The 19th Annual Meeting of the Working Group on Disaster Risk Reduction (WGDRR) of the Typhoon Committee (TC) was held in Seoul, Korea, on June 25-28, 2024, hosted by the National Disaster Management Institute (NDMI), the Republic of Korea. TC’s Advisory Working Group (AWG) also met on this occasion. TC is composed of the Working Group on Meteorology (WGM), Hydrology (WGH), WGDRR, and the Training and Research Coordination Group (TRCG), with AWG in charge of the overall management of the four working groups. About 30 participants joined from 12 nations and territories (China, Hong Kong, Macao, Japan, Lao PDR, Malaysia, the Philippines, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, and the United States), the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), and the TC Secretariat. The representatives from Japan included those from the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) and Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC) in addition to two researchers from ICHARM: Senior Researcher MIYAMOTO Mamoru, who presently serves as the WGH chair, and Researcher TAKEGAWA Shinya.
The WGDRR meeting featured presentations and discussions on the latest progress by international organizations and member countries. They also discussed capacity building and knowledge sharing, and decided to hold a cross-cutting program with WGH in Japan in the fall of this year.
At the AWG meeting, the participants discussed various agenda items for this fiscal year, including the 19th Integrated Workshop (IWS) meeting and the establishment of the Typhoon Committee Research Award for Young Scientists. The meeting agreed on the theme of the 19th IWS to be “Strengthening the Value Chain within the UN EW4All Framework for the Typhoon Committee Region.
Through this face-to-face close interaction, the participants could build more effective cooperation with each country. ICHARM recognizes TC as one of the most important international frameworks for the risk reduction of water-related disasters and will continuously contribute to strengthening interregional cooperation to achieve the committee’s goals.
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during the WGDRR meeting |