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• Message from Executive Director
[Bandung Spirit]
• Contribution to mainstreaming water-related disaster management through the UN 2023 Water Conference
• Hosting the Science and Technology Panel in the 6th UN Special Thematic Session on Water and Disasters
• ICHARM's action commitment “Water Cycle Integrator” globally known through the UN 2023 Water Conference
• ICHARM participated UNESCO's international conference and organized a side event
• ICHARM presented with the Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Award for its master's program
• Development of OSS-SR for Digos City
• Online Synthesis System Training in Davao
• Plenary Meeting of Platform on Water Resilience and Disasters in the Philippines
• Davao City Water Summit in the Philippines
• The 70th ICHARM R&D Seminar
• RRI model training and a conference in Tlemcen, Algeria
• Introduction of ICHARM research projects
DENDA Masatoshi, Senior Researcher [Possibility of VR-driven risk communication as a water-related disaster education tool]
• Educational program updates
• Memorandum of Understanding on Research Cooperation with IHE DELFT extended
• Participation in meetings of the Advisory Working Group and the Working Group on Disaster Risk Reduction under the framework of Typhoon Committee
• ICHARM Open Day 2023 held for local school students
• Joint forum with GRIPS on social infrastructure comprehensive management
• Comments from internship students
• Personnel change announcements
• Awards
• Business trips
• Visitors
• Publications
• Editor's Note
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• Message from Executive Director
[Building Process]
• ICFM9 held in Tsukuba, and Tokyo, Japan
• Participation in a World Bank workshop in Kerala, India
• HyDEPP-SATREPS Philippines Project: Participation in ICFM9 and the World BOSAI Forum 2023
• Introduction of ICHARM research projects
MATSUKI Hirotada, Director River Department, National Institute for Land and Infrastructure Management (Former ICHARM Deputy Director) [Disaster risk reduction cycle by dual governance (Local independence and interdependence)]
• Educational program updates
• Follow-up seminar for ICHARM graduates
• Action Reports from ICHARM Graduates
Kowlesser Akshay Prakash, Land Drainage Officer (Civil Engineering) at the Land Drainage Authority, Government of Mauritius
• Comment from a student: My field trip experience to Tsurumi River Basin center, Japan Meteorological Agency, and Arakawa Museum of Aqua
• The 55th Annual Session of the Typhoon Committee
• UN General Assembly President visits ICHARM to discuss water issues
• Comments from participating doctoral course student
• ICHARM delivers flood workshops for local schools
• Public symposium "Can you survive unexpected floods?" held
• Field surveys in the lower Stung Sen River in Cambodia
• Annual Hanami lunch
• Comments from internship students
• Personnel change announcements
• Business trips
• Visitors
• Publications
• Editor's Note
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• Message from Executive Director
[Snowy regions are 'lightful' and wet air masses are lighter]
• The 9th International Conference on Flood Management (ICFM9)
• Executive Director received the AGU Ambassador Award
• HyDEPP-SATREPS Philippines Project Activity Report: The 3rd Joint Coordinating Committee in Manila and Training in Japan
• UPLB’s IdSCW First International Conference on Interdisciplinary Water Studies Speaker
• Training on Emergency Response for Local Government Officers by using “Collection of Critical Situations during Flood Emergency Response”
• Introduction of ICHARM research projects
Abdul Wahid Mohamed Rasmy, Senior Researcher [Developing a system for the integrated management of water resources and disasters in poorly gauged basins]
• Educational program updates
• Comments from new doctoral course students
• Comments from new master's program students
• Action Reports from ICHARM Graduates
Norain Binti Osman, Senior Civil Engineer, Malaysia Public Work Department, PWD (Jabatan Kerja Raya Malaysia)
• Hands-on training on RRI in JICA short-term training
• The 69th ICHARM R&D Seminar
• The 11th Annual Meeting of Working Group on Hydrology, ESCAP/WMO Typhoon Committee
• The 1st face-to-face meeting of WMO RA II Coordination Panel for Hydrology
• Participation in the stakeholder consultation meeting and preparatory meeting of UN 2023 Water Conference
• ICHARM welcomed young visitors from Miyagi Prefecture Tagajo High School
• A field survey in Thailand
• Comments from internship students
• Awards
• Business trips
• Visitors
• Publications
• Editor's Note
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• Message from Executive Director
[Roles of the science and technology community in transformation in society]
• Revised ICHARM Programme
• Strengthening international networks: Signature of Memorandum of Understanding between ICHARM and UMSS
• ICHARM hosted the AWCI Session prior to the 15th AOGEO Symposium
• Research trip to Argentine for a SATREPS project
• World Bank project “Capacity Building for Drought Monitoring and Planning in Pakistan under Present and Future Climates”
• The Second e-learning Courses of HyDEPP-SATREPS
• ICHARM joins advanced studies of climate change prediction
• Introduction of ICHARM research projects
NAITO Kensuke, Researcher [Unveiling rivers in the Peruvian Andes]
• Educational program updates
• Graduation Ceremony of the 15th ICHARM master's program
• Outline of the Master's thesis and comment for the course by each student
• A group from MJIIT visits ICHARM
• Action Reports from ICHARM Graduates
Nikola Zlatanović, Ph.D student, Faculty of Civil Engineering, the University of Belgrade
• ICHARM co-organized a session at the Stockholm World Water Week 2022
• Information on the 9th International Conference on Flood Management (ICFM9)
• Comments from internship students
• Business trips
• Visitors
• Publications
• Editor's Note
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• Message from Executive Director [Autonomous, decentralized and coordinated society]
• Report on the Kumamoto Summit: Roles of science and technology in transformation towards a quality-oriented society
• Theme 1: Water and Disaster/Climate Change
• Special Session "Showcase"
• Integration Session: Science and Technology
• Special contribution
ISHIWATARI Mikio, Board Director, Japan Water Forum [Regional leaders pledge their commitment to the Kumamoto Declaration]
• 6th ICHARM Governing Board Meeting was held
• Malawian Ambassador in Japan visited ICHARM
• Efforts to increase VFES’s public availability: An experiment at Kumamoto City to test the applicability of low-cost data from a commercial 3D city model and 360°cameras
• ICHARM held the 68th R&D Seminar
• The 2nd Joint Coordinating Committee Meeting of HyDEPP-SATREPS and UAV observation training for crop monitoring
• Introduction of ICHARM research projects
Kattia Rubi Arnez Ferrel, Research Specialist [How does suspended sediment affect bed evolution in a suspended-load dominated river? Numerical simulations on a meandering river of the Bolivian Amazon basin]
• Educational program updates
• Action Reports from ICHARM Graduates
Mohammad Faiz Syed, Superintending Engineer, Central Water Commission, Govt. of India [Three-Day Advisory Flood Forecast System of Central Water Commission (CWC), Government of India]
• Preparation for the 9th International Conference on Flood Management (ICFM9)
• ICHARM Open Day 2022 held for local school students
• New functions for a quick search for ICHARM newsletter articles
• Comments from internship students
• Personnel change announcements
• Awards
• Business trips
• Visitors
• Publications
• Editor's note
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• Message from Executive Director [Quality-oriented Society]
• Greeting from new PWRI President FUJITA Koichi
• Commemorative lectures of PWRI former president
• ICHARM’s research projects under the next medium- to long-term plans of PWRI
• Follow-up seminar for ICHARM graduates
• "Integrated Research Program for Advancing Climate Models (TOUGOU)" research report of ICHARM
• HyDEPP-SATREPS project updates: UAV training
• Special contribution
OKADA Tomoyuki, United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs [Progress and actions towards achieving SDGs]
• Introduction of ICHARM research projects
Maksym Gusyev, Research Specialist [Combining hydrologic modeling with environmental isotopes to improve assessment of present and future water-related disasters in Asia]
• Educational program updates
• Action Reports from ICHARM Graduates
Islam Md Khairul, Chief Staff Officer (CSO) to Director General, Bangladesh Water Development Board
• Pre-sessions for the thematic session “Water and disasters/Climate change” at the 4th Asia-Pacific Water Summit
• The 54th Annual Session of Typhoon Committee
• Introduction of the 9th International Conference on Flood Management
• Results of Newsletter surveys (No.60 - No.63)
• Personnel change announcements
• Publications
• Editor's note
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• Message from Executive Director [Resilience to Two Risks at Two Levels]
• E-learning & Workshops for Strengthening Water-related Disaster Resilience and Achieving Sustainable Development under Climate Change by ALL
• ICHARM hosted the AWCI Session prior to the 14th AOGEO Symposium
• ICHARM held the 67th R&D Seminar
• HyDEPP-SATREPS Project Updates: Webinar and Joint Coordination Committee (JCC)
• Introduction of ICHARM research projects
KAWAMOTO Takatoshi, Senior Researcher [Japan’s strategies to expand its infrastructure systems and other technologies and expertise to overseas countries]
TAMAKAWA Katsunori, Research Specialist [Investigation of dam operations for effective flood control and hydro power generation]
• Educational program updates
• Comments from new doctoral course students
• Comments from new master's program students
• Action Reports from ICHARM Graduates
Robin Kumar Biswas, Superintending Engineer (Civil), Directorate of Planning-III, Bangladesh Water Development Board
• Typhoon Committee 10th meeting of Working Group on Hydrology and 16th Integrated Workshop
• "ICHARM Webinar 2021: Interaction with students and young researchers" was held
• Public symposium at National Conference for Promoting Disaster Risk Reduction 2021
• Participation in the 28th UNESCO-IHP Regional Steering Committee Meeting for Asia and the Pacific
• Follow-up Seminar for ICHARM Graduates
• The ICFM9 website is now open
• New logo of ICHARM
• Awards
• Publications
• Editor's note
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