2019 International Symposium on Managed Retreat as a Tool for Disaster Resilience with a Diversity/Gender Perspective

This symposium highlights the theme “Managed Retreat as a Tool for Disaster Resilience with a Diversity/Gender Perspective” based upon case studies on Japan, the US, Nepal and the Philippines.  The major findings of the research project on the Managed Retreat as a Tool for Disaster Resilience: Japan and the US, funded by the Japan Foundation for 2018-2019 and jointly conducted by the University of California and Japan Women’s Network for Disaster Risk Reduction (JWNDRR) will be also presented at this Symposium.

Program

Opening Remarks

Masato Miyazaki
Special Representative, Japan, World Bank 

Representative of JICA

Ms. Akiko Domoto
President, Japan Women’s Network for DRR

Coordinator:  Mikio Ishiwatari
JICA Senior Advisor for DRR

Panel Discussion

1. “Research Project on the Managed Retreat as a Tool for Disaster Resilience: Japan and the US”
   Dr. Mikio Ishiwatari JICA Senior Advisor for DRR
   
2. “Managed Retreat as a Tool for Disaster Resilience in the US” 
   Prof. Nicholas Pinter University of California, Davis
   
3. “Resettlement Program of the Poor Urban Areas of Kathmandu, Nepal, Promoted by Local Women NGOs” 
   Ms. Lumanti Joshi, LUMANTI
   
4. “Inclusive Resilience in South Asia Region” (Title TBD) 
   Ms. Keiko Sakoda, DRM Specialist, World Bank
   
5. “Relocation Program Planned and Undertaken by the Government of the Philippines after 2013 Typhoon Yolanda”
   JICA staff (TBD)”  

Moderator

Yumiko Tanaka
Vice President of JWNDRR

This project is funded by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP)