management

IDRIS ICHARM Disaster Risk Information System

IFAS Integrated Flood Analysis System

IFI International Flood Initiative

iRIC International River Interface Cooperative

IWS Integrated Workshop

JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

JICA Japan International Cooperation Agency

JMA Japan Meteorological Agency

JST Japan Science and Technology Agency

LAI Leaf Area Index

LDAS-UT Land Data Assimilation System of The University of Tokyo

MJIIT Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology

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MLIT Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism

MoC Memorandum of Cooperation

MOFA Ministry of Foreign Affairs

MoU Memorandum of Understanding

MRI-AGCM Meteorological Research Institute - Atmospheric General Circulation Model

NBA Niger River Basin Authority

NBRO National Building Research Organization

NILIM National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management

NCEP National Centers for Environmental Prediction

NEDM Northeast Drought Monitor

NGO Non-Governmental Organization

PAGASA Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services

Administration

PF Particle Filter

PRISM Public/Private R&D Investment Strategic Expansion Program

PTC Panel on Tropical Cyclones

PWRI Public Works Research Institute

R&D Seminar Research and Development Seminar

RCA Regional Cooperative Agreement

RRI Rainfall-Runoff-Inundation

RSC-AP Regional Steering Committee for Asia and the Pacific

RTC Regional Training Course

SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar

SATREPS Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development

SBP Support Base Partner

SDGs Sustainable Development Goals

SIMRIW Simulation Model for Rice-Weather Relationships

SIP Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program

SNS Social Networking Service

SPADE Spatial Data Analysis Explorer

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TOUGOU Integrated Research Program for Advancing Climate Models

UCCR Urban Climate Change Resilience

UNDRR United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

UNESCAP United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

UNESCO-IHP UNESCO- Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme

UNISDR United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

UTM Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

VBA Volta Basin Authority

VR Virtual Reality

WADiRe-Africa Water Disaster Platform to Enhance Climate Resilience in Africa

WBF World BOSAI Forum

WEB-DHM Water and Energy Budget-based Distributed Hydrological Model

WEB-DHM-S Water and Energy Budget-based Distributed Hydrological Model-Snow

WEB-RRI Water and Energy Balance-based Rainfall Runoff Inundation

WGDRR Working Group on Disaster Risk Reduction

WGH Working Group on Hydrology

WGM Working Group on Meteorology

WMO World Meteorological Organization

WRF model Weather Research and Forecasting model

WWAP World Water Assessment Programme

WWDR World Water Development Report

WWF World Water Forum

Web-GIS Web Geographic Information System

X Band

MP Radar

X-band polarimetric Multi Parameter Radar

YTU Yangon Technological University

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Introduction

1.1 Research1.1.1 Water-related disaster data archiving, sharing, and statistics

ICHARM developed a real-time flood forecasting system for the Pampanga River basin on the Data Integration and Analysis System (DIAS) in collaboration with the Earth Observation Data Integration and Fusion Research Initiative (EDITORIA), managed by the University of Tokyo, and started to provide flood forecasting information to related organizations in the Philippines. ICHARM also developed the prototype system to upload the socio-economic, damage, and hazard datasets of Davao City onto DIAS in collaboration with EDITORIA. This system has a function to archive data with related meta-information such as their element, domain, period, spatial resolution, unit, and data-producing organization.

1.1.2 Water risk assessment ICHARM developed the Water and Energy Budget-based Rainfall-Runoff-Inundation

(WEB-RRI) model to analyze water-related hazard phenomena with high accuracy by integrating the Hydro-SiB2 model capable of calculating the dynamics of the water and energy balance with the Rainfall-Runoff-Inundation (RRI) model capable of 2D runoff/inundation calculation. By using the new model in combination with atmospheric models, it has become possible to evaluate not only flood hazard impacts but also drought hazard impacts due to future climate changes. We developed another model that calculates driftwood behavior as the density of sediment using a water/sediment momentum equation. This model is suitable to reproduce typical flood and sediment hazard phenomena in mountain rivers. We have also been making efforts to disseminate these models by improving their user interfaces and offering training activities for users.

In addition, we built a model for predicting the dam reservoir inflow by utilizing a runoff model called the Water and Energy Budget-based Distributed Hydrological Model-snow (WEB-DHM-S), which estimates snowfall, snow cover and snowmelt quantitatively in combination with rainfall forecasting information from ensemble weather forecasting. We are studying the optimization of the current operation methodology for hydroelectric dams to reduce ineffective dam discharges, improve power generating efficiency during a flood, and secure the storage capacity of a dam reservoir after a flood.

1.1.3 Monitoring and forecasting water-related disaster risk changesICHARM proposed and applied a series of forecasting methods that can take the

uncertainty of forecasting into account to three cities of Vietnam (Hue, Ha Giang, and Vinh Yen) in an ADB project on climate-change impact evaluation. In this study, four GCMs were

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selected for their high expressiveness for meteorological factors; the uncertainty originating in GCMs concerning future prediction were evaluated by applying statistical downscaling (DS); future climate scenarios were created using dynamic DS; and flood risk evaluation was conducted using the RRI model.

1.1.4 Support through proposal, evaluation and application of policies for water disaster risk reduction

In the World Bank Brazil project, ICHARM developed a real-time agriculture drought monitoring and seasonal prediction system for Ceará State in the Brazilian Northeast. By using a Leaf Area Index (LAI), which is output from this system, a method was also devised to estimate crop yield and the required volume of irrigation water. Furthermore, ICHARM developed a high spatial-resolution system (1km grid) to estimate LAI growth for the Banabuiú River basin, the most important basin in Ceará State. In addition, considering that researchers familiar with local conditions should improve the system after learning its basic theory, two researchers of the Northeast States Meteorology and Water Resources Foundation (FUNCEME), which is responsible for the meteorological drought monitoring and prediction, were invited and received training at ICHARM.

Japan has many small and medium river basins. Since the water level during a flood rises sharply in those rivers, riverside areas are exposed to a high flood risk with many residents at a high risk of failing to evacuate safely. To address this problem, ICHARM developed an inexpensive, simple technology for water-level prediction in the Public/Private R&D Investment Strategic Expansion Program (PRISM), established by the Cabinet Office in FY2018, in cooperation with local offices of MLIT. The system is designed to use real-time water-level data collected from water gauges which have recently been installed in many rivers specifically for emergency use during a flood.

In West Africa, flood disasters often occur in the Niger and Volta River basins, causing deaths and hindering the development of the countries in the region. Hence, UNESCO decided to develop flood monitoring and prediction systems over those basins and their surrounding areas in an effort to reduce human damage using flood information provided by the systems. After concluding a partnership agreement with UNESCO in the framework of the Water Disaster Platform to Enhance Climate Resilience in Africa, ICHARM developed aflood early warning system for the Niger and Volta River basins to help reduce water disaster risks. Simultaneously, ICHARM invited engineers of AGRHYMET and VBA to Japan and provided training about the flood early warning system and flood risk management.

As the representative organization for disaster risk analysis and evaluation in the ongoing SATREPS project in Thailand, “Enhance regional resilience through visualization of disaster risks with industry, government and academia collaboration,” ICHARM has been developing

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a flood inundation prediction model for the entire Chao Phraya River basin and the industrial centers in order to prepare detailed information on water disaster risks.

1.1.5 Technological support for strengthening the capabilities of local governments in water-related disaster management

ICHARM has been conducting research to assist local governments in strengthening their water-related disaster management capabilities. Our current research focuses on creating new flood risk indicators using inundation simulation results by the RRI model and finding ways to improve flood risk information sharing to assist local governments in mountainous areas facing the lack of disaster information for the safe evacuation of residents. We also developed a new portal site for disaster information sharing that allows one-stop viewing of water-related disaster information, and opened it for the public as test operation not only for emergency use but also for improving the abilities of local governments and residents in disaster prevention and mitigation in normal times.

In addition, we conducted questionnaire surveys from a perspective of behavioral economics for residents living in areas affected by disasters in recent years. Based on the findings that a flood experience leads residents to take appropriate actions such as early evacuation, we developed simple simulation software using virtual reality (VR) technologyfor people to experience simulated inundation in a private house.

We have also been studying new indicators to evaluate the aspects of disaster cases that have not been evaluated adequately by existing methods. For example, we have conductedon-site interviews and questionnaire surveys to identify indicators that can be used to evaluate the resilience of residents and businesses in particular and the resilience of communitiesaffected by water-related disasters in general.

Furthermore, to assist local governments in improving its capacity to use a disaster response timeline effectively, we studied disaster reports reviewing disaster response efforts in past water-related disasters and analyzed issues to be overcome for strengthening the capacity of administrative staff to take timely actions in time of a disaster.

1.2 Education and trainingICHARM has provided educational and training programs that are designed to strengthen the

capabilities of both individuals and organizations in disaster management.The main programs include: 1. One-year master's degree program, "Water-related Risk

Management Course of Disaster Management Policy Program," conducted in collaboration with GRIPS and JICA; 2. Three-year doctoral degree program, “Disaster Management Program” jointly conducted with GRIPS; 3. Short-term training programs held in Japan and overseas; 4. Follow-up Seminar held annually overseas for graduates and trainees; and 5. Short- and

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long-term internship programs.From 2018 to 2019, while continuing to provide these training programs, ICHARM stepped

up the efforts to recruit quality candidates who are expected to be responsible for policy development and implementation in the future in respective countries.

In 2018, JICA started a new scholarship program, “Disaster Risk Reduction Leaders Capacity Development for the Sendai Framework Implementation,” for international doctoral students. Since FY2018, two students have been enrolled, using the JICA scholarship. The program will continue to accept new students.

1.3 Information networkingICHARM continues promoting information networking on a global scale. As a UNESCO

category 2 center, it keeps close ties with each UNESCO-IHP and its National Committee, other UNESCO category 2 centers, and UNESCO Chairs. It also maintains cooperative relations with UN organizations such as WMO and UNDRR, and other international and regional organizations such as HELP and the Typhoon Committee (TC).

As the secretariat of IFI, ICHARM is promoting the global effort to establish Platforms on Water Resilience and Disasters based on the Jakarta Statement, which was adopted by the member organizations as the basic action plan of IFI after the elaborations at the October 2016 workshop in Jakarta, Indonesia, and the January 2017 workshop in Tokyo, Japan. ICHARM has been supporting the establishment of Platforms on Water Resilience and Disasters in the Philippines, Myanmar, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. ICHARM has also started providing support for Indonesia.

At the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) Asia-Pacific Symposium and other similar conferences, ICHARM has held the Asian Water Cycle Initiative (AWCI) sessions and invited representatives from the Platform implementing organizations of those countries every year since 2017. In the past meetings, they reported the progress of their Platform projects and discussed how to establish a regional cooperative framework among the participating countries.

During the 2018-2019 period, important international conferences were convened around the world, such as the 8th World Water Forum, the intergovernmental council meeting of UNESCO-IHP, and the 4th UN Special Thematic Session on Water and Disasters. ICHARM participated in those conferences and hosted sessions and side events, which strengthened the relationships with other participants and organizations and expanded the professional and organizational network. Currently, a chief researcher of ICHARM assumes the chair of the Working Group of Hydrology (WGH) in TC, which is an intergovernmental community jointly organized by UNESCAP and WMO. ICHARM is playing the leading role in the implementation of the Annual Operating Plans (AOPs) in collaboration with the TC members.

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Special topics

2.1 Development of a real-time agriculture drought monitoring and seasonal prediction systemIn the World Bank Brazil project (Technical Assistance in Implementing a Pilot of Agriculture

Drought Monitoring and Prediction), DIAS collects and integrates three types of data in real time: the NASA Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS) meteorological global forcing data, the GCOM-W/AMSR2 microwave brightness temperature global data, and the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Climate Model version 2.5 (GFDL) seasonal predictive global precipitation data. By inputting these data into a land surface model, the Coupled Land and Vegetation Data Assimilation System (CLVDAS) can calculate the land water cycle and the dynamic vegetation growth. Then, applying CLVDAS to the Brazilian Northeast, ICHARM developed a DIAS 25km-gridded real-time agriculture drought monitoring and seasonal prediction system for Ceará State in the Brazilian Northeast. The Banabuiú River basin was selected as the target area because the basin is a highly important area in meteorology, hydrology, and agriculture. We also developed the high-spatial-resolution (1km grid) WEB-DHM for this river basin and were provided a crop database of Ceará State by FUNCEME (the Northeast Drought Monitor: NEDM, monitordesecas.ana.gov.br). Using this database and the LAI output from the real-time agriculture drought monitoring and seasonal prediction system developed for Ceará State, we devised a method to estimate crop yield and the required volume of irrigation water and applied the method in order to estimate the 1km-gridded LAI growth for the Banabuiú River basin.

ICHARM attended two meetings related to this project in Washington, D.C.; the Japan-World Bank Seminar on Water and Disasters on June 26, 2019 and the Japan-World Bank Deep Dive into Agricultural

DIAS 25km-gridded real-time agriculture drought monitoring and seasonal prediction

system in the Brazilian Northeast(UL LAI UR Evapotranspiration

LL Land surface soil moisture contentLR Root-zone soil moisture content)

LAI Evapotranspiration

Land surface soil moisture Root-zone soil moisture

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Drought meeting on June 27, 2019. ICHARM presented not only the achievements of this project but also the past achievements and the latest information regarding similar projects in Africa. The meetings were excellent opportunities for ICHARM to share its activities and achievements with the World Bank.

2.2 Study on Flood Awareness by Flood Simulated Experience using Virtual Reality In recent years, floods have recurred frequently, causing significant damage. In particular,

many human casualties have resulted due to delays in evacuation. One of the causes that people fail to evacuate timely is their low awareness towards floods; people tend to think that a disaster will not occur to themselves.

To solve this problem, we developed a “Flood Simulation Experience Application,” whichenables the user to have a realistic flood experience by using VR technology, whose progress has been remarkable in recent years. This application is expected to help people increase awareness towards floods and thus to promote effective and efficient disaster prevention and mitigation activities by residents and other stakeholders involved in disaster prevention,

To verify whether the application raise flood awareness of the residents who have never seen or experienced a flood disaster before and motivate them to take action in time of flooding, we conducted a questionnaire survey for 111 general visitors who tried out the application at an open house event jointly held by NILIM and PWRI on April 19, 2019.

The survey found that the virtual flood experience gave a strong sense of fear to some people who had never experienced a flood before. In addition, for more than half of the participants,even though it was a virtual flood, the experience increased the level of concern about flood disasters. Those who felt fear more intensely during a simulation were more motivated to look at hazard maps.

Overall, the results confirmed that the application helped increase public awareness towards floods and suggested that VR-driven flood experience can contribute to raising public awareness of disaster prevention and increase their motivation to take action for safer evacuation.

We are planning to modify the VR application to realize area-specific flood simulation for different communities.

In addition, we conducted a poster presentation at the World BOSAI Forum in Sendai, Japan, in November 2019 and provided an opportunity for visitors to have a VR flood experience.

Flood simulation experience by VR

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2.3 Research Group on River Basin Design with Sediment Transport ProcessesFlood hazards take place often in mountainous areas, and they are characterized by flooding

with a huge amount of sediment and driftwood, which are produced in numerous landslides and debris flows owing to severe rainfalls. Sediment and driftwood carried by flood flows worsen damage by causing river channel variation and closure. Predictions indicate that the intensity of rainfall is likely to increase temporally and spatially due to climatic change and thus that such flood hazards may occur more frequently. To address this type of flood hazards with runoffs of sediment and driftwood, tools for river channel design should be developed. Focusing on such circumstances, ICHARM formed a research group with domestic researchers in this area and held the first research meeting on January 25 and 30 and the second research meeting on May 25 and 28 in 2018. The participants discussed the results obtained by each researcher and clarified the applicability and issues of existing tools and methods that may be useful to simulate and evaluate floods with sediment and driftwood.

Concurrently, the committee on hydro-science and hydraulic engineering held a workshop on September 11, 2018, to discuss and summarize research findings and their applicability and set a direction for future research regarding debris flows, river bed variation due to sediment runoff, and rainfall events caused by climatic change. The workshop consisted of researchers’ reports and panel discussions. The following topics were chosen for the report session:

Actual conditions and technological issues derived from flood and sediment-related disasters resulting from the Northern Kyusyu Severe Rainfall in July 2017 (Dr. AKIYAMA Juichiro, professor emeritus, Kyushu Institute of Technology)

River planning and management in view of sediment runoff from mountains (Dr.

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FUJITA Masaharu, professor, Kyoto University)

Evaluation of debris-flow behavior and sediment-driftwood runoff (Dr. TAKEBAYASHI Hiroshi, associate professor, Kyoto University)

Scaling of target phenomena and associated modelling, and a simple numerical method for evaluating three-dimensional open channel flows (Dr. UCHIDA Tatsuhiko, associate professor, Hiroshima University)

Prediction of sediment transportation and channel changes (Dr. SHIMIZU Yasuyuki, professor, Hokkaido University)

Change of the severe rainfall pattern resulting from climatic change (Dr. YAMADA Tomohito, associate professor, Hokkaido University)

Unified method for evaluating flood flows with sediment transportation and channelchanges (Dr. EGASHIRA Shinji, research and training advisor, ICHARM)

In the panel discussion, moderated by Prof. KOIKE Toshio, the director of ICHARM, the participants discussed the conditions of severe rainfall and corresponding flood and sediment-related hazards, qualitative resolutions of hazard prediction and evaluation methods, and a suitable research system. The discussion confirmed that analyses and predictions of rainfall occurrences and characteristics suggest that severe rainfall tends to increase its frequency and areal locality. In fact, the occurrence of sediment-related flood hazards has been increasing in local areas as experienced in the Hokkaido-Tohoku severe rainfall event in 20l6and the Northern Kyushu severe rainfall event in 2017. In these events, the river channels clogged and changed drastically owing to supplies of sediment and driftwood, which worsened damage severely. The panel proposed developing methods for river channel design as well as for the delineation of hazardous areas in order to prepare for such hazards. In response to this proposal, the panel discussed, together with the attendees, the current state of the existing models for evaluating landslides and debris flows and their runoff processes involving driftwood, as well as the relation of resolutions and objectives in their predictions, and finally proposed methods to treat these sediment processes occurring at different scales of basin, slope, stream, and reach. A numerical model to evaluate local flows in steep open channels was also proposed, which is useful for designing hydraulic structures.

In addition, the participants discussed issues arising in applying the methods to actual cases, as well as how the research system should be organized and how research findings should be implemented in society. Although a flood flow, for instance, can be evaluated at the reach scale using the depth-averaged Reynolds equation and corresponding sediment-transport and driftwood models, the computed results depend largely on the upstream conditions employed for sediment and driftwood supplies. To specify their boundary conditions reasonably, evaluations need to be done on the spatiotemporal transport processes of sediment and driftwood resulting from landslides and debris flows. Thus, to understand such compound

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phenomena, collaboration with associated research fields is essential. The panel proposed coordinating a collaborative research system in which hydraulic engineering and erosion control engineering will play the leading role while cooperating with meteorology, forestry, geology, geography, and geotechnical engineering. It also proposed facilitating educational interactions among individuals in different areas of research and stressed that close cooperation between the river and Sabo research groups is indispensable to implement ideas in society.

2.4 New Ph.D. Training for “Water and Disaster” Policy Leaders in Collaboration with GRIPSIn 2015, the international community agreed on the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk

Reduction, the Sustainable Development Goals, and the Paris Agreement. In December 2016, the UN General Assembly adopted the Decade of Water for Sustainable Development. These processes have led to the development of a framework for creating a society that can reduce the risk of water disasters and achieve sustainable development under climate change.

In 2010, ICHARM opened a doctoral program, “Disaster Management Program,” in collaboration with GRIPS, aiming to produce experts who can plan and practice disaster prevention and mitigation at a national level and can play a leading role in producing more experts in the field. As of September 2019, the program has graduated nine students with a doctoral degree.

In addition to these achievements, ICHARM and GRIPS jointly planned and created a new doctoral program, aiming to foster specialists with expertise in disaster prevention and mitigation and policy development and implementation, capabilities to create social value, and the leadership in planning and executing policies.

At the same time, JICA launched a new scholarship program, “Disaster Risk Reduction Leaders Capacity Development for the Sendai Framework Implementation,” to support international students in this new doctoral program.

The new doctoral program is targeted at executive candidates of government agencies responsible for disaster management in 11 Asian countries (the Philippines, Vietnam, Indonesia, Myanmar, Fiji, Sri Lanka, Mongolia, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Iran), which are characterized by high natural disaster risks and for which JICA has been providing continuous assistance in disaster prevention.

Since the program shares the fundamental concept with the Disaster Management Program,i.e., the original doctoral course ICHARM jointly offers with GRIPS, the new program has been carried out using the framework of the original course. Since FY2018, two students have been enrolled, using the JICA scholarship. The program will continue to accept new students.

2.5 Key activities of IFIIFI is a worldwide framework to promote collaboration in flood management among

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international organizations such as UNESCO, WMO and UNDRR. ICHARM has been serving as the secretariat since its establishment. In October 2016, the Jakarta Statement was adopted by the member organizations to establish an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary partnership forconsolidating flood risk reduction and sustainable development. Based on the statement, ICHARM is promoting activities to contribute to integrated flood management in collaboration with the relevant organizations of the participating countries.

As part of this effort, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Myanmar have already decided to establish a Platform on Water Resilience and Disasters involving various government agencies, and ICHARM has been supporting their decision as a facilitator. Further, ICHARM has started assisting Indonesia in the establishment of a Platform.

At the GEOSS Asia-Pacific Symposium and other conferences, ICHARM has held AWCI sessions, inviting representatives from the organizations of the Platform implementing countries every year since 2017. In these sessions, they reported the progress of their Platform projectsand discussed how to promote a regional cooperative framework among the participating countries.

In April 2016, the United Nations and the World Bank Group created the High-Level Panel on Water (HLPW), which consisted of 11 sitting heads of states and governments and one special adviser. The panel was set to provide the leadership required to champion a comprehensive, inclusive and collaborative way of developing and managing water resources and improving water and sanitation-related services. On March 14, 2018, the HLPW mandate ended with the release of an outcome document, in which HLPW endorsed IFI’s initiative onPlatforms, saying: “Platforms on Water Resilience and Disasters among all stakeholders should be formulated in countries to facilitate dialogue and scale up community-based practices.”

2.6 Special lecture by Mr. Koichiro Matsuura, the 8th Director-General of UNESCOICHARM organized a special lecture by inviting Mr. Koïchiro Matsuura, the eighth

Director-General of UNESCO, as a Research and Development (R&D) Seminar on January 16, 2019. After becoming the first Asian who assumed the top position of UNESCO, Mr. Matsuura led the organization for 11 years from November 1999 to November 2009. During his tenure, he

Participants in the AWCI session during the 11th GEOSS Asia-Pacific Symposium

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carried out so many projects, including the establishment of ICHARM as a UNESCO category 2centre in March 2006.

In the lecture, he spoke about the current global situation under the title of “Global trend and Japan.” Dividing the post-WWII era into three phases – the Cold War, America as No.1 superpower, and China’s rise and global disorder, he explained how the recent surge of populism around the world became possible and how the power shift in Eastern Asia hadevolved over time. Referring to the fierce competition between China and the U.S., he insisted that Japan should waste no time in meeting global expectations and playing a vital role in restoring global order.

The special lecture was very fruitful and successful. The ICHARM auditorium was packed to its full capacity of about 70 people. Many people, including master’s and doctoral studentsstudying at ICHARM, listened to him intently and asked many questions after his lecture.

Mr. Matsuura (front row, center) and theaudience

Mr. Matsuura answers a question from the audience.

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Research

3.1 Water-related disaster data archiving, sharing and statistics3.1.1 Data integration and real-time flood forecasting system in the Philippines

The Pampanga River in the Republic of the Philippines has the second largest drainage area in Luzon Island and flows into the northern part of Manila Bay. The Pampanga River basin often suffers serious damage from flood disasters due to typhoons, such as Ondoy in 2009 and Pedring in 2011, and monsoonal rainfall. Flood risk reduction and sustainable development are critical issues in the basin. In February 2019, ICHARM developed a real-time flood forecasting system for the Pampanga River basin on the DIAS in collaboration with the EDITORIA, managed by the University of Tokyo, and started to provide flood forecasting information to related organizations in the Philippines. Using 17 ground rain gauges of the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), hourly rainfall data are collected and accumulated on DIAS in real time and automatically input into the RRI model developed by ICHARM.

ICHARM also developed the prototype system to upload the socio-economic, damage and hazard datasets of Davao City onto DIAS in collaboration with EDITORIA. This system has a function to archive data with meta-information such as their element, domain, period, spatial resolution, unit, and data-producing organization.

3.1.2 Prototype system developmentICHARM developed a prototype system for flood monitoring, forecasting, and early

warning incorporating real-time data integration techniques for various platforms (ground rainfall, GSMaP and clouds (Himawari, and re-analysis data from global models), advance models (e.g. WEB-RRI, ensemble rainfall forecasting), and information technologies such asDIAS. The system is placed under test-operation from 2018 to now in Sri Lanka and information is shared with relevant organizations.

3.2 Risk assessment on water-related disasters3.2.1 Development and dissemination of the Water and Energy Budget-based Rainfall Runoff

InundationThe proper risk evaluation of flood disasters requires an analytical model that can

reproduce a flood event from runoff to flooding accurately. The RRI model developed some years ago has been used in various regions as a simple model for calculating runoff and inundation during a heavy rainfall event. On the other hand, because it is not designed to handle important hydrological factors, such as soil moisture, canopy interception, evapotranspiration, and soil-vegetation-atmosphere interaction, the model has been found not

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applicable to the detailed analysis of flood and other water-related events in arid and semi-arid areas and not suitable for the accurate evaluation of the impact of global warming on hydrological phenomena.

ICHARM developed the WEB-RRI model to analyze water-related hazard phenomena with high accuracy by integrating the Hydro-SiB2 model capable of calculating dynamics of the water and energy balance with the RRI model capable of 2D runoff / inundation calculation. By using the new model in combination with atmospheric models, it has become possible to evaluate not only flood hazard impacts but also drought hazard impacts due to future climate changes. We developed another model that calculates driftwood behavior as the density of sediment using a water/sediment momentum equation. This model is suitable to reproduce typical flood and sediment hazard phenomena in mountain rivers. We have also been makingefforts to disseminate these models by improving user interfaces and offering training activities for users.

In addition, we built a model for predicting the dam reservoir inflow utilizing a runoff model called the Water and Energy Budget-based Distributed Hydrological Model-snow(WEB-DHM-S), which estimates snowfall, snow cover and snowmelt quantitatively in combination with rainfall forecasting information from ensemble weather forecasting. We are studying the optimization of the current operation methodology for hydroelectric dams toreduce ineffective dam discharges, improve power generating efficiency during a flood, and secure the storage capacity of a dam reservoir after a flood.

Schematic diagram of the WEB-RRI model based on the water and energy budget and four main modules: 1. Calculation of the water and energy budget between the atmosphere and the land surface in each model grid; 2. Vertical soil moisture distribution calculation; 3.

Calculation of surface flow, flood flow and groundwater by 2D diffusion wave; and 4.Calculation of river flow by 1D diffusion wave.

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3.2.2 Development and implementation of a method to simulate the flood flow with sediment and driftwood

As part of technical assistance forthe “Policy Vision on Rebuilding Flood-Conscious Societies,”ICHARM developed a model to simulate the flood flow with sediment, which frequently takes place in both mountainous areas and boundary areas between mountains and floodplains. In this model, a method was proposed to analyze the behavior of driftwood in the flood flow using a convection-diffusion equation, which is useful to analyzedriftwood transportation, erosion and deposition processes. Observations found that, in the flood disaster of the Akatani River in July 2017, a huge amount of fine sediment and driftwood from upstream affected the flood flow in downstream areas. Numerical simulations of the Akatani River event using the proposed method verified the method’s high reproducibility regarding the event. The simulation results are expected to contribute to developing hazard maps in similar areas.

In addition, the proposed model has been added to the International River Interface Cooperative (iRIC) and improved its function so as to set calculation conditions and visualize calculation results more easily on the Graphical User Interface (GUI). iRIC is a system available on the web for researchers and municipalities to facilitate discussions on disaster prevention.

3.2.3 Research on an optimized dam operation method using precipitation forecasting dataDue to climate change, events of extreme and no rainfall are predicted to become even

more severe in the future. It is thus necessary to increase the efficiency of water use and the effectiveness of flood control. For this reason, ICHARM developed a dam inflow prediction system by integrating precipitation forecasting data estimated by an ensemble numerical

Simulation result of the flood flow with sediment and driftwood in the Akatani River

Application of the simulation model to the target river on iRIC GUI.

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weather forecasting model and the Water and Energy Budget-based Distributed Hydrological Model with Snow (WEB-DHM-S), which can estimate snowfall, snow cover and snowmelt. This system was applied to the electric power generation dams in the Oi and Sai river basinsin Japan in a case study jointly conducted with electric power and consulting companies in which the dam inflow was estimated for several flood events in those basins and used to optimize the dam operations in order to reduce ineffective dam discharges, increase the efficiency of power generation, and secure the reservoir volume after a flood. This studyshowed the possibility that the system can contribute to maximizing the water use for electric power generation and flood control in the downstream areas of the study basins.

3.3 Monitoring and forecasting water-related disaster risk changes3.3.1 Evaluation of climate change impact

In June 2018, ICHARM submitted the final report of the ADB Study Project “Climate Change and Flood Hazard Simulations Tools for ADB Spatial Application Facility (SC 109094REG).” The main objective of the project was to evaluate future flood inundation risk due to climate change in the three cities of Vietnam: Hue, Ha Giang and Vinh Yen.

In this study project, four GCMs (CESM1 - CAM5, CNRM-CM5, GFDL-CM3, MPI-ESM-LR) were selected from CMIP5 for their high expressiveness for the following six meteorological factors in the target area: rainfall, upward longwave radiation, sea surface pressure, temperature at the 850hPa surface, east-west wind, and north-south wind.

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Each selected GCM was bias-corrected using the Nyunt et al. method and daily rainfall observations at 53 ground gauges in Vietnam. Statistical downscaling (DS) was also applied to the selected GCMs, and then the uncertainty caused by those GCMs in making future predictions was evaluated. Dynamic DS was conducted using the WRF model ver. 3.7.1 for the past climate and the end-of-21st-century climate of the RCP 8.5 scenario calculated by the MRI-AGCM 3.2S model. All data and analytical tools used for the study were available onDIAS.

In order to evaluate future flood risk, future rainfall from the dynamic DS results was inputted to the RRI model, and rainfall-runoff-inundation analysis was conducted. The model development was carried out using not only dataprovided by local governments,such as ground observed rainfall, river discharge, land coverage, and river cross-section, but also field survey results collected to understand geographical characteristics and flood history. The results of the future flood risk evaluation found that both future precipitation and inundation depth would increase in Vinh Yen and Hue, whereas both future precipitation and inundation depth would decrease in Ha Giang. ICHARM took only a year to complete the project and delivered practical output with solid scientific explanations to the Vietnam government.

Based on the products and

Dynamic DS results of MRI-AGCM3.2S (Left: Average precipitation in past climate, June to August (top) and October

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data provided by ICHARM, ADB has developed the Spatial Data Analysis Explorer (SPADE), a web-based platform system, and is promoting the Urban Climate Change Resilience (UCCR) program in Asian 25 cities.

3.4 Support through proposal, evaluation and application of policies for water disaster risk reduction3.4.1 Development of a real-time agriculture drought monitoring and seasonal prediction

systemIn the World Bank Brazil project (Technical Assistance in Implementing a Pilot of

Agriculture Drought Monitoring and Prediction), ICHARM developed a real-time agriculture drought monitoring and seasonal prediction system for Ceará State in the Brazilian Northeast.The DIAS collects and integrates three types of data: the NASA GLDAS meteorological global forcing data, the GCOM-W/AMSR2 microwave brightness temperature global data, and the GFDL seasonal predictive global precipitation data. Using these data, ICHARM applied the CLVDAS, which can calculate the land water cycle and the dynamic vegetation growth, to the Brazilian Northeast and developed a DIAS 25km-gridded agriculture drought monitoring and seasonal prediction system (Drought system). Using a crop database of the Ceará State (the Northeast Drought Monitor: NEDM, monitordesecas.ana.gov.br) provided by FUNCEME, ICHARM also developed a method to estimate crop yield and the required volume of irrigation water for Ceará State using LAI output from the drought system. TheBanabuiú River basin was selected as the target area because it is a highly important area in meteorology, hydrology, and agriculture. The high-spatial-resolution (1km grid) WEB-DHM was also developed for this river basin.By applying WEB-DHM to the Banabuiú River basin,ICHARM devised a method to estimate 1km-gridded LAI growth using 25km-gridded LAI as output from CLVDAS via the evapotranspiration output

Estimation system for 1km-gridded LAI and soil moisture content in the Banabuiú River basin of Ceará State, Brazil: Accumulated

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from WEB-DHM and CLVDAS. However, to achieve a high level of reliability for drought information, more data were needed, such as land-cover data with a high spatial resolution and in-situ precipitation data collected at multiple stations. In addition, researchers familiar with local conditions should be able to work on the system. Hence, in October 2019, ICHARM offered one-month training to study the basic theory and operation of the systemfor two researchers of FUNCEME, which is a Brazilian organization that collects land-cover, precipitation and other data through meteorological drought monitoring and prediction.

3.4.2 Development of a flood forecasting system for small and medium riversIn recent years, disasters due to torrential rainfall have become more frequent and severe in

Japan, consequently causing more human damage. At present, flood forecasting has not been implemented for many small and medium rivers, though the water level tends to rise rapidlyin those rivers during a flood; thus, many residents living in nearby areas are more likely not to be able to evacuate in time and exposed to a high risk of suffering damage from flooding.

In collaboration with related organizations such as MLIT, ICHARM has been conducting a research project "Development of a system for providing the water level information of small and medium rivers by conducting trend analysis using observed water levels" in the PRISM,led by the Cabinet Office.

In this project, ICHARM carried out the

Crisis-management type water gauge (low-cost water gauge specializing in water level

monitoring during floods)

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following tasks:Development of a simple, inexpensive run-off model and a water-level conversion methodResearch on a method for improving prediction accuracy using observed water levels

collected from “Crisis-management type water gauges” which have been installed specifically for emergency use during a flood.

Development of an automatic calculation and display system for flood forecasting.

3.5 Support for improving the capacity to practice disaster prevention and mitigation3.5.1 Implementation of the UNESCO project “Water Disaster Platform to Enhance Climate

Resilience in Africa” (WADiRe-Africa) In West Africa, floods in the Niger and Volta rivers cause devastating damage, including

casualties, and hinder the development of the countries in the region. For this reason, UNESCO decided to implement measures to promptly initiate flood monitoring and forecasting systems in areas around the Niger and Volta rivers and reduce human damage by facilitating safe evacuation based on flood information. After signing a partnership agreement with UNESCO in the framework of the Water Disaster Platform to Enhance Climate Resilience in Africa, ICHARM installed a flood early warning system (FEWS) for water disaster mitigation in the Niger and Volta River basins and invited experts from AGRHYMETand VBA to Japan and provided training on the flood early warning system and flood risk management.

On June 17 and 18, 2019, the representatives of related organizations attended a kick-off meeting held in Lome City, Togo. ICHARM played a central role in sorting out key issues at the local and national levels regarding flood management, data utilization, capacity development, hydrological model development, and platform construction and finalizing the "Key Points of Lome Declaration." Training on flood forecasting systems and flood risk management was conducted at ICHARM for two African experts in November 2019 for about one and a half months and one more expert in March 2020.

3.5.2 Strength of Area-Business Continuity Management (Area-BCM) in Thailand (JICA-SATREPS Program)

ICHARM is participating in the ongoing program of SATREPS “Regional Resilience Enhancement through Establishment of Area-BCM at Industry Complexes in Thailand.” This

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research project aims to contribute to the sustainable development of society and economy in Thailand by enhancing local resilience through the establishment of Area-BCM. The expansion of its achievements to ASEAN countries is also expected. The program consists of four research items: Item 0. Survey on the current conditions of local communities; Item 1. Disaster risk analysis and assessment; Item 2. Business impact analysis; and Item 3. Establishment and expansion of the Area-BCM management system. Assigned as the representative organization of Item 1, ICHARM is in charge of the analysis and assessment of water-related disaster risk. The findings will be provided to design Area-BCM to improve the disaster resilience of local communities. Specifically, ICHARM develops a basin-scale and an industrial park-scale flood inundation model to create advance risks and detailed information on the occurrence of water disasters.

3.5.3 Research on flood risk assessment for river basins in mountains and information sharingTo assist local governments in mountainous areas facing the lack of disaster information

for the safe evacuation of residents, ICHARM has been conducting research on creating new flood risk indicators using inundation simulation results by the RRI model and improvingflood risk information sharing. For Iwaizumi Town, located along the Omoto River in Iwate Prefecture, Japan, we proposed the introduction of “flood diagnostic charts,” which we developed to evaluate flood risks of communities using eight indicators: Lead time before inundation exceeds the first-floor level, Duration when evacuation is required during a flood, Maximum inundation depth in the community, Maximum inundation depth atevacuation shelters, Traffic disruption between the community and the municipal office,

Maximum number of isolated people during a flood, Number of vulnerable people likely to be affected by a flood, Amount of debris and waste after a flood. Using these indicators, we conducted a study on the development and application of flood diagnostic charts, which categorize an area into several sections and indicate possible flood risks in each section. We drafted a manual on how to create flood diagnostic charts.

We also developed a new disaster information portal site called “ICHARM Disaster Risk Information System (IDRIS),” which allows one-stop viewing of water-related disaster information in the area. The system is designed not only for emergency use but also for improving disaster prevention and mitigation in normal times. A preliminary operation of the

Hearing survey at the management office of Rojana Industrial Park

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system has started in Aga Town, Niigata Prefecture, which is located in the middle reach of the Agano River. The customized system of IDRIS for Aga Town was named “Aga Town Risk Information System (ARIS).”

IDRIS was awarded a prize as innovative technology by the Institute of Social Safety Science of Japan in May 2019.

In August 2019, the test version of ARIS was opened to the public (moving to a site that can be viewed by general users). Through the test operation, we investigated the applicability of the developed system to the actual local area. Weconducted another test operation of the system in Iwaizumi Town, Iwate Prefecture, starting fromthe second half of fiscal 2019. From these test operations, we confirmedthat IDRIS can be used effectively by any local governments.

3.5.4 Development of a risk communication system for enhancing public awareness of water-related disasters

In Hita City, Oita Prefecture, which suffered severe flood damage in 2012 and 2017, and Iwaizumi Town, Iwate Prefecture, which also suffered severe flood damage in 2016, we conducted questionnaire surveys for residents from a perspective of behavioral economics.

From the viewpoint that a flood experience leads residents to take appropriate actions such as early evacuation, we have developed simple simulation software for people to experience a virtual inundation in a private house using a head-mounted display driven by VR technology. After about 200 residents tried out this device, we confirmed that it can help raise people’sawareness of the danger of floods. In addition, we are developing VR flood experience software specifically designed for Hita City and Aga Town, combining actual cityscapes and the results of flood and inundation simulations in the areas.

3.5.5 Study on globally-applicable multiple-risk assessment of water-related disasters and on a method of building a resilient society based on assessment results

Based on the results of a questionnaire survey in Joso City, Ibaraki Prefecture, which was damaged severely when the Kinu River flooded in 2015, we have been studying new

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indicators to evaluate the aspects of disaster cases that have not been evaluated adequately by existing methods and proposed indicators to evaluate "resilience in daily life and business activities." The new indicators were used for the estimation of the resilience of affected business activities in "Technical Study Report on Countermeasures against Giant Disasters that Cause National Crisis" by the Japan Society of Civil Engineers. They were also used to estimate resilience in the "Simulation tool for flood damage estimation at business activities"published by the Economic Consortium for Disaster Management, hosted by the Cabinet Office. In addition, we are conducting similar surveys in Iwaizumi, Iwate prefecture, which was damaged by Typhoon No. 10 in 2016, and in Okayama and Hiroshima Prefectures, which were damaged by the heavy rain disaster in July 2018.

We have begun studying another set of new indicators to evaluate the effectiveness of disaster prevention measures and investment in an easy-to-understand manner, focusing on the level of damage at which a pre-disaster level of population and gross regional product can still be sustained after a disaster. We are trying out the new indicators to Iwaizumi, Iwate Prefecture, and developing an evaluation method.

3.5.6 Research on disaster response timeline and the ability of local governments to respond to water-related disasters

We developed a timeline showing a series of actions that should be taken in case of underground mall inundation caused by a river or urban flood in cooperation with businessesaround the West Exit of Yokohama Station in Japan through participation in the Cross-Ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP).

We analyzed disaster reports reviewing disaster response efforts in past water-related disasters and identified problems regarding the ability of administrative staff to respond to disasters in order to improve their capacity to use a disaster response timeline effectively.Through this analysis, we collected cases in which disaster management personnel experienced difficulties, troubles, confusions, frustrations, and so on, in response efforts, and compiled a “Collection of Tense Moments during Flood Disaster Response” to make it easier for local disaster response staff to learn from past disasters.

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Training

4.1 Master’s program: Water-related Risk Management Course of Disaster Management PolicyProgram

Since 2007, ICHARM has provided a one-year Master’s program, “Water-related Risk Management Course of Disaster Management Policy Program (JICA Training Program: Training for Expert on Flood-Related Disaster Mitigation),” as a joint effort with JICA and GRIPS. This program is targeted at officials of administrative organizations and designed for them to obtain a master’s degree within a single year. In the first half of the course from October to March, the classes consist mostly of lectures; in the second half from April to the end, students work on research and graduation theses. In addition, several study trips are conducted during the program for students to visit dam, river, and other management offices around Japan, where they can learn firsthand knowledge and experience in current flood management in Japan from experts of MLIT and other organizations.

Between 2007 and 2019, the master’s program of ICHARM graduated 139 students from 33 countries.

In September 2018, the 11th batch of 14 students from 10 countries (Bangladesh, Brazil, Fiji, India, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Vietnam), who entered the program in October 2017, graduated with a master’s degree. In the following month, the 12th batch of 8 students from 8 countries (Bangladesh, India, Liberia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka) entered the program.

In September 2019, the 12th batch of 7 students from 7 countries (Bangladesh, India, Liberia, Nepal, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka) graduated, and in the following month, the 13th batch of 11 students entered the program from 6 countries (Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brazil, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan).

In 2019, a paper submitted by the 11th batch student was published in the American Meteorological Society's Journal of Hydrometeorology.

This was the first case that a master's thesis research at ICHARM was published in an international journal with an impact factor. The following is the information of the paper:

Malik Rizwan Asghar, USHIYAMA Tomoki, Muhammad Riaz, MIYAMOTO Mamoru: Flood and Inundation Forecasting in the Sparsely Gauged Transboundary Chenab River Basin Using Satellite Rain and Coupling Meteorological and Hydrological Models, Hydraulic Model Experiment

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Journal of Hydrometeorology, Vol.20, No.12, pp.2315-2330, 2019.Recognizing that training should be more strategically conducted by recruiting quality

individuals and train them to become experts who can contribute to their countries in disaster management, ICHARM has strengthened recruitment activities since 2018.

ICHARM sent a recruiting team to the Philippines in August and Thailand in December in 2018 and Nepal and Indonesia in January, Myanmar in February, and Bhutan in March in 2019 to explain the training programs to relevant ministries and agencies and exchange opinions onthe selection of possible candidates.

Recruitment activities were also conducted using other opportunities, for example, when ICHARM researchers participated in international conferences in Sri Lanka in August 2019 and February 2020 and Indonesia in September 2019.

4.2 Doctoral program: Disaster Management ProgramICHARM started a doctoral program, “Disaster Management Program,” in 2010 in

collaboration with GRIPS to produce experts who are capable of developing policies on water-related disaster risk management and taking the leadership in implementing them.

By the end of 2019, 11 students from 7 countries completed the doctoral program.In September 2018, the 6th batch of 2 students graduated with a doctoral degree in disaster

management. In October, the 9th batch of 3 students entered the program.In September 2019, the 7th batch of 2 students graduated with a doctoral degree in disaster

management. Currently, 4 doctoral students (1 third-year, 3 second-year students) are studying in the

program.Among the four students, two were enrolled in September 2018 using JICA’s new

scholarship program for international doctoral students, “Disaster Risk Reduction Leaders Capacity Development for the Sendai Framework Implementation.” This program was realized in response to international discussion on water hazards about promoting cooperation between policy and science. It aims to provide high-level training for individuals who are expected to

Lecture by Director KOIKE Activities of Master Course (Site Visiting)

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assume an executive position of their governments in the future. It has been implemented through coupling the ICHARM training program with the GRIPS policy program.

4.3 Short-term training4.3.1 JICA Knowledge Co-Creation Program: Water Related Disaster Management

(Preparedness, Mitigation and Reconstruction)From May 28 to June 1, 2018, and from

June 5 to June 7, 2019, ICHARM collaborated with JICA to implement the Knowledge Co-Creation Program, “Water Related Disaster Management (Preparedness, Mitigation and Reconstruction),” in which lectures and exercises were conducted. With the overall goal of this program set for the participants to eventually become able to “formulate policies and plans that will contribute to the mitigation of water disasters using the results of the training in their countries,” they were expected to “enhance the capacity of participants to plan and implement policies aimed at reducing the damage caused by water disasters by learning Japanese flood control and disaster prevention measures” during the training.

This training had been conducted for three years from FY2016 to FY2018, and

ICHARM graduates (September 2018) Diploma Awarded by GRIPS President(September 2019)

Flood simulation experience using VR(ICHARM) (June 2019)

Visit to a flood evacuation shelter (SakaiTown, Ibaraki Prefecture) (June 2019)

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JICA is planning to hold the training for another three years from FY2019 to FY2021. The training gathered 12 participants from Bhutan, Brazil, Chile, Macedonia, Iran, Liberia, Morocco, Myanmar, Peru, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam in 2018, and 12 participants from Afghanistan, Brazil, Fiji, Kenya, Liberia, Malaysia, Mexico, Somalia and Sri Lanka in 2019.

The lectures given by ICHARM researchers covered issues such as IFAS, RRI model, flood risk communication, and flood risk assessment. The on-site exercise was carried out in Sakai Town, Ibaraki Prefecture. The participants took a close look at measures implemented for water disaster mitigation and conducted “Town Watching”, in which they studied the town in groups while walking around and created disaster prevention maps so that they could improve the ability to plan water disaster mitigation measures.

4.3.2 Support for Malaysia’s disaster management courseThe Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT), an academic entity to

provide Japanese-style engineering education in Malaysia, was officially launched in September 2011 as part of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). The institute opened its fifth course on disaster risk management in September 2016, which is targeted at middle-ranking government officials in charge of disaster management. Japanese universities and research institutes formed a consortium to provide the institute with assistance in education, research, management and other areas, and ICHARM has been part of it, involved in planning the course and sending teaching staff. ICHARM staff has so far lectured about the flood forecasting and hazard mapping. On July 25, 2018, and July 22, 2019, ten and seventeen faculty members and students, respectively, visited ICHARM and participated in lectures on research on integrated disaster prevention and human resource development.

4.3.3 Trainings on climate changeTrainings were conducted in Myanmar, the Philippines, and Sri Lanka on climate change

prediction model analysis using DIAS climate model analysis tool. These trainings provided an opportunity for the participants to increase the understanding of climate change impact, and the analysis method of a climate change model using DIAS efficiently.

Presentation of disaster prevention mapsprepared by the participants

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4.4 Follow-up Seminar for ICHARM AlumniICHARM has held a Follow-up Seminar once a year since 2007 in a country of graduates

from ICHARM educational and training programs to provide additional assistance and visit rivers and other places with water-related problems. This annual meeting is a great opportunity for ICHARM to see how graduates are using the knowledge and skills they learned at ICHARM and to share issues they face in their practices. Such information is used to improve ICHARM’s training programs and enhance its research activities.

From January 23 to 24, 2019, the FY2018 Follow-up Seminar was held in Kathmandu, Nepal, with 25 participants, including officials from the Nepalese government, and the Embassy of Japan in Nepal, JICA Nepal Office, and ICHARM. The seminar consisted of presentations and discussions and a field trip to flood-prone areas in the Jhiku River.

The FY2019 Follow-up Seminar was held on February 12 and 14, 2020, in Colombo, Sri Lanka. A total of 32 people participated from the Irrigation Department, the Department of Irrigation-Eastern Province, the Sri Lanka Land Reclamation and Development Corporation, the Embassy of Japan in Sri Lanka, JICA Sri Lanka Office, and ICHARM. The first day was spent for presentations and discussions, and the second day for a field trip to the Maha River near Negombo and the Deduru River near Chirawa, where the participants observed the situation of riverbank erosion.

4.5 InternshipICHARM has accepted interns from both Japan and overseas. In 2018, ICHARM accepted

six international interns: two students of Nagoya University from the Philippines, one student each of Yokohama National University from Bangladesh, Pukyong National University, Korea, Kobe University from Myanmar, and Osaka Institute of Technology from China. In 2019, four international interns studied at ICHARM: one student each of Seoul National University from Korea, Kyoto University from Cambodia, Sichuan University from China, and the University of Tokyo from Indonesia. Each intern spent a week to several months at ICHARM studying hydraulic and hydrologic analysis, disaster risk analysis, or other subjects depending on their interests while getting technical advice from ICHARM researchers.

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Information networking

5.1 International Flood Initiative5.1.1 Global activities

A new strategy and an action plan of IFI were approved at the UNESCO-IHP Intergovernmental Council held at the UNESCO headquarters in June 2016. At the side event of the 8th HELP meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia, in October 2016, the Jakarta Statement was adopted by the member organizations of IFI to establish an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary partnership for consolidating flood risk reduction and sustainable development. The Jakarta Statement explains the current status of water-related disaster risk reduction and sustainable development and presents the direction and actions to take for the promotion of those two ultimate goals. Based on the statement, ICHARM is promoting the global effort to establish Platforms on Water Resilience and Disasters.

ICHARM participates in various international conferences. By utilizing these opportunities, ICHARM organizes sessions and side events to promote IFI activities in general and Platform activities in the IFI implementing countries.

In June 2018, ICHARM organized a side event at the UNESCO-IHP Intergovernmental Council meeting in collaboration with UNESCO, WMO and IAHS. ICHARM also held sessions at the 8th Civil Engineering Conference in the Asian Region (CECAR8) in Tokyo, Japan, in April 2019 and at the panel on water and disasters during the UNESCO International Water Conference in Paris, France, in May 2019. The sessions were great opportunities to disseminate IFI’s Platform activities with invited experts from the IFI implementing countries and the relevant international organizations.

ICHARM also actively participated in and provided presentations at the major international conferences including the side event co-organized by WMO and UNESCO at the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) held at the UN headquarters in New York, USA, in July 2018 and the Stockholm World Water Week of August 2018 and 2019.

Further, on June 24, 2019, when the fourth UN Special Thematic Session on Water and Disasters was held at the UN Headquarters in New York, USA, ICHARM gave a presentation on the IFI Platform activities at the Science

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and Technology Session.In April 2016, the United Nations and the World Bank Group convened the HLPW, which

consisted of 11 sitting heads of states and governments and one special adviser. HLPW was set to provide the leadership required to champion a comprehensive, inclusive and collaborative way of developing and managing water resources and improving water and sanitation-related services. On March 14, 2018, the HLPW mandate ended with the release of an outcome document, in which HLPW endorsed IFI’s initiative on Platforms, saying that “Platforms on Water Resilience and Disasters among all stakeholders should be formulated in countries to facilitate dialogue and scale up community-based practices.”

5.1.2 Regional activities in AsiaAs a regional activity, ICHARM held the AWCI sessions at the 11th GEOSS Asia-Pacific

Symposiums in Kyoto, Japan, in October 2018 and at the 12th Asia-Oceania Group on Earth Observations (AOGEO) Symposium in Canberra, Australia, in November 2019, inviting representatives from the organizations of the Platform implementing countries. In these sessions, they reported the progress of their Platform projects and discussed how to promote aregional cooperative framework among the participating countries.

Since 2019, the “Platform on Water Resilience and Disastersunder IFI” has been implemented as one of the AOPs of TC-WGH, whose chair is currently a chief researcher of ICHARM. WGH has publicized Platform activities, mainly focusing on those of the Philippines, a member of TC.

5.1.3 Activities in each countryBased on the basic action plan of IFI after the elaborations at the January 2017 workshop in

Tokyo, ICHARM has been supporting the establishment of Platforms on Water Resilience and Disasters in the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Pakistan. ICHARM has started providing support for Indonesia.

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In the Philippines, after the meetings with concerned organizations in Manila in March 2018 and Davao in May 2018, the third plenary meeting of the Platform was held in Manila in February 2019. The plenary meeting adopted a proposal to include the Cagayan River basin in the activities of the Platform in terms of flood forecasting and conduct capacity development training on climate change in Davao. The decision led to an orientation on climate change in Davao in October 2019. The members of TC-WGH also participated in the plenary meeting.

For Sri Lanka, after the flood and landslide disaster in May 2017, the 1st plenary session on the Platform was held in Colombo in August 2017. Since then, the plenary sessions were held in March 2018, February 2019, and February 2020. Progress has already been made: flood forecasting and warning systems have been introduced for the Kalu River, where a flood disaster occurred in 2017, hydro-meteorological data have been accumulated and integrated, and integrated water resources management has started being practiced for the Mahaweli River basin. ICHARM has signed Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) with the National Building Research Institute (NBRO) and the Irrigation Department, both of which are the Platform participating organizations, aiming to promote joint research for flood forecasting, capacity building, and other areas of research.

For Myanmar, after two meetings with the director generals of related organizations in 2017, the director-level meeting was held in September 2018. The meeting agreed on the concrete plans proposed for future activities, such as identification of data to be used for activities and training to operate the DIAS. Based on this agreement, DIAS training was held on February 4 and 5, 2019, at Yangon Technological University (YTU) in cooperation with YTU, the SATREPS project led by the University of Tokyo and other organizations, and the DIAS project led also by the University of Tokyo.

For Pakistan, ICHARM explained the necessity of a platform and discussed how to reduce water disaster damage in two workshops related to the UNESCO Pakistan project, which were held, respectively, in Jakarta, Indonesia, on December 20-21, 2018, and in Islamabad,

3rd Plenary Meeting of the IFI Platform in the Philippines (February 2019)

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Pakistan, on April 23-24, 2019.For Indonesia, preparatory meetings for the establishment of a Platform on Water

Resilience and Disasters were held with water-related government organizations in 2018. In August 2019, a meeting for the Platform on Water Resilience and Disasters was held,gathering director generals from relevant organizations. In the discussion, the participants recognized the necessity of a data sharing policy. In February 2020, an orientation on climate change was held for the Solo river basin.

5.2 Contribution to the international communityICHARM has been committed to disseminating research findings and increasing its

international presence on various occasions by hosting international conferences, organizing sessions at international conferences hosted by overseas institutions, and making presentations as invited speakers. As major activities related to IFI have been described in section 5.1, the following outlines other important activities.

5.2.1 Contribution to UNESCO-IHPAs a UNESCO category 2 centre, ICHARM has been contributing to UNESCO-IHP at

national, regional and international levels. For example, on June 11-15, 2018, ICHARM sent a party of researchers led by the director of ICHARM to the 23rd UNESCO-IHP Intergovernmental Council and the first Water Science-Policy Interface Colloquium (SPIC Water), which was held at the same time. On the 11th, ICHARM co-organized a side event, “Platform on Water Resilience and Disasters,” with the UNESCO-IHP Secretariat. In the event, the participants discussed how to achieve the worldwide implementation of the recommendations presented by the HLPW in March 2018, which was convened by the United Nations and the World Bank Group, while sharing experiences of Asian countries.

ICHARM also sent researchers to other IHP-related conferences to speak about its activities and exchange views and ideas with other participants.

During the United Nations High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF), held in July 2018, WMO and UNESCO-IHP organized a side event, “Hydrology Towards Sustainable Resilient Societies,” on July 10, which ICHARM joined as a partner organization of UNESCO and WMO. HLPF is the main United Nations platform on sustainable development and plays a central role in the follow-up and review of “the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)” at the global level. At this side event, ICHARM made a presentation on “Progress of the Platforms on Water Resilience and Disasters in the IFI active countries.” ICHARM also explained how Japan had revised its policies and laws to cope with the changing patterns of climate and water-related hazards in recent years and stressed the important role of science and

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technology in water-related disaster risk reduction.ICHARM convened the “Panel on Water and Disasters” on May 13, 2019, with HELP at

the International Water Conference, which UNESCO organized for the first time. Two ministers, the minister of Land Management, Water and Sanitation Services from Botswana and the minister of Water and Sanitation from Burkina Faso,joined this panel and introduced issues on water and disasters in their countries. ICHARM explained the end-to-end approach to achieving sustainable socio-economic development against water-related disasters and climate change, and the need for facilitators in implementing science and technology in society.

ICHARM also participates in the UNESCO-IHP Regional Steering Committee for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCO-IHP RSC-AP) as a core member. ICHARM sent researchers to the 26th Committee in Shanghai, China, in November 2018 and the 27th Committee in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, in October 2019. They reported the activities of ICHARM and exchanged the information with other participants by actively attending relevant workshops.

In addition, as a member of the IHP session of the Natural Science Subcommittee of the Japanese National Commission for UNESCO, ICHARM reports on its activities on a regular basis and supports the operation of the session.

5.2.2 Contribution to hydrology on a global basisAs its establishment is closely related to issues of hydrology, the field is one of the

important research areas for ICHARM. For this reason, it continues participating in research projects and international workshops on hydrology to exchange views and ideas with otherorganizations.

5.2.2.1 Participation in the HydroConference and related committees organized by WMOThe “WMO Global Conference: Prosperity through Hydrological Services

(HydroConference)” took place at the WMO headquarters in Geneva on May 7-9, 2018. An ICHARM researcher attended the conference as part of the secretariat’s work for IFI. As one of the international water-related initiatives, IFI participated in this conference from the planning stage and contributed to creating a matrix of the scheme to support international organizations and national stakeholders through three segments, i.e., hydrological data

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management, hydrological products, and hydrological services. Since one of the most important purposes of the conference was to bridge between international initiatives and national stakeholders, ICHARM explained the outline and cooperative framework of IFI to conference participants at an exhibition booth.

The director and a researcher of ICHARM participated in the Technical Conference on Future Hydrological Priorities and Arrangement and the Extraordinary Session of the Commission for Hydrology (CHy) held at the WMO headquarters from February 11 to 14, 2019, and joined discussions about the reorganization and future policy of CHy. The Technical Conference met from the 11th to the morning of the 13th and discussed the functional requirements needed for a future WMO and possible activities in hydrology in association with the ongoing WMO reorganization. The Extraordinary Session discussed the pros and cons of integrating the existing eight commissions into two commissions, i.e., the Commission for Observation, Infrastructures and Information Systems (COIIS) and the Commission for Weather, Climate, Water and Related Environmental Service Applications (CSA), in line with the proposal from the Executive Council in June 2018, and achieved a consensus among the CHy members.

A Hydrological Assembly took place from June 6 to 8, 2019, as a parallel event of the Eighteenth World Meteorological Congress at the International Conference Centre of Geneva from June 3 to 14, 2019. The assembly discussed WMO’s vision and strategy in hydrology, eight long-term ambitions, the definition of “Operational Hydrology,” action plans for each ambition, and the Hydro Declaration. With innovative changes underway in association with the WMO reform plan, ICHARM was involved in setting the vision and ambitions and developing the action plans for major initiatives and facilitated cooperation with WMO through the activities of IFI, CHy, the Associated Programme on Flood Management (APFM), and RA II.

5.2.2.2 Participation in APFM by WMO/GWPOrganized by WMO and GWP, APFM held its annual meeting on August 24, 2018, and

August 23, 2019, at the GWP secretariat in Stockholm, Sweden. A Virtual Forum, a teleconference among Support Base Partners (SBP), was also held on January 18, 2019. An ICHARM researcher participated in discussions on the activity reports of each componentand the review of a future action plan in those meetings. By developing a mechanism of the Technical Support Unit (TSU), APFM has strengthened itself to ensure constantcooperation with partners throughout the year. In this framework, ICHARM will continueto contribute to APFM as an SBP to further promote Integrated Flood Management through activities worldwide, such as a project in the Volta River basin of Africa and those related to the IFI Platform in the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, and Pakistan.

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5.2.2.3 Participation in the Working Group of Hydrological Services in RA II of WMOSince one of the researchers of ICHARM serves as a theme leader of mass movement for

the Working Group of Hydrological Services in Regional Association II of WMO, he participated in the Third Session of WMO’s Regional Association II Working Group in Hydrological Services in Moscow, Russian Federation, from October 7 to 9, 2019. The session at the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring (RosHydromet) discussed the future activities of the working group in accordance with the discussions in closely related meetings and conferences such as the Extraordinary Session of the Commission for Hydrology in February 2019 and the Hydrological Assembly and World Meteorological Congress in June 2019. His presentation on recent topics on science and technology regarding mass movement in the session was included in the session report with new work plans.

5.2.3 Contribution to disaster prevention in the worldICHARM also contributes to disaster prevention worldwide through international

conferences.5.2.3.1 Participation in Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction

Researchers of ICHARM, including the director, participated in the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction, held in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 13-17, 2019. The Global Platform, held biennially since 2007, is a forum that is officially recognized by the United Nations General Assembly to provide advice for global efforts in disaster risk reduction and monitor the progress in the efforts. In this meeting, the participants included those from the IFI Platform implementing countries: the Philippines, Myanmar and Sri Lanka.

5.2.3.2 Technical session and poster presentation at the World BOSAI Forum 2019ICHARM held a technical session, “Contribution from meteorology, hydrology and

DRR for the Platform on Water Resilience and Disasters,” on November 11 at the World BOSAI Forum 2019 on November 9-12, 2019, in Sendai, Japan. ICHARM led the session

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as a moderator. Speakers, from organizations such as JMA, MLIT, and the Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC) and countries such as Thailand, Korea and Turkey,delivered a presentation on the current situation of water-related disasters in Japan and other Asian countries. They also discussed howto promote a more effective collaborative scheme across different fields of meteorology, hydrology and DRR.ICHARM also exhibited a poster presentation on a VR flood simulation tool with the results of a verification test of its effects, while giving visitors a chance to try out the tool and have a VR flood experience.

5.2.3.3 Participation in the 3rd Indo-Japan Workshop on Disaster Risk ReductionOn March 18, 2019, the 3rd Indo-Japan Workshop on Disaster Risk Reduction was held

in New Delhi, India, focusing on three themes: collaboration between research institutes, collaboration between cities, and collaboration in the private sector. The bilateral workshop was planned under a memorandum of cooperation (MoC) on disaster risk reduction (DRR), signed between the Ministry of Home Affairs of India and the Cabinet Office of Japan in September 2017, when Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe visited India. This workshop had already been organized twice since March 2018. ICHARM gave a presentation during the parallel session on “collaboration between research institutes.” After the presentations from both sides, the participants joined discussions in which the importance of establishing an information platform for data sharing and utilizing was emphasized. The importance of capacity development was also highlighted for prediction, analysis and operation in terms of DRR. In the closing session, the assistant secretary general and special representative of the Secretary General for Disaster Risk Reduction, UNISDR, provided a special comment emphasizing the significance of mutual cooperation between Japan and India and the importance of integrating risk information into decision-making processes.

5.2.4 Contribution to the World Water Development Report of the UN World Water Assessment Programme

The World Water Development Report (WWDR) is a global report on the comprehensive assessment of freshwater at a global scale and published annually by the UN World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP). The WWDR 2020 entitled “Water and Climate Change”

Technical session at the World BOSAI Forum 2019(November 2019)

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addresses critical linkages between water and climate change in the context of the broader sustainable development agenda in terms of adaptation, mitigation and improved resilience. ICHARM was committed to the development of the report from the initial stage of planning and contributed to drafting several chapters, including International policy frameworks (Chapter 2), Water-related extremes and risk management (Chapter 4), Water governance for resilience to climate change (Chapter 11), and Technological innovation and citizen knowledge (Chapter 13). The report also contains descriptions of ICHARM’s activities such as IFI and contingency planning.

5.2.5 Contribution to other major international conferences5.2.5.1 4th UN Special Thematic Session on Water and Disasters

Among all types of disasters, water-related disasters account for 90%, and climate change is likely to intensify their impact on human activity. Therefore, political commitments must be matched by appropriate finance and policies to achieve water-related disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. In March 2013, the United Nations Special Thematic Session on Water and Disasters was held for the first time, stressing that the theme of water and disasters should be recognized as a top political agenda. On June 24, 2019, the fourth UN Special Thematic Session on Water and Disasters was held at the UN Headquarters in New York, USA, co-sponsored by several UN Member States (Indonesia, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, and Tajikistan) and HELP.

ICHARM made a presentation at the science and technology (S&T) session, highlightingthat the S&T community needs to play the role of facilitator to clarify the mechanisms of problems and provide possible solutions. The sessionpublished two reports, “Global Report on Water and Disasters” and “Principles on Investment and Financing for Water-related Disaster Risk Reduction.”

5.2.5.2 8th World Water ForumThe World Water Forum (WWF) is one of the largest international events, in which

experts in water-related fields gather from all over the world and discuss and exhibit global water issues to find solutions. The 8th World Water Forum (WWF8) took place in Brasilia, Brazil, on March 17-23, 2018, with the presence of 14 heads of states, including Brazilian

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President and His Imperial Highness the Crown Prince of Japan. The forum offered more than 300 sessions in total, attracting over 120,000 attendees from 172 countries. H.I.H. the Crown Prince of Japan gave a keynote lecture titled “Water to bring about prosperity, peace and happiness” at the special session, “High-Level panel: Water and Disasters,” on March 19. ICHARM highlighted the importance of global actions on water and disasters, including “Alliance of Alliances on Disaster Risk Reduction Researches.” ICHARM also made presentations at the session of the Asia Pacific Regional Process, “Climate change, disasters and water related adaptation in the Asia Pacific” and “Upscale innovation for a water-secure Asia and the Pacific.” On March 21, a special session, “From 7th to the 8th World Water Forum: Three Years of Implementation Roadmap,” was held. ICHARM played an important role as “Champion” (the principal coordinator) for the theme sessionentitled “Adapting to Change: Monitoring risk and uncertainty for resilience and disaster preparedness,” which was one of the main thematic processes at the 7th World Water Forum (WWF7). ICHARM reported the overall progress by the participating organization of WWF7. WWF, a triennial global event, is an extremely significant opportunity for countries to confirm the three-year progress in implementing globally-agreed actions and promote further actions by reflecting opinions and ideas from participants.

5.2.5.3 ICHARM technical session on “Water and Disasters - Toward Building Resilient Society under Climate Change -” at the 8th Civil Engineering Conference in the Asian Region

Since 1998, CECAR has been held by the Asian Civil Engineering Coordinating Council (ACECC) every three years, covering all technical fields of civil engineering relevant to the Asia Pacific Region, such as structural, geotechnical, environmental, water resources, transportation, and disaster management issues. The CECAR8 was held on April 16-19, 2019, in Tokyo, Japan, and ICHARM organized a technical session (TS2-6) titled “Water and Disasters – Toward Building Resilient Society under Climate Change –” on April 17, which gathered about 50 participants. A series of technical presentations were then delivered by experts in different areas, including those from MLIT of Japan, the National Cheng Kung University of Taiwan, and the Research Centre for Water Resources of Indonesia. An ICHARM researcher also spoke about the Philippines’ progress in disaster management efforts on behalf of the Department of Public Works and Highways of the Philippines. The technical presentations were followed by the panel discussion, chaired by ICHARM, where they discussed how to take necessary actions to cope with changes in the scale of hazards as well as social changes such as aging and depopulation.

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Change”Funded by the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI), ICHARM co-organized

“ADBI-ICHARM Policy Dialogue Water-related Disaster Resilience under Climate Change” on January 27-28, 2020, at ADBI in Tokyo, Japan. Placing a high priority on the policy-relevant aspects of water-related disaster resilience, this policy dialogue focused on efforts for strengthening governance and investment for water-related disaster resilience under climate change in Asia through transdisciplinary dialogue and collaborative work between the science and technology community and other stakeholders, including senior government officials and experts from international development organizations. In the opening plenary, the keynote presentation was given by the vice-minister for engineering affairs, MLIT of Japan. The policy dialogue was composed of four sessions: “Sharing Experiences,” “Strengthening Governance,” “Encouraging Investment” and “Implementation Design,” in each of which the session keynotes and presentations were made by representatives from the Platform participating organizations of the IFI project implementing countries (the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Indonesia) and experts from the government or academic organizations of Japan. The conference emphasized that policy makers and experts need to share knowledge for reducing water-related disaster risksunder climate change via improved policy coordination, financing and investment, and the application of science and technology.

5.2.6 Invited lectures by overseas organizations and universitiesICHARM researchers, including the director, the research and training advisor, chief and

senior researchers, and research specialists, were invited by overseas organizations and universities to give lectures and presentations or join discussions as a panelist on flood forecasting technology, flood forecasting and warning, and hydrological models.

5.3 Contribution to the Typhoon Committee

ADBI-ICHARM Policy Dialogue Water-related Disaster Resilience under Climate Change(January 2020)

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TC is an intergovernmental community jointly organized in 1968 by UNESCAP and WMO to promote and coordinate the development and implementation of plans to minimize human and physical damage caused by typhoons in the Asia-Pacific region. The members are composed of governmental organizations of 14 nations and territories in East and Southeast Asia. The committee consists of four Working Groups of Meteorology, Hydrology, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Training and Research, each of which works on its projects independently.Integrated Workshops and Annual Sessions are also held periodically. A chief researcher of ICHARM has been the chair of WGH. As an AOP1 of the WGH, ICHARM implemented the “Flash Flood Risk Information for Local Resilience” project during the 2017-2019 period in collaboration with the WGH members. In 2019, ICHARM started another project, “Platform of Water Resilience and Disasters under the International Flood Initiative,” as an AOP7. The following lists the TC-related meetings held in the 2018-2019 period:

The 13th Annual Meeting of Working Group of Disaster Risk Reduction and the Advisory Working Group (Ulsan, Korea; May 29-June 1, 2018)

The 7th Annual Meeting of WGH (Tokyo, Japan; October 9-12, 2018)The 13th Annual Integrated Workshop (Chang Mai, Thailand; November 5-9, 2018)The 51st Annual Session (Guangzhou, China; February 25-March 2, 2019)The 14th Annual Meeting of Working Group of Disaster Risk Reduction and the Advisory Working Group (Ulsan, Korea; June 18-21, 2019)

The 8th Annual Meeting of WGH (Seoul, Korea; October 15-18, 2019)The 14th Annual Integrated Workshop (Guam, USA; November 4-7, 2019)

The 7th Annual Meeting of WGH held in October 2018 was co-organized by MLIT and ICHARM. It was the first time for Japan to host a WGH meeting after 2012, when WGH started to meet annually. The director general of MLIT gave an opening address, and the ICHARMdirector delivered technical presentations.

In the 13th Integrated Workshop held in November 2018, ICHARM proposed a new AOP on “Platform on Water Resilience and Disasters under the International Flood Initiative”. In

51st TC Annual Session (Guangzhou, China in February 2019)

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response, the WGH members joined an IFI meeting held in February 2019 in the Philippines, amember of TC, to observe discussions on the progress of IFI Platform activities. The 51st Annual Session in February 2019 approved the action and budget plans for the new project of WGH, i.e., Platform on Water Resilience and Disasters under International Flood Initiative, as an AOP7. The session also appointed a chief researcher of ICHARM as the new chair of WGH after the predecessor, who was also a chief researcher of ICHARM.

Playing an important role in TC, for example, by continuously assuming the chair of WGH in collaboration with its members such as MLIT and JMA, ICHARM actively participated in the Annual Meeting of WGH in October 2019 and the Annual Integrated Workshop in November 2019.

The Panel on Tropical Cyclones (PTC) for the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea targets the region prone to tropical cyclones as an intergovernmental body of WMO and UNESCAP just like TC targeting the typhoon-affected region. Since ICHARM has recently been working on “Platform on Water Resilience and Disasters under the International Flood Initiative” as anAOP7 of TC-WGH, it also supports the establishment of an IFI Platform in Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Pakistan, which are members of PTC. On September 9-13, 2019, the 46th session of PTC was held in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, where ICHARM provided a presentation on its activities,including those related to IFI. During the session, the participants discussed how to develop regional collaborative activities and expressed their expectations for ICHARM to build a bridge between the PTC and TC through IFI activities.

5.4 Leading the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)/Regional Cooperative Agreement (RCA) RAS/7/030 Project on “Assessing Deep Groundwater Resources for Sustainable Management through Utilization of Isotopic Techniques” in JapanBased upon a request from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), ICHARM

leads the IAEA/RCA RAS/7/030 Project in Japan and contributes to the implementation of the RAS/7/030 Project in other 19 Asia-Pacific region countries by assigning a research specialist of ICHARM as one of the national project coordinators and representatives of Japan for the following purposes:

- Conduct training for participants from the RCA member countries for the sustainable management of groundwater resources on the basis of comprehensive assessment using an integration of isotopic, hydrogeological and chemical techniques

- Provide expert advice for specific study areas of the RCA member countries by answering questions on groundwater sources, recharge mechanisms, age and volumes

- Promote the application of isotope techniques in Japan to characterize water cycles in subsurface and surface water components

- Contribute to the research development of new numerical modeling technology and

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preparation of the next 3-year IAEA/RCA projects for reducing water-related disasters of floods and droughts.

In 2018, the same research specialist was again given a role of co-lecturer and expert in the 3rd Regional Training Course (RTC) on the use of isotope techniques for assessing the groundwater quality of the IAEA/RCA RAS/7/030 project in Jakarta, Indonesia, on August 6-10 with 21 participants and in a national training course in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on September 3-7 with 11 participants.

In addition, he represented Japan in the IAEA/RCA technical meeting and workshop of the RAS/7/030 project held in Beijing, China, on September 17-23, 2018, with other representatives of the governments of 14 Asia-Pacific countries.

In 2019, the research specialist was again given a role of co-lecturer and expert in the 4thRTC on isotopic data processing and interpretation, including hands-on exercises, regarding the IAEA/RCA RAS/7/030 project, in Tsukuba, Japan, on March 18-22 with 14 participants and in a national training course in Vientiane, Lao PDR, on December 16-21 with 12 participants.

He also represented Japan in the final progress assessment meeting on the IAEA/RCA RAS/7/030 project, held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, on September 23-27, 2019, with other representatives of the governments of 15 Asia-Pacific countries.

In January 2020, the IAEA Governing Board approved the launch of a new project, IAEA/RCA RAS/7/035 “Enhancing Regional Capability for the Effective Management of Ground Water Resources Using Isotopic Techniques,” which will continue until December 2023.

To represent Japan as an alternate project coordinator, the IAEA/RCA RAS/7/035 project requires participation in 2020 the project coordination meetings for the RAS/7/035 project implementation across the Asia region.

5.5 Visitors

Date Visitors & Affiliations No. of

Visitors

Purpose

January 25,

2018

Delegates from Department of

Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua

University, China

18 To attend a symposium

organized by ICHARM for

introduction and academic

communication

February

21-22,

2018

Dr. Ng Yu Jin, Senior Lecturer, etc.,

Universiti Tenaga Nasional

(UNITEN), Malaysia

4 To study disaster risk

reduction research in the

Pampanga River and discuss

future collaboration

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March 9,

2018

Ramona Pelich, Luxembourg

Institute of Science and Technology

(LIST)

1 To have a meeting and a

discussion on research and

training

April 2,

2018

S. L. Mohamed Aliyar, Additional

Director General, etc., Irrigation

Department, Sri Lanka

9 To discuss the activities of

IFI Platform in Sri Lanka

May 8,

2018

Dr. Siswo Hadi Sumantri, ST, MT,

etc., Indonesia Defense University

38 To attend a seminar on water

related hazard and risk

management measures

organized by ICHARM

May 21,

2018

Prof. Akihiko Nakayama, Tunku

Abdul Rahman University, Malaysia

1 To give a lecture on

“Application of Large Eddy

Simulation to Hydraulic

Flows” to ICHARM

researchers

July 25,

2018

Mr. Ali bin Selamat, Dean, etc.,

MJIIT

14 To attend lectures given by,

Prof. EGASHIRA Shinji

(ICHARM Training and

Research Advisor) and Prof.

TAKEUCHI Kuniyoshi

(University of Yamanashi,

Former ICHARM director)

as part of the JICA training

program, "MJIIT Master of

Disaster Risk Management

Japan Attachment"

August 3,

2018

Mr. Habibur Rahman, Joint

Secretary, etc., from Local

Government Division, Planning

Commission, and Local Government

Engineering Department (LGED),

Bangladesh

11 As part of the study tour on

"Infrastructure Development

and Livelihood"

August 30,

2018

Lee Rae Chul, CEO, etc., Korean

Society of Disaster Information

(KOSDI)

12 To attend a meeting with

PWRI/ICHARM researches

September 6,

2018

Professor Tadashi Yamada, Assistant

professor Daiwei Cheng, etc., Chuo

14 To visit PWRI experiment

facilities and participate in a

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University short lecture by ICHARM

November 7,

2018

Delegates from companies in

Yokohama City

16 To learn ICHARM activities

December 12,

2018

Dr. Gordon Wells, etc., the University

of Texas at Austin

4 To attend a meeting on

estimating the run-off and

flood discharge by using a

hydrological model

February 28,

2019

LDP (Liberal Democratic Party)

upper house members, Japan

5 To deepen the understanding

of research activities of

ICHARM

May 8,

2019

Mr. Raj Kumar Srivastava, etc.,

Embassy of India

2 To discuss collaboration on

disaster risk reduction

between India and Japan

May 10,

2019

Zhong Zhiyu, etc., Changjiang Water

Resources Commission (CWRC)

6 To discuss technical issues

and exchange ideas between

CWRC and ICHARM

May 30,

2019

Mr. Nuguid Jeric John Umlas, etc.,

Department of Public Works and

Highways (DPWH), Davao City,

JICA Philippines, JICA Tokyo and

Oriental Consultants Global

11 To attend training on projects

for the master plan and

feasibility study on flood

control and drainage in

Davao City

June 25,

2019

Dr. M. Adnan Madjid, S.H., M.Hum.,

etc., Indonesia Defense University,



management measures

organized by ICHARM

July 11,

2019

Students from Miyagi Prefecture

Sendai-daiichi High School

4 To learn how to evacuate

from tsunamis and how to

create a city that protects

people from flood hazards

July 22,

2019

Ms. Faizah Che Ros, Senior Lecturer,

etc., MJIIT





TAKEUCHI Kuniyoshi




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Japan Attachment"

August 6,

2019

Nam So, etc., Mekong River

Commission

7 To attend Dr. HARADA’s

lecture on “Characteristics of

flood hazard in Japan

-Development of tools for

analysis and warning

system”'

August 8,

2019

Mr. Iuma Bani, the Vanuatu

Meteorology & Geo-Hazards

Department (VMGD), and Hisaki

Eito, the Japan Meteorological

Agency (JMA)

2 To conduct the internship on

water hazard and risk

management

November 1,

2019

Chen, Jiann-Fong, etc., Water

Resources Agency, MOEA, and

Department of Hydraulic and Ocean

Engineering, NCKU

7 To learn how ICHARM

carries out international

support

November 7,

2019

JICA students and staff 9 To attend lectures and

training as part of JICA

course work, "Disaster

Management on

infrastructure (river, road

and port)": lectures and RRI

model training " Overview

of Flood Forecasting" by Dr.

KAKINUMA (Research

Specialist), Mr.

MOCHIZUKI (Senior

Researcher), and Dr.

MOROOKA (Researcher)

November

18,

2019

Heejun Chang, Portland State

University, USA

1 To conduct expert interviews

on the perception and

governance of urban floods

among flood experts and

practitioners

December 10, Tsang-Jung Chang, Hydrotech 1 To discuss technical issues

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2019 Research Institute, National Taiwan

University (NTU)


NTU and ICHARM

December 11,

2019

Zhang Jing, etc., China

Meteorological Administration

20 To study Japan's prevention

and mitigation measures

against weather related

disasters and capacity

development on risk

management

December 13,

2019

Professor Vladimir Smakhtin,

United Nations University -

Institute for Water, Environment and

Health (UNU-INWEH)

1 To give a presentation on

"UNU-INWEH current work

and new strategy 2020-2024

and have a discussion

December 17,

2019

Professor Zhang Jianyun, Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute (NHRI), China

6 To have an academic

exchange on urban flood

management and visit Tokyo

underground flood regulation

reservoir

The former president of the Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute (NHRI), China,paid a courtesy visit to the director general of the Water and Disaster Management

Bureau of MLIT (December 2019)

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Academic Field Surveys in Japan and Overseas Countries

6.1 Field Surveys of the July 2018 Torrential Rain Disaster in Western JapanFrom July 5 to 7, 2018, continuous rainfall in western Japan induced numerous landslides,

debris flows and floods with a massive transport of sediment in several prefectures of the Chugoku and Shikoku regions, including Hiroshima, Okayama, and Ehime. Those events caused severe damage with about 230 people dead or missing throughout Japan. ICHARM has been studying public responses to disasters resulting from levee breaches. In addition, focusing on floods with massive sediment supplies, which often take place with landslides and debris flows, ICHARM has conducted field investigations to identify the geomorphological characteristics of this type of floods and evaluated them from an engineering viewpoint.

6.2 Field Surveys of Disaster Damage by the Torrential Rainfall Due to Typhoon No.19 (Hagibis)

On October 12, 2019, Typhoon No.19 (Hagibis) hit the Izu Peninsula and brought record-breaking heavy rainfall over a wide area of Japan. At one location, the accumulated precipitation exceeded 1,000 mm. At many locations, mainly in eastern Japan, the 3-, 6-, 12-,and 24-hour precipitations reached a record high, causing floods with a massive transport of

Flood damage in Mabi Town due to a levee breach along the Oda River

An area along the Souzu River severely affected by a flood with a massive amountof sediment (Saka Town, Hiroshima Prefecture)

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Survey preparation and measurement on a boat

sediment, as well as landslides and debris flows. Considerable damage resulted, including 102 people dead or missing throughout Japan. Since this event, ICHARM has been conducting research on floods with a massive transport of sediment, which have been frequent in recent years, to clarify their mechanisms and phenomena and study effective methods for sharing information in the event of such a disaster.(The damage statistics cited in this section is quoted from the Disaster Report issued by Cabinet Office on December 12, 2019.:http://www.bousai.go.jp/updates/r1typhoon19/pdf/r1typhoon19_42.pdf

6.3 Field Survey on Geomorphological Changes of the Sittaung River EstuaryThe Sittaung River drains the area of 36,000 km2 and plays an important role in the water

resources of Myanmar. The funnel-shaped estuary had a bed and banks composed of silt-clay particles and a shallow flow field; thus, active sediment transportation takes place corresponding to the river flow and tidal currents, resulting in sand bar deformation and channel changes with bank erosion. In particular, bank retreat occurs at the rate of 1,000 m/year in some sections where the retreat is most active. Such bank erosion has caused losses of agricultural land and settlements. ICHARM has studied the bank erosion and associated issues with the Directorate of Water Resources and Improvement of River Systems (DWIR) since 2017 through data analyses, field surveys, flume experiments and numerical simulations. The research activities have led to

A house half-buried after a flood with a massive amount of sediment hit the area(Marumori Town, Miyagi Prefecture)

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important achievements such as a tidal-current model, a method for evaluating sediment transportation and channel changes, the relationship between the periodicity of bank line changes and associated village formation and disappearance.

6.4 Field Survey on Sediment Transport Processes and Associated Changes in Coastal Geomorphology in the Tonlé Sap Lake

This study has been conducted to investigate the role of riparian sediment transportation in the geomorphic development of the Tonlé Sap Lake coast, focusing on the Stung Sen River and the corresponding coastal area of the lake. The study is supported by the Department of Geology of Ministry of Mines and Energy of Cambodia with partial financial assistance from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. ICHARM has investigated the physical characteristics of riverbed material and sediment transport processes along the river reach in relation to seasonal changes in the lake water level and obtained interesting results. Morphologically, the river channel can be divided into three sections: the natural channel section, the channel section influenced by the backwater effect of the lake, and the submerged channel section by the lake water. The natural channel section is characterized by a meandering channel in which suspended sediment transportation dominates; the backwater-affected section by sediment sorting; and the submerged channel section by an abrupt channel-width decrease with silt and clay being dominant particles in the reach due to further sediment sorting. Survey of bed material in the Stung Sen River

Seminar attendants after a meeting at DWIR Tidal bore observed at the Sittaung River estuary

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Public relations and other important activities

7.1 AwardsThe following lists the awards received by researchers of ICHARM for their quality research,

presentations and academic papers in the 2018-2019 period.ICHARM has its own prize, “ICHARM BEST PAPER AWARD,” mainly to encourage young

researchers at ICHARM. Every year, the selection committee selects and examines papers of ICHARM researchers published in international journals for creativity and relevancy in terms of water-related disaster risk reduction, and finally decides the best paper for the prize.

7.1.1 2017 Award by Association of Japanese GeographersNAGUMO Naoko, OHARA Miho, SHRESTHA Badri Bhakta and SAWANO Hisaya:Flood Simulation and GIS Mapping in Flood-prone Region of the Philippines: Efforts and Issues in Contingency Planning. E-journal GEO, Vol. 11, pp.361-374, 2016

7.1.2 Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA) during Japan Geoscience Union Meeting (JpGU)

Md. Khairul Islam, Mohamed RASMY, Toshio KOIKE, Kuniyoshi Takeuchi:Inter-comparison of gauge-adjusted global satellite rainfall estimates for water resources management in the Meghna river basin

7.1.3 Award for outstanding research activities by the President of PWRISenior Researcher Mohamed Rasmy Abdul WahidContribution to the efficient implementation of high-quality infrastructure through significant effort in research and technical advice against water-related disaster risk, the development of a WEB-RRI model, and its application to flood control in Sri Lanka

7.1.4 Excellent Presentation Award at Japan Society of Civil Engineering (JSCE)Gul Ahmad Ali, Atsuhiro Yorozuya, Hiroshi Koseki, Shinji Egashira, Shoji Okada: STUDY OF BEDFORM AND BOIL OF THE FIRST KIND BASED ON OBSERVATIONS IN BRAHMAPUTRA RIVER, JSCE 2018 Annual Meeting

7.1.5 International Science Cooperation Award 2018 from the Chinese Academy of ScienceKOIKE Toshio

7.1.6 2019 Chinese Government Friendship AwardKOIKE Toshio

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7.1.7 Asia-Oceania Group on Earth Observations (AOGEO) Fellow

KOIKE Toshio

7.1.8 2018 Excellent Technology Award by the Institute of Social Safety Science (ISSS)

Senior Researcher KURIBAYASHI Daisuke and OHARA MihoDevelopment of the ICHARM Disaster Risk Information System (IDRIS) for municipalities.

7.1.9 2019 SCAT (Support Center for Advanced Telecommunications Technology Research Foundation) Chairman's Award

KOIKE Toshio

7.2 ICHARM Open dayICHARM held the annual “ICHARM Open Day” on April 16, 2018, and April 23, 2019, as

part of the open house event of PWRI during the Tsukuba Science & Technology Week everyApril.

International researchers and master’s and doctoral students of ICHARM invited students and teachers from the Ibaraki Prefectural Takezono High School and the Ibaraki Prefectural Namiki Secondary School.

All communication during the lectures, presentations and Q&A sessions took place in English between the local school students and the master’s and doctoral students and staff of ICHARM. The event consisted of lectures by ICHARM researchers andstudents and poster presentations about countries of overseas students, including topics on culture and water-related disasters.

Date Participants Content

April 16,2018

91 studentsTakezono HighSchool: 73

Greetings by Director KOIKE ToshioShort lecture by Ahmed Tanjir, a PhD student, on

Director KOIKE received the 2019 Chinese Government Friendship Award

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Water Related Disasters around the WorldPoster presentations by ICHARM students from 10countries

April 23,2019

112 studentsTakezono HighSchool: 81Namiki SecondarySchool: 31

6 teachers

Greetings by Director KOIKE ToshioShort lecture by Ahmed Tanjir, a PhD student, on Water Related Disasters around the World in 2018Poster presentations by ICHARM students from 9countries

7.3 Virtual flood experience for the publicTo achieve effective water-related disaster management, it is critical that each citizen keeps

in mind that a flood disaster can occur to anybody and trains themselves to take appropriate evacuation actions when noticing signs of a disaster or receiving warnings. ICHARM has been studying practical disaster management measures to support citizens in attaining those goals and, as part of such effort, developed a virtual flood experience system using VR technology.

VR provides an opportunity for people to virtually experience water-related disasters before they actually occur. Since not many people experience a flood in reality, VR is very useful for them to see and feel what a flood would be like before they experience a real one.

In 2019, we conducted a questionnaire survey on VR at two outreach events held by ICHARM and PWRI. In those events, the participants used VR and experienced a virtual flood situation, in which they tried to evacuate to the second floor. After collecting 226 answers (adults: 111, children: 115), we statistically analyzed them to see whether the VR experience had any effect on how people view a flood. We also compared adults and children in the effect of the VR experience.

The results found no difference in the perception of a flood between adults and children. All age groups answered that being in a flood situation was very scary, even knowing that it was only virtual. Merely 40% were worried about a future flood before the virtual flood experience, but the figure went up to 80% after the VR experience. These results indicate that VR can be an effective tool to help people realize the destructive nature of floods and the importance of

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preparing for future events.

7.4 Newsletters and websiteThe ICHARM Newsletter has been published four times

a year since March 2006 to publicize its activities of research, education and training, and local practice projects,as well as a list of published papers. During the 2018-2019period, the newsletter was published eight times from No. 48 of April 2018 to No. 55 of January 2020. The number of subscribers has reached over 5,000. Since No. 47 of January 2018, the online survey on the newsletter has started. The results have been published in the newsletter and used to further improve the contents. In addition, the table of contents has been added to improve the accessibility to each article, and more efforts have been made to diversify news topics by collecting contributions from people outside the institute. In 2019, for example, the newsletter started to include contributions from graduates of ICHARM educational programs to enrich the contents, diversify the topics, and establish and maintain a continuous relationship with them.

ICHARM’s website has gone through a great renewal. A new section, “What’s New,” has been added to show progress in research and projects in addition to the latest information and notifications of upcoming events. A new site has been created to receive opinions from viewers around the world, and efforts have been made to respond to inquiries quickly and adequately.

7.5 ICHARM R&D SeminarsICHARM R&D Seminars are held on an irregular basis as an opportunity to keep up with the

latest knowledge and information from domestic and international experts in the field of hydrology and water-related disasters. In the 2018-2019 period, four seminars were held as shown in the table below, inviting experts from Japan and overseas, and attracted many

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participants, including PWRI and NILIM (National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management).

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61 April 10,2018

Couch Wouter Leading Change in Projects:

What It Takes

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Department of Civil

Engineering, the University

of Hong Kong

Data driven approaches of

hydrological modelling

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Distinguished

Prof. Soroosh

Sorooshian

Director of the Center for

Hydrometeorology and

Remote Sensing, University

of California, Irvine

Climate Variability and The

Global Hydrologic Cycle:

Efforts in Monitoring,

Modeling and Challenges in

Forecast Changes

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Mr. Koichiro Matsuura

8th Director-General of UNESCO

Global trend and Japan

7.6 Research MeetingResearch Meetings have been held roughly once a month since March 2008 for researchers to

upgrade their research skills and perspectives and practice interaction with other researchers. During the 2018-2019 period, the meeting was held 24 times.

Group photo with audience after the lecture by Distinguished Prof. Soroosh Sorooshian he 63rd

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ANNEX 1Number of Alumni of ICHARM training program (as of March 2020, with possibility)Ph.D. Program "Disaster Management" Afghanistan

Bangladesh Bhutan Bosnia-H

erzegovina Brazil Burkina Faso C

ambodia

China

Colom

bia C

ote d'Ivoire El Salvador Ethiopia D

jibouti Fiji G

uatemala

India Indonesia Japan Kenya Laos M

alaysia M

alawi

Maldives

Mozam

bique M

yanmar

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Netherland

Niger

Nigeria

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ew G

uinea Philippines R

epublic of Albania Serbia Sri Lanka Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Tim

or-Leste Tunisia Venezuela Vietnam Zim

babwe

Liberia

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ber of studentsconferred degree)

2010-2013 1 1 12011-2014 1 1 1 3 12012-2015 1 1 2 22013-2016 2 1 3 32014-2017 1 1 22015-2018 1 1 2 22016-2019 1 1 2 22017-2020 1 1 -2018-2021 1 1 1 3 -2019-2022 0 -

Total 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 19 11

Master's. Program "Water-related Disaster Management Course of Disaster Management Policy Program"2007-2008 2 3 1 3 1 1 11 102008-2009 2 2 1 1 1 2 9 72009-2010 2 1 1 3 1 1 1 2 1 13 122010-2011 2 2 1 1 1 1 3 1 12 122011-2012 2 2 1 2 2 6 1 1 1 1 19 192012-2013 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 12 122013-2014 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 12 122014-2015 1 1 1 2 3 1 2 2 13 132015-2016 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 13 132016-2017 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 11 82017-2018 2 1 1 1 2 2 1 2 1 1 14 142018-2019 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 8 72019-2020 2 2 2 2 2 1 11 -

Total 0 22 2 0 5 0 0 11 3 0 1 2 0 3 1 5 7 4 4 0 2 1 1 1 10 14 0 0 1 18 1 9 1 1 13 0 1 3 2 1 2 4 1 1 158 139

JICA training program "Flood Hazard Mapping"2004 2 2 2 3 2 2 2 1 162005 2 2 2 2 2 3 1 2 162006 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 162007 2 2 3 2 3 2 1 3 2 202008 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 10Total 9 10 9 11 11 10 1 9 8 78

JICA training program "Local Emergency Operation Plan with Flood Hazard Map"2009 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 102010 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 122011 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 11Total 3 5 6 4 3 1 3 3 3 2 33

JICA training program "Capacity Development for Flood Risk Management with IFAS"2012(A) 3 3 2 2 3 132012(B) 7 7

2013 3 3 2 3 2 3 162014 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 202015 1 2 1 2 4 2 4 2 2 202016 2 1 1 4 2 2 4 2 182017 1 1 2 2 2 2 10Total 9 6 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 17 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 11 0 0 18 0 0 6 0 0 10 0 0 0 12 0 0 104

JICA training program "Capacity Development for Adaptation to Climate Change"2010 1 3 1 1 1 7

UN/ISDR Training course "Comprehensive Tsunami Disaster Prevention"2008 2 4 2 3 11

UNESCO Pakistan Project workshop2012 6 62013 5 52016 2 2 42017 2 2 4Total 4 15 19

UNESCO West Africa Project 2019 2 1 3

Afghanistan Bangladesh Bhutan Bosnia-H


ambodia

China

Colom

bia C


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uatemala


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alawei

Maldives

Mozam

bique M

yanmar

Nepal

Netherland

Niger

Nigeria

Pakistan Papua N

ew G

uinea Philippines R



babwe

Liberia

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ICHARM Publication List (January 2018 ~ March 2020)

A. Peer Reviewed PapersBasara, B.N., Perera, E.D.P., (2018) Analysis of land use change impacts on flash flood occurrences in the Sosiani River basin Kenya, International Journal of River Basin Management, https://doi.org/10.1080/15715124.2017.1411922, pp. 1-10

2016 10Vol.39 pp.47-66 2018 1

62 B1Vol.74 No.4 pp.I_103-I_108 2018 2

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Vol.74 No.4 pp.I_937-I_942 2018 2

62 B1Vol.74 No.4 pp. I_1345-I_1350 2018 2

62 B1 Vol.74No.4 pp. I_1015-I_1020 2018 2Danang Dwi Admojo Taichi Tebakari Mamoru Miyamoto Evaluation of a Satellite-based Rainfall Product for a Runoff Simulation of a Flood Event; a Case Study62 B1 Vol.74 No.4 pp. I_73-I_78 2018 2

2017 762 B1 Vol.74 No.4

pp. I_925-I_930 2018 2

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B273 2 pp. I_499-I_504 2017

No.32 pp.103-111 2018 3Young-Joo Kwak, Flash Flood Mapping for Mountain Streams Using High-resolution ALOS-2 Data, Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., Vol.XLII-3/W4, pp.307-312, 2018Zhang H., Ao T., Gusyev M., Ishidaira H., Magome J. and K. Takeuchi (2018). Distributed source pollutant transport module based on BTOPMC: a case study of the Laixi River basin in the Sichuan province of southwest China. Proceedings of IAHS 2018, 379, pp.323–333, https://doi.org/10.5194/ piahs-379-323-2018, June 2018Thu M., Gusyev M., Hasegawa A., and A. Husiev (2018). Analysis of floods and droughts for past and future climates in the Bago River basin, Myanmar. Proceedings of International Conference at the International Academy of Life Protection, Kyiv, pp.138-146, ISBN 978-966-699-935-4, June 2018Islam M. Khairul, Nikolaos Mastrantonas, Mohamed Rasmy, Toshio Koike and Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, Inter-Comparison of Gauge-Corrected Global Satellite Rainfall Estimates and Their Applicability for Effective Water Resource Management in a Transboundary River Basin: The Case of the Meghna River Basin, Remote sensing, Vol.10 Issue 6, 828, https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10060828, June 2018Odhiambo C., Gusyev M., Hasegawa A., and A. Husiev (2018). Evaluation of Proposed Multi-Purpose Dams For Flood and Drought Hazard Reduction in the Upper Ewaso Ngiro North River Basin, Kenya. Proceedings of International Conference at the International Academy of Life Protection, Kyiv, 119-127, ISBN 978-966-699-935-4

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Vol.24 pp.71 76 2018 6Mahtab Mohammad Hossain, Miho Ohara, Mohamed Rasmy, Effectiveness of the Submersible Embankment in Haor Area in Bangladesh, Journal of Disaster Research, Vol.13 (4), pp.780-792, August 2018Andrea M. Juarez-Lucas, Kelly M. Kibler, Takahiro Sayama, Miho Ohara, Flood risk-benefit assessment to support management of floodprone lands, Journal of Flood Risk Management, https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.12476, September 2018

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RRI Vol.63pp.I_1381-I_1386 2018 11Gul Ahmad Ali, Atsuhiro YOROZUYA, Hiroshi KOSEKI, Shinji EGASHIRA, Shoji OKADA, ANALYSIS OF BEDFORM AND BOIL BASED ON OBSERVATIONS INBRAHMAPUTRA RIVER, , Vol.63, pp.I_925-I_930, November, 2018Vystavna Y., Diadin D., Rossi P.M., Gusyev M., Hejzlar J., Mehdizadeh R., and F. Huneau (2018). Quantification of water and sewage leakages from urban infrastructure into a shallow aquifer in East Ukraine, Environ Earth Sci 77: 748. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-018-7936-yBadri Bhakta Shrestha, Hisya Sawano, Miho Ohara, Yusuyuke Yamazaki, Yoshio Tokunaga, Methodology for agricultural flood damage assessment, Flood Risk Management, December 2018Miho OHARA, Naoko NAGUMO, Badri Bhakta SHRESTHA, Hisaya SAWANO, Evidence-based contingency planning to enhance local resilience to flood disasters, flood risk management, December 2018

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Observation of Jumping Cirrus with Ground-Based Cameras, Radiosonde, and Himawari-8 Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Volume 97, Issue 3, pp.615-632 2019Badri Bhakta Shrestha, EDP Perera, Shun Kudo, Mamoru Miyamoto, Yusuke Yamazaki, Daisuke Kuribayashi, Hisaya Sawano, Takahiro Sayama, Jun Magome, Akira Hasegawa, Tomoki Ushiyama, Yoichi Iwami and Yoshio Tokunaga, Assessing Flood Disaster Impacts in Agriculture under Climate Change in the River Basins of Southeast Asia, Springer, Natural Hazards, 97, pp.157–192, June, 2019Asif Naseer, Toshio Koike, Mohamad Rasmy, Tomoki Ushiyama, Maheswor Shrestha, Distributed Hydrological Modeling Framework for Quantitative and Spatial Bias Correction for Rainfall, Snowfall, and Mixed Phase Precipitation Using Vertical Profile of Temperature, JGR Atmospheres, Vol.124, Issue9, pp.4985-5009, May, 2019, https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018JD029811Stewart, M.K., Morgenstern, U., Tsujimura, M., Gusyev, M.A., Sakakibara, K., Imaizumi, Y., Rutter, H., van der Raaij, R., Etheridge, Z., Scott, L., and S.C. Cox (2018). Mean residence times and sources of Christchurch springs, Journal of Hydrology (New Zealand) 57(2): 81-94.Gusyev M.A., Morgenstern U., Nishihara T., Hayashi T., Akata N., Ichiyanagi K., Sugimoto A., Hasegawa A., and M.K. Stewart (2019). Evaluating anthropogenic and environmental tritium effects using precipitation and Hokkaido snowpack at selected coastal locations in Asia. Science of the Total Environment 659: 1307-1321, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.12.342Chatterjee S., Gusyev M.A., Sinha U.K., Mohokar H.V., and A. Dash (2019). Understanding water circulation with tritium tracer in the Tural-Rajwadi geothermal area, India. Applied Geochemistry 109: 104373, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2019.104373Thapa B.R., Ishidaira H., Gusyev M.A., Pandey V.P., Udmale P., Hayashi M., and N.M. Shakya (2019). Implications of the Melamchi water supply project for the Kathmandu valley groundwater system. Water Policy: Volume 21, Issue S1, pp 120-137.Hisaya Sawano, Katsunori Tamakawa, Badri Bhakta Shrestha, Tomoki Ushiyama, Maksym Gusyev and Toshio Koike, Formulation of adaptation measures for flood management under the uncertainty of future projection, Proceedings of THA2019 International Conference on Water Management and Climate Change towards Asia's Water-Energy-Food Nexus and SDGs (Bangkok, Thailand, 2019), pp.475-480,http://aseanacademicnetwork.com/sites/default/files/conference/Proceedings_THA2019-01

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0519.pdfDaisuke Harada, Naoko Nagumo, Yousuke Nakamura and Shinji Egashira, Characteristics of Flood Flow with Active Sediment Transport in the Sozu River Flood Hazards at the Severe Rainfall Event in July 2018, Journal of Disaster Research (JDR), Vol.14, Issue6, pp.886-893, September 2019OHARA Miho and NAGUMO Naoko, Mortality by Age Group and Municipality in the July 2018 Torrential Rainfall, Journal of Disaster Research, Vol.14, No.6, pp. 912-921, 2019.

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pp.I_967-I_972 2019 11 4 6Robin K. Biswas, EGASHIRA Shinji, HARADA Daisuke, NAKAMURA Yousuke, Lateral and Longitudinal Sediment Sorting in Seri River, Japan, ,

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Malik Rizwan Asghar, USHIYAMA Tomoki, Muhammad Riaz, MIYAMOTO Mamoru, Flood and Inundation Forecasting in the Sparsely Gauged Transboundary Chenab River Basin Using Satellite Rain and Coupling Meteorological and Hydrological Models, Journal of Hydrometeorology, Vol.20, No.12, pp.2315-2330

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Mohamed Rasmy, SAYAMA Takahiro, KOIKE Toshio, Development of Water and Energy Budget-based Rainfall-Runoff-Inundation Model (WEB-RRI) and Its Verification in the Kalu and Mundeni River Basins, Sri Lanka, Journal of Hydrology, Vol.579, 124163,December 2019

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Young-Joo Kwak, Jonggeol Park, Wataru Takeuchi, Long-term flood detection mapping using multi-satellite data for international river basin, 26th IIS forum proceeding, 26th IIS forum, Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) U-Tokyo, Tokyo, March 5-6, 2018

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DIAS 2018DIAS 2018 3 9Tsujimura M, Sakakibara K, Imaizumi Y, Gusyev M., Morgenstern U, Spatial and temporal variation of residence time of spring and groundwater in multiple watersheds, Japan and New Zealand, The 14th Australasian Environmental Isotope Conference, Wellington, March 26-28, 2018

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2017 8 1 3Sungae LEE, Yoshihiro SHIBUO, Hiroshi SANUKI, Yoshimitsu Tajima, Shinji SATO, Long term monitoring of water level in sewer networks for validation of urban flood model, 14th IWA/IAHR International Conference on Urban Drainage, ICUD, Prague, September 10-15, 2017Stewart M.K., Morgenstern U., Toews M., van der Raaij R., and M.A. Gusyev (2018). Uncertainties of tritium streamflow transit times: Experiments with single and double lumped parameter models. The EGU 2018 General Assembly, Geophysical Research Abstracts EGU2018-11167, Vienna, April 8-13, 2018, Austria

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2018 5 18Badri Bhakta Shrestha, Yusuke Yamazaki, Daisuke Kuribayashi, Akira Hasegawa, Hisaya Sawano, Yoshio Tokunaga, Assessment of future flood damage on agricultural areas under climate change in the Chao Phraya River basin of Thailand, Japanese Geoscience Union, Japanese Geoscience Union Meeting 2018, Tokyo, May 20-24, 2018Gusyev M.A., Kikumori Y., Denda M., Toda H., Tsujimura M., Sakakibara K., Morgenstern U., and M.K. Stewart (2018). Application of tritium-tracer and stable isotopes in the Chikuma River basin, Japan. Presentation at the JpGU 2018 Meeting, Chiba, May 20-24th, 2018, JapanStewart M.K., Morgenstern U., Gusyev M.A., and J. Thomas (2018). Residence times of

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water and chemical flows in a karst spring. Presentation at the JpGU 2018 Meeting, Chiba, May 20-24th, 2018, JapanTsujimura M., Sakakibara K., Katsuyama M., Mizugaki S., Gusyev M.A., Yamamoto C., Sugiyama A., Ogawa M., Kato K., Yamada T., Yano S., Sasakura N., Morgenstern U., and M.K. Stewart (2018). Integrated study on spatiotemporal variation of residence time in spring and groundwater at headwater catchments. Presentation at the JpGU 2018 Meeting, Chiba, May 20-24th, 2018, JapanYoung-Joo Kwak, Utilization of Advanced Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies for Disaster Risk Management and Emergency Response (Discussion),

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Tetsuya Ikeda (2018). ICHARM's Activities on Water-Related Disaster and Flood Management in Japan for Climate Change Adaptation. The Third CICHEJSCE Joint Workshop in 2018, Taichung, June 1, 2018Tomoki Ushiyama, Mohamed Rasmy, Toshio Koike, Regional ensemble prediction of heavy rainfall in Sri Lanka flood in 2017 May, AOGS2018, AOGS, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 3-8, 2018Young-Joo Kwak, Ramona Pelich, J.Park, Integrated Multiple Satellite Application for Flood Mapping using ALOS-2 and Sentinel-1 Data, AOGS2018, AOGS, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 3-8, 2018Hasegawa A. and Gusyev M. (2018). Comparative standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index analysis of d4PDF_GCM dataset, AOGS2018, AOGS, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 3-8, 2018Hasegawa A. and Gusyev M. (2018). Concept Study on Seasonal Prediction of Meteorological Droughts Using the Comparative Standardized Precipitation Index, AOGS2018, AOGS, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 3-8, 2018Tomoki Ushiyama, Ensemble flood forecasting based on two ways of regional ensemble prediction systems: simple downscaling of global EPS and regional data assimilation, AOGS2018, AOGS, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 4-8, 2018

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Yosuke Nakamura, Koji Ikeuchi, Shiori Abe, Toshio Koike, Shinji Egashira, Evaluation of the uncertainty of flash flood prediction using the RRI model in mountainous rivers, 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, Hydroinformatics, University of Palermo, July 2-6, 2018Naoko Nagumo, Shinji Egashira, Characteristics of the 2016 flood disaster in the Omoto River Basin: an example of floods in mountainous river basins, Iwate University, Iwate Prefecture Citizens' Cultural Exchange Center "Aiina", July 17-19, 2018Young-Joo Kwak, Rapid Flash Flood Mapping Using High-resolution ALOS-2 Data: A pilot case study of Omoto River, Japan, Global Conference on the International Network of Disaster Study in Iwate, Iwate University, Iwate Prefecture Citizens' Cultural Exchange Center "Aiina", July 17-19, 2018Yusuke Yamazaki, Shinji Egashira, Method to estimate the supply rate of sediment and driftwood into stream channels, Iwate University, Iwate Prefecture Citizens' Cultural Exchange Center "Aiina", July 17-19, 2018Daisuke Harada, Shinji Egashira, Numerical simulation model of driftwood in flood flows with sediment erosion and deposition, Iwate University, Iwate Prefecture Citizens' Cultural Exchange Center "Aiina", July 17-19, 2018Yosuke Nakamura, Koji Ikeuchi, Shiori Abe, REAL TIME FLASH FLOOD PREDICTION USING THE RRI MODEL IN MOUNTAINOUS RIVERS, Global Conference on the International Network of Disaster Studies, INDS, Aiina in Iwate Prefecture, July 17-19, 2018Yoshito Kikumori, Shinji Egashira, Hiroyuki Ito, Yosuke Nakamura, Research on a Flood Forecasting System in Mountainous Rivers, Iwate University, Iwate Prefecture Citizens' Cultural Exchange Center "Aiina", July 17-19, 2018Daisuke Kuribayashi, Miho Ohara, Takashi Iwasaki, Yoshio Tokunaga, A Disaster Information System for Local Governments Promoting Seamless Usage from Normal Times to Emergency, Iwate University, Iwate Prefecture Citizens' Cultural Exchange Center "Aiina", July 17-19, 2018Miho OHARA, Daisuke KURIBAYASHI, Manabu TERAWAKI and Yoshio TOKUNAGA, Analysis of Tense Moments during Emergency Flood Disaster Response of Local Governments, Global Conference on the International Network of Disaster Study in Iwate, Iwate University, Iwate Prefecture Citizens' Cultural Exchange Center "Aiina", July 17-19, 2018Badri Bhakta Shrestha, Practices on flood prediction, prevention and mitigation, Tenth

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NEAJ Symposium on Current and Future Technologies, NEAJ, Tokyo, Japan, July 21, 2018Mahtab Mohammad Hossain, Miho Ohara, Mohamed Rasmy, The Impact of Rainfall Variation on Flash Flooding in Haor Areas in Bangladesh, World Congress on Water Conservation & Environmental Management (WC2EM), Indonesia, August 10-12, 2018Gul Ahmad Ali, Atsuhiro YOROZUYA, Hiroshi KOSEKI, Shinji EGASHIRA, Shoji OKADA, STUDY OF BEDFORM AND BOIL OF THE FIRST KIND BASED ON OBSERVATIONS IN BRAHMAPUTRA RIVER, International Program, CS2-024, , , August 29-31, 2018Yusuke Yamazaki, Shinji Egashira, A method to specify critical rainfall conditions for sediment disasters and their regionality, 21st Congress of Asia and Pacific Division of International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR-APD), IAHR-APD, Yogyakarta, INDONESIA, September 2-5, 2018Daisuke Harada, Shinji Egashira, Behavior of driftwood in terms of convection-diffusion equation, 21st Congress of Asia and Pacific Division of International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR-APD), IAHR-APD, Yogyakarta, INDONESIA, September 2-5, 2018Young-Joo Kwak, Emergency flash flood mapping for disaster risk reduction: 2018 flood in Bangladesh, International Workshop 2018 on Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB), Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB), Dhaka, Bangladesh, September 5, 2018Young-Joo Kwak, W. Takeuchi, Future cooperation with stakeholders in International River Management between India & Bangladesh, International Workshop 2018 on Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB), Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB), Dhaka, Bangladesh, September 5, 2018Young-Joo Kwak, Advanced flood mapping using Earth Observation data, Intensive training in BWDB, Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB), Dhaka, Bangladesh, September 4-6, 2018

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2018 8 29 31Tetsuya Ikeda, ICHARM’s contribution on water-related disaster risk reduction in Asia and the world, Asia Water Forum 2018, Asia Development Bank, Manila, Philippine, October 2-5, 2018

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Badri Bhakta Shrestha, Experiences and Practices on Flood Prediction, Prevention and Mitigation in Various Asian Countries, Fourth International Workshop on Effective Engineering Education, Kisarazu Kosen, Chiba, October 10-11, 2018Mohamed Rasmy, Tomoki Ushiyama, Toshio Koike, Masaki Yasukawa, Masaru Kitsuregawa, A Platform on Water Resilience and Disaster: Towards Integrating Multi-Platform Data for Enhancing Water Related Disaster Early Warning and Management in Sri Lanka, International Association of Applied Science and Engineering (IAASE), Jeju Island, South Korea, October 12-14, 2018Islam M. Khairul, Nikolaos Mastrantonas, Mohamed Rasmy, Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, Combined use of satellite estimates and rain gauge observations for water resource management in an inaccessible transboundary river basin– the case of the Meghna river basin, International Association of Applied Science and Engineering (IAASE), Jeju Island, South Korea, October 12-14, 2018Yoshiyuki Imamura, Study on country-based flood risk index using earth observation data, 39th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing (ACRS), Asian Association on Remote Sensing (AARS), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 15-19, 2018Katsunori Tamakawa, Activities for “Platform on Water Resilience and Disaster” under the frame work of International Flood Initiative (IFI) using Data Integration and Analysis System (DIAS), Improvement of Delivery of Weather, Climate and Hydrological Services in Myanmar: Annual Development Partner Workshop 2018, Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH) of Myanmar, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, October 17-19, 2018Gusyev M.A. (2018). Understanding water circulation with tritium and stable isotopes: a case study of water transit times and storage in Hokkaido watersheds. Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, October 22, JapanKatsunori Tamakawa, Climate Change Impact Assessment: Online demonstration of DIAS tool for the analysis of Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5), The 11th GEOSS Asia-Pacific Symposium, Group on Earth Observations, Kyoto, Japan, October 24-26, 2018

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2018 10 29 11 1S. Egashira, Sediment-and driftwood-runoffs resulting from landslides and debris flows, and their impacts on flood flows, 5th International Debris Flow Workshop, Beijing, November 5-6, 2018Y. Yamazaki, S. Egashira, Formation process of natural dam resulting from landslides and debris flow, 5th International Debris Flow Workshop, Beijing, November 5-6, 2018T.S. Ahmed, S. Egashira, D. Harada, A. Yorozuya, Y. Kwak, On bank erosion in estuary of Sittaung river in Myanmar, The 9th International Conference on Scour and Erosion, The 9th International Conference on Scour and Erosion, Taipei, Taiwan, November 5-8, 2018D. Harada, S. Egashira, A. Yorozuya, Method to evaluate longitudinal sediment sorting processes, The 9th International Conference on Scour and Erosion, The 9th International Conference on Scour and Erosion, Taipei, Taiwan, November 5-8, 2018Y. Yamazaki, S. Egashira, N. Nagumo, Method to predict sediment runoff resulting from landslides and debris flows, The 9th International Conference on Scour and Erosion, The 9th International Conference on Scour and Erosion, Taipei, Taiwan, November 5-8, 2018M. Stewart, U. Morgenstern, M. Tsujimura, M. Gusyev, K. Sakakibara, Y. Imaizumi, H. Rutter, R. van der Raaij, Z. Etheridge, and L. Scott (2018). Subsurface Flowpaths of Christchurch Springs. Poster Presentation at the Joint Conference of New Zealand Hydrological Society and Meteorological Society, Christchurch, December 4-7, New Zealand

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15 18Mamoru Miyamoto, Yosuke Nakamura, Anurak Sriariyawat, Supattra Visessri, Operational inundation forecasting contributing to business continuity management in the industrial complex scale – A case of the Chao Phraya River basin, Thailand - , EGU General Assembly 2019, vol.21, 12486, April 4-12, 2019Gusyev M.A., Kikumori Y., Nishihara T., Hayashi T., Ichiyanagi K., Akata N., Oda T., Morgenstern U., and M.K. Stewart (2019). Using tritium in apanese precipitation for tritium-tracer transit time studies across Asia. Presentation at the JpGU 2019 Meeting, Chiba, May 20-24th, Japan.

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pp.I_283-I_288 2019 11 4 6HARADA Daisuke, EGASHIRA Shinji, Evaluation of driftwood behaviour in terms of convection-diffusion equation -In the Akatani reach at the flood disaster in July, 2017-,11th River, Coastal & Morphodynamics Symposium, 11th River, Coastal & Morphodynamics Symposium, IAHR, Auckland University of Technology, November 16-21, 2019EGASHIRA Shinji, HARADA Daisuke, Tanjir Saif Ahmed, Entrainment of Very Fine Sediment in Treating the Estuary Bed Evolution, 11th River, Coastal & Morphodynamics Symposium, IAHR, Auckland University of Technology, November 16-21, 2019Robin K. Biswas, HARADA Daisuke, NAKAMURA Yousuke, EGASHIRA Shinji, Riverbed evolution and sediment sorting during flood, 11th River, Coastal & Morphodynamics Symposium, IAHR, Auckland University of Technology, November 16-21, 2019TOMIZAWA Yosuke, Climate Resilience for Sustainable Development, 6th HATHI International Seminar, p.34, HATHI Indonesian Association of Hydraulic Engineers, Kupang, Indonesia, November 22-24, 2019TAMAKAWA Katsunori, Introduction of WEB-DHM and application to Saigawa basin in Japan, The 4th UTokyo-NTU Joint Conference, The University of Tokyo, December 9, 2019

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2018 5 20 24Young-Joo Kwak Daisuke KURIBAYASHI Hisaya SAWANO Shinji EGASHIRACoastal erosion and land loss detection using multi-temporal ALOS/ALOS2 data in Sittaung Estuaries, Myanmar 2018 5 20

24Imaizumi Y., Tsujimura M., Yamamoto C., Sugiyama, A., Ogawa M., Sakakibara K., Kato K., Mizugaki S., Katsuyama M., Yamada T., Yano S., Sasakura N., Gusyev M.A., Morgenstern U. and M.K. Stewart (2018). Spatial distribution of residence time and total number of prokaryotes in spring water in headwater catchments underlain by different lithology. Poster at the Presentation at the JpGU 2018 Meeting, Chiba, May 20-24th, 2018, JapanIslam M. Khairul, Mohamed Rasmy, Toshio Koike and Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, Inter-comparison of gauge-adjusted global satellite rainfall estimates for water resources management in the Maghna river basin, JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting, Chiba, May 20-24th, 2018, JapanYoung-Joo Kwak, S. Yun, A Comparative Pilot Study of Flood Mapping using ALOS-2Data in Japan, AOGS2018, AOGS, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 3-8, 2018

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grap

hy,

and

even

tual

ly u

sed

to e

stabl

ish

an e

arly

floo

d w

arni

ng a

nd sy

stem

. A te

chno

logy

will

be

deve

lope

d to

eva

luat

e w

ater

disa

sterh

azar

ds b

y us

ing

sate

llite

s and

sedi

men

t hyd

raul

ic m

odel

s.

(i)-(

b)-1

. Res

earc

h on

te

chno

logi

es fo

r mor

e ac

cura

te re

al-ti

me

Impr

ove

the

accu

racy

of

the

flood

inun

datio

n pr

edic

tion

mod

el b

y

Test

the

WEB

-RR

I mod

el fo

r the

re

prod

ucib

ility

of f

lood

eve

nts i

n se

vera

l riv

er b

asin

s in

Japa

n an

d

Impr

ove

the

WEB

-RR

I mod

el b

ased

on

the

test

resu

lts, a

nd p

repa

re fo

r th

e pu

blic

rele

ase

of th

e si

mul

atio

n

Ove

rall

eval

uatio

nA

Publ

icat

ion

S

Com

plet

ed th

e W

EB-R

RI m

odel

an

d ap

plie

d it

to th

e riv

er b

asin

in

Sri L

anka

and

ver

ified

.

Expa

nded

app

licat

ion

of th

e WEB

-R

RI m

odel

to In

done

sia, t

he

Phili

ppin

es, a

nd W

est A

frica

.

96

76

pred

ictio

n of

runo

ff an

d in

unda

tion

by

com

plem

entin

g in

suffi

cien

t dat

a av

aila

bilit

y

upgr

adin

g th

e flo

od

track

ing

met

hod

and

intro

duci

ng a

n au

tom

atic

pa

ram

eter

opt

imiz

atio

n m

etho

d.

over

seas

; the

WEB

-RR

I mod

el is

re

gard

ed a

s hig

hly

capa

ble

of

simul

atin

g th

e be

havi

or o

f wat

er fl

ow

from

land

to ri

vers

.C

ontin

ue

test

ing

the

flood

re

prod

ucib

ility

of

IF

AS

usin

g a

para

met

er o

ptim

izat

ion

algo

rism

and

co

nduc

t on-

site

exp

erim

ents

to te

st th

e lo

cal

appl

icab

ility

of

a

real

-tim

e op

timiz

atio

n m

etho

d.

mod

el in

clud

ing

the

prod

uctio

n of

a

user

’s m

anua

l.St

udy

the i

mpl

emen

tatio

n of

the r

eal-

time o

ptim

izat

ion

met

hod

whi

ch u

ses

the

IFA

S pa

ram

eter

op

timiz

atio

n m

etho

d.

Scie

ntifi

c si

gnifi

canc

eA

Soci

al si

gnifi

canc

eA

Diss

emin

atio

nA

Cre

ated

the

IFA

S pa

ram

eter

op

timiz

atio

n to

ol a

ndpu

blish

ed a

s IF

AS

Cal

ibra

tor.

App

lied

real

-tim

e op

timiz

atio

n al

gorit

hm to

the A

be R

iver

in

colla

bora

tion

with

Fuj

itsu

Labo

rato

ries.

Con

duct

ed tr

aini

ng in

ICH

AR

M

for u

se o

f the

WEB

-RR

I mod

el a

ndpr

epar

ed p

roce

dure

s with

a v

iew

to

the

gene

ral p

ublic

and

diss

emin

atio

n.C

ontin

ued

appl

icat

ion

expe

rimen

ts on

the A

be R

iver

in c

olla

bora

tion

with

Fuj

itsu

Labo

rato

ries.

Cla

rify

the

appl

icab

ility

of

sate

llite

rain

fall

data

and

de

velo

p a

basi

n-sp

ecifi

c da

ta c

orre

ctio

n m

etho

d.

Impr

ove

the

appl

icab

ility

of

GSM

aP-

IF2

by u

sing

rain

fall

data

fro

m t

he

grou

nd

gaug

es

new

ly

insta

lled

in

Paki

stan

and

Sri L

anka

, and

test

flood

fo

reca

sting

us

ing

GSM

aP-I

F2

for

accu

racy

.

Prom

ote

the

use

of

GSM

aP-I

F2,

corr

ecte

d us

ing

grou

nd ra

infa

ll da

ta,

in

flood

fo

reca

stin

g an

d ot

her

appl

icat

ions

in o

vers

eas c

ount

ries.

Ove

rall

eval

uatio

nA

Publ

icat

ion

ASc

ient

ific

sign

ifica

nce

ASo

cial

sign

ifica

nce

AD

issem

inat

ion

A

Verif

ied

accu

racy

of G

SMaP

-IF2

in

Paki

stan

and

Sri L

anka

, and

the

accu

racy

of a

new

cor

rect

ion

algo

rithm

IF4.

0 in

Pak

istan

.

Util

izin

g G

SMaP

bia

s cor

rect

ed

with

gro

und

rain

gau

ge d

ata

acqu

ired

in re

al ti

me

or p

ast r

ainf

all

data

, dev

elop

ed fl

ood

fore

casti

ng

syst

emsi

n th

e N

iger

-Vol

ta b

asin

, Ph

ilipp

ines

, etc

.

Impr

ove

the

accu

racy

of

the

WR

F m

odel

for h

eavy

ra

infa

ll pr

edic

tion

usin

g X

-an

d C

-ban

d M

P ra

dars

and

th

e En

sem

ble

Kal

man

fil

ter.

Stud

y ho

w to

impr

ove

the

accu

racy

of

heav

y ra

in fo

reca

sting

usin

g th

e W

RF

mod

el b

y co

mbi

ning

GSM

aP w

ith

rada

r rai

nfal

l and

oth

er ty

pes o

f dat

a.Te

st th

e W

RF

cum

ulus

an

d ot

her

mod

els

for

appl

icab

ility

to

Sout

heas

t A

sia.

Test

the

accu

racy

of

met

eoro

logi

cal

fore

casti

ng

info

rmat

ion,

w

hich

is

prov

ided

, as t

he b

ound

ary

cond

ition

s fo

r re

gion

cal

cula

tion,

by

the

GCM

an

d th

e ot

her

met

hods

, an

d stu

dy

how

to

impr

ove

the

accu

racy

of

heav

y ra

in fo

reca

stin

g by

upg

radi

ng

met

eoro

logi

cal

fore

cast

ing.

A

lso

stud

y a

met

hod

for

corr

ectin

g th

e fo

reca

sted

loca

tion

of h

eavy

rain

fall

base

d on

loca

l, to

pogr

aphi

c and

oth

er

cond

ition

s.

Ove

rall

eval

uatio

nA

Publ

icat

ion

ASc

ient

ific

sign

ifica

nce

ASo

cial

sign

ifica

nce

AD

issem

inat

ion

A

In th

e se

lect

ion

of e

nsem

ble

mem

bers

in h

eavy

rain

fore

cast

ing,

ex

amin

ed th

e m

etho

d of

usin

g co

rrela

tion

coef

ficie

nt w

ith ra

dar

rain

gau

ge d

ata.

Com

pare

d th

e ap

plic

abili

ty o

f the

W

RF

cum

ulus

mod

elin

Sri

Lank

a.

Trie

d to

impr

ove

the

accu

racy

of

heav

y ra

in fo

reca

sts b

y ch

angi

ng

the

boun

dary

con

ditio

ns fr

om

NCE

P to

JMA

GC

M.

Inve

stig

ated

the

accu

racy

im

prov

emen

t of r

ainf

all a

rea

by

assi

mila

ting

clou

d w

ater

ob

serv

atio

n da

ta b

y sa

telli

te

mic

row

ave

data

in th

e he

avy

rain

fo

reca

st c

alcu

latio

n.

Dev

elop

a m

etho

d fo

r rea

l-tim

e flo

od in

unda

tion

fore

cast

ing

usin

g m

ultip

le

rain

fall

fore

cast

ing

appr

oach

es w

ith p

redi

ctio

n un

certa

inty

.

Exam

ine

the

accu

racy

of v

ario

us ty

pes

of h

eavy

rai

n fo

reca

sting

info

rmat

ion

appl

icab

le

to

real

-tim

e flo

od

inun

datio

n fo

reca

sting

. C

ondu

ct

rese

arch

on

the d

evel

opm

ent o

f a fl

ood

inun

datio

n fo

reca

sting

sys

tem

usin

g va

rious

type

s of h

eavy

rain

fore

casti

ng

info

rmat

ion.

Stud

y de

cisio

n-m

akin

g m

etho

ds b

ased

on

flo

od

inun

datio

n in

form

atio

n pr

ovid

ed b

y en

sem

ble

fore

cast

ing.

Ass

ist

pref

ectu

res

in

Japa

n in

de

velo

ping

a fl

ood

fore

casti

ng s

yste

m

for m

ount

aino

us ri

vers

.

Dev

elop

a re

al-ti

me

flood

fo

reca

sting

met

hod

usin

g ra

infa

ll da

ta fr

om sa

telli

tes a

nd th

e Ja

pan

Met

eoro

logi

cal A

genc

y.St

udy

deci

sion

-mak

ing

met

hods

ba

sed

on

flood

in

unda

tion

info

rmat

ion

prov

ided

by

ense

mbl

e fo

reca

stin

g.

Ove

rall

eval

uatio

nS

Publ

icat

ion

ASc

ient

ific

sign

ifica

nce

SSo

cial

sign

ifica

nce

SD

issem

inat

ion

A

Dev

elop

ed a

floo

d fo

reca

sting

sy

stem

usin

g2

days

rain

fall

fore

cast

ing

in o

rder

to im

prov

e th

e po

wer

gen

erat

ion

effic

ienc

y an

d flo

od c

ontro

l fun

ctio

n of

a

hydr

oele

ctric

dam

.Ex

amin

eda

sim

ple

and

inex

pens

ive

flood

fore

casti

ng m

etho

d th

at c

an

be u

sed

to sm

all-s

cale

rive

rsad

min

istra

ted

by lo

cal g

over

nmen

tsus

ing

the

JMA

rain

fall

shor

t-ter

m

fore

cast

dat

a.

Dev

elop

ed th

e re

al-ti

me

flood

fo

reca

sting

met

hod

inte

grat

ing

the

GSM

aP, g

roun

d ra

infa

ll da

ta o

f the

ta

rget

are

a an

d JM

A fo

reca

st ra

infa

ll da

ta in

real

tim

e on

DIA

S.In

ord

er to

impr

ove

the

pow

er

gene

ratio

n ef

ficie

ncy

of

hydr

oele

ctric

dam

s, ex

amin

ing

oper

atio

n ru

les b

ased

on

dam

in

flow

fore

cast

info

rmat

ion

with

un

certa

inty

.

97

77

(i)-(

b)-2

. Dev

elop

men

t of

tech

nolo

gies

usi

ng

sate

llite

s and

sedi

men

t hy

drau

lic m

odel

s for

as

sess

ing

the

impa

ct o

f w

ater

dis

aste

r haz

ards

Dev

elop

a m

etho

d fo

r m

odify

ing

DSM

for t

he

prac

tical

app

licat

ion

of a

se

dim

ent h

ydra

ulic

mod

el.

Stud

y an

d co

llect

dat

a an

d in

form

atio

n on

th

e ap

plic

abili

ty

of

AD

CP

to

over

seas

rive

rs.

Dev

elop

floo

d m

appi

ng te

chno

logy

to

map

floo

ded

area

s inc

ludi

ng o

nes i

n ur

bani

zed

area

s by

usin

g da

ta fu

sion

tech

nolo

gy c

apab

le o

f fus

ing

optic

al

and

SAR

sens

or d

ata.

Stud

y a

met

hod

to c

olle

ct d

ata

on

sedi

men

t su

pply

to

river

s by

usin

g re

mot

e se

nsin

g te

chno

logy

.

Stud

y th

e us

e of

AD

CP

in o

vers

eas

coun

tries

with

insu

ffici

ent r

iver

to

pogr

aphi

c da

ta to

supp

ort t

hem

in

plan

ning

rive

r im

prov

emen

t pr

ojec

ts.

Impr

ove

the

accu

racy

and

effi

cien

cy

of

topo

grap

hic

mea

sure

men

t of

riv

ers

and

basin

s by

usin

g re

mot

e se

nsin

g te

chno

logy

suc

h as

UAV

s, an

d de

velo

p a

met

hod

to c

olle

ct d

ata

on se

dim

ent s

uppl

y to

rive

rs b

y us

ing

rem

ote

sens

ing

tech

nolo

gy.

Ove

rall

eval

uatio

nA

Publ

icat

ion

ASc

ient

ific

sign

ifica

nce

ASo

cial

sign

ifica

nce

AD

issem

inat

ion

A

Usi

ng A

DCP

to m

easu

re b

ed lo

ad

and

susp

ende

d se

dim

ent i

n riv

ers i

n Ja

pan

and

abro

ad, m

easu

red

the

spat

ial d

istrib

utio

n of

susp

ende

d se

dim

ent c

once

ntra

tion.

Ex

amin

ed th

e va

lidity

of t

he m

odel

by

com

parin

g th

e m

easu

rem

ent

resu

lts w

ith th

e si

mul

atio

n re

sults

.

Obs

erve

d th

e in

corp

orat

ion

of

susp

ende

d se

dim

ent i

nto

the

river

wat

er re

flect

ed b

y th

e riv

erbe

d w

aves

succ

essf

ully

by A

DC

P.

Inco

rpor

ated

this

phe

nom

enon

into

a

two-

dim

ensi

onal

flow

and

riv

erbe

d va

riatio

n ca

lcul

atio

n m

odel

.U

tiliz

ing

mul

tiple

sate

llite

s in

Japa

n an

d ab

road

,est

ablis

hed

aflo

od m

appi

ng m

etho

d ba

sed

on

fusio

n te

chno

logy

of o

ptic

al

sens

ors a

nd S

AR

sens

ors a

nd

appl

ied

itto

the

Solo

Riv

er, N

iger

R

iver

, Vol

ta R

iver

, etc

.D

evel

op a

floo

d da

mag

e ris

k m

appi

ng m

etho

d th

at

take

s sed

imen

t hyd

raul

ic

phen

omen

a in

to a

ccou

nt.

Eval

uate

an

d im

prov

e th

e re

prod

ucib

ility

of

a flo

od s

imul

atio

n m

odel

to

sim

ulat

e lo

cal

flood

eve

nts

invo

lvin

g w

ater

, se

dim

ent

and

drift

woo

d.

Com

bine

the

sim

ulat

ion

mod

el t

o ev

alua

te s

edim

ent

supp

ly t

o riv

ers

and

the

sim

ulat

ion

mod

el to

eva

luat

e flo

ods

with

w

ater

, se

dim

ent

and

drift

woo

d, an

d co

nduc

t sim

ulta

neou

s an

alys

is of

a fl

ood

even

t.

Ove

rall

eval

uatio

nA

Publ

icat

ion

ASc

ient

ific

sign

ifica

nce

ASo

cial

sign

ifica

nce

SD

issem

inat

ion

A

Dev

elop

ed a

flood

sim

ulat

ion

mod

el in

corp

orat

ing

sedi

men

t and

dr

iftw

ood

into

a tw

o-di

men

siona

l un

stead

y flo

w m

odel

, and

co

nfirm

ed g

ood

repr

oduc

ibili

ty in

th

e Aka

tani

Riv

eran

dSo

zuR

iver

, et

c.

Com

bine

d th

e im

prov

ed R

RI

mod

el to

est

imat

e th

e su

pplie

d se

dim

ent a

nd th

e flo

od m

odel

ba

sed

on w

ater

, sed

imen

t and

dr

iftw

ood,

and

con

duct

sim

ulat

ion

of th

e co

mbi

ned

mod

el.

Dev

elop

a m

etho

d fo

r m

appi

ng fl

ood

inun

datio

n ris

k in

mou

ntai

nous

rive

rs.

Stud

y a

simul

atio

n m

odel

to e

valu

ate

sedi

men

t sup

ply

to ri

vers

dur

ing

heav

y ra

infa

ll.

Dev

elop

a

sim

ulat

ion

mod

el

to

eval

uate

sed

imen

t su

pply

to

river

s du

ring

heav

y ra

infa

ll, a

nd s

tudy

the

appl

icab

ility

of t

he m

odel

to se

lect

ed

river

s.

Ove

rall

eval

uatio

nA

Publ

icat

ion

ASc

ient

ific

sign

ifica

nce

ASo

cial

sign

ifica

nce

AD

issem

inat

ion

A

Dev

elop

ed a

sedi

men

t est

imat

ion

mod

elba

sed

on sy

stem

of p

artic

les

and

appl

ied

itto

the A

kata

niR

iver

.

Dev

elop

ed a

new

sedi

men

t dy

nam

ics m

odel

to e

stim

ate

the

who

le b

asin

sedi

men

t sup

ply

by

inte

grat

ing

the

mod

el b

ased

on

syst

em o

f par

ticle

s with

the

conf

luen

ce m

odel

. A

pplie

d it

to th

e ba

sins

such

as t

he

Oi R

iver

.

Dev

elop

an

inun

datio

n si

mul

atio

n m

etho

d fo

r wid

e ar

eas i

n A

sia a

nd o

ther

re

gion

s by

usin

g a

simpl

e si

mul

atio

n m

odel

.

Impr

ove t

he si

mul

atio

n ac

cura

cy o

f the

si

mpl

e m

etho

d fo

r w

ide-

area

in

unda

tion

sim

ulat

ion

by a

djus

ting

its

para

met

ers

base

d on

the

com

paris

on

betw

een

past

flood

re

cord

s an

d sim

ulat

ion

resu

lts.

Prom

ote

the

use

of t

he m

etho

d fo

r in

unda

tion

simul

atio

n in

Asia

.O

vera

ll ev

alua

tion

APu

blic

atio

nA

Scie

ntifi

c si

gnifi

canc

eA

Soci

al si

gnifi

canc

eA

Diss

emin

atio

nA

Prep

ared

to

gras

p th

e pa

st in

unda

tion

area

usin

g vi

sible

imag

es

and

SAR

ana

lysi

s da

ta b

y ar

tific

ial

sate

llite

s.

Util

izin

g m

ultip

le sa

telli

tes i

n Ja

pan

and

abro

ad, e

stab

lishe

d a

flood

map

ping

met

hod

base

d on

fu

sion

tech

nolo

gy o

f opt

ical

se

nsor

s and

SA

R se

nsor

s,an

d ap

plie

d it

to th

e So

lo R

iver

, the

N

iger

Riv

er, t

he V

olta

Riv

er, e

tc.

(c) A

sses

smen

t and

pla

nnin

g te

chno

logy

for a

ppro

pria

te w

ater

reso

urce

s man

agem

ent w

ith in

suffi

cien

t inf

orm

atio

nA

long

-term

wat

er b

alan

ce si

mul

atio

n te

chno

logy

will

be

deve

lope

d to

supp

ort o

ptim

al p

lann

ing

of w

ater

reso

urce

s man

agem

ent b

oth

in

Japa

n an

d ov

erse

as. T

his t

echn

olog

y w

ill o

ffer a

var

iety

of f

unct

ions

to su

ppor

t hig

hly

tech

nica

l dam

ope

ratio

n in

tegr

atin

g flo

od c

ontro

l an

d w

ater

use

, wat

er d

eman

d se

tting

s, so

il m

oistu

re c

onte

nt se

tting

s bas

ed o

n sa

telli

te o

bser

vatio

n te

chno

logy

, app

licat

ion

to a

wid

e ra

nge

of c

limat

e ca

tego

ries,

inpu

t of h

ighl

y de

taile

d to

pogr

aphi

cal,

geol

ogic

al a

nd o

ther

dat

a

98

78

(i)-(

c)-1

. Dev

elop

men

t of a

si

mul

atio

n sy

stem

to

prov

ide

long

-term

supp

ort

for i

nteg

rate

d w

ater

re

sour

ces m

anag

emen

t un

der d

iffer

ent n

atur

al a

nd

topo

grap

hica

l con

ditio

ns

Impr

ove

tech

nolo

gies

for

inte

grat

ed w

ater

reso

urce

s m

anag

emen

t.

Con

duct

join

t res

earc

h w

ith p

ower

co

mpa

nies

to st

udy

the

oper

atio

n of

hy

drop

ower

gen

erat

ion

dam

s for

be

tter f

lood

con

trol a

nd p

ower

ge

nera

tion

effic

ienc

y by

usin

g a

flood

wat

er ru

noff

mod

el c

onsi

derin

g da

m o

pera

tion.

Stud

y th

e int

egra

tion

of L

DA

S-U

T an

d th

e W

EB-R

RI

mod

el t

o ev

entu

ally

de

velo

p an

adv

ance

d lo

ng-te

rm ru

noff

mod

el.

Con

duct

joi

nt o

n-si

te e

xper

imen

ts

with

pow

er c

ompa

nies

to

study

the

op

erat

ion

of h

ydro

pow

er g

ener

atio

n da

ms

for

bette

r flo

od c

ontro

l an

d po

wer

gen

erat

ion

effic

ienc

y.

Ove

rall

eval

uatio

nA

Publ

icat

ion

SSc

ient

ific

sign

ifica

nce

ASo

cial

sign

ifica

nce

AD

issem

inat

ion

A

App

lied

the

mod

el in

corp

orat

ing

the

eval

uatio

n m

odul

e fo

r sno

wm

elt

etc.

in W

EB-D

HM

and

a m

odel

co

mbi

ning

the

ense

mbl

e ra

infa

ll pr

edic

tion

to th

e O

iRiv

er,t

he S

aiR

iver

,the

Kur

obe

Riv

er, e

tc.

Dev

elop

ed a

dro

ught

mon

itorin

g an

d fo

reca

sting

syste

m th

at

mon

itors

and

fore

casts

soil

moi

sture

and

veg

etat

ion

by

appl

ying

veg

etat

ion-

frie

ndly

C

LVD

AS

to L

DA

S-U

T in

the

state

of

Cea

ra, B

razi

lon

the W

orld

Ban

k Pr

ojec

t.

Exam

ined

the

met

hod

to o

pera

te

the

pow

er g

ener

atio

n da

m

effic

ient

ly b

ased

on

the

pred

icte

d re

sults

of t

he d

am in

flow

up

to

abou

t 40

hour

s ahe

ad,w

ith th

e el

ectri

c po

wer

com

pany

.B

y co

mbi

ning

CLV

DA

S w

ith

vege

tatio

n-ba

sed

WEB

-DH

M,

impr

oved

dro

ught

mon

itorin

g an

d fo

reca

stin

g sy

stem

s to

refle

ct

irrig

atio

n w

ater

and

anal

yze

with

hi

gh re

solu

tion.

Stud

y so

il m

oistu

re c

onte

nt

base

d on

sate

llite

dat

a.Te

st L

DA

S-U

T fo

r app

licab

ility

and

ac

cura

cy a

t oth

er lo

catio

ns b

esid

es

Aus

tralia

. Stu

dy a

soil-

moi

stur

e as

sess

men

t met

hod

for e

ach

clim

ate

zone

s.St

udy

a co

ntin

ent-s

cale

dro

ught

risk

m

onito

ring

tech

nolo

gy c

oupl

ed w

ith a

w

ater

stre

ss m

odel

.

Impr

ove

LDA

S-U

T an

d de

velo

p a

soil-

moi

stur

e as

sess

men

t met

hod

cons

ider

ing

the

effe

ct o

f irri

gatio

n fa

cilit

ies a

nd st

ruct

ures

.

Ove

rall

eval

uatio

nS

Publ

icat

ion

SSc

ient

ific

sign

ifica

nce

SSo

cial

sign

ifica

nce

SD

issem

inat

ion

A

Dev

elop

ed a

syst

em th

at m

onito

rs

and

pred

icts

soil

moi

sture

and

ve

geta

tion

in c

onsid

erat

ion

of

irrig

atio

n w

ater

succ

essf

ully

by

appl

ying

veg

etat

ion-

assis

ted

CLV

DA

S an

d sa

telli

te o

bser

vatio

n da

ta a

ssim

ilatio

n to

LD

AS-

UT

in

the

stat

e of

Cea

ra, B

razi

lon

the

Wor

ld B

ank

Proj

ect.

By

com

bini

ng th

e ou

tput

of

CLV

DA

S w

ith W

EB-D

HM

, im

prov

ed th

e re

solu

tion

of

mon

itorin

g an

d fo

reca

stin

g of

soil

moi

stur

e in

the

targ

et a

rea,

and

pr

opos

ed th

e im

prov

emen

t of

irrig

atio

n w

ater

supp

ly b

y LA

I.

Impr

ove

the

appl

icab

ility

of

syste

ms a

nd m

odel

s to

river

s in

Japa

n an

d ov

erse

as w

ith d

iffer

ent

clim

ate

cond

ition

s.

Insta

ll in

the

long

-term

runo

ff m

odel

a

mod

ule

for t

he sn

ow-a

nd g

laci

er-m

elt

phen

omen

on a

nd te

st it

s ap

plic

abili

ty

and

accu

racy

by

appl

ying

it to

rive

rs in

th

e co

ld re

gion

.

Test

the

long

-term

runo

ff m

odel

with

th

e sno

w-a

nd g

laci

er-m

elt m

odul

e to

eval

uate

its

appl

icab

ility

to ri

vers

in

the

cold

regi

on.

Ove

rall

eval

uatio

nA

Publ

icat

ion

SSc

ient

ific

sign

ifica

nce

SSo

cial

sign

ifica

nce

AD

issem

inat

ion

A

App

lied

the

mod

el in

corp

orat

ing

the

mod

ule

for s

now

mel

t etc

. in

WEB

-DH

M to

the

snow

-cov

ered

ar

ea su

ch a

s the

Sai

Riv

er, t

he O

i R

iver

and

the

Kur

obe

Riv

er b

asin

.

By

inte

grat

ing

an w

eath

erm

odel

w

ith th

e W

EB-D

HM

mod

el th

at

inco

rpor

ates

a sn

owm

elt m

odul

e,de

velo

ped

a m

odel

cap

able

of

disc

rimin

atin

g ra

infa

ll an

d sn

owfa

ll,an

d ev

alua

ting

snow

fall

and

snow

mel

t and

app

lied

itto

the

snow

-cov

ered

are

as su

ch a

s the

Sai

Riv

er,t

he O

iRiv

er, a

nd th

e K

urob

e R

iver

basi

ns. E

valu

ated

the

repr

oduc

ibili

ty o

f the

flow

co

nditi

ons d

urin

g th

e sn

owm

elt

seas

onby

the

deve

lope

d m

odel

.(i)

-(c)

-2. R

esea

rch

on th

e cr

eatio

n of

clim

ate

chan

ge

risk

info

rmat

ion

on n

atur

al

disa

sters

(MEX

T pr

ogra

m)

Ass

ess w

ater

disa

ster r

isk

in A

sia,

and

cre

ate

info

rmat

ion

on a

dapt

atio

n m

easu

res.

Dev

elop

a m

etho

d fo

r co

uplin

g th

e dy

nam

ical

and

sta

tistic

al d

owns

calin

g ap

proa

ches

, an

d stu

dy

new

do

wns

calin

g te

chno

logy

th

at

will

en

sure

mor

e ac

cura

cy a

nd le

ss w

ork.

Dev

elop

a lo

ng-te

rm ru

noff

mod

el fo

r M

inda

nao

and

Java

isla

nds a

nd st

udy

a ris

k as

sess

men

t met

hod

appr

opria

te to

ea

ch e

nviro

nmen

t.

Prep

are

for t

he d

evel

opm

ent o

f a

vers

atile

pro

gram

for d

ynam

ical

and

st

atis

tical

dow

nsca

ling.

Dev

elop

ev

alua

tion

met

hods

fo

r dr

ough

t haz

ard

and

risk

in M

inda

nao

and

Java

isl

ands

co

nsid

erin

g th

e im

pact

of c

limat

e ch

ange

.

Ove

rall

eval

uatio

nA

Publ

icat

ion

ASc

ient

ific

sign

ifica

nce

ASo

cial

sign

ifica

nce

SD

issem

inat

ion

A

Dev

elop

ed a

nd a

pplie

d a

serie

s of

met

hods

for s

elec

ting

GC

M th

at is

hi

ghly

suita

ble

for t

he ta

rget

are

a,

eval

uatin

g th

e un

certa

inty

as

soci

ated

with

fore

casti

ng b

y st

atis

tical

dow

nsca

ling,

and

cr

eatin

g fu

ture

scen

ario

s by

dyna

mic

dow

nsca

ling

in th

e AD

B

proj

ectt

arge

ting

thre

e ci

ties i

n Vi

etna

m.T

he d

ata

tool

s nee

ded

for

For t

he D

avao

Riv

er a

nd th

e So

lo

Riv

er b

asin

s, th

e pr

edic

tion

accu

racy

was

impr

oved

by

impr

ovin

g th

e dy

nam

ic

dow

nsca

ling

met

hod

of M

RI-

AG

CM

and

add

ing

anot

her

reso

lutio

n m

odel

and

glo

bal

war

min

g sc

enar

io.

Pred

icte

dfu

ture

floo

ds (m

axim

um

flood

are

a, fl

ood

dura

tion,

etc

.) an

d fu

ture

dro

ught

s (m

inim

um

99

79

thes

e ar

e re

flect

ed in

AD

B's

SPA

DE.

For t

he D

avao

Riv

er b

asin

in

Min

dana

oIs

land

and

the

Solo

Riv

er

basi

n in

Java

Isla

nd,c

ondu

cted

st

atis

tical

bia

s cor

rect

ion

of fu

ture

ra

infa

ll, d

ynam

ic d

owns

calin

g of

th

e re

sults

of M

RI-A

GC

M

deve

lope

d by

Met

eoro

logi

cal

Res

earc

h In

stitu

te, a

nd fu

ture

ra

infa

ll, a

nd si

mul

ated

the

haza

rd

cond

ition

by

WEB

-RR

I to

estim

ate

dam

age.

Col

lect

ed so

cio-

econ

omic

dat

a of

th

e D

avao

Riv

er b

asin

from

rela

ted

orga

niza

tions

and

upl

oade

d to

D

IAS.

disc

harg

e, m

inim

um d

am st

orag

e,

etc.

) usi

ng W

EB-R

RI.

Dev

elop

ed a

met

hod

to p

redi

ct

flood

dam

age

(agr

icul

tura

l ec

onom

ic d

amag

e, a

ffect

ed

popu

latio

n, e

tc.)

and

irrig

atio

n da

mag

e (ir

rigab

le a

rea,

exp

ecte

d yi

eld,

etc

.).

(d) T

echn

olog

y fo

r ass

essin

g th

e im

pact

on

loca

l com

mun

ities

of w

ater

rela

ted

disa

sters

in fl

ood

plai

ns a

nd fo

r eva

luat

ing

the

effe

ct o

f in

vest

men

ts in

dis

aste

r ris

k re

duct

ion

Adi

saste

r risk

ass

essm

ent m

etho

d w

ill b

e de

velo

ped

to e

valu

ate

“stre

ngth

aga

inst

fata

l dam

age”

and

“re

silie

nce

for s

peed

y re

stor

atio

n”.

Indi

ces w

ill b

e pr

opos

ed to

hel

p po

licy

mak

ers i

n Ja

pan

and

over

seas

eas

ily re

cogn

ize

loca

l dis

aste

r ris

ks a

nd h

olis

tical

ly e

valu

ate

the

effe

ct o

f inv

estm

ents

on d

isaste

r risk

redu

ctio

n so

that

they

can

mak

e in

form

ed in

vestm

ent d

ecisi

ons.

A m

etho

d w

ill b

e pr

opos

ed fo

r bu

ildin

g di

saste

r res

ilien

t com

mun

ities

in Ja

pan

and

over

seas

by

usin

g th

e de

velo

ped

risk

indi

ces

(i)-(

d)-1

. Res

earc

h on

a

mul

tifac

eted

wat

er d

isaste

r ris

k as

sess

men

t for

w

orld

wid

e us

e an

d a

disa

ster-r

esili

ent

com

mun

ity b

uild

ing

met

hod

base

d on

the

asse

ssm

ent

Prop

ose

a hi

ghly

acc

urat

e an

d ad

vanc

ed m

etho

d fo

r m

ultif

acet

ed e

valu

atio

n of

di

saste

r risk

Stud

y ho

w to

impr

ove

risk

asse

ssm

ent

to c

ope

with

mul

tiple

dis

aste

r ris

ks b

y up

grad

ing

an

asse

ssm

ent

met

hod,

ba

sed

on

the

resu

lts

of

the

inve

stiga

tion

in

Joso

C

ity,

Ibar

aki

Pref

ectu

re, J

apan

. Als

o st

udy

a m

ore

adva

nced

risk

ass

essm

ent

met

hod

to

eval

uate

fac

tors

tha

t ha

ve n

ot b

een

fully

eva

luat

ed b

y ex

istin

g m

etho

ds,

such

as

the

resi

lienc

e of

com

mun

ities

in

term

s of l

ivel

ihoo

d an

d bu

sines

s.

Test

the

val

idity

of

the

impr

oved

di

sast

er

risk

asse

ssm

ent

met

hod

studi

ed

in

the

prev

ious

ye

ar

by

appl

ying

it to

diff

eren

t com

mun

ities

.

Ove

rall

eval

uatio

nS

Publ

icat

ion

ASc

ient

ific

sign

ifica

nce

SSo

cial

sign

ifica

nce

SD

issem

inat

ion

S

Bas

ed o

n th

e re

sults

of a

qu

estio

nnai

re su

rvey

con

duct

ed in

Jo

so C

ity, I

bara

ki P

refe

ctur

e, w

hich

w

as d

amag

ed se

vere

ly w

hen

the

Kin

u R

iver

floo

ded

in 2

015,

stud

ied

new

indi

cato

rs to

eva

luat

e th

e as

pect

s of d

isas

ter c

ases

that

hav

e no

t bee

n co

vere

d ad

equa

tely

by

exist

ing

met

hods

and

pro

pose

d in

dica

tors

to e

valu

ate

"res

ilien

ce in

da

ily li

fe a

nd b

usin

ess a

ctiv

ities

." Th

e su

rvey

resu

lts w

ere

used

for t

he

estim

atio

n of

the

resi

lienc

e of

af

fect

ed b

usin

ess a

ctiv

ities

in

"Tec

hnic

al S

tudy

Rep

ort o

n C

ount

erm

easu

res a

gain

st G

iant

D

isast

ers t

hat C

ause

Nat

iona

l C

risis

" com

pile

d by

the

Japa

n So

ciet

y of

Civ

il En

gine

ers.

To e

xam

ine

the

valid

ity o

f the

stu

dy re

sults

in Jo

soC

ity, I

bara

ki

Pref

ectu

re, c

ondu

cted

sim

ilar

surv

eys i

n Iw

aizu

mi T

own,

Iwat

e Pr

efec

ture

, whi

ch w

as d

amag

ed b

y Ty

phoo

n N

o. 1

0 in

201

6, a

nd in

O

kaya

ma

and

Hiro

shim

a pr

efec

ture

s, w

hich

wer

e da

mag

ed

by th

e he

avy

rain

disa

ster i

n Ju

ly

2018

.Th

e Su

rvey

resu

lts o

f Jos

o Ci

ty

wer

e al

so u

sed

to e

stim

ate

resi

lienc

e in

the

"Sim

ulat

ion

tool

fo

r flo

od d

amag

e es

timat

ion

at

busi

ness

act

iviti

es" p

ublis

hed

by

the

Econ

omic

Con

sorti

um fo

r D

isaste

r Man

agem

ent,

hoste

d by

th

e C

abin

et O

ffice

.

Prop

ose

risk

indi

ces t

o ho

listic

ally

eva

luat

e th

e di

saste

r risk

redu

ctio

n ef

fect

of d

isaste

r

Exam

ine

indi

ces

that

can

eva

luat

e th

e ris

k re

duct

ion

effe

ct

of

disa

ster

prev

entio

n m

easu

res

and

inve

stm

ents

in

an

easy

-to-u

nder

stand

m

anne

r,

Test

the

val

idity

of

the

indi

ces

that

ca

n ev

alua

te th

e ris

k re

duct

ion

effe

ct

of d

isast

er p

reve

ntio

n m

easu

res

and

inve

stm

ent i

n an

eas

y-to

-und

ersta

nd

Ove

rall

eval

uatio

nA

Publ

icat

ion

ASc

ient

ific

sign

ifica

nce

A

Star

ted

stud

ying

ano

ther

set o

f new

in

dica

tors

to e

valu

ate

the

effe

ctiv

enes

s of d

isas

ter p

reve

ntio

n m

easu

res a

nd in

vest

men

t in

an

easy

-to-u

nder

stand

man

ner,

Star

ted

tryin

g ou

t the

new

in

dica

tors

for I

wai

zum

iTow

n,Iw

ate

Pref

ectu

re a

nd d

evel

opin

g an

ev

alua

tion

met

hod.

100

80

prev

entio

n m

easu

res a

nd

inve

stm

ents

base

d on

the

resu

lts o

f disc

ussio

ns o

n ris

k in

dice

s in

the

case

of J

oso

City

.m

anne

r by

appl

ying

them

to d

iffer

ent

com

mun

ities

.So

cial

sign

ifica

nce

SD

issem

inat

ion

A

focu

sing

on th

e le

vel o

f dam

age

at

whi

ch a

pre

-dis

aste

r lev

el o

f po

pula

tion

and

gros

s reg

iona

l pr

oduc

t can

still

be

susta

ined

afte

r a

disa

ster

.Pr

opos

e a

met

hod

for

build

ing

disa

ster

resi

lient

co

mm

uniti

es in

Japa

n an

d ov

erse

as b

y us

ing

the

deve

lope

d ris

k in

dice

s.

Stud

y ho

w t

o ev

alua

te m

etho

ds f

or

deve

lopi

ng

disa

ster

re

silie

nt

com

mun

ities

, bas

ed o

n th

e re

view

of

the

exist

ing

eval

uatio

n ap

proa

ch u

sed

in Jo

so C

ity, J

apan

.

Con

duct

in

vesti

gatio

n in

se

vera

l co

mm

uniti

es

on

the

disa

ster

risk

redu

ctio

n ef

fect

of d

iffer

ent m

etho

ds

for

deve

lopi

ng

disa

ster

resil

ient

co

mm

uniti

es

by

usin

g th

e ris

k as

sess

men

t in

dice

s an

d di

scus

s th

e ef

fect

iven

ess o

f eac

h m

etho

d.

Ove

rall

eval

uatio

nB

Publ

icat

ion

BSc

ient

ific

sign

ifica

nce

BSo

cial

sign

ifica

nce

BD

issem

inat

ion

B

Rev

iew

ed e

xisti

ng m

easu

res a

cros

s Ja

pan

and

orga

nize

d po

licie

s, ap

proa

ches

, too

ls, e

tc. t

hat c

an b

e us

ed to

bui

ld re

silie

nt lo

cal

com

mun

ities

.

Con

duct

ed a

que

stio

nnai

re su

rvey

in

Iwai

zum

i Tow

n to

exa

min

e th

e ef

fect

of a

resi

lient

-com

mun

ity

cons

truct

ion

met

hod

and

starte

d pr

epar

ing

a re

port

on th

e su

rvey

.

(e) T

echn

olog

y fo

r the

effe

ctiv

e us

e of

wat

er re

late

d di

saste

r ris

k in

form

atio

n to

redu

ce d

isaste

r dam

age

An

info

rmat

ion

syst

em, a

s wel

l as c

omm

unic

atio

n to

ols s

uch

as d

isas

ter r

espo

nse

timel

ine

tabl

es, w

ill b

e de

velo

ped

to su

ppor

t disa

ster

man

agem

ent e

fforts

by

adm

inis

trato

rs a

nd lo

cal r

esid

ents

to p

reve

nt o

r miti

gate

floo

d an

d se

dim

ent d

isas

ters

. The

effe

ctiv

e us

e of

such

a

syst

em a

nd to

ols w

ill b

e pr

opos

ed.

(i)-(

e)-1

. Res

earc

h on

a

wat

er d

isaste

r risk

in

form

atio

n de

liver

y sy

stem

to su

ppor

t loc

al

disa

ster m

anag

emen

t ef

forts

in a

reas

with

in

suffi

cien

t wat

er d

isas

ter

info

rmat

ion

Prop

ose

a m

etho

d fo

r id

entif

ying

are

as

vuln

erab

le to

disa

ster

s (d

isaste

r hot

spot

s) p

rior t

o di

saste

rs.

Test

the

app

licab

ility

of

the

“Flo

od

Cha

rt”

appr

oach

in

Ja

pan

and

over

seas

, whi

ch e

valu

ates

com

mun

ity-

base

d flo

od ri

sk u

sing

8 in

dica

tors

by

usin

g sim

ulat

ion

resu

lts fr

om th

e R

RI

mod

el.

Prod

uce

a m

anua

l to

iden

tify

“dis

aste

r ho

t sp

ot”

usin

g th

e “F

lood

Cha

rt”

eval

uatio

n.

Con

tinue

test

ing

the

appl

icab

ility

of

the

“Flo

od C

hart”

app

roac

h in

Japa

n an

d ov

erse

as.

Diss

emin

ate

the

man

ual i

n Ja

pan

and

over

seas

.

Ove

rall

eval

uatio

nA

Publ

icat

ion

ASc

ient

ific

sign

ifica

nce

ASo

cial

sign

ifica

nce

AD

issem

inat

ion

A

Dev

elop

ed

flood

dia

gnos

tic

char

ts,

whi

ch u

se e

ight

in

dica

tors

: Le

ad ti

me

befo

re

inun

datio

n ex

ceed

s the

firs

t-flo

or

leve

l, D

urat

ion

for w

hich

ev

acua

tion

is re

quire

d du

ring

a flo

od,

Max

imum

inun

datio

n de

pth

in th

e co

mm

unity

, M

axim

um in

unda

tion

dept

h at

ev

acua

tion

shel

ters

, Tr

affic

di

srup

tion

betw

een

the

com

mun

ity

and

the

mun

icip

al o

ffice

, M

axim

um n

umbe

r of i

sola

ted

peop

le d

urin

g a

flood

, N

umbe

r of

vul

nera

ble

peop

le li

kely

to b

e af

fect

ed b

y a

flood

, A

mou

nt o

f de

bris

and

was

te a

fter a

floo

d. A

lso,

cate

goriz

ed th

e ta

rget

are

a in

to

grou

ps, b

ased

on

the

char

t pat

tern

an

d id

entif

ied

poss

ible

floo

d ris

ks.

Stud

ied

the

appl

icab

ility

of t

his

met

hod

in Iw

aizu

miT

own,

Iwat

e Pr

efec

ture

, and

dra

fted

a m

anua

l.

Dev

elop

ed a

tool

that

can

cre

ate

“flo

od d

iagn

ostic

cha

rts”

auto

mat

ical

ly to

sim

plify

the

prod

uctio

n pr

oces

s. A

naly

zed

tech

nica

l iss

ues i

n ap

plyi

ng th

e to

ol to

dom

estic

and

ov

erse

as fi

elds

.St

arte

d a

test

run

of th

e to

ol in

W

est A

frica

and

the

Phili

ppin

es

(Dav

ao).

Prop

ose

a m

etho

d fo

r fo

reca

stin

g th

e po

ssib

ility

of

a w

ater

-rela

ted

disa

ster

by c

omm

unity

in re

al ti

me.

Test

a re

al-ti

me

inun

datio

n fo

reca

stin

g sy

stem

usi

ng t

he R

RI

mod

el w

ith

fore

cast

ed ra

infa

ll as

inpu

t.

Impr

ove

the

real

-tim

e in

unda

tion

fore

cast

ing

syst

em b

ased

on

the

test

resu

lts.

Ove

rall

eval

uatio

nA

Publ

icat

ion

ASc

ient

ific

sign

ifica

nce

ASo

cial

sign

ifica

nce

Mad

e pr

ior a

rran

gem

ents

such

as

prep

arin

ga

data

base

serv

er fo

r dat

a co

llect

ion,

stor

age,

and

pre

setti

ng

of JM

A ra

dars

.

Cre

ated

inpu

t dat

a fo

r RR

I ana

lysi

s us

ing

the

data

base

con

struc

ted

in

FY20

18.

Con

struc

ted

the

basic

prin

cipl

esof

pe

rform

ing

real

-tim

e ca

lcul

atio

n w

ith R

RI.

101

81

AD

issem

inat

ion

A

Con

firm

ed th

at re

al-ti

me

inun

datio

n fo

reca

sting

is

tech

nica

lly fe

asib

le.

Prop

ose

a W

eb-G

IS w

ater

-re

late

d di

sast

er ri

sk

info

rmat

ion

deliv

ery

syst

em th

at h

elps

ac

cum

ulat

e an

d sh

are

vario

us ty

pes o

f dis

aste

r ris

k in

form

atio

n an

d de

liver

eva

cuat

ion

info

rmat

ion.

Star

t ru

nnin

g th

e pr

otot

ype

info

rmat

ion

deliv

ery

syst

em

in

colla

bora

tion

with

Aga

Tow

n, Ja

pan.

Stud

y th

e de

velo

pmen

t of

an

in

form

atio

n de

liver

y sy

stem

in

othe

r m

unic

ipal

ities

.

Supp

ort A

ga T

own

in o

rgan

izin

g a

mun

icip

al sy

stem

for o

pera

tion

of th

e in

form

atio

n de

liver

y sy

stem

.St

udy

how

to

su

ppor

t ot

her

mun

icip

aliti

es i

n op

erat

ion

of t

he

info

rmat

ion

deliv

ery

syst

em.

Ove

rall

eval

uatio

nA

Publ

icat

ion

ASc

ient

ific

sign

ifica

nce

ASo

cial

sign

ifica

nce

AD

issem

inat

ion

A

Dev

elop

ed th

e ba

sic sy

stem

of

“IC

HA

RM

Disa

ster R

isk

Info

rmat

ion

Syst

em (I

DR

IS).”

St

arte

d a

prel

imin

ary

oper

atio

n of

th

e sy

stem

in A

ga T

own,

Niig

ata

Pref

ectu

re.

The

custo

miz

ed sy

stem

of I

DR

IS

for A

ga T

own

was

nam

ed “

Aga

To

wn

Risk

Info

rmat

ion

Syste

m

(AR

IS).”

IDR

IS w

as a

war

ded

the

inno

vativ

e te

chno

logy

priz

e by

the

Insti

tute

of

Soci

al S

afet

y Sc

ienc

e of

Japa

n in

M

ay 2

019.

Ope

ned

the

test

vers

ion

of A

RIS

fo

r the

pub

lic b

y m

ovin

g A

RIS

to a

sit

e fo

r the

gen

eral

use

rs.

Inve

stig

ated

the

appl

icab

ility

of t

he

syst

emto

the

targ

et a

rea.

C

onfir

med

issu

es re

late

d to

the

syste

m.

Con

duct

ed a

noth

er te

st op

erat

ion

of th

e sy

stem

in Iw

aizu

mi T

own,

Iw

ate

Pref

ectu

re,i

n th

e se

cond

hal

f of

FY

2019

. C

onfir

med

thro

ugh

the

test

oper

atio

ns th

at ID

RIS

can

be

used

ef

fect

ivel

y by

loca

lgov

ernm

ents.

Prop

ose

the

effe

ctiv

e us

e of

th

e W

eb-G

IS in

form

atio

n de

liver

y sy

stem

to

stake

hold

ers o

f loc

al

adm

inis

trativ

e bo

dies

in

Japa

n an

d ov

erse

as.

Stud

y an

app

roac

h fo

r di

saste

r ris

k re

duct

ion

usin

g th

e pr

otot

ype

info

rmat

ion

deliv

ery

syste

m

with

m

unic

ipal

of

ficia

ls

in

disa

ster

m

anag

emen

t and

loca

l res

iden

ts.

Impr

ove

the

appr

oach

bas

ed o

n th

e re

sults

of t

he p

revi

ous y

ear a

nd st

udy

diffe

rent

pe

rspe

ctiv

es

for

a ne

w

appr

oach

.

Ove

rall

eval

uatio

nA

Publ

icat

ion

ASc

ient

ific

sign

ifica

nce

ASo

cial

sign

ifica

nce

AD

issem

inat

ion

A

Def

ined

, tes

ted

and

impl

emen

ted

the

syst

em’s

mec

hani

cal a

nd

func

tiona

l spe

cific

atio

ns re

quire

d fo

r loc

al d

isast

er p

reve

ntio

n ac

tiviti

es in

coo

pera

tion

with

Aga

To

wn.

D

iscus

sed

how

to im

plem

ent t

he

disa

ster

pre

vent

ion

and

miti

gatio

n ac

tiviti

es w

hile

testi

ng th

e sy

stem

.

Usi

ng A

RIS

, exp

lore

d ef

fect

ive

way

s of i

ncor

pora

ting

the

syst

em

into

dis

aste

r pre

vent

ion

activ

ities

at

the

loca

l lev

el in

col

labo

ratio

n w

ith

Aga

Tow

n an

d N

GO

s (e.

g.,

com

mun

ity fi

refig

htin

g gr

oups

). Pr

omot

ed th

e di

ssem

inat

ion

of th

e sy

stem

at t

hene

wte

chno

logy

sh

owca

se o

f PW

RI a

nd o

ther

op

portu

nitie

s.(i)

-(e)

-2. R

esea

rch

on ri

sk

fore

cast

ing

sim

ulat

ion

for

flood

s cau

sed

by lo

caliz

ed

torre

ntia

l rai

nfal

l and

on

adi

sast

er re

spon

se ti

mel

ine

Prop

ose

a di

saste

r res

pons

e tim

elin

e.C

ondu

ct

inte

rvie

ws

with

lo

cal

gove

rnm

ents

re

gard

ing

a di

saste

r re

spon

se ti

mel

ine,

and

sort

oper

atio

nal

prob

lem

s an

d in

form

atio

n th

at s

houl

d be

incl

uded

in th

e tim

elin

e to

impr

ove

the

gove

rnm

ent

disa

ster

man

agem

ent

capa

city

. Bas

ed o

n th

at, s

tudy

how

to

impr

ove

the

gove

rnm

ent

capa

city

of

timel

ine-

base

d op

erat

ion

and

exam

ine

info

rmat

ion

nece

ssar

y fo

r su

ch

impr

ovem

ent.

Stud

y ev

ents

to

be

as

sum

ed

and

requ

irem

ents

of

sim

ulat

ion

mod

els

to

prep

are

timel

ines

co

nsid

erin

g to

pogr

aphi

cal

cond

ition

s of

m

ount

aino

us a

nd p

lain

are

as.

Stud

y ho

w

to

prep

are

inun

datio

n sc

enar

ios

cons

ider

ing

flood

pat

tern

s an

d di

ke b

reac

hes.

Dev

elop

a ti

mel

ine

tabl

e fo

r act

ion

in

Stud

y a

prot

otyp

e of

“n

ext-

gene

ratio

n di

sast

er

resp

onse

tim

elin

e,”

whi

ch c

an c

ontri

bute

to

disa

ster

miti

gatio

n an

d pr

even

tion

activ

ities

by

loca

l gov

ernm

ents

whi

le

copi

ng w

ith a

cha

ngin

g sit

uatio

n, b

y us

ing

simul

atio

n m

odel

s an

d re

al-

time

info

rmat

ion

(e.g

., ra

infa

ll fo

reca

st, w

ater

leve

l, in

unda

tion

area

ca

ptur

ed b

y U

AVs,

etc.

)

Ove

rall

eval

uatio

nA

Publ

icat

ion

ASc

ient

ific

sign

ifica

nce

ASo

cial

sign

ifica

nce

AD

issem

inat

ion

A

Ana

lyze

d re

view

repo

rts o

n em

erge

ncy

resp

onse

effo

rts in

pas

t w

ater

-rela

ted

disa

sters

and

id

entif

ied

prob

lem

s reg

ardi

ng th

e ab

ility

of a

dmin

istra

tive

staf

f to

resp

ond

to d

isast

ers,

in o

rder

to

help

impr

ove

thei

r cap

acity

to u

se a

di

sast

er re

spon

se ti

mel

ine

effe

ctiv

ely.

Parti

cipa

ted

in th

e C

ross

-M

inis

teria

l Stra

tegi

c In

nova

tion

Prom

otio

n Pr

ogra

m (S

IP) a

nd

deve

lope

da

timel

ine

show

ing

a se

ries o

f act

ions

that

shou

ld b

e ta

ken

in c

ase

of u

nder

grou

nd m

all

inun

datio

n ca

used

by

a riv

er o

r ur

ban

flood

, in

coop

erat

ion

with

bu

sines

ses a

roun

d th

e W

est E

xit o

f Yo

koha

ma

Stat

ion

in Ja

pan.

Star

ted

stud

ying

the

allo

catio

n of

re

sour

ces t

o lo

cal g

over

nmen

ts in

th

e ev

ent o

f a w

ater

rela

ted

disa

ster

by

link

ing

IDR

IS w

ith th

e di

saste

r re

spon

se p

roce

ss m

anag

emen

t sy

stem

(BO

SS),

deve

lope

d by

the

Inst

itute

of I

ndus

trial

Sci

ence

, the

U

nive

rsity

of T

okyo

.

102

82

case

of

unde

rgro

und

mal

l in

unda

tion

caus

ed b

y a

river

floo

d or

urb

an fl

ood

in c

oope

ratio

n w

ith b

usin

ess

arou

nd

the

Wes

t Exi

t of Y

okoh

ama

Stat

ion

in

Japa

n, a

s pa

rt of

the

Cro

ss-M

inis

teria

l St

rate

gic

Inno

vatio

n Pr

omot

ion

Prog

ram

.Pr

opos

e a

syste

m fo

r di

sast

er re

spon

se d

rill.

Prop

ose

a sy

stem

for d

isaste

r res

pons

e dr

ill b

ased

on

a de

velo

ped

timel

ine,

us

ing

a cr

eate

d in

unda

tion

scen

ario

an

d av

aila

ble

info

rmat

ion,

an

d in

terv

iew

loc

al g

over

nmen

ts on

the

pr

opos

ed s

yste

m a

nd c

olle

ct a

nd s

ort

feed

back

from

the

loca

l gov

ernm

ents.

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ort

mun

icip

aliti

es

in

the

impl

emen

tatio

n of

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dril

l sy

stem

(s

ee th

e le

ft co

lum

n) a

t the

ir re

ques

t. W

ork

with

mun

icip

aliti

es a

nd o

ther

re

sear

ch i

nstit

utes

to

impr

ove

and

prom

ote

the

drill

syste

m.

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rall

eval

uatio

nA

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icat

ion

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ient

ific

sign

ifica

nce

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cial

sign

ifica

nce

SD

issem

inat

ion

A

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osed

the

prod

uctio

n of

a

“Col

lect

ion

of T

ense

Mom

ents

durin

g Fl

ood

Disa

ster R

espo

nse”

as

a ca

paci

ty-b

uild

ing

tool

to a

ssis

t lo

cal d

isaste

r res

pons

e st

aff i

n le

arni

ng le

sson

s fro

m p

ast d

isaste

rs

and

impr

ovin

g th

e ab

ility

to

antic

ipat

e po

tent

ial s

ituat

ions

and

ta

ke n

eces

sary

pre

caut

iona

ry

mea

sure

s

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lect

ed th

e ca

ses o

f ten

se

mom

ents

dur

ing

flood

disa

ster

re

spon

se b

ased

on

past

disa

ster

re

ports

pub

lishe

d by

loca

l go

vern

men

ts.

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ated

the

“Col

lect

ion

of T

ense

M

omen

ts du

ring

Floo

d D

isas

ter

Res

pons

e” b

y cl

assif

ying

the

colle

cted

cas

es to

ass

ist l

ocal

go

vern

men

t dis

aste

r res

pons

e sta

ff in

lear

ning

less

ons f

rom

the

past

disa

sters

.(i)

-(e)

-3. L

ocal

pra

ctic

e us

ing

rese

arch

resu

ltsD

evel

op a

DIA

S-ba

sed

sim

ulat

ion

syst

em th

at c

an

seam

less

ly re

prod

uce,

pr

edic

t and

vis

ualiz

e m

eteo

rolo

gica

l and

hy

drol

ogic

al e

vent

s and

re

late

d da

mag

e.

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ya

prot

otyp

e of

the

DIA

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sed

sim

ulat

ion

syst

em th

at c

an s

eam

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ly

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oduc

e,

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ict

and

visu

aliz

e m

eteo

rolo

gica

l an

d hy

drol

ogic

al

even

ts an

d re

late

d da

mag

e.

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elop

a pr

otot

ype

of t

he D

IAS-

base

d si

mul

atio

n sy

stem

tha

t ca

n se

amle

ssly

rep

rodu

ce,

pred

ict

and

visu

aliz

e m

eteo

rolo

gica

l an

d hy

drol

ogic

al

even

ts an

d re

late

d da

mag

e.

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rall

eval

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icat

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elop

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ual h

ouse

-in

unda

tion

appl

icat

ion

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g V

Rte

chno

logy

and

con

firm

ed th

at a

vi

rtual

floo

d ex

perie

nce

can

incr

ease

peo

ple’

s sen

se o

f cris

is fo

r flo

ods,

afte

r sur

veyi

ng a

bout

200

pe

ople

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trie

d ou

t the

ap

plic

atio

n.D

evel

oped

a D

IAS-

base

d sy

stem

fo

r Sri

Lank

a th

at a

utom

atic

ally

in

puts

rain

fall

info

rmat

ion

obta

ined

fr

om g

roun

d an

d sa

telli

te

obse

rvat

ions

and

num

eric

al

pred

ictio

n m

odel

s int

o th

e W

EB-

RR

I mod

el a

nd p

redi

ct fl

ood

flow

s, riv

er w

ater

leve

ls, a

nd fl

oodi

ng

statu

s in

basi

ns u

p to

thre

e da

ys in

ad

vanc

e. T

he sy

stem

was

used

to

prov

ide

flood

fore

casts

and

ev

acua

tion-

rela

ted

info

rmat

ion

in a

tim

ely

and

effe

ctiv

e m

anne

r.

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ying

a d

atas

et c

onstr

uctio

n m

etho

d fo

r mer

ging

and

visu

aliz

ing

calc

ulat

ion

resu

lts o

f wea

ther

, hy

drol

ogy

and

flood

ing

on D

IAS

in

colla

bora

tion

with

the

Inst

itute

of

Indu

stria

l Sci

ence

, the

Uni

vers

ity

of T

okyo

.C

reat

ing

a V

R a

pp th

at c

an

repr

oduc

e de

taile

d str

eetsc

ape

and

flood

s in

Hita

City

, Oita

Pre

fect

ure.

Prom

otin

g th

e ge

nera

l use

of V

R

imag

es fo

r disa

ster

man

agem

ent

purp

oses

by

desi

gnin

g th

e ap

plic

atio

n fo

r the

use

r to

easi

ly

repr

oduc

e ci

tysc

apes

usi

ng d

ata

from

the

Nat

iona

l Lan

d N

umer

ical

In

form

atio

n an

d co

mbi

ne th

em

with

cal

cula

ted

flood

inun

datio

n da

ta.

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elop

ed a

DIA

S-ba

sed

syste

m

for t

he P

ampa

nga

Riv

er b

asin

in

the

Phili

ppin

es th

at a

utom

atic

ally

in

puts

rain

fall

info

rmat

ion

obta

ined

fr

om g

roun

d ob

serv

atio

ns in

to th

e R

RI m

odel

and

pre

dict

floo

d flo

ws,

river

wat

er le

vels,

and

floo

ding

sta

tus i

n th

e ba

sin.

The

syste

m w

as

used

to p

rovi

de th

e in

form

atio

n

103

83

need

ed to

ach

ieve

effe

ctiv

e cr

isis

m

anag

emen

t.D

evel

op a

mor

e ef

fect

ive

risk

com

mun

icat

ion

syst

em

by in

corp

orat

ing

psyc

holo

gica

l fac

tors

.

Con

duct

pr

elim

inar

y re

sear

ch

on

psyc

holo

gy

asso

ciat

ed

with

th

e be

havi

or o

f dis

aste

r dam

age m

itiga

tion

for

sele

cted

loc

al m

unic

ipal

ities

tha

t ex

perie

nced

floo

d da

mag

e in

the

past.

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e re

sear

ch

focu

ses

on

disa

ster

m

anag

emen

t per

sonn

el, l

ocal

resid

ents

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othe

r re

leva

nt g

roup

s of

peo

ple

and

inve

stig

ates

ho

w

they

w

ould

be

have

in a

floo

d ev

ent w

hen

dam

age

miti

gatio

n ef

forts

ar

e co

nduc

ted

acco

rdin

g to

an ex

istin

g flo

od re

spon

se

timel

ine.

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ract

eriz

e th

e ps

ycho

logi

cal

proc

ess

durin

g a

disa

ster,

base

d on

th

e pr

elim

inar

y re

sear

ch c

ondu

cted

in

the p

revi

ous y

ear,

and

sele

ct u

sefu

l in

form

atio

n th

at

shou

ld

be

inco

rpor

ated

in

th

e de

velo

ped

simul

atio

n sy

stem

.

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rall

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nA

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icat

ion

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ifica

nce

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l ec

onom

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e re

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ts of

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ity, O

ita P

refe

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kugo

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n 20

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ita C

ity, O

ita

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re.

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e Pr

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ture

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mot

o R

iver

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oded

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vere

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n of

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e de

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us

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n re

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ove

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g th

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nce

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ng sy

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o Ph

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er b

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in T

haila

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ined

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deve

lopm

ent

met

hods

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hole

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cale

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ark-

scal

e flo

od

inun

datio

n an

alys

is m

odel

s bas

ed

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e RR

I mod

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elop

ed a

floo

d in

unda

tion

anal

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mod

el (1

km g

rid) f

or th

e w

hole

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o Ph

raya

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er b

asin

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rate

d th

e m

odel

for 2

011

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at t

he B

hum

ibol

dam

and

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rikit

dam

and

ver

ified

the

repr

oduc

ibili

ty a

t the

Nak

hons

awan

st

atio

n.U

nder

took

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evel

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ent o

f de

taile

d m

odel

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grid

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in

dust

rial p

ark-

scal

e m

odel

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rder

104

84

to c

ontri

bute

to b

usin

ess c

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uity

m

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emen

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ity D

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e of

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ity

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lopm

ent f

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can

tra

in a

nd su

perv

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cal

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arch

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tora

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es,

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tan,

Br

azil,

Vi

etna

m, P

eru,

Mya

nmar

, Lib

eria

Com

mun

icat

e cl

osel

y w

ith t

he

cand

idat

e co

untri

es

abou

t th

e re

quire

men

ts fo

r app

lican

ts, s

uch

as p

rovi

sion

of a

pro

of o

f Eng

lish

fluen

cy.

2019

-202

0: a

bout

14

stud

ents

from

the

cand

idat

e co

untri

es.

Det

erm

ine

cand

idat

e co

untri

es

base

d on

the

res

ults

of n

eeds

in

vest

igat

ion.

Com

mun

icat

e cl

osel

y w

ith t

he

cand

idat

e co

untri

es a

bout

the

re

quire

men

ts fo

r ap

plic

ants

, su

ch a

s pr

ovisi

on o

f a p

roof

of

Engl

ish fl

uenc

y.

Ove

rall

eval

uatio

nA

Publ

icat

ion

ASc

ient

ific

sign

ifica

nce

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cial

sign

ifica

nce

SD

issem

inat

ion

A

Com

plet

ed th

e pr

ogra

m:

Sept

embe

r201

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stude

nts f

rom

10

cou

ntrie

s:B

angl

ades

h(2

), B

razi

l(1

),Fi

ji(1

), In

dia

(1),

Nep

al(2

),Pa

kist

an(2

),th

e Ph

ilipp

ines

(1),

Sri

Lank

a(2

),Ta

nzan

ia(1

) and

Viet

nam

(1)

Enro

lled

in th

e pr

ogra

m:

Oct

ober

2018

:8stu

dent

s fro

m 8

co

untri

es.

Com

plet

ed th

e pr

ogra

m:

Sept

embe

r201

9:7

stude

nts f

rom

7

coun

tries

:Ban

glad

esh

(1),

Indi

a(1

), Li

beria

(1),

Nep

al (1

), Pa

kista

n (1

), th

e Ph

ilipp

ines

(1) a

nd S

ri La

nka

(1).

O

ne st

uden

t, th

ough

ear

ned

all

cred

its, i

nclu

ding

thos

e fo

r a

mas

ter's

thes

is, d

ropp

ed o

ut

with

out a

mas

ter's

deg

ree

due

to

failu

re to

mee

t the

requ

ired

crite

ria

of E

nglis

h pr

ofic

ienc

y.En

rolle

d in

the

prog

ram

:O

ctob

er20

19:1

1 stu

dent

s fro

m 6

co

untri

es.

(ii)-

(1)-

3. D

ays-

and

wee

ks-lo

ng tr

aini

ng to

le

arn

know

ledg

e an

d te

chno

logi

es fo

r wat

er-

rela

ted

disa

ster r

isk

man

agem

ent

Shor

t-ter

m tr

aini

ngPl

an a

nd p

repa

re to

impl

emen

t a sh

ort-

term

trai

ning

pro

gram

that

will

addr

ess

issue

s on

wat

er-re

late

d di

sast

ers

in

diffe

rent

cou

ntrie

s an

d co

ntrib

ute

to

polic

y m

akin

g on

riv

er

basin

m

anag

emen

t an

d w

ater

-rela

ted

disa

ster

ris

k m

anag

emen

t. Th

e pr

ogra

m w

ill p

rovi

de t

he t

rain

ing

for

parti

cipa

nts

to

lear

n sc

ienc

e an

d te

chno

logy

in

clud

ing

lead

ing-

edge

ap

proa

ches

.

Enha

nce

and

impl

emen

t the

trai

ning

pr

ogra

m p

lann

ed in

the p

revi

ous y

ear

and

incr

ease

trai

ning

opp

ortu

nitie

s.

Ove

rall

eval

uatio

nA

Publ

icat

ion

ASc

ient

ific

sign

ifica

nce

ASo

cial

sign

ifica

nce

AD

issem

inat

ion

A

From

May

28

to Ju

ne 1

, 201

8,

ICH

AR

M c

olla

bora

ted

with

JIC

A

to im

plem

ent t

he K

now

ledg

e C

o-C

reat

ion

Prog

ram

, “W

ater

Rel

ated

D

isast

er M

anag

emen

t (P

repa

redn

ess,

Miti

gatio

n an

d R

econ

struc

tion)

," in

whi

ch le

ctur

es

and

exer

cise

s wer

e co

nduc

ted.

The

train

ing

gath

ered

12

parti

cipa

nts o

f gov

ernm

ent o

ffici

als

from

Bhu

tan,

Bra

zil,

Chi

le,

Mac

edon

ia, I

ran,

Lib

eria

, Mor

occo

, M

yanm

ar, P

eru,

Sri

Lank

a,

Thai

land

and

Vie

tnam

.

From

June

5 to

June

7, 2

019,

IC

HA

RM

col

labo

rate

d w

ith JI

CA

to

impl

emen

t the

Kno

wle

dge

Co-

Cre

atio

n Pr

ogra

m, “

Wat

er R

elat

ed

Disa

ster

Man

agem

ent

(Pre

pare

dnes

s, M

itiga

tion

and

Rec

onstr

uctio

n),"

in w

hich

lect

ures

an

d ex

erci

ses w

ere

cond

ucte

d.Th

e tra

inin

g ga

ther

ed 1

2 pa

rtici

pant

s of g

over

nmen

t offi

cial

s fr

om A

fgha

nista

n, B

razi

l, Fi

ji,

Ken

ya, L

iber

ia, M

alay

sia, M

exic

o,

Som

alia

and

Sri

Lank

a.

Con

duct

a c

apac

ity

deve

lopm

ent p

rogr

am

(sum

mer

pro

gram

) for

Abo

ut 2

0 stu

dent

sA

bout

20

stude

nts

Ove

rall

eval

uatio

n-

Publ

icat

ion

-Sc

ient

ific

sign

ifica

nce

The

capa

city

dev

elop

men

t pro

gram

(s

umm

er p

rogr

am) f

or in

tern

atio

nal

stude

nts w

ith th

e U

nive

rsity

of

Toky

o w

as n

ot c

ondu

cted

.

The

capa

city

dev

elop

men

t pro

gram

(s

umm

er p

rogr

am) f

or in

tern

atio

nal

stude

nts w

ith th

e U

nive

rsity

of

Toky

o w

as n

ot c

ondu

cted

.

105

85

inte

rnat

iona

l stu

dent

s with

th

e U

nive

rsity

of T

okyo

.-

Soci

al si

gnifi

canc

e-

Diss

emin

atio

n-

Hol

d fo

llow

-up

sem

inar

s fo

r IC

HA

RM

mas

ter’s

pr

ogra

m g

radu

ates

and

ot

hers

.

Hol

d a

follo

w-u

p se

min

ar

in

a gr

adua

tes’

coun

tryH

old

a fo

llow

-up

sem

inar

in

a

grad

uate

s’ co

untry

Ove

rall

eval

uatio

nS

Publ

icat

ion

SSc

ient

ific

sign

ifica

nce

ASo

cial

sign

ifica

nce

SD

issem

inat

ion

A

The

Follo

w-u

p Tr

aini

ng w

as

cond

ucte

d in

Kat

hman

du, N

epal

, m

ainl

y fo

r mas

ter's

deg

ree

grad

uate

s. Th

e tra

inin

g co

nsist

ed o

f a

spec

ial l

ectu

re, a

ctiv

ity re

ports

by

the

grad

uate

s, an

d a

field

visi

t. In

th

e ac

tivity

repo

rt pr

esen

tatio

ns, t

he

grad

uate

s add

ress

edcu

rren

t iss

ues

that

they

face

d in

thei

r wor

k an

d di

scus

sed

poss

ible

solu

tions

with

ot

her p

artic

ipan

ts.

In th

e fie

ld v

isit

to se

vera

l pla

ces

alon

g th

e Jh

iku

Riv

er, t

he

parti

cipa

nts d

iscus

sed

issue

s the

y fo

und

from

the

obse

rvat

ions

, as

wel

l as s

olut

ions

toth

em.

The

repo

rts a

nd d

iscus

sions

of t

he

grad

uate

s wer

e ex

trem

ely

adva

nced

, whi

ch in

dica

ted

that

the

Disa

ster

Man

agem

ent P

olic

y Pr

ogra

mm

ade

a si

gnifi

cant

co

ntrib

utio

n to

cap

acity

bui

ldin

g.

The

Follo

w-u

p Tr

aini

ng w

as

cond

ucte

d in

Col

ombo

, Sri

Lank

a,

mai

nly

for m

aste

r's d

egre

e gr

adua

tes.

The

train

ing

cons

isted

of

a sp

ecia

l lec

ture

, act

ivity

repo

rts b

y th

e gr

adua

tes,

and

a fie

ld v

isit.

In

the

activ

ity re

port

pres

enta

tions

, th

e gr

adua

tes a

ddre

ssed

cur

rent

iss

ues t

hat t

hey

face

d in

thei

r wor

k an

d di

scus

sed

poss

ible

solu

tions

w

ith o

ther

par

ticip

ants

. In

the

field

vis

it to

the

low

er

Ded

uru

Riv

er, t

he p

artic

ipan

ts di

scus

sed

the

rela

tions

hip

betw

een

bank

ero

sion

and

flood

s and

er

osio

n co

ntro

l mea

sure

s. Th

e re

ports

and

disc

ussio

ns o

f the

gr

adua

tes w

ere

extre

mel

y ad

vanc

ed, w

hich

indi

cate

d th

at th

e D

isast

er M

anag

emen

t Pol

icy

Prog

ram

mad

e a

sign

ifica

nt

cont

ribut

ion

to c

apac

ity b

uild

ing.

(2) B

uild

and

stre

ngth

en a

net

wor

k of

loca

l exp

erts

and

inst

itutio

ns in

volv

ed in

wat

er-r

elat

ed d

isaste

r man

agem

ent b

y pr

ovid

ing

know

ledg

e an

d sk

ills a

ccum

ulat

ed fr

om re

sear

ch a

nd lo

cal p

ract

ice

for t

rain

ing

in in

tern

atio

nal p

roje

cts a

nd IC

HA

RM

’s ed

ucat

iona

l and

trai

ning

pr

ogra

ms.

(ii)-

(2)-

1. F

ollo

w u

p an

d en

cour

agem

ent f

or e

x-tra

inee

s

Hol

d w

orks

hops

in e

x-tra

inee

s’ co

untri

es.

Cre

ate

and

upda

te th

e al

umni

list

.C

ontin

ue st

reng

then

ing

the

alum

ni n

etw

ork

usin

g th

e In

tern

et a

nd

prov

idin

g in

form

atio

n on

trai

ning

pro

gram

s.O

rgan

ize

follo

w-u

p se

min

ars.

Ove

rall

eval

uatio

nA

Publ

icat

ion

ASc

ient

ific

sign

ifica

nce

ASo

cial

sign

ifica

nce

AD

issem

inat

ion

A

Upd

ated

the

list o

f gra

duat

es b

y ad

ding

new

gra

duat

es to

kee

p th

e al

umni

net

wor

k cu

rren

t and

re

leva

nt.

Con

tinue

d to

man

age

the

Face

book

pa

ge fo

r IC

HA

RM

Alu

mni

to o

ffer

an e

asy

acce

ss to

the

alum

ni

netw

ork

onlin

e.

Upd

ated

the

list o

f gra

duat

es b

y ad

ding

new

gra

duat

es to

kee

p th

e al

umni

net

wor

k cu

rren

t and

re

leva

nt.

Con

tinue

d to

man

age

the

Face

book

pa

ge fo

r IC

HA

RM

Alu

mni

to o

ffer

an e

asy

acce

ss to

the

alum

ni

netw

ork

onlin

e.

(iii)

Effic

ient

Info

rmat

ion

Net

wor

k(1

) Col

lect

, ana

lyze

and

diss

emin

ate

the

reco

rds a

nd e

xper

ienc

es o

f maj

or w

ater

-rela

ted

disa

sters

aro

und

the

wor

ld a

s the

com

preh

ensiv

e kn

owle

dge

cent

er fo

r pra

ctiti

oner

s.(ii

i)-(1

)-1.

Col

lect

ion

and

orga

niza

tion

of d

isaste

r-re

late

d re

cord

s and

do

cum

ents

Prom

ote

the

colle

ctio

n of

di

sast

er in

form

atio

n by

de

mon

stra

ting

its

usef

ulne

ss.

Dev

elop

a f

ram

ewor

k fo

r th

e ef

ficie

nt c

olle

ctio

n of

dis

aste

r in

form

atio

n by

de

mon

strat

ing

its u

sefu

lnes

s (e

.g.,

the

soci

o-ec

onom

ic i

mpa

ct o

f flo

od

disa

ster

s was

ass

esse

d us

ing

big

data

pro

cess

ed b

y D

IAS

of th

e U

nive

rsity

of

Toky

o.),

and

prom

ote t

he sh

arin

g an

d us

e of t

he co

llect

ed d

isaste

r inf

orm

atio

n.

Ove

rall

eval

uatio

nA

Publ

icat

ion

ASc

ient

ific

sign

ifica

nce

A

Prom

oted

the

inte

grat

ion

and

arch

ivin

g of

the

haza

rd d

ata

of

wat

er-r

elat

ed d

isas

ters

usin

gD

IAS,

oper

ated

and

man

aged

by

the

Uni

vers

ity o

f Tok

yo.

Prom

oted

the

inte

grat

ion

and

arch

ivin

g of

the

haza

rd d

ata

of

wat

er-re

late

d di

saste

rs u

sing

DIA

S.

Con

tinue

d to

col

lect

rain

fall

and

othe

r dat

a in

real

tim

e in

the

106

86

Soci

al si

gnifi

canc

eA

Diss

emin

atio

nA

Espe

cial

ly, e

stab

lishe

d a

fram

ewor

k to

col

lect

rain

fall

and

othe

r dat

a in

re

al ti

me

and

utili

ze th

em fo

r flo

od

man

agem

ent i

n th

e Pa

mpa

nga

and

Cag

ayan

rive

rs in

the

Phili

ppin

e an

d th

e K

alu

river

in S

ri La

nka.

Phili

ppin

es a

nd S

ri La

nka

and

studi

ed w

ays f

or th

e fu

rther

ut

iliza

tion

of su

ch d

ata

forf

lood

man

agem

ent.

Star

ted

sim

ilar e

fforts

in th

e U

NES

CO W

est A

frica

pro

ject

and

in

Iran

, Mya

nmar

and

Indo

nesia

.(ii

i)-(1

)-2.

Col

labo

ratio

n w

ith o

ther

org

aniz

atio

nsPr

omot

e th

e co

llabo

ratio

n w

ith o

ther

org

aniz

atio

ns

and

colle

ct w

ater

dis

aste

r in

form

atio

n.

Prom

ote

the

colla

bora

tion

for c

olle

ctin

g re

liabl

e di

sast

er in

form

atio

n w

ith

UN

ESCO

cen

ters

, int

erna

tiona

l org

aniz

atio

ns su

ch a

s UN

ESCO

Cha

ir an

d U

ND

RR, t

he U

nive

rsity

of T

okyo

(and

its D

IAS

proj

ect),

and

oth

er e

ntiti

es.

Stre

ngth

en th

e co

llabo

ratio

n w

ith w

ater

-rela

ted

disa

ster m

anag

emen

t ag

enci

es o

f eac

h co

untry

thro

ugh

an IF

I Pla

tform

on

Wat

er a

nd D

isas

ters

.

Ove

rall

eval

uatio

nA

Publ

icat

ion

ASc

ient

ific

sign

ifica

nce

ASo

cial

sign

ifica

nce

AD

issem

inat

ion

A

Act

ivel

y pa

rtici

pate

d in

mee

tings

he

ld b

y U

NES

CO C

ente

rs a

nd

Cha

irs a

nd o

ther

inte

rnat

iona

l or

gani

zatio

ns, t

rack

edgl

obal

tren

ds

and

colle

cted

info

rmat

ion

on w

ater

-re

late

d di

sast

ers,

and

striv

ed to

es

tabl

ish a

par

tner

ship

with

oth

erpa

rtici

patin

g or

gani

zatio

ns.

Mad

e ef

forts

to in

tegr

ate

and

arch

ive

wat

er-r

elat

ed d

isas

terd

ata

onD

IAS

for t

he P

hilip

pine

, whe

re

ICH

AR

M is

supp

ortin

g th

e es

tabl

ishm

ent o

f an

IFI P

latfo

rm.

Star

ted

sim

ilar e

fforts

in M

yanm

ar,

Sri L

anka

and

Pak

istan

.

Act

ivel

y pa

rtici

pate

d in

mee

tings

he

ld b

y U

NES

CO C

ente

rs a

nd

Cha

irs a

nd o

ther

inte

rnat

iona

l or

gani

zatio

ns, t

rack

edgl

obal

tren

ds

and

colle

cted

info

rmat

ion

on w

ater

-re

late

d di

sast

ers,

and

striv

ed to

es

tabl

ish a

par

tner

ship

with

oth

erpa

rtici

patin

g or

gani

zatio

ns.

Impl

emen

ted

clim

ate

chan

ge

orie

ntat

ions

to d

evel

op a

dapt

atio

n pl

ans i

n th

e Ph

ilipp

ine

and

Indo

nesia

, whe

re IC

HA

RM

is

supp

ortin

g th

e es

tabl

ishm

ent o

f an

IFI P

latfo

rm.

Hel

d th

e fin

al w

orks

hop

on th

e U

NES

CO P

akis

tan

proj

ect i

n In

done

sia.

(2) M

ains

tream

disa

ster r

isk re

duct

ion

by d

issem

inat

ing

know

ledg

e an

d te

chno

logy

for w

ater

-rela

ted

disa

ster r

isk m

anag

emen

t and

bui

ldin

g an

d m

aint

aini

ng a

wor

ldw

ide

influ

entia

l net

wor

k su

ch a

s IFI

.(ii

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insti

tute

.

Del

iver

ed a

wid

e ra

nge

of

info

rmat

ion

abou

t ICH

ARM

’s ac

tivity

by

publ

ishin

g ne

wsle

tters

qu

arte

rly.

Star

ted

to in

clud

e th

e co

ntrib

utio

ns

from

gra

duat

es o

f IC

HA

RM

ed

ucat

iona

l pro

gram

s to

enric

h an

d di

vers

ify th

e co

nten

ts a

nd e

stabl

ish

and

mai

ntai

n a

cont

inuo

us

rela

tions

hip

with

them

.M

ade

cont

inuo

us, a

ctiv

e ef

forts

to

diss

emin

ate

the

new

slet

ters

; as a

re

sult,

the

num

ber o

f sub

scrib

ers

has r

each

ed o

ver 5

,000

, with

an

incr

ease

of 1

8% fr

om Ja

nuar

y 20

18

to Ja

nuar

y 20

20.

109

ICH

AR

M W

ork

Plan

FY 2

020

(202

0.4-

2021

.3)

110

1

Cat

egor

yC

onte

ntA

ctiv

ities

and

exp

ecte

d re

sults

in F

Y20

20(i)

Inno

vativ

e re

sear

ch(a

) Tec

hnol

ogy

for c

onst

antly

mon

itorin

g, st

orin

g an

d us

ing

disa

ster

info

rmat

ion

Met

hods

will

be

prop

osed

for d

isas

ter d

ata

colle

ctio

n an

d ba

sic

data

base

dev

elop

men

t with

thei

r pra

ctic

al a

pplic

atio

ns. T

his s

houl

d ev

entu

ally

lead

to d

ata

anal

ysis

usin

g a

Dat

a In

tegr

atio

n an

d A

naly

sis S

yste

m (D

IAS)

. A d

ata

corr

ectio

n m

etho

d w

ill b

e al

so p

ropo

sed

to b

e us

ed in

the

proc

ess o

f bui

ldin

g a

data

base

usin

g gl

obal

dat

a an

d ne

ar-r

eal t

ime

data

from

sate

llite

s. Th

e im

pact

of d

isas

ter r

educ

tion

will

be

asse

ssed

qua

ntita

tivel

y by

the

disa

ster

dat

abas

e in

clud

ing

its u

sein

mod

el a

reas

bot

h in

Japa

n an

d ov

erse

as.

(i)-(

a)-1

. Res

earc

h on

si

mpl

e m

etho

ds fo

r as

sess

ing

the

soci

o-ec

onom

ic im

pact

of f

lood

di

sast

ers

Dev

elop

a si

mpl

e m

etho

d fo

r ass

essin

g th

e so

cio-

econ

omic

impa

ct o

f flo

od

disa

ster

s

Con

tinue

eco

nom

ic im

pact

ass

essm

ent u

sing

a si

mpl

e m

etho

d de

velo

ped

by A

DBI

, bas

ed o

n th

e in

unda

tion

dept

h an

d ec

onom

ic d

ata

colle

cted

in Jo

so C

ity, f

lood

ed b

y th

e K

anto

Toh

oku

torr

entia

l rai

nfal

l in

2015

.

Am

ong

the

deve

lope

d si

mpl

e m

etho

ds fo

r as

sess

ing

the

soci

o-ec

onom

ic im

pact

of f

lood

di

sast

ers,

test

a g

loba

lly

appl

icab

le m

etho

d by

es

timat

ing

such

impa

ct a

t na

tiona

l and

glo

bal l

evel

s.

Test

the

appl

icab

ility

of t

he A

DB

I eco

nom

ic im

pact

ass

essm

ent u

sing

the

flood

dam

age

data

co

llect

ed in

Dav

ao, M

inda

nao

Isla

nd, t

he P

hilip

pine

s.

(b) S

uppo

rt sy

stem

for e

arly

war

ning

cap

able

of p

rovi

ding

acc

urat

e in

form

atio

n in

a sh

orte

r per

iod

of ti

me

Mor

e ad

vanc

ed a

pplic

atio

n of

a re

gion

al a

tmos

pher

ic m

odel

(WR

F) a

nd fu

rther

impr

ovem

ent o

f IFA

S an

d RR

I will

be

achi

eved

. Usin

g th

ese

adva

nced

te

chno

logi

es, a

met

hod

will

be

deve

lope

d fo

r mor

e ac

cura

te re

al-ti

me

pred

ictio

n of

rain

fall,

runo

ff an

d in

unda

tion

to e

nsur

e ov

er 1

0 ho

urs o

f lea

d tim

e ne

cess

ary

for e

vacu

atio

n in

a w

ide

area

and

dam

dis

char

ges p

rior t

o ra

infa

ll. T

he d

evel

oped

met

hod

will

be

test

ed fo

r app

licab

ility

to ri

ver b

asin

s bot

h in

Ja

pan

and

over

seas

with

diff

eren

t con

ditio

ns o

f dat

a av

aila

bilit

y, c

limat

e an

d to

pogr

aphy

, and

eve

ntua

lly u

sed

to e

stabl

ish

an e

arly

floo

d w

arni

ng a

nd

syst

em. A

tech

nolo

gy w

ill b

e de

velo

ped

to e

valu

ate

wat

er d

isas

ter h

azar

ds b

y us

ing

sate

llite

s and

sedi

men

t hyd

raul

ic m

odel

s.(i)

-(b)

-1. R

esea

rch

on

tech

nolo

gies

for m

ore

accu

rate

real

-tim

e

Impr

ove

the

accu

racy

of t

he

flood

inun

datio

n pr

edic

tion

mod

el b

y up

grad

ing

the

By

appl

ying

the

para

met

er o

ptim

izat

ion

met

hod

to w

ater

leve

l pre

dict

ion

syst

ems o

fsm

all a

nd

med

ium

sca

le r

iver

usi

ng R

RI

mod

els

and

impr

ove

the

pred

ictio

n ac

cura

cy a

nd e

limin

ate

unne

cess

ary

wor

k.

111

2

pred

ictio

n of

runo

ff an

d in

unda

tion

by

com

plem

entin

g in

suffi

cien

t da

ta a

vaila

bilit

y

flood

trac

king

met

hod

and

intro

duci

ng a

n au

tom

atic

pa

ram

eter

opt

imiz

atio

n m

etho

d.C

larif

y th

e ap

plic

abili

ty o

f sa

telli

te ra

infa

ll da

ta a

nd

deve

lop

a ba

sin-

spec

ific

data

cor

rect

ion

met

hod.

Stud

y co

rrect

ion

tech

nolo

gy o

f G

SMaP

in c

ase

real

-tim

e gr

ound

rai

n ga

uge

data

can

not b

e ob

tain

ed. E

xam

ine

the

dens

ity o

f th

e gr

ound

rai

n ga

uge

requ

ired

to s

ecur

e th

e ac

cura

cy o

f G

SMaP

.

Impr

ove

the

accu

racy

of t

he

WR

F m

odel

for h

eavy

ra

infa

ll pr

edic

tion

usin

g X

-an

d C

-ban

d M

P ra

dars

and

th

e En

sem

ble

Kal

man

filte

r.

Eval

uate

the

accu

racy

of h

eavy

rain

fore

cast

ing

with

a re

lativ

ely

long

lead

tim

e, s

peci

aliz

ing

in la

rge-

scal

e an

d im

porta

nt w

eath

er p

heno

men

a su

ch a

s typ

hoon

s. R

egar

ding

loca

lized

torr

entia

l rai

n, e

xam

ined

a m

etho

d to

impr

ove

the

accu

racy

of p

redi

ctio

n by

incr

easi

ng th

e re

solu

tion

of m

eteo

rolo

gica

l mod

els.

Dev

elop

a m

etho

d fo

r rea

l-tim

e flo

od in

unda

tion

fore

cast

ing

usin

g m

ultip

le

rain

fall

fore

cast

ing

appr

oach

es w

ith p

redi

ctio

n un

certa

inty

.

Stud

y ef

fect

ive

dam

ope

ratio

n ru

les

usin

g th

e pr

edic

tion

resu

lts o

btai

ned

from

the

ense

mbl

e pr

edic

tion

with

thei

r dis

tribu

tion.

(i)-(

b)-2

. Dev

elop

men

t of

tech

nolo

gies

usin

g sa

telli

tes

and

sedi

men

t hyd

raul

ic

mod

els f

or a

sses

sing

the

impa

ct o

f wat

er d

isas

ter

haza

rds

Estim

ate

sedi

men

t tra

nspo

rt an

d de

velo

p an

estim

atio

n m

etho

d of

rive

r cha

nnel

to

pogr

aphy

cha

nge.

In o

rder

to e

valu

ate

the

beha

vior

of r

iver

bed

sedi

men

ts c

ompo

sed

of fi

ne se

dim

ent,

esta

blish

ane

w e

valu

atio

n m

etho

d fo

r sed

imen

t tra

nspo

rt us

ing

dens

ity fl

ow th

eory

. By

intro

duci

ngit

into

nu

mer

ical

calc

ulat

ion,

dev

elop

a met

hod

for e

stim

atin

g th

e cha

nge i

n riv

er ch

anne

l top

ogra

phy

appl

icab

le to

a ri

verb

ed c

ompo

sed

of fi

ne se

dim

ent.

Dev

elop

a fl

ood

dam

age

risk

map

ping

met

hod

that

ta

kes s

edim

ent h

ydra

ulic

ph

enom

ena

into

acc

ount

.

Verif

y th

e res

ults

of s

edim

ent,

drift

woo

d an

d flo

od an

alys

is b

ased

on

sedi

men

t hyd

raul

ic m

odel

ex

perim

ents

and

fiel

d su

rvey

resu

lts.

112

3

Dev

elop

a m

etho

d fo

r m

appi

ng fl

ood

inun

datio

n ris

k in

mou

ntai

nous

rive

rs.

Prop

ose

a m

etho

d to

eva

luat

e se

dim

ent i

nflo

w in

clud

ing

fine

sedi

men

t in

mou

ntai

n riv

ers a

nd

crea

te a

floo

d in

unda

tion

area

map

by

num

eric

al si

mul

atio

n.

(c) A

sses

smen

t and

pla

nnin

g te

chno

logy

for a

ppro

pria

te w

ater

reso

urce

s man

agem

ent w

ith in

suffi

cien

t inf

orm

atio

nA

long

-term

wat

er b

alan

ce si

mul

atio

n te

chno

logy

will

be

deve

lope

d to

supp

ort o

ptim

al p

lann

ing

of w

ater

reso

urce

s man

agem

ent b

oth

in Ja

pan

and

over

seas

. Thi

s tec

hnol

ogy

will

offe

r a v

arie

ty o

f fun

ctio

ns to

supp

ort h

ighl

y te

chni

cal d

am o

pera

tion

inte

grat

ing

flood

con

trol a

nd w

ater

use

, wat

er d

eman

d se

tting

s, so

il m

oistu

re c

onte

nt se

tting

s bas

ed o

n sa

telli

te o

bser

vatio

n te

chno

logy

, app

licat

ion

to a

wid

e ra

nge

of c

limat

e ca

tego

ries,

inpu

t of h

ighl

y de

taile

d to

pogr

aphi

cal,

geol

ogic

al a

nd o

ther

dat

a.(i)

-(c)-1

. Dev

elop

men

t of a

si

mul

atio

n sy

stem

to

prov

ide

long

-term

supp

ort

for i

nteg

rate

d w

ater

re

sour

ces m

anag

emen

t un

der d

iffer

ent n

atur

al a

nd

topo

grap

hica

l con

ditio

ns

Impr

ove

tech

nolo

gies

for

inte

grat

ed w

ater

reso

urce

s m

anag

emen

t.

Eval

uate

on-

site

dem

onstr

atio

n ex

perim

ents

join

tly w

ith th

e el

ectri

c po

wer

com

pani

es a

nd

impr

ove

the

syst

em b

ased

on

the

eval

uatio

n re

sults

.

Stud

y so

il m

oistu

re c

onte

nt

base

d on

sate

llite

dat

a.Ev

alua

te a

nd im

prov

e th

e dr

ough

t mon

itorin

g an

d fo

reca

stin

g sy

stem

by

CLV

DA

S ap

plie

d to

th

e st

ate

of C

eara

, Bra

zil,

base

d on

ope

ratio

n.

Ref

lect

the

resu

lts o

f soi

l moi

sture

obs

erva

tion

by m

icro

wav

e ra

diom

eter

to th

e m

icro

wav

e ob

serv

atio

n al

gorit

hm.

Impr

ove

the

appl

icab

ility

of

syst

ems a

nd m

odel

s to

river

s in

Japa

n an

d ov

erse

as

with

diff

eren

t clim

ate

cond

ition

s.

By

com

bini

ng W

EB-R

RI a

nd S

IMRI

W (S

imul

atio

n M

odel

for R

ice-

Wea

ther

Rel

atio

ns),

the

suita

bilit

y of

hyd

rolo

gica

l mod

els t

o ric

e cu

ltiva

tion

area

s will

be

impr

oved

.

(i)-(

c)-2

. Int

egra

ted

Res

earc

h Pr

ogra

m fo

r ad

vanc

ing

Clim

ate

Mod

els

(TO

UG

OU

) (M

EXT

prog

ram

)

Ass

ess w

ater

dis

aste

r risk

in

Asi

a an

d cr

eate

info

rmat

ion

on a

dapt

atio

n m

easu

res.

Cal

cula

te fu

ture

wat

er c

ycle

phe

nom

ena

both

in th

e pr

esen

t and

futu

re u

sing

WEB

-RR

I. C

ondu

ct fo

reca

st c

alcu

latio

n of

the

futu

re h

azar

d su

ch a

s flo

ods

and

drou

ghts

,and

ass

ess

the

risk

base

d on

the

resu

lts o

f haz

ard

calc

ulat

ions

and

land

use

in th

e ba

sin.

(d) T

echn

olog

y fo

r ass

essi

ng th

e im

pact

on

loca

l com

mun

ities

of w

ater

rela

ted

disa

ster

s in

flood

pla

ins a

nd fo

r eva

luat

ing

the

effe

ct o

f inv

estm

ents

in d

isas

ter

risk

redu

ctio

nA

dis

aste

r ris

k as

sess

men

t met

hod

will

be

deve

lope

d to

eva

luat

e “s

treng

th a

gain

st fa

tal d

amag

e” a

nd “

resi

lienc

e fo

r spe

edy

rest

orat

ion”

. Ind

ices

will

be

prop

osed

to h

elp

polic

y m

aker

s in

Japa

n an

d ov

erse

as e

asily

reco

gniz

e lo

cal d

isas

ter r

isks

and

hol

istic

ally

eva

luat

e th

e ef

fect

of i

nves

tmen

ts o

n di

sast

er

113

4

risk

redu

ctio

n so

that

they

can

mak

e in

form

ed in

vest

men

t dec

ision

s. A

met

hod

will

be

prop

osed

for b

uild

ing

disa

ster

resil

ient

com

mun

ities

in Ja

pan

and

over

seas

by

usin

g th

e de

velo

ped

risk

indi

ces.

(i)-(

d)-1

. Res

earc

h on

a

mul

tifac

eted

wat

er d

isast

er

risk

asse

ssm

ent f

or

wor

ldw

ide

use

and

a di

sast

er-r

esili

ent

com

mun

ity b

uild

ing

met

hod

base

d on

the

asse

ssm

ent

Prop

ose

a hi

ghly

acc

urat

e an

d ad

vanc

ed m

etho

d fo

r m

ultif

acet

ed e

valu

atio

n of

di

sast

er ri

sk

Stud

y a

met

hod

to e

valu

ate

the

risks

par

ticul

ar t

o di

sast

er c

ases

in

whi

ch f

lood

s oc

cur

conc

urre

ntly

acr

oss a

wid

e ar

ea b

y an

alyz

ing

ques

tionn

aire

surv

ey re

sults

on

the

resi

lienc

e of

th

e bu

sine

sses

in O

kaya

ma

and

Hiro

shim

a pr

efec

ture

s, af

fect

ed b

y th

e he

avy

rain

fall

in J

uly

2018

.Pr

opos

e ris

k in

dice

s to

holis

tical

ly e

valu

ate

the

disa

ster

risk

redu

ctio

n ef

fect

of

dis

aste

r pre

vent

ion

mea

sure

s and

inve

stm

ents

Con

duct

risk

asse

ssm

ent u

sing

the i

ndic

ator

dev

elop

ed to

eval

uate

the l

evel

of d

amag

e at w

hich

a

pre-

disa

ster

lev

el o

f po

pula

tion

and

gros

s re

gion

al p

rodu

ct c

an s

till

be s

usta

ined

afte

r a

disa

ster

, bas

ed o

n th

e re

sults

of t

he q

uest

ionn

aire

sur

vey

cond

ucte

d in

Iwai

zum

iTow

n, Iw

ate

Pref

ectu

re, i

n th

e pr

evio

us fi

scal

yea

r.

Prop

ose

a m

etho

d fo

r bu

ildin

g di

sast

er re

silie

nt

com

mun

ities

in Ja

pan

and

over

seas

by

usin

g th

e de

velo

ped

risk

indi

ces.

Prop

ose

a lis

t of a

ppro

ache

s to

build

resi

lient

loca

l com

mun

ities

, bas

ed o

n th

e ris

k as

sess

men

t ex

plai

ned

abov

e.

(e) T

echn

olog

y fo

r the

effe

ctiv

e us

e of

wat

er re

late

d di

sast

er ri

sk in

form

atio

n to

redu

ce d

isas

ter d

amag

eA

n in

form

atio

n sy

stem

, as w

ell a

s com

mun

icat

ion

tool

s suc

h as

dis

aste

r res

pons

e tim

elin

e ta

bles

, will

be

deve

lope

d to

supp

ortd

isas

ter m

anag

emen

t effo

rts

by a

dmin

istra

tors

and

loca

l res

iden

ts to

pre

vent

or m

itiga

te fl

ood

and

sedi

men

t disa

ster

s. Th

e ef

fect

ive

use

of su

ch a

syst

em a

nd to

ols w

ill b

e pr

opos

ed.

(i)-(

e)-1

. Res

earc

h on

a

wat

er d

isas

ter r

isk

info

rmat

ion

deliv

ery

syst

em

to su

ppor

t loc

al d

isas

ter

man

agem

ent e

fforts

in a

reas

w

ith in

suffi

cien

t wat

er

disa

ster

info

rmat

ion

Prop

ose

a m

etho

d fo

r id

entif

ying

are

as v

ulne

rabl

e to

dis

aste

rs (d

isas

ter h

ot

spot

s) p

rior t

o di

sast

ers.

Rev

iew

the

met

hod

appl

ied

to A

ga T

own

of N

iigat

a Pr

efec

ture

, Iw

aizu

mi

Tow

n of

Iw

ate

Pref

ectu

re, a

nd C

alum

pito

f B

ulac

an P

rovi

nce,

the

Phili

ppin

es. A

nd im

prov

e th

e au

tom

atic

ris

k-m

ap c

reat

ing

tool

usin

g R

RI-m

odel

out

put a

nd re

vise

the

man

ual o

f thi

s met

hod.

Prop

ose

a m

etho

d fo

r fo

reca

stin

g th

e po

ssib

ility

of

a w

ater

-rel

ated

dis

aste

r by

com

mun

ity in

real

tim

e.

Stud

y th

e im

prov

emen

t of

the

Web

-GIS

inf

orm

atio

n de

liver

y sy

stem

use

d to

ass

ess

the

poss

ibili

ty o

f wat

er-r

elat

ed d

isas

ters

at t

he c

omm

unity

scal

e to

ach

ieve

real

-tim

e pr

edic

tion

in

the

futu

re.

114

5

Prop

ose

a W

eb-G

IS w

ater

-re

late

d di

sast

er ri

sk

info

rmat

ion

deliv

ery

syst

em

that

hel

ps a

ccum

ulat

e an

d sh

are

vario

us ty

pes o

f di

sast

er ri

sk in

form

atio

n an

d de

liver

eva

cuat

ion

info

rmat

ion.

Ana

lyze

the

tech

nica

l iss

ues t

hat b

ecam

e ap

pare

nt th

roug

h th

e te

st o

pera

tion

of th

e W

EB-G

IS

info

rmat

ion

deliv

ery

syst

em fo

r Aga

Tow

n an

d im

prov

e th

e sy

stem

. Tes

t the

app

licab

ility

of

the

syst

em to

oth

er c

omm

uniti

es b

y ap

plyi

ng it

to Iw

aizu

miT

own,

Iwat

e Pr

efec

ture

.

Prop

ose

the

effe

ctiv

e us

e of

th

e W

eb-G

IS in

form

atio

n de

liver

y sy

stem

to

stak

ehol

ders

of l

ocal

ad

min

istra

tive

bodi

es in

Ja

pan

and

over

seas

.

Stud

y th

e sy

stem

spec

ifica

tions

to d

isse

min

ate

the

Web

-GIS

info

rmat

ion

deliv

ery

syst

em.

(i)-(

e)-2

Dev

elop

men

t of

risk

com

mun

icat

ion

syst

ems t

o in

crea

se p

ublic

aw

aren

ess o

f wat

er-r

elat

ed

disa

ster

s and

risk

m

anag

emen

t

Dev

elop

a D

IAS-

base

d si

mul

atio

n sy

stem

that

can

se

amle

ssly

repr

oduc

e,

pred

ict a

nd v

isua

lize

met

eoro

logi

cal a

nd

hydr

olog

ical

eve

nts a

nd

rela

ted

dam

age.

Impr

ove

the

DIA

S-ba

sed

sim

ulat

ion

syst

em f

or p

ract

ical

use

. The

sys

tem

can

sea

mle

ssly

re

prod

uce,

pre

dict

and

vis

ualiz

e m

eteo

rolo

gica

l and

hyd

rolo

gica

l eve

nts a

nd re

late

d da

mag

e.

Dev

elop

a m

ore

effe

ctiv

e ris

k co

mm

unic

atio

n sy

stem

by

inco

rpor

atin

g ps

ycho

logi

cal f

acto

rs.

Dev

elop

a V

R f

lood

sim

ulat

ion

app

for

Hita

City

, Ooi

ta P

refe

ctur

e, a

nd A

ga T

own,

Niig

ata

Pref

ectu

re,

to p

rovi

de a

sys

tem

whi

ch c

an c

ontri

bute

to

rais

ing

publ

ic a

war

enes

s of

saf

e ev

acua

tion

from

a fl

ood

by le

tting

peo

ple

expe

rienc

e ev

acua

tion

in a

virt

ual f

lood

.

(i)-(

e)-3

. Loc

al p

ract

ice

usin

g re

sear

ch re

sults

Con

tinue

supp

ortin

g JS

T-JI

CA

SAT

REP

S, a

pro

ject

to

dev

elop

an

Are

a-B

CM

(B

usin

ess C

ontin

uity

Com

plet

e a

deve

lopm

ent o

f flo

od in

unda

tion

anal

ysis

mod

el fo

r the

ent

ire C

hao

Phra

ya R

iver

ba

sin.

115

6

Man

agem

ent)

syst

em to

st

reng

then

the

disa

ster

re

silie

nce

of T

haila

nd’s

in

dustr

ial p

arks

.

Exam

ine

to d

evel

op a

n in

dust

rial p

ark-

scal

e flo

od in

unda

tion

anal

ysis

mod

el w

hich

cre

ates

de

taile

d sp

atio

-tem

pora

l inf

orm

atio

n on

dis

aste

r ris

k us

ing

the

resu

lts a

s bo

unda

ry c

ondi

tions

pr

ovid

ed b

y th

e ba

sin

scal

e m

odel

.B

y co

llect

ing

time

serie

s da

ta o

f th

e in

unda

tion

dept

h at

the

tim

e of

the

201

1 flo

od a

nd

com

parin

g th

e ca

lcul

atio

n re

sults

to th

em, c

ondu

ct c

alib

ratio

n an

d re

prod

ucib

ility

ver

ifica

tion

of th

e m

odel

.JS

T-JI

CA

SAT

REP

S, T

he

Proj

ect f

or D

evel

opm

ent o

f a

Hyb

rid W

ater

-Rel

ated

D

isas

ter R

isk

Ass

essm

ent

Tech

nolo

gy fo

r Sus

tain

able

Lo

cal E

cono

mic

D

evel

opm

ent P

olic

y un

der

Clim

ate

Cha

nge

in

Phili

ppin

es(n

ew p

roje

ct)

Col

lect

nat

ural

and

soci

al en

viro

nmen

t dat

a, in

tegr

ate h

ydro

logi

cal a

nd a

gric

ultu

ral m

odel

s for

flo

od a

nd d

roug

ht ri

sk a

sses

smen

t, an

d an

alyz

e lo

cal i

ssue

s for

the

eval

uatio

n of

wat

er-r

elat

ed

disa

ster

resi

lienc

e in

the

basi

ns o

f the

Pam

pang

a Ri

ver,

the

Pasi

g-M

arik

ina

Riv

er, a

nd L

ake

Lagu

na in

the

Luzo

n Is

land

s in

the

Phili

ppin

es.

(ii) E

ffect

ive

Cap

acity

Dev

elop

men

t(1

) Tra

in so

lutio

n-or

ient

ed p

ract

ition

ers a

nd T

rain

ing-

of-T

rain

ers (

TOT)

inst

ruct

ors w

ith so

lid th

eore

tical

and

eng

inee

ring

com

pete

nce

who

will

con

tribu

te

effe

ctiv

ely

to th

e pl

anni

ng a

nd p

ract

ice

of d

isas

ter r

isk

man

agem

ent a

t loc

al a

nd n

atio

nal l

evel

s.(ii

)-(1)

-1. C

apac

ity

deve

lopm

ent f

or

prof

essi

onal

s who

can

trai

n an

d su

perv

ise

loca

l re

sear

cher

s

Doc

tora

l Cou

rse

“Dis

aste

r Man

agem

ent”

2-3

stud

ents

(202

0-20

21)

(ii)-(

1)-2

. Cap

acity

de

velo

pmen

t for

exp

erts

w

ith p

ract

ical

solu

tions

to

loca

l pro

blem

s on

wat

er-

rela

ted

disa

ster

s

Mas

ter’s

Cou

rse

“Wat

er-r

elat

ed D

isas

ter

Man

agem

ent C

ours

e of

D

isas

ter M

anag

emen

t Po

licy

Prog

ram

”

2020

-202

1: a

bout

14

stud

ents

from

the

cand

idat

e co

untri

es.

Det

erm

ine

the

cand

idat

e co

untri

es b

ased

on

the

resu

lts o

f a n

eeds

surv

ey.

Com

mun

icat

e cl

osel

y w

ith th

e ca

ndid

ate

coun

tries

abo

ut th

e re

quire

men

ts fo

r app

lican

ts,

such

as s

ubm

issi

on o

f a p

roof

of E

nglis

h flu

ency

.

116

7

(ii)-(

1)-3

. Day

s-an

d w

eeks

-lo

ng tr

aini

ng to

lear

n kn

owle

dge

and

tech

nolo

gies

for w

ater

-re

late

d di

sast

er ri

sk

man

agem

ent

Shor

t-ter

m tr

aini

ngPr

ovid

e le

ctur

es a

nd e

xerc

ises

in c

oope

ratio

n w

ith th

e JI

CA

Kno

wle

dge

Co-

Cre

atio

n Pr

ogra

m

on “

Wat

er R

elat

ed D

isas

ter M

anag

emen

t (Pr

epar

edne

ss, M

itiga

tion

and

Rec

onstr

uctio

n)”.

Hol

d fo

llow

-up

sem

inar

s fo

r IC

HA

RM

mas

ter’s

pr

ogra

m g

radu

ates

and

ot

hers

.

Hol

d a

follo

w-u

p se

min

ar in

a c

ount

ry o

f gra

duat

es.

(2) B

uild

and

stre

ngth

en a

net

wor

k of

loca

l exp

erts

and

inst

itutio

ns in

volv

ed in

wat

er-r

elat

ed d

isas

ter m

anag

emen

t by

prov

idin

g kn

owle

dge

and

skill

s ac

cum

ulat

ed fr

om re

sear

ch a

nd lo

cal p

ract

ice

for t

rain

ing

in in

tern

atio

nal p

roje

cts a

nd IC

HA

RM

’s e

duca

tiona

l and

trai

ning

pro

gram

s.(ii

)-(2)

-1. F

ollo

w u

p an

d en

cour

agem

ent f

or e

x-tra

inee

s

Hol

d w

orks

hops

in e

x-tra

inee

s’co

untri

es.

Cre

ate

and

upda

te a

n al

umni

list

.C

ontin

ue st

reng

then

ing

the

alum

ni n

etw

ork

usin

g th

e In

tern

et a

nd p

rovi

ding

info

rmat

ion

on tr

aini

ng p

rogr

ams.

Org

aniz

e fo

llow

-up

sem

inar

s.(ii

i) Ef

ficie

nt in

form

atio

n ne

twor

k(1

) Col

lect

, ana

lyze

and

diss

emin

ate

the

reco

rds a

nd e

xper

ienc

es o

f maj

or w

ater

-rel

ated

dis

aste

rs a

roun

d th

e w

orld

as t

he c

ompr

ehen

sive

kno

wle

dge

cent

er

for p

ract

ition

ers.

(iii)-

(1)-

1. C

olle

ctio

n an

d or

gani

zatio

n of

dis

aste

r-re

late

d re

cord

s and

do

cum

ents

Prom

ote

colla

bora

tion

with

ot

her o

rgan

izat

ions

and

co

llect

wat

er d

isas

ter

info

rmat

ion.

Dev

elop

a f

ram

ewor

k fo

r th

e ef

ficie

nt c

olle

ctio

n of

wat

er-r

elat

ed d

isas

ter

info

rmat

ion

by

asse

ssin

g an

d ev

alua

ting

the s

ocio

-eco

nom

ic im

pact

of f

lood

dis

aste

rs u

sing

big

dat

a pro

cess

ed

by D

IAS

of th

e U

nive

rsity

of T

okyo

and

pro

mot

e th

e sh

arin

g an

d ef

fect

ive

use

of th

e co

llect

ed

info

rmat

ion.

(iii)-

(1)-

2. C

olla

bora

tion

with

oth

er o

rgan

izat

ions

Prom

ote

the

colla

bora

tion

with

oth

er o

rgan

izat

ions

an

d co

llect

wat

er d

isas

ter

info

rmat

ion.

Prom

ote

the

colla

bora

tion

for c

olle

ctin

g ab

unda

nt a

nd re

liabl

e di

sast

er in

form

atio

n w

ith

inte

rnat

iona

l org

aniz

atio

ns (W

MO

, UN

DR

R, e

tc.),

the

Uni

vers

ity o

f Tok

yo a

nd it

s DIA

S pr

ojec

t, an

d ot

her U

NES

CO C

entre

s and

Cha

irs.

Stre

ngth

en th

e co

llabo

ratio

n w

ith w

ater

-rela

ted

disa

ster

man

agem

ent a

genc

ies o

f eac

h co

untry

thro

ugh

an IF

I Pla

tform

on

Wat

er R

esili

ence

and

Dis

aste

rs.

(2) M

ains

tream

disa

ster

risk

redu

ctio

n by

dis

sem

inat

ing

know

ledg

e an

d te

chno

logy

for w

ater

-rela

ted

disa

ster

risk

man

agem

ent a

nd b

uild

ing

and

mai

ntai

ning

a

wor

ldw

ide

influ

entia

l net

wor

k su

ch a

s IFI

.

(iii)-

(2)-

1. C

olla

bora

tion

with

rele

vant

org

aniz

atio

nsFu

lfill

the

dutie

s as t

he IF

I se

cret

aria

t.C

arry

out

the

resp

onsi

bilit

ies

as th

e IF

I sec

reta

riat i

n co

llabo

ratio

n w

ith th

e pa

rtici

patin

g or

gani

zatio

ns b

y re

view

ing

the

conc

ept o

f IFI

and

othe

r iss

ues a

t the

Adv

isory

Com

mitt

ee

117

8

mee

ting

sche

dule

d in

Aug

ust

2020

and

hol

ding

per

iodi

cal

tele

conf

eren

ces

as t

he

Man

agem

ent C

omm

ittee

mee

ting.

Con

tinue

effo

rts to

dis

sem

inat

e IF

I act

iviti

es a

t var

ious

maj

or in

tern

atio

nal c

onfe

renc

es

such

as

ICFM

8 an

d A

OG

EO a

nd in

col

labo

ratio

n w

ith r

elev

ant

orga

niza

tions

suc

h as

A

DB

I. Pr

omot

e th

e pa

rtner

ship

with

the

IFI

im

plem

entin

g co

untri

es a

nd r

elev

ant

orga

niza

tions

.Su

ppor

t loc

al e

fforts

led

by

IFI.

Supp

ort t

he P

hilip

pine

s, M

yanm

ar, S

ri La

nka,

and

Indo

nesi

a in

esta

blis

hing

the

Plat

form

s on

Wat

er R

esili

ence

and

Dis

aste

rs a

nd p

rom

otin

g re

late

d ac

tiviti

es.C

ontin

ue e

fforts

to e

xpan

d IF

I act

iviti

es to

oth

er A

sian

cou

ntrie

s, A

fric

a an

d La

tin A

mer

ica.

Play

a le

adin

g ro

le in

Ty

phoo

n C

omm

ittee

(TC

).Fu

lfill

the

dutie

s as t

he c

hair

of W

GH

and

pro

mot

e AO

P7 “

Plat

form

on

Wat

er

Res

ilien

ce a

nd D

isas

ters

und

er In

tern

atio

nal F

lood

Initi

ativ

e” in

col

labo

ratio

n w

ith th

e W

GH

mem

bers

.In

pro

mot

ing

AO

P7, e

nhan

ce c

olla

bora

tive

activ

ities

with

JMA

as a

WG

M m

embe

r and

th

e IF

I-re

leva

nt o

rgan

izat

ions

of t

he P

hilip

pine

s.O

rgan

ize

the

9th

WG

H m

eetin

g in

Kyu

syu,

Japa

n, c

oinc

idin

g w

ith th

e 4t

h A

PWS

in

Oct

ober

202

0 an

d pa

rtici

pate

in th

e 15

th IW

S m

eetin

g an

d th

e 52

nd a

nd 5

3rd

Ann

ual

sess

ions

as W

GH

cha

ir. In

col

labo

ratio

n w

ith th

e M

embe

rs, s

umm

ariz

edi

scus

sions

on

typh

oon-

rela

ted

disa

ster

s in

the

TCre

gion

and

con

tribu

te to

dev

elop

ing

and

appl

ying

ef

fect

ive

mea

sure

s.Ja

pane

se M

inis

try o

f Fo

reig

n A

ffairs

(MO

FA)

and

the

Inte

rnat

iona

l A

tom

ic E

nerg

y A

genc

y (I

AEA

)/Reg

iona

l C

oope

rativ

e Agr

eem

ent

(RC

A) R

AS/

7/03

0 Pr

ojec

t on

“A

sses

sing

Dee

p G

roun

dwat

er R

esou

rces

for

Sust

aina

ble

Man

agem

ent

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AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF JAPANAND THE UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC

AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION (UNESCO)REGARDING THE CONTINUATION, IN JAPAN,

OF THE INTERNATIONAL CENTREFOR WATER HAZARD AND RISK MANAGEMENT (ICHARM)

(CATEGORY 2) UNDER THE AUSPICES OF UNESCO

The Government of Japan, and The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Recalling that the General Conference at its 33rd Session in 2005 approved the establishment of the International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management as a category 2 centre under the auspices of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, and that the Agreement between the Government of Japan and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) concerning the Establishment of the International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management under the Auspices of UNESCO (hereinafter referred to as the “2006 Agreement”) was signed in Paris on 3 March 2006,

Considering that the 2006 Agreement expired at the end of the fifth year following its signature, and that the Agreement between the Government of Japan and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) regarding the International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM) (Category 2) under the auspices of UNESCO (hereinafter referred to as the “2013 Agreement”) was signed in Paris on 23 July 2013,

Considering Decision 207EX/16.II of the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 2019 by which the Executive Board decided to renew the status of the International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management as a category 2 centre under the auspices of UNESCO and authorized the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to sign the corresponding agreement with the Government of Japan,

Desirous of defining the terms and conditions governing the framework for cooperation between the Government of Japan and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization that shall be granted to the said Centre in this Agreement,

HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1Definitions

In this Agreement,

1. “Government” means the Government of Japan.

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2. “UNESCO” means the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

3. “Centre” means the International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management.

4. “PWRI” means the Public Works Research Institute, Japan.

5. “Contracting Parties” means Government and UNESCO.

Article 2Continuation

The Centre originally established in 2006 in Japan by the 2006 Agreement shall continue under this Agreement. The Government agrees to take, in the course of the year 2020 and within the limits of the laws and regulations of Japan, appropriate measures that may be required for ensuring the continued functioning of the Centre established in 2006 in Japan, as provided for under this Agreement.

Article 3Purpose of the Agreement

The purpose of this Agreement is to define the terms and conditions governingcollaboration between the Government and UNESCO and also the rights and obligations stemming therefrom for the Government and UNESCO, within the limits of the laws and regulations of Japan.

Article 4Legal Status

1. The Centre shall be independent of UNESCO.

2. The Centre shall be an integral part of PWRI, which enjoys, in accordance with the laws and regulations of Japan, the legal personality and capacity necessary for the exercise of its functions, including the capacity to contract, to acquire and dispose of movable and immovable property, and to institute legal proceedings, in relation to the activities of the Centre.

Article 5Objectives and Functions

1. The objectives of the Centre shall be to conduct research, capacity building, and information networking activities in the field of water-related hazards and their risk management at the local, national, regional, and global levels in order to prevent and mitigate their impacts and thereby contribute to achieving sustainable development in the framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, promote integrated river basin management, and strengthen resilience to societal and climate changes.

2. In order to achieve the above objectives, the functions of the Centre shall be to:

(a) promote scientific research and policy studies and undertake effective capacity-building activities at the institutional and professional levels;

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(b) create and reinforce networks for the exchange of scientific, technical and policy information among institutions and individuals;

(c) develop and coordinate cooperative research activities, taking advantage particularly of the installed scientific and professional capacity of the relevant International Hydrological Programme (IHP) networks, the World Water Assessment Programme, the International Flood Initiative and the relevant programmes of governmental and non-governmental organizations, as well as involving international institutions and networks under those auspices;

(d) conduct international training courses and educational programmes, especially for the policy makers, practitioners and researchers of the world;

(e) organize knowledge and information transfer activities, including international symposia or workshops, and engage in appropriate awareness-raising activities targeted at various audiences, including the general public;

(f) develop a programme of information and communication technology through appropriate data application;

(g) provide technical consulting services; and

(h) produce scientific and technological publications and other media items related to the activities of the Centre.

3. The Centre shall pursue the above objectives and functions in close coordination with IHP.

Article 6Governing Board

1. The Centre will be guided and overseen by a Governing Board, which will be renewed every three years and will be composed of:

(a) the President of PWRI, as the Chairperson;

(b) a representative of the Government or his or her appointed representative;

(c) representatives of up to three other Member States of UNESCO that have sent to the Centre notification for membership, in accordance with Article 10, paragraph 2, and have expressed interest in being represented on the Board;

(d) representatives of up to five institutes or organizations relating to the activities of the Centre, who shall be appointed by the Chairperson; and

(e) a representative of the Director-General of UNESCO.

The Chairperson may invite a representative of the IHP Intergovernmental Council to

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participate to the Governing Board meetings.

2. The Governing Board shall:

(a) examine and adopt the long-term and medium-term programmes of the Centre submitted by the Executive Director of the Centre, subject to paragraph 3 below;

(b) examine and adopt the draft work plan of the Centre submitted by the Executive Director of the Centre, subject to paragraph 3 below;

(c) examine the annual reports submitted by the Executive Director of the Centre, including biennial self-assessment reports of the Centre’s contribution to UNESCO’s programme objectives;

(d) examine the periodic independent audit reports of the financial statements of the Centre and monitor the provision of such accounting records as necessary for the preparation of financial statements;

(e) draw up and adopt any necessary internal regulations of the Centre, based on the relevant legislative and regulatory framework relating to PWRI; and

(f) decide on the participation of regional intergovernmental organizations, international organizations and other interested institutions in the work of the Centre.

3. The long-term and medium-term programmes, as well as the work plan, of the Centre shall satisfy the relevant legislative and regulatory requirements relating to PWRI; they will also be aligned with UNESCO’s strategic programme objectives and global priorities, and conform to the Centre’s functions as set out in Article 5.2.

4. The Governing Board shall meet in ordinary session at regular intervals, at least once every Japanese fiscal year; it shall meet in extraordinary session if convened by its Chairperson, either on his or her own initiative or at the request of the Director-General of UNESCO or of the majority of its members.

5. The Governing Board shall adopt its own rules of procedure.

Article 7Staff

1. The Centre shall consist of an Executive Director and staff with experience in research on water hazard and risk management, as well as such staff as is required for the proper functioning of the Centre.

2. The Executive Director shall be appointed by the President of PWRI.

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3. The other members of the Centre’s staff shall be nominated by the Executive Director for the appointment by the President of PWRI.

Article 8Contribution of UNESCO

1. UNESCO may provide assistance, as needed, in the form of technical assistance for the programme activities of the Centre, in accordance with the strategic goals and objectives of UNESCO, by:

(a) providing the assistance of its experts in the specialized fields of the Centre; and

(b) including the Centre in various activities which it implements and in which the participation of the latter seems in conformity with and beneficial to UNESCO’s and the Centre’s objectives.

2. In all cases listed above, such assistance shall not be undertaken except within UNESCO’s programme and budget, and UNESCO will provide Member States with accounts relating to the use of its staff and associated costs.

Article 9Contribution by the Government

The Government undertakes to take appropriate measures in accordance with the laws and regulations of Japan, which may be required for the Centre to receive all the resources, either financial or in-kind, needed for the administration and proper functioning of the Centre.The Centre’s resources shall derive from sums allotted by PWRI, from such contributions as it may receive from any governmental, intergovernmental or non-governmental organizations, and from payments for services rendered.

Article 10Participation

1. The Centre will encourage the participation of Member States and Associate Members of UNESCO which, by their common interest in the objectives of the Centre, desire to cooperate with the Centre.

2. Member States and Associate Members of UNESCO wishing to participate in the Centre’s activities as provided for under this Agreement may send to the Centre notification to this effect. The Executive Director of the Centre shall inform the Government, UNESCO and its Member States that have notified their intention to participate in the Centre’s activities of the receipt of such notifications.

Article 11Responsibility

As the Centre is legally separate from UNESCO, the latter shall not be legally responsible for the acts or omissions of the Centre, and shall also not be subject to any legal process, and/or bear no liabilities of any kind, be they financial or otherwise, with the

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exception of the provisions expressly laid down in this Agreement.

Article 12Evaluation

1. UNESCO may, at any time, carry out an evaluation of the activities of the Centre in order to ascertain:

(a) whether the Centre makes a significant contribution to UNESCO’s strategic programme objectives and expected results aligned with the four-year programmatic period of the Approved Programme and Budget of UNESCO (C/5 document) including the two global priorities of UNESCO, and relatedsectoral or programme priorities and themes; and

(b) whether the activities effectively pursued by the Centre are in conformity with the functions set out in this Agreement.

2. UNESCO shall, for the purpose of the review of this Agreement, conduct an evaluation of the contribution of the Centre to UNESCO’s strategic programme objectives, to be funded by the Centre within annual budgets appropriated thereto and in accordance with the relevant and applicable laws and regulations of Japan.

3. UNESCO undertakes to submit to the Government, at the earliest opportunity, a report on any evaluation conducted.

4. Following the results of an evaluation, each of the Contracting Parties shall have the option of requesting a revision of its contents or of denouncing the Agreement, as envisaged in Articles 16 and 17.

Article 13Use of UNESCO Name and Logo

1. The Centre may mention its affiliation with UNESCO. It may, therefore, use after its title the mention “under the auspices of UNESCO”.

2. The Centre is authorized to use the UNESCO logo or a version thereof on its letterheaded paper and documents, including electronic documents and web pages, in accordance with the conditions established by the governing bodies of UNESCO.

Article 14Entry into Force

This Agreement shall enter into force upon signature by the Contracting Parties. It shall supersede the 2013 Agreement.

Article 15Duration

This Agreement is concluded for a period of six years as from its entry into force. This Agreement shall be renewed upon common agreement between the Government and

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UNESCO, once the Executive Board made its comments based on the results of the renewal assessment provided by the Director-General.

Article 16Denunciation

1. The Government and UNESCO shall be entitled to denounce this Agreement unilaterally.

2. The denunciation shall take effect 180 days after receipt of the notification sent by the Government or UNESCO to the other.

Article 17Revision

This Agreement may be revised by written agreement between the Government and UNESCO.

Article 18Settlement of Disputes

Any disputes between the Government and UNESCO regarding the interpretation or application of this Agreement shall be resolved through consultations between them.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, duly authorized thereto, have signed this Agreement.

DONE in duplicate in Paris, this thirteenth day of February, 2020, in English.

For the Government of Japan:For the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization:

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参考資料

第 4 回 ICHARM 運営理事会

資料目次

議事次第・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・日本語版 1 出席者名簿・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・・日本語版 2 ICHARM 運営理事会手続規則（日英版）・・・・・・日本語版 3 ICHARM Program（日本語版）・・・・・・・・・・日本語版 4 ICHARM Activity Report （日本語版）・・・・・・・・日本語版 12 ICHARM Work Plan（日本語版・案）・・・・・・・・日本語版 100 Annex 1 国際連合教育科学文化機関の賛助する水災害の危険及び危機管理のための国際セン

ター（第二区分）の日本国における継続に関する日本国政府と国際連合教育科学文化

機関との間の協定(日英版)

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4 ICHARM

Akihiko TANAKA(GRIPS)

Fadi Georges COMAIR(IHP)

Eiji IWASAKI(JICA)

Kunihiro YAMADA(MLIT)

Kazuhiro NISHIKAWA ( )(PWRI)

Yuki MATSUOKA(UNDRR)

Paola ALBRITO

Youssef FILALI-MEKNASSI(UNESCO) (IHP)

Audrey Azoula

Kaoru TAKARA(WENDI)

Johannes CULLMANN(WMO)

Hiroshi WATANABE, Hisaya SAWANO, Toshio KOIKE, ICHARMShinji EGASHIRA, ICHARMHiroyuki ITO, ICHARMTetsuya IKEDA, ICHARMMasakazu FUJIKANE, ICHARMTomoyuki OKADA, ICHARMKatsuhiro ONUMA, ICHARM

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Rules of Procedure for ICHARM Governing Board ICHARM

As of 2 June 2020 English

AArticle 1 Intent These Rules of Procedure (hereinafter referred to as “the Rules”) shall state the necessary matters which shall guide proceedings of the International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM) Governing Board (hereinafter referred to as “the Governing Board”) meeting, subject to Article 6 of the agreement between the Government of Japan and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) regarding the continuation, in Japan, of the International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (category 2) under the auspices of UNESCO, signed on 13 February 2020 (hereinafter referred to as “the Agreement”).

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AArticle 22 CComposition 1) The members of the Governing Board will be composed as

provided for by Article 6 of the Agreement. The President of the National Research and Development Agency Public Works Research Institute, Japan will be designated as Chairperson of the Governing Board.

2) The members of the Governing Board shall be appointed by the Chairperson.

3) The term of office for each Governing Board member appointed by the Chairperson shall be three years. This term may be extended by re- appointment.

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AArticle 33 BBoard Meetings, Quorum, and Minutes 1) The functions of the Governing Board shall be prescribed as

provided for by Article 6 of the Agreement. 2) The Chairperson shall convene the Governing Board meeting.

Participation by a majority of Governing Board members shall be necessary to proceed with the Governing Board meeting.

3) The majority agreement of all attendees shall be necessary for the adoption.

4) The official language of the Governing Board meeting shall be English.

5) The secretariat of the Governing Board (referred to in Article 4) shall take minutes of the Governing Board meetings.

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Article 44 SSecretariat ICHARM shall function as the secretariat of the Governing Board.

ICHARM

Article 55 AAmendment of tthe Rules The Rules may be amended during a Governing Board meeting by consent of the majority of attendees. The Chairperson can ask for electronic votes when urgent decision issues relevant to the Rules arise between meetings. The decisions in such cases shall be made by consent of the majority of the members who have voted by deadlines.

Article 66 MMiscellaneous Provisions Miscellaneous provisions necessary for the management of the Governing Board but not included in the Rules shall be decided by the Chairperson in consultation with the Governing Board members.

Supplementary Provisions The Rules shall be enacted on 2 June 2020.

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ANNEX 1 Number of Alumni of ICHARM training program(as of March 2020, with possibility) 47

ANNEX 2 List of the Master Theses in 2017-18 & 2018-19 48

ANNEX 3 List of Ph.D Theses accepted in FY2018 & 2019 48

ANNEX4 List of internships in FY2018 & 2019 at ICHARM 49

ANNEX 5 ICHARM Publication List (January 2018 March 2020) 50

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Abbreviation

ACECC Asian Civil Engineering Coordinating Council

ADB Asian Development Bank

ADBI Asian Development Bank Institute

ADCP Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler

ADRC Asian Disaster Reduction Center

AGRHYMET AGRrometeorology, HYdrology, METeorologyAMSR2 Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer 2

2AOGEO Asia-Oceania Group on Earth Observations

AOP Annual Operating Plan

APFM Associated Programme on Flood Management

APWF Asia-Pacific Water Forum

APWS Asia-Pacific Water Summit

Area-BCM Area- Business Continuity Management

ARIS Agatown Risk Information System

ASEAN

AWCI Asian Water Cycle Initiative

BOSS Bosai-Business Operation Support System

CECAR Civil Engineering Conference in the Asian Region

CHy Commission of Hydrology

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CLVDAS Coupled Land and Vegetation Data Assimilation System

COIIS Commission for Observation, Infrastructures and Information Systems

CSA Commission for Weather, Climate, Water and Related Environmental Service Applications

DIAS Data Integration and Analysis System

DSM Digital Surface Model

DWIR Directorate of Water Resources and Improvement of River Systems

EDITORIA Earth Observation Data Integration and Fusion Research Initiative

ET Evapotranspiration

FUNCEME Fundação Cearense de Meteorologia e Recursos Hídricos

GCM General Circulation Models

GCOM-W Global Change Observation Mission – Water

GEOSS Global Earth Observation System of Systems

GFDL Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Climate ModelGLDAS Global Land Data Assimilation SystemGRIPS National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies

GSMaP Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation

GUI Graphical User Interface

GWP Global Water Partnership

HELP High-level Experts and Leaders Panel on Water and Disasters

HMD Head Mounted Display

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HLPF High Level Political Forum

HLPW High Level Panel on Water

IAEA International Atomic Energy Agency

IAHS International Association of Hydrological Sciences

ICFM International Conference on Flood Management

ICHARM International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management

IDRIS ICHARM Disaster Risk Information SystemICHARM

IFAS Integrated Flood Analysis System

IFI International Flood Initiative

iRIC International River Interface Cooperative

IWS Integrated Workshop

JAXA Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency

JICA Japan International Cooperation Agency

JMA Japan Meteorological Agency

JST Japan Science and Technology Agency

LAI Leaf Area Index

LDAS-UT Land Data Assimilation System of The University of TokyoMJIIT Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology

MLIT Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism

MoC Memorandum of Cooperation

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MOFA Ministry of Foreign Affairs

MoU Memorandum of Understanding

MRI-AGCM Meteorological Research Institute - Atmospheric General Circulation Model 60km

NBA Niger River Basin Authority

NBRO National Building Research Organization

NILIM National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management

NCEP National Centers for Environmental Prediction

NEDM Northeast Drought MonitorNGO Non-Governmental Organization

PAGASA Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration

PF Particle Filter

PRISM Public/Private R&D Investment Strategic Expansion Program

PTC Panel on Tropical Cyclones

PWRI Public Works Research Institute

R&D Seminar

Research and Development Seminar

RCA Regional Cooperative Agreement

RRI Rainfall-Runoff-Inundation

RSC-AP Regional Steering Committee for Asia and the Pacific

RTC Regional Training Course

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SAR Synthetic Aperture Radar

SATREPS Science and Technology Research Partnership for Sustainable Development

SBP Support Base Partner

SDGs Sustainable Development Goals

SIMRIW Simulation Model for Rice-Weather Relationships

SIP Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program

SNS Social Networking Service

SPADE Spatial Data Analysis Explorer

TC UNESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee

TOUGOU Integrated Research Program for Advancing Climate Models

UCCR Urban Climate Change Resilience

UNDRR United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

UNESCAP United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific

UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

UNESCO-IHP

UNESCO- Intergovernmental Hydrological Programme

UNISDR United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

UTM Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

VBA Volta Basin Authority

VR Virtual Reality

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WADiRe-Africa

Water Disaster Platform to Enhance Climate Resilience in Africa

WBF World BOSAI Forum

WEB-DHM Water and Energy Budget-based Distributed Hydrological Model

WEB-DHM-S

Water and Energy Budget-based Distributed Hydrological Model-Snow

WEB-RRI Water and Energy Balance-based Rainfall Runoff Inundation

WGDRR Working Group on Disaster Risk Reduction

WGH Working Group on Hydrology

WGM Working Group on Meteorology

WMO World Meteorological Organization

WRF model Weather Research and Forecasting model

WWAP World Water Assessment Programme

WWDR World Water Development Report

WWF World Water Forum

Web-GIS Web Geographic Information SystemX Band

MP RadarX-band polarimetric Multi Parameter RadarX

YTU Yangon Technological University

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Muhammad Riaz, MIYAMOTO Mamoru: Flood and Inundation Forecasting in the Sparsely Gauged Transboundary Chenab River Basin Using Satellite Rain and Coupling Meteorological and Hydrological Models, Journal of Hydrometeorology, Vol.20, No.12, pp.2315-2330, 2019.

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5.5 ICHARM

Date Visitors & Affiliations No. of

Visitors

Purpose

January 25, Delegates from Department of 18 To attend a symposium

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2018 Hydraulic Engineering, Tsinghua

University, China

organized by ICHARM for

introduction and academic

communication

February

21-22,

2018

Dr. Ng Yu Jin, Senior Lecturer, etc.,

Universiti Tenaga Nasional

(UNITEN), Malaysia

4 To study disaster risk

reduction research in the

Pampanga River and discuss

future collaboration

March 9,

2018

Ramona Pelich, Luxembourg Institute

of Science and Technology (LIST)

1 To have a meeting and a

discussion on research and

training

April 2,

2018

S. L. Mohamed Aliyar, Additional

Director General, etc., Irrigation

Department, Sri Lanka

9 To discuss the activities of IFI

Platform in Sri Lanka

May 8,

2018

Dr. Siswo Hadi Sumantri, ST, MT,

etc., Indonesia Defense University



management measures

organized by ICHARM

May 21,

2018

Prof. Akihiko Nakayama, Tunku

Abdul Rahman University, Malaysia

1 To give a lecture on

“Application of Large Eddy

Simulation to Hydraulic

Flows” to ICHARM

researchers

July 25,

2018

Mr. Ali bin Selamat, Dean, etc.,

Malaysia-Japan International Institute

of Technology (MJIIT)





TAKEUCHI Kuniyoshi






Japan Attachment"

August 3,

2018

Mr. Habibur Rahman, Joint Secretary,

etc., from Local Government

Division, Planning Commission, and

Local Government Engineering

11 As part of the study tour on

"Infrastructure Development

and Livelihood"

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Department (LGED), Bangladesh

August 30,

2018

Lee Rae Chul, CEO, etc., Korean

Society of Disaster Information

(KOSDI)

12 To attend a meeting with

PWRI/ICHARM researches

September 6,

2018

Professor Tadashi Yamada, Assistant

professor Daiwei Cheng, etc., Chuo

University

14 To visit PWRI experiment

facilities and participate in a

short lecture by ICHARM

November 7,

2018

Delegates from companies in

Yokohama City

16 To learn ICHARM activities

December 12,

2018

Dr. Gordon Wells, etc., the University

of Texas at Austin

4 To attend a meeting on

estimating the run-off and

flood discharge by using a

hydrological model

February 28,

2019

LDP (Liberal Democratic Party)

upper house members, Japan

5 To deepen the understanding

of research activities of

ICHARM

May 8,

2019

Mr. Raj Kumar Srivastava, etc.,

Embassy of India

2 To discuss collaboration on

disaster risk reduction

between India and Japan

May 10,

2019

Zhong Zhiyu, etc., Changjiang Water

Resources Commission (CWRC)



CWRC and ICHARM

May 30,

2019

Mr. Nuguid Jeric John Umlas, etc.,

Department of Public Works and

Highways (DPWH), Davao City,

JICA Philippines, JICA Tokyo and

Oriental Consultants Global

11 To attend training on projects

for the master plan and

feasibility study on flood

control and drainage in

Davao City

June 25,

2019

Dr. M. Adnan Madjid, S.H., M.Hum.,

etc., Indonesia Defense University,



management measures

organized by ICHARM

July 11,

2019

Students from Miyagi Prefecture

Sendai-daiichi High School

4 To learn how to evacuate

from tsunamis and how to

create a city that protects

people from flood hazards

July 22, Ms. Faizah Che Ros, Senior Lecturer, 20 To attend lectures given by,

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2019 etc., Malaysia-Japan International

Institute of Technology (MJIIT)




TAKEUCHI Kuniyoshi






Japan Attachment"

August 6,

2019

Nam So, etc., Mekong River

Commission

7 To attend Dr. HARADA’s

lecture on “Characteristics of

flood hazard in Japan -

Development of tools for

analysis and warning

system”'

August 8,

2019

Mr. Iuma Bani, the Vanuatu

Meteorology & Geo-Hazards

Department (VMGD), and Hisaki

Eito, the Japan Meteorological

Agency (JMA)

2 To conduct the internship on

water hazard and risk

management

November 1,

2019

Chen, Jiann-Fong, etc., Water

Resources Agency, MOEA, and

Department of Hydraulic and Ocean

Engineering, NCKU

7 To learn how ICHARM

carries out international

support

November 7,

2019

JICA students and staff 9 To attend lectures and

training as part of JICA

course work, "Disaster

Management on

infrastructure (river, road and

port)": lectures and RRI

model training " Overview of

Flood Forecasting" by Dr.

KAKINUMA (Research

Specialist), Mr.

MOCHIZUKI (Senior

Researcher), and Dr.

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MOROOKA (Researcher)

November 18,

2019

Heejun Chang, Portland State

University, USA

1 To conduct expert interviews

on the perception and

governance of urban floods

among flood experts and

practitioners

December 10,

2019

Tsang-Jung Chang, Hydrotech

Research Institute, National Taiwan

University (NTU)



NTU and ICHARM

December 11,

2019

Zhang Jing, etc., China

Meteorological Administration

20 To study Japan's prevention

and mitigation measures

against weather related

disasters and capacity

development on risk

management

December 13,

2019

Professor Vladimir Smakhtin,

United Nations University -

Institute for Water, Environment and

Health (UNU-INWEH)

1 To give a presentation on

"UNU-INWEH current work

and new strategy 2020-2024

and have a discussion

December 17,

2019

Professor Zhang Jianyun, Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute (NHRI), China

6 To have an academic

exchange on urban flood

management and visit Tokyo

underground flood regulation

reservoir

2019 12

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230ICHARM

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3 6 12 241

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7.1ICHARM 2018 2019

ICHARMICHARM

ICHARM BEST PAPER AWARD

7.1.1 2017

GISE-journal GEO Vol.11 p.361-374 2016.

7.1.2 Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA)Md. Khairul Islam, Mohamed RASMY, Toshio KOIKE, Kuniyoshi Takeuchi: Inter-comparison of gauge-adjusted global satellite rainfall estimates for water resources management in the Meghna river basin

7.1.3Mohamed Rasmy Abdul Wahid

WEB-RRI

7.1.4Gul Ahmad Ali, Atsuhiro Yorozuya, Hiroshi Koseki, Shinji Egashira, Shoji Okada: STUDY OF BEDFORM AND BOIL OF THE FIRST KIND BASED ON OBSERVATIONS IN BRAHMAPUTRA RIVER, Japan Society of Civil Engineering (JSCE) 2018 Annual Meeting

7.1.5 2018

7.1.6 20192019

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IDRIS

7.1.9 2019 SCAT

7.2 ICHARM Open day4

ICHARM Open Day 2018 4 16 2019 4 23ICHARM

ICHARM Open day ICHARM

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20184 16

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Ahmed Tanjir SaifWater Related Disasters around the World

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ICHARM Newsletter 2006 3 42018 2019 2018 4

No.48 2020 1 No.55 85,000 2018

1 No. 47

ICHARM Newsletter No. 54

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2019ICHARM

ICHARM

What’s New

7.5 ICHARM R&DICHARM

ICHARM R&D Seminar ICHARM2018 2019 4

61 2018

4 10

Couch Wouter Leading Change in

Projects: What It Takes

62 2018

8 10

Data driven approaches of

hydrological modelling

63 2018

11 15

Soroosh Sorooshian Climate Variability and

The Global Hydrologic

Cycle: Efforts in

Monitoring, Modeling

and Challenges in

Forecast Changes

64 2019

1 16

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1999 11 -2009

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ANNEX 1Number of Alumni of ICHARM training program (as of March 2020, with possibility)Ph.D. Program "Disaster Management" Afghanistan

Bangladesh Bhutan Bosnia-H


ambodia

China

Colom

bia C


jibouti Fiji G

uatemala


alaysia M

alawi

Maldives

Mozam

bique M

yanmar

Nepal

Netherland

Niger

Nigeria

Pakistan Papua N

ew G

uinea Philippines R



babwe

Liberia

Total (Num

ber of studentsconferred degree)

2010-2013 1 1 12011-2014 1 1 1 3 12012-2015 1 1 2 22013-2016 2 1 3 32014-2017 1 1 22015-2018 1 1 2 22016-2019 1 1 2 22017-2020 1 1 -2018-2021 1 1 1 3 -2019-2022 0 -

Total 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 19 11

Master's. Program "Water-related Disaster Management Course of Disaster Management Policy Program"2007-2008 2 3 1 3 1 1 11 102008-2009 2 2 1 1 1 2 9 72009-2010 2 1 1 3 1 1 1 2 1 13 122010-2011 2 2 1 1 1 1 3 1 12 122011-2012 2 2 1 2 2 6 1 1 1 1 19 192012-2013 2 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 12 122013-2014 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 12 122014-2015 1 1 1 2 3 1 2 2 13 132015-2016 2 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 1 1 13 132016-2017 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 2 11 82017-2018 2 1 1 1 2 2 1 2 1 1 14 142018-2019 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 8 72019-2020 2 2 2 2 2 1 11 -

Total 0 22 2 0 5 0 0 11 3 0 1 2 0 3 1 5 7 4 4 0 2 1 1 1 10 14 0 0 1 18 1 9 1 1 13 0 1 3 2 1 2 4 1 1 158 139

JICA training program "Flood Hazard Mapping"2004 2 2 2 3 2 2 2 1 162005 2 2 2 2 2 3 1 2 162006 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 162007 2 2 3 2 3 2 1 3 2 202008 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 10Total 9 10 9 11 11 10 1 9 8 78

JICA training program "Local Emergency Operation Plan with Flood Hazard Map"2009 1 1 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 102010 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 122011 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 11Total 3 5 6 4 3 1 3 3 3 2 33

JICA training program "Capacity Development for Flood Risk Management with IFAS"2012(A) 3 3 2 2 3 132012(B) 7 7

2013 3 3 2 3 2 3 162014 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 202015 1 2 1 2 4 2 4 2 2 202016 2 1 1 4 2 2 4 2 182017 1 1 2 2 2 2 10Total 9 6 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 17 0 0 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 11 0 0 18 0 0 6 0 0 10 0 0 0 12 0 0 104

JICA training program "Capacity Development for Adaptation to Climate Change"2010 1 3 1 1 1 7

UN/ISDR Training course "Comprehensive Tsunami Disaster Prevention"2008 2 4 2 3 11

UNESCO Pakistan Project workshop2012 6 62013 5 52016 2 2 42017 2 2 4Total 4 15 19

UNESCO West Africa Project 2019 2 1 3

Afghanistan Bangladesh Bhutan Bosnia-H


ambodia

China

Colom

bia C


jibouti Fiji G

uatemala


alaysia M

alawei

Maldives

Mozam

bique M

yanmar

Nepal

Netherland

Niger

Nigeria

Pakistan Papua N

ew G

uinea Philippines R



babwe

Liberia

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Total 4 41 13 4 5 2 9 21 3 0 1 3 1 3 3 9 29 6 21 15 13 1 3 1 21 17 1 1 12 38 1 38 1 1 27 3 1 25 2 1 3 26 1 1 432

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A. Peer Reviewed Papers / Basara, B.N., Perera, E.D.P., (2018) Analysis of land use change impacts on flash flood occurrences in the Sosiani River basin Kenya, International Journal of River Basin Management, https://doi.org/10.1080/15715124.2017.1411922, pp. 1-10

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No.32 pp.103-111 2018 3Young-Joo Kwak, Flash Flood Mapping for Mountain Streams Using High-resolution ALOS-2 Data, Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., Vol.XLII-3/W4, pp.307-312, 2018Zhang H., Ao T., Gusyev M., Ishidaira H., Magome J. and K. Takeuchi (2018). Distributed source pollutant transport module based on BTOPMC: a case study of the Laixi River basin in the Sichuan province of southwest China. Proceedings of IAHS 2018, 379, pp.323–333, https://doi.org/10.5194/ piahs-379-323-2018, June 2018Thu M., Gusyev M., Hasegawa A., and A. Husiev (2018). Analysis of floods and droughts for past and future climates in the Bago River basin, Myanmar. Proceedings of International Conference at the International Academy of Life Protection, Kyiv, pp.138-146, ISBN 978-966-699-935-4, June 2018Islam M. Khairul, Nikolaos Mastrantonas, Mohamed Rasmy, Toshio Koike and Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, Inter-Comparison of Gauge-Corrected Global Satellite Rainfall Estimates and Their Applicability for Effective Water Resource Management in a Transboundary River Basin: The Case of the Meghna River Basin, Remote sensing, Vol.10 Issue 6, 828,https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10060828, June 2018Odhiambo C., Gusyev M., Hasegawa A., and A. Husiev (2018). Evaluation of Proposed Multi-Purpose Dams For Flood and Drought Hazard Reduction in the Upper Ewaso Ngiro North River Basin, Kenya. Proceedings of International Conference at the International Academy of Life Protection, Kyiv, 119-127, ISBN 978-966-699-935-4

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Vol.24 pp.71 76 2018 6Mahtab Mohammad Hossain, Miho Ohara, Mohamed Rasmy, Effectiveness of the Submersible Embankment in Hoar Area in Bangladesh, Journal of Disaster Research, Vol.13 (4), pp.780-792, August 2018Andrea M. Juarez-Lucas, Kelly M. Kibler, Takahiro Sayama, Miho Ohara, Flood risk-benefit assessment to support management of floodprone lands, Journal of Flood Risk Management, https://doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.12476, September 2018

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RRI Vol.63pp.I_1381-I_1386 2018 11Gul Ahmad Ali, Atsuhiro YOROZUYA, Hiroshi KOSEKI, Shinji EGASHIRA, Shoji OKADA, ANALYSIS OF BEDFORM AND BOIL BASED ON OBSERVATIONS INBRAHMAPUTRA RIVER, , Vol.63, pp.I_925-I_930, November, 2018Vystavna Y., Diadin D., Rossi P.M., Gusyev M., Hejzlar J., Mehdizadeh R., and F. Huneau (2018). Quantification of water and sewage leakages from urban infrastructure into a shallow aquifer in East Ukraine, Environ Earth Sci 77: 748. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-018-7936-yBadri Bhakta Shrestha, Hisya Sawano, Miho Ohara, Yusuyuke Yamazaki, Yoshio Tokunaga, Methodology for agricultural flood damage assessment, Flood Risk Management, December, 2018Miho OHARA, Naoko NAGUMO, Badri Bhakta SHRESTHA, Hisaya SAWANO, Evidence-based contingency planning to enhance local resilience to flood disasters, flood risk management, December 2018

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Ground-Based Cameras, Radiosonde, and Himawari-8 Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan Volume 97, Issue 3, pp.615-632 2019Badri Bhakta Shrestha, EDP Perera, Shun Kudo, Mamoru Miyamoto, Yusuke Yamazaki, Daisuke Kuribayashi, Hisaya Sawano, Takahiro Sayama, Jun Magome, Akira Hasegawa, Tomoki Ushiyama, Yoichi Iwami and Yoshio Tokunaga, Assessing Flood Disaster Impacts in Agriculture under Climate Change in the River Basins of Southeast Asia, Springer, Natural Hazards, 97, pp.157–192, June, 2019Asif Naseer, Toshio Koike, Mohamad Rasmy, Tomoki Ushiyama, Maheswor Shrestha,Distributed Hydrological Modeling Framework for Quantitative and Spatial Bias Correction for Rainfall, Snowfall, and Mixed Phase Precipitation Using Vertical Profile of Temperature, JGR Atmospheres, Vol.124, Issue9, pp.4985-5009, May, 2019, https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018JD029811Stewart, M.K., Morgenstern, U., Tsujimura, M., Gusyev, M.A., Sakakibara, K., Imaizumi, Y., Rutter, H., van der Raaij, R., Etheridge, Z., Scott, L., and S.C. Cox (2018). Mean residence times and sources of Christchurch springs, Journal of Hydrology (New Zealand) 57(2): 81-94.Gusyev M.A., Morgenstern U., Nishihara T., Hayashi T., Akata N., Ichiyanagi K., Sugimoto A., Hasegawa A., and M.K. Stewart (2019). Evaluating anthropogenic and environmental tritium effects using precipitation and Hokkaido snowpack at selected coastal locations in Asia. Science of the Total Environment 659: 1307-1321, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.12.342Chatterjee S., Gusyev M.A., Sinha U.K., Mohokar H.V., and A. Dash (2019). Understanding water circulation with tritium tracer in the Tural-Rajwadi geothermal area, India. Applied Geochemistry 109: 104373, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeochem.2019.104373Thapa B.R., Ishidaira H., Gusyev M.A., Pandey V.P., Udmale P., Hayashi M., and N.M. Shakya (2019). Implications of the Melamchi water supply project for the Kathmandu valley groundwater system. Water Policy: Volume 21, Issue S1, pp 120-137Hisaya Sawano, Katsunori Tamakawa, Badri Bhakta Shrestha, Tomoki Ushiyama, Maksym Gusyev and Toshio Koike, Formulation of adaptation measures for flood management under the uncertainty of future projection, Proceedings of THA2019 International Conference on Water Management and Climate Change towards Asia's Water-Energy-Food Nexus and

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SDGs (Bangkok, Thailand, 2019), pp.475-480,http://aseanacademicnetwork.com/sites/default/files/conference/Proceedings_THA2019-010519.pdfDaisuke Harada, Naoko Nagumo, Yousuke Nakamura and Shinji Egashira, Characteristics of Flood Flow with Active Sediment Transport in the Sozu River Flood Hazards at the Severe Rainfall Event in July 2018, Journal of Disaster Research (JDR), Vol.14, Issue6, pp.886-893,September 2019OHARA Miho and NAGUMO Naoko, Mortality by Age Group and Municipality in the July 2018 Torrential Rainfall, Journal of Disaster Research, Vol.14, No.6, pp. 912-921, 2019.

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Vol.64pp.I_967-I_972 2019 11 4 6Robin K. Biswas, EGASHIRA Shinji, HARADA Daisuke, NAKAMURA Yousuke, Lateral and Longitudinal Sediment Sorting in Seri River, Japan, , ,

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2018 2 28Young-Joo Kwak, Jonggeol Park, Wataru Takeuchi, Long-term flood detection mapping using multi-satellite data for international river basin, 26th IIS forum proceeding, 26th IIS forum, Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) U-Tokyo, Tokyo, March 5-6, 2018

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DIAS 2018DIAS 2018 3 9Tsujimura M, Sakakibara K, Imaizumi Y, Gusyev M., Morgenstern U, Spatial and temporal variation of residence time of spring and groundwater in multiple watersheds, Japan and New Zealand, The 14th Australasian Environmental Isotope Conference, Wellington, March 26-28, 2018

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2018 5 18Badri Bhakta Shrestha, Yusuke Yamazaki, Daisuke Kuribayashi, Akira Hasegawa, Hisaya Sawano, Yoshio Tokunaga, Assessment of future flood damage on agricultural areas under climate change in the Chao Phraya River basin of Thailand, Japanese Geoscience Union, Japanese Geoscience Union Meeting 2018, Tokyo, May 20-24, 2018Gusyev M.A., Kikumori Y., Denda M., Toda H., Tsujimura M., Sakakibara K., Morgenstern U., and M.K. Stewart (2018). Application of tritium-tracer and stable isotopes in the Chikuma River basin, Japan. Presentation at the JpGU 2018 Meeting, Chiba, May 20-24th,

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2018, JapanStewart M.K., Morgenstern U., Gusyev M.A., and J. Thomas (2018). Residence times of water and chemical flows in a karst spring. Presentation at the JpGU 2018 Meeting, Chiba, May 20-24th, 2018, JapanTsujimura M., Sakakibara K., Katsuyama M., Mizugaki S., Gusyev M.A., Yamamoto C., Sugiyama A., Ogawa M., Kato K., Yamada T., Yano S., Sasakura N., Morgenstern U., and M.K. Stewart (2018). Integrated study on spatiotemporal variation of residence time in spring and groundwater at headwater catchments. Presentation at the JpGU 2018 Meeting, Chiba, May 20-24th, 2018, JapanYoung-Joo Kwak, Utilization of Advanced Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies for Disaster Risk Management and Emergency Response (Discussion),

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Tetsuya Ikeda (2018). ICHARM's Activities on Water-Related Disaster and Flood Management in Japan for Climate Change Adaptation. The Third CICHEJSCE Joint Workshop in 2018, Taichung, June 1, 2018Tomoki Ushiyama, Mohamed Rasmy, Toshio Koike, Regional ensemble prediction of heavy rainfall in Sri Lanka flood in 2017 May, AOGS2018, AOGS, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 3-8, 2018Young-Joo Kwak, Ramona Pelich, J.Park, Integrated Multiple Satellite Application for Flood Mapping using ALOS-2 and Sentinel-1 Data, AOGS2018, AOGS, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 3-8, 2018Hasegawa A. and Gusyev M. (2018). Comparative standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index analysis of d4PDF_GCM dataset, AOGS2018, AOGS, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 3-8, 2018Hasegawa A. and Gusyev M. (2018). Concept Study on Seasonal Prediction of Meteorological Droughts Using the Comparative Standardized Precipitation Index, AOGS2018, AOGS, Honolulu, Hawaii, June 3-8, 2018

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Yosuke Nakamura, Koji Ikeuchi, Shiori Abe, Toshio Koike, Shinji Egashira, Evaluation of the uncertainty of flash flood prediction using the RRI model in mountainous rivers, 13th International Conference on Hydroinformatics, Hydroinformatics, University of Palermo, July 2-6, 2018Naoko Nagumo, Shinji Egashira, Characteristics of the 2016 flood disaster in the Omoto River Basin: an example of floods in mountainous river basins, Iwate University, Iwate Prefecture Citizens' Cultural Exchange Center "Aiina", July 17-19, 2018Young-Joo Kwak, Rapid Flash Flood Mapping Using High-resolution ALOS-2 Data: A pilot case study of Omoto River, Japan, Global Conference on the International Network of Disaster Study in Iwate, Iwate University, Iwate Prefecture Citizens' Cultural Exchange Center "Aiina", July 17-19, 2018Yusuke Yamazaki, Shinji Egashira, Method to estimate the supply rate of sediment and driftwood into stream channels, Iwate University, Iwate Prefecture Citizens' Cultural Exchange Center "Aiina", July 17-19, 2018Daisuke Harada, Shinji Egashira, Numerical simulation model of driftwood in flood flows with sediment erosion and deposition, Iwate University, Iwate Prefecture Citizens' Cultural Exchange Center "Aiina", July 17-19, 2018Yosuke Nakamura, Koji Ikeuchi, Shiori Abe, REAL TIME FLASH FLOOD PREDICTION USING THE RRI MODEL IN MOUNTAINOUS RIVERS, Global Conference on the International Network of Disaster Studies, INDS, Aiina in Iwate Prefecture, July 17-19, 2018Yoshito Kikumori, Shinji Egashira, Hiroyuki Ito, Yosuke Nakamura, Research on a Flood Forecasting System in Mountainous Rivers, Iwate University, Iwate Prefecture Citizens' Cultural Exchange Center "Aiina", July 17-19, 2018Daisuke Kuribayashi, Miho Ohara, Takashi Iwasaki, Yoshio Tokunaga, A Disaster Information System for Local Governments Promoting Seamless Usage from Normal Times to Emergency, Iwate University, Iwate Prefecture Citizens' Cultural Exchange Center "Aiina", July 17-19, 2018Miho OHARA, Daisuke KURIBAYASHI, Manabu TERAWAKI and Yoshio TOKUNAGA, Analysis of Tense Moments during Emergency Flood Disaster Response of Local Governments, Global Conference on the International Network of Disaster Study in Iwate,

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Iwate University, Iwate Prefecture Citizens' Cultural Exchange Center "Aiina", July 17-19, 2018Badri Bhakta Shrestha, Practices on flood prediction, prevention and mitigation, Tenth NEAJ Symposium on Current and Future Technologies, NEAJ, Tokyo, Japan, July 21, 2018Mahtab Mohammad Hossain, Miho Ohara, Mohamed Rasmy, The Impact of Rainfall Variation on Flash Flooding in Haor Areas in Bangladesh, World Congress on Water Conservation & Environmental Management (WC2EM), Indonesia, August 10-12, 2018Gul Ahmad Ali, Atsuhiro YOROZUYA, Hiroshi KOSEKI, Shinji EGASHIRA, Shoji OKADA, STUDY OF BEDFORM AND BOIL OF THE FIRST KIND BASED ON OBSERVATIONS IN BRAHMAPUTRA RIVER, International Program, CS2-024, , , August 29-31, 2018Yusuke Yamazaki, Shinji Egashira, A method to specify critical rainfall conditions for sediment disasters and their regionality, 21st Congress of Asia and Pacific Division of International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR-APD), IAHR-APD, Yogyakarta, INDONESIA, September 2-5, 2018Daisuke Harada, Shinji Egashira, Behavior of driftwood in terms of convection-diffusion equation, 21st Congress of Asia and Pacific Division of International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR-APD), IAHR-APD, Yogyakarta, INDONESIA, September 2-5, 2018Young-Joo Kwak, Emergency flash flood mapping for disaster risk reduction: 2018 flood in Bangladesh, International Workshop 2018 on Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB), Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB), Dhaka, Bangladesh, September 5, 2018Young-Joo Kwak, W. Takeuchi, Future cooperation with stakeholders in International River Management between India & Bangladesh, International Workshop 2018 on Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB), Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB), Dhaka, Bangladesh, September 5, 2018Young-Joo Kwak, Advanced flood mapping using Earth Observation data, Intensive training in BWDB, Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB), Dhaka, Bangladesh, September 4-6, 2018

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Badri Bhakta Shrestha, Experiences and Practices on Flood Prediction, Prevention and Mitigation in Various Asian Countries, Fourth International Workshop on Effective Engineering Education, Kisarazu Kosen, Chiba, October 10-11, 2018Mohamed Rasmy, Tomoki Ushiyama, Toshio Koike, Masaki Yasukawa, Masaru Kitsuregawa, A Platform on Water Resilience and Disaster: Towards Integrating Multi-Platform Data for Enhancing Water Related Disaster Early Warning and Management in Sri Lanka, International Association of Applied Science and Engineering (IAASE), Jeju Island, South Korea, October 12-14, 2018Islam M. Khairul, Nikolaos Mastrantonas, Mohamed Rasmy, Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, Combined use of satellite estimates and rain gauge observations for water resource management in an inaccessible transboundary river basin– the case of the Meghna river basin,International Association of Applied Science and Engineering (IAASE), Jeju Island, South Korea, October 12-14, 2018Yoshiyuki Imamura, Study on country-based flood risk index using earth observation data, 39th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing (ACRS), Asian Association on Remote Sensing (AARS), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, October 15-19, 2018Katsunori Tamakawa, Activities for “Platform on Water Resilience and Disaster” under the frame work of International Flood Initiative (IFI) using Data Integration and Analysis System (DIAS), Improvement of Delivery of Weather, Climate and Hydrological Services in Myanmar: Annual Development Partner Workshop 2018, Department of Meteorology and Hydrology (DMH) of Myanmar, Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar, October 17-19, 2018Gusyev M.A. (2018). Understanding water circulation with tritium and stable isotopes: a case study of water transit times and storage in Hokkaido watersheds. Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, October 22, JapanKatsunori Tamakawa, Climate Change Impact Assessment: Online demonstration of DIAS

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tool for the analysis of Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5), The 11th GEOSS Asia-Pacific Symposium, Group on Earth Observations, Kyoto, Japan, October 24-26, 2018Mohamed Rasmy, Real-Time Flood Forecasting: Online demonstration of DIAS System for Sri Lanka for the analysis of Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5), The 11th GEOSS Asia-Pacific Symposium, Group on Earth Observations, Kyoto, Japan, October 24-26, 2018Mohamed Rasmy, ICHARM ACTIVITIES FOR A PLATFORM ON WATER RESILIENCE AND DISASTERS IN SRI LANKA for the analysis of Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5), The 11th GEOSS Asia-Pacific Symposium, Group on Earth Observations, Kyoto, Japan, October 24-26, 2018Mohamed Rasmy, ICHARM TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES FOR THE PLATFORM ON WATER RESILIENCE AND DISASTERS IN SRI LANKA for the analysis of Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5), The 11th GEOSS Asia-Pacific Symposium, Group on Earth Observations, Kyoto, Japan, October 24-26, 2018

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2018 10 29 11 1S. Egashira, Sediment-and driftwood-runoffs resulting from landslides and debris flows, and their impacts on flood flows, 5th International Debris Flow Workshop, Beijing, November 5-6, 2018Y. Yamazaki, S. Egashira, Formation process of natural dam resulting from landslides and debris flow, 5th International Debris Flow Workshop, Beijing, November 5-6, 2018T.S. Ahmed, S. Egashira, D. Harada, A. Yorozuya, Y. Kwak, On bank erosion in estuary of Sittaung river in Myanmar, The 9th International Conference on Scour and Erosion, The 9th International Conference on Scour and Erosion, Taipei, Taiwan, November 5-8, 2018D. Harada, S. Egashira, A. Yorozuya, Method to evaluate longitudinal sediment sorting processes, The 9th International Conference on Scour and Erosion, The 9th International Conference on Scour and Erosion, Taipei, Taiwan, November 5-8, 2018Y. Yamazaki, S. Egashira, N. Nagumo, Method to predict sediment runoff resulting from landslides and debris flows, The 9th International Conference on Scour and Erosion, The 9th International Conference on Scour and Erosion, Taipei, Taiwan, November 5-8, 2018M. Stewart, U. Morgenstern, M. Tsujimura, M. Gusyev, K. Sakakibara, Y. Imaizumi, H. Rutter, R. van der Raaij, Z. Etheridge, and L. Scott (2018). Subsurface Flowpaths of Christchurch Springs. Poster Presentation at the Joint Conference of New Zealand Hydrological Society and Meteorological Society, Christchurch, December 4-7, New

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15 18Mamoru Miyamoto, Yosuke Nakamura, Anurak Sriariyawat, Supattra Visessri, Operational inundation forecasting contributing to business continuity management in the industrial complex scale – A case of the Chao Phraya River basin, Thailand - , EGU General Assembly 2019, vol.21, 12486, April 4-12, 2019Gusyev M.A., Kikumori Y., Nishihara T., Hayashi T., Ichiyanagi K., Akata N., Oda T., Morgenstern U., and M.K. Stewart (2019). Using tritium in apanese precipitation for tritium-tracer transit time studies across Asia. Presentation at the JpGU 2019 Meeting, Chiba, May 20-24th, Japan.

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Gusyev M.A. (2019). Water circulation in the Chikuma River basin. National Research Institute of Fisheries Sciences, Ueda, August 22, Japan.Tomoki Ushiyama and Yosuke Nakamura, Ensemble flood forecasting of a disastrous flood event in 2018 Japan, AOGS 2019 annual meeting, AOGS, Singapore, July 29- August 2, 2019

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2019 10Tanjir Saif Ahmed, EGASHIRA Shinji, HARADA Daisuke, YOROZUYA Atsuhiro, B. B. Shrestha, Numerical simulation of sand bar deformation in Sittaung river estuary, Myanmar, 11th River, Coastal & Morphodynamics Symposium, November 2019Tanjir Saif Ahmed, EGASHIRA Shinji, HARADA Daisuke, YOROZUYA Atsuhiro, Sediment Transportation and Sand Bar Deformation owing to Tidal Currents in Sittaung River Estuary, Myanmar, , November 2019

pp.I_283-I_288 2019 11 4 6HARADA Daisuke, EGASHIRA Shinji, Evaluation of driftwood behaviour in terms of convection-diffusion equation -In the Akatani reach at the flood disaster in July, 2017-, 11th River, Coastal & Morphodynamics Symposium, 11th River, Coastal & Morphodynamics Symposium, IAHR, Auckland University of Technology, November 16-21, 2019EGASHIRA Shinji, HARADA Daisuke, Tanjir Saif Ahmed, Entrainment of Very Fine Sediment in Treating the Estuary Bed Evolution, 11th River, Coastal & Morphodynamics Symposium, IAHR, Auckland University of Technology, November 16-21, 2019Robin K. Biswas, HARADA Daisuke, NAKAMURA Yousuke, EGASHIRA Shinji, Riverbed evolution and sediment sorting during flood, 11th River, Coastal & Morphodynamics Symposium, IAHR, Auckland University of Technology, November 16-21, 2019TOMIZAWA Yosuke, Climate Resilience for Sustainable Development, 6th HATHI International Seminar, p.34, HATHI Indonesian Association of Hydraulic Engineers, Kupang, Indonesia, November 22-24, 2019TAMAKAWA Katsunori, Introduction of WEB-DHM and application to Saigawa basin in Japan, The 4th UTokyo-NTU Joint Conference, The University of Tokyo, December 9, 2019

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AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF JAPANAND THE UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC

AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION (UNESCO)REGARDING THE CONTINUATION, IN JAPAN,

OF THE INTERNATIONAL CENTREFOR WATER HAZARD AND RISK MANAGEMENT (ICHARM)

(CATEGORY 2) UNDER THE AUSPICES OF UNESCO

The Government of Japan (hereinafter referred to as “the Government”), and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (hereinafter referred to as “UNESCO”),

Recalling that the General Conference at its 33rd Session in 2005 approved the establishment of the International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management as a category 2 centre under the auspices of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, and that the Agreement between the Government of Japan and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) concerning the Establishment of the International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management under the Auspices of UNESCO (hereinafter referred to as the “2006 Agreement”) was signed in Paris on 3 March 2006,

Considering that the 2006 Agreement expired at the end of the fifth year following its signature, and that the Agreement between the Government of Japan and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) regarding the International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM) (Category 2) under the auspices of UNESCO (hereinafter referred to as the “2013 Agreement”) was signed in Paris on 23 July 2013,

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Considering Decision 207EX/16.II of the Executive Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 2019 by which the Executive Board decided to renew the status of the International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management as a category 2 centre under the auspices of UNESCO and authorized the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to sign the corresponding agreement with the Government of Japan,

Desirous of defining the terms and conditions governing the framework for cooperation between the Government of Japan and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization that shall be granted to the said Centre in this Agreement,

HAVE AGREED AS FOLLOWS:

Article 1Definitions

In this Agreement:

1.“Government” means the Government of Japan.

2. “UNESCO” means the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

3. “Centre” means the International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management.

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4. “PWRI” means the Public Works Research Institute, Japan.

5. “Contracting Parties” means Government and UNESCO.

Article 2Continuation

The Centre originally established in 2006 in Japan by the 2006 Agreement shall continue under this Agreement. The Government agrees to take, in the course of the year 2020 and within the limits of the laws and regulations of Japan, appropriate measures that may be required for ensuring the continued functioning of the Centre established in 2006 in Japan, as provided for under this Agreement.

Article 3Purpose of the Agreement

The purpose of this Agreement is to define the terms and conditions governing collaboration between the Government and UNESCO and also the rights and obligations stemming therefrom for the Government and UNESCO, within the limits of the laws and regulations of Japan.

Article 4Legal Status

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1. The Centre shall be independent of UNESCO.

2. The Centre shall be an integral part of PWRI, which enjoys, in accordance with the laws and regulations of Japan, the legal personality and capacity necessary for the exercise of its functions, including the capacity to contract, to acquire and dispose of movable and immovable property, and to institute legal proceedings, in relation to the activities of the Centre.

Article 5Objectives and Functions

1. The objectives of the Centre shall be to conduct research, capacity building, and information networking activities in the field of water-related hazards and their risk management at the local, national, regional, and global levels in order to prevent and mitigate their impacts and thereby contribute to achieving sustainable development in the framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, promote integrated river basin management, and strengthen resilience to societal and climate changes.

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2. In order to achieve the above objectives, the functions of the Centre shall be to:

(a) promote scientific research and policy studies and undertake effective capacity-building activities at the institutional and professional levels;

(b) create and reinforce networks for the exchange of scientific, technical and policy information among institutions and individuals;

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(c) develop and coordinate cooperative research activities, taking advantage particularly of the installed scientific and professional capacity of the relevant International Hydrological Programme (IHP) networks, the World Water Assessment Programme, the International Flood Initiative and the relevant programmes of governmental and non-governmental organizations, as well as involving international institutions and networks under those auspices;

(d) conduct international training courses and educational programmes, especially for the policy makers, practitioners and researchers of the world;

(e) organize knowledge and information transfer activities, including international symposia or workshops, and engage in appropriate awareness-raising activities targeted at various audiences, including the general public;

(f) develop a programme of information and communication technology through appropriate data application;

(g) provide technical consulting services; and

(h) produce scientific and technological publications and other media items related to the activities of the Centre.

3. The Centre shall pursue the above objectives and functions in close coordination with IHP.

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Article 6Governing Board

1. The Centre will be guided and overseen by a Governing Board, which will be renewed every three years and will be composed of:

(a) the President of PWRI, as the Chairperson;

(b) a representative of the Government or his or her appointed representative;

(c) representatives of up to three other Member States of UNESCO that have sent to the Centre notification for membership, in accordance with Article 10, paragraph 2, and have expressed interest in being represented on the Board;

(d) representatives of up to five institutes or organizations relating to the activities of the Centre, who shall be appointed by the Chairperson; and

(e) a representative of the Director-General of UNESCO.

The Chairperson may invite a representative of the IHP Intergovernmental Council to participate to the Governing Board meetings.

2. The Governing Board shall:

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(a) examine and adopt the long-term and medium-term programmes of the Centre submitted by the Executive Director of the Centre, subject to paragraph 3 below;

(b) examine and adopt the draft work plan of the Centre submitted by the Executive Director of the Centre, subject to paragraph 3 below;

(c) examine the annual reports submitted by the Executive Director of the Centre, including biennial self-assessment reports of the Centre’s contribution to UNESCO’s programme objectives;

(d) examine the periodic independent audit reports of the financial statements of the Centre and monitor the provision of such accounting records as necessary for the preparation of financial statements;

(e) draw up and adopt any necessary internal regulations of the Centre, based on the relevant legislative and regulatory framework relating to PWRI; and

(f) decide on the participation of regional intergovernmental organizations, international organizations and other interested institutions in the work of the Centre.

3. The long-term and medium-term programmes, as well as the work plan, of the Centre shall satisfy the relevant legislative and regulatory requirements relating to PWRI; they will also be aligned with UNESCO’s strategic programme objectives and global priorities, and conform to the Centre’s functions as set out in Article 5.2.

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4. The Governing Board shall meet in ordinary session at regular intervals, at least once every Japanese fiscal year; it shall meet in extraordinary session if convened by its Chairperson, either on his or her own initiative or at the request of the Director-General of UNESCO or of the majority of its members.

5. The Governing Board shall adopt its own rules of procedure.

Article 7Staff

1. The Centre shall consist of an Executive Director and staff with experience in research on water hazard and risk management, as well as such staff as is required for the proper functioning of the Centre.

2. The Executive Director shall be appointed by the President of PWRI.

3. The other members of the Centre’s staff shall be nominated by the Executive Director for the appointment by the President of PWRI.

Article 8Contribution of UNESCO

1. UNESCO may provide assistance, as needed, in the form of technical assistance for the programme activities of the Centre, in accordance with the strategic goals and objectives of UNESCO, by:

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(a) providing the assistance of its experts in the specialized fields of the Centre; and

(b) including the Centre in various activities which it implements and in which the participation of the latter seems in conformity with and beneficial to UNESCO’s and the Centre’s objectives.

2. In all cases listed above, such assistance shall not be undertaken except within UNESCO’s programme and budget, and UNESCO will provide Member States with accounts relating to the use of its staff and associated costs.

Article 9Contribution by the Government

The Government undertakes to take appropriate measures in accordance with the laws and regulations of Japan, which may be required for the Centre to receive all the resources, either financial or in-kind, needed for the administration and proper functioning of the Centre. The Centre’s resources shall derive from sums allotted by PWRI, from such contributions as it may receive from any governmental, intergovernmental or non-governmental organizations, and from payments for services rendered.

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Article 10Participation

1. The Centre will encourage the participation of Member States and Associate Members of UNESCO which, by their common interest in the objectives of the Centre, desire to cooperate with the Centre.

2. Member States and Associate Members of UNESCO wishing to participate in the Centre’s activities as provided for under this Agreement may send to the Centre notification to this effect. The Executive Director of the Centre shall inform the Government, UNESCO and its Member States that have notified their intention to participate in the Centre’s activities of the receipt ofsuch notifications.

Article 11Responsibility

As the Centre is legally separate from UNESCO, the latter shall not be legally responsible for the acts or omissions of the Centre, and shall also not be subject to any legal process, and/or bear no liabilities of any kind, be they financial or otherwise, with the exception of the provisions expressly laid down in this Agreement.

Article 12Evaluation

1. UNESCO may, at any time, carry out an evaluation of the activities of the Centre in order to ascertain:

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(a) whether the Centre makes a significant contribution to UNESCO’s strategic programme objectives and expected results aligned with the four-year programmatic period of the Approved Programme and Budget of UNESCO (C/5 document) including the two global priorities of UNESCO, and related sectoral or programme priorities and themes; and

(b) whether the activities effectively pursued by the Centre are in conformity with the functions set out in this Agreement.

2. UNESCO shall, for the purpose of the review of this Agreement, conduct an evaluation of the contribution of the Centre to UNESCO’s strategic programme objectives, to be funded by the Centre within annual budgets appropriated thereto and in accordance with the relevant and applicable laws and regulations of Japan.

3. UNESCO undertakes to submit to the Government, at the earliest opportunity, a report on any evaluation conducted.

4. Following the results of an evaluation, each of the Contracting Parties shall have the option of requesting a revision of its contents or of denouncing the Agreement, as envisaged in Articles 16 and 17.

Article 13Use of UNESCO Name and Logo

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1. The Centre may mention its affiliation with UNESCO. It may, therefore, use after its title the mention “under the auspices of UNESCO”.

2. The Centre is authorized to use the UNESCO logo or a version thereof on its letterheaded paper and documents, including electronic documents and web pages, in accordance with the conditions established by the governing bodies of UNESCO.

Article14Entry into Force

This Agreement shall enter into force upon signature by the Contracting Parties. It shall supersede the 2013 Agreement.

Article 15Duration

This Agreement is concluded for a period of six years as from its entry into force. This Agreement shall be renewed upon common agreement between the Government and UNESCO, once the Executive Board made its comments based on the results of the renewal assessment provided by the Director-General.

Article 16Denunciation

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1. The Government and UNESCO shall be entitled to denounce this Agreement unilaterally.

2. The denunciation shall take effect 180 days after receipt of the notification sent by the Government or UNESCO to the other.

Article 17Revision

This Agreement may be revised by written agreement between the Government and UNESCO.

Article 18Settlement of Disputes

Any disputes between the Government and UNESCO regarding the interpretation or application of this Agreement shall be resolved through consultations between them.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, duly authorized thereto, have signed this Agreement.

DONE in duplicate in Paris, this thirteenth day of February, 2020, in English.

For the Government of Japan:

For the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization:

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