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Event Title: Understanding Risk Global Forum
Date: June 16-21, 2024
Organized by: The World Bank/Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR)
Location: Acurier Himeji, Himeji City, Hyogo, Japan
The World Bank’s biennial Understanding Risk Global Forum brings together a diverse group of disaster risk reduction professionals to share the latest initiatives on disaster risk. The following is a summary of the speakers and the sessions they participated in.
Ms. Megumi Muto, Senior Advisor/CSO (Chief Sustainability Officer), presented at the session on Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance at the request of the organizers (World Bank and APEC Disaster Risk Finance and Insurance Network). She also explained that JICA is giving top priority to disaster risk reduction to protect the society and economy using the Philippines as a case study, and that insurance should be used as a measure to deal with the risks that still remain.
Mr. Satoshi Nishikawa, Specialist in International Cooperation (Integrated Disaster Management), discussed the importance of proactive actions and investments in disaster risk reduction based on scientific forecasting and risk assessment at a session on Forecasting Messiness: Probabilities and Anticipatory Action organized by the United States Agency for International Cooperation (USAID). He discussed the importance of proactive actions and investments for risk reduction based on scientific predictions by the city of Sendai and private companies in Sendai after the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, and how they minimized the damage caused by the earthquake in the Great East Japan Earthquake. He led the discussion by explaining how damage from the earthquake was minimized in the Great East Japan Earthquake.
Mr. Murooka, Deputy Director General and Head of the Regional and Urban Development Group of the Social Infrastructure Department, discussed the direction of development in SIDS during a session on disaster resilient urban development in Small Island Developing States (SIDS), which was co-sponsored by the World Bank. He introduced the project formation in Kiribati, located in the Pacific Ocean, and emphasized the need for integrated coastal management and land use planning as a response to land erosion, and the need for participatory, short-term efforts for its enforcement.
Ms. Machimura, a commissioned expert from the Office of Gender Equality and Poverty Reduction, Governance and Peacebuilding Department, co-hosted a session with the World Bank focusing on Gender-based Violence (GBV), which tends to increase after disasters, and introduced JICA’s efforts, including issue-specific training, emphasizing the importance of gender-diverse approaches to disaster prevention and recovery. The session also introduced JICA’s efforts, including issue-specific training, and emphasized the importance of disaster prevention and recovery efforts from the perspective of gender and diversity.
At the exhibition booth, JICA Kansai Center showed videos and displayed posters focusing on the activities of the Disaster Reduction Learning Center (DRLC), which was jointly established by JICA and Hyogo Prefecture, and attracted many visitors.
This forum brought together a variety of people involved in disaster management from Japan and abroad. The gathering of local government and university officials in Japan, as well as disaster management agencies from around the world with which JICA cooperates, provided an opportunity for even closer collaboration in the future.
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Enthusiastic Q&A session on the role of insurance Nishikawa, International Cooperation Specialist, speaks at the session
Deputy Mayor Murooka speaks at the GBV session Town and village officials speak at the GBV session
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