Managing Disasters

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• Topic 1.3
• Managing Disasters
• Theme Wrap-up Session

19th March 2009
Co-coordinated by ICHARM Japan Water
Forum Co-Convened by Royal Haskoning, UN ISDR,
MTPWWM NLD, CPWC, MLIT Japan, MEF Turkey,
WMO, MLTM Korea, ICRC, JICA, LAS, PWA, UNICEF
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From Mexico to Istanbul Disasters
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
Indian Ocean Tsunami
2009
Hurricane Katrina, US
Typhoon Durian, Philippines
Cyclone Sidr, Bangladesh
Flood in Asia (Bangladesh, India and China) and
Flood in Africa (14 countries)
Cyclone Nargis, Myanmar
Flood in Midwest US, India, China, the Mekong etc.
Prolonged drought in Australia and MENA etc.
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From Mexico to Istanbul Actions

• After Istanbul
• UN 2nd Global Platform for DRR
• COP 15
• etc.

Important events and actions
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Overarching Question
How to Mobilize and Manage all available
resources in a proper way to tackle disasters in
a changing world?
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TOPIC 1.3 SESSIONS
Technology for Water-related Disaster Management
Managing Water-related Risks in Changing Climate
Water Management During/After Disaster Conflicts
Trialogue
Royal Haskoning, UN ISDR, MTPWWM NLD, CPWC
ICRC, JICA, LAS, PWA, UNICEF
MLIT Japan, MEF Turkey
WMO, MLTM Korea
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Overall Observations

• More than 100 audience
• Informative opinions/view presented and shared
• Lively QA held with the audience

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Session 1.3.1 Trialogue Session
Key Question How can we stimulate and facilitate
(more) effective co-production between
government, science and civic society to better
prevent water-related disasters, mitigate their
effects and / or improve the response?
Conveners Royal Haskoning Co., UN
International Strategy for Disaster
Reduction, Ministry of Transport, Public Works
and Water Management (The Netherlands), Cooperati
ve Program on Water and Climate, Chaired by Mr.
Tom Smit
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Session 1.3.2 Technologies for Water-related
Disaster Management

• Key Questions
• How should we enhance the use of existing and new
  technologies to manage disasters induced by
  climate change and population growth?
• How should we incorporate technologies for
  minimizing economic and human loss into domestic
  institution and culture?
• Conveners
• Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and
  Tourism (MLIT), Japan,
• Ministry of Environment and Forestry, State
  Hydraulic Works (DSI), Turkey
• Chaired by Mr. Minoru Kuriki

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Session 1.3.3 Managing Water-related Risks in
Changing Climate

• Key Question
• How to make a paradigm shift from reactive to a
  proactive approach to management of risks through
  adaptation?
• Conveners
• World Meteorological Organization (WMO),
• Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Maritime
• Affairs, Republic of Korea
• Chaired by Mr. Avinash Tyagi

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Session 1.3.4 Water Management During and After
Disasters/Conflicts

• Key Question
• Does the legal framework allow, call for
  intervention?
• Do urgent proactive responses constitute a need
  or a moral obligation in order to ensure
  normalization of services in chronically conflict
  ridden, unstable environments?
• Convener
• International Committee of the Red Cross
  (ICRC)
• Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA),
• Palestinian Water Authority (PWA),
• League of Arab States,
• UNICEF
• Chaired by Mr. Robert Mardini

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Message/Recommendations (1)

• Address to
• National Governments
• Integrate Water-related Disaster Risk Reduction
  (DRR) into national development and financial
  plans, recognizing adaptation to increasing risks
  from global changes as the highest priority
  issue.

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Message/Recommendations (2)

• Address to
• National Governments
• Provide a robust policy framework for
  water-related DRR in the context of IWRM, through
  strengthening comprehensive structural and
  non-structural measures when adopting to global
  changes.

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Message/Recommendations (3)

• Address to
• Regional entities, National and Local Governments
  
• Establish regional, national and local
  goals/targets for WRDRR, taking the impact of
  climate change into consideration with broader
  context.

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Message/Recommendations (4)

• Address to
• All stakeholders
• Integrate cooperation among Government, Society
  and Science through Trialogue, to better manage
  water-related disasters

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Message/Recommendations (5)

• Address to
• All stakeholders
• Promote wise combination of existing and emerging
  technologies to manage water-related disaster
  risk reduction.

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Message/Recommendations (6)

• Address to
• Central and Local Governemnts other Institutions
• Develop water-related disaster warning systems,
  human capacities, reliable data exchange networks
  and preparedness indicators for WRDRR

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Message/Recommendations (7)

• Address to
• Regional, national and Local Governments other
  Institutions
• Mobilize science-based knowledge for proactive
  institutional and financial approaches for
  decision-making process.

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Message/Recommendations (8)

• Address to
• All stakeholders
• Maintain key water infrastructures and
  appropriate living environmental conditions
  during and after disasters and/or conflicts with
  wider acceptance of modalities that allow for
  efficient use of available resources.

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Message/Recommendations (9)

• Address to
• Regional, national and Local Governments other
  Institutions
• Invite local governments, donors and various
  stakeholders active in the water sector to
  develop alternative approaches to reach
  normalization of services in chronically conflict
  affected environments.

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Sound Bytes

• Mainstream risk reduction within development
  plans for sustainable development
• Keep telling disaster stories again, again and
  again!
• Start trialogue well before the disaster occurs
• Use accessible and sustainable Technologies
  wisely
• Aim for zero Fatality
• Maximize livelihood opportunities and reducing
  risks
• Better climate information for a better future
• Obtain high quality and long time series of data
• Take water issues out of conflict dynamics
• From potential constraint to opportunity
  potential
• Be the change you want to see in the world