Funded by the European Commission, UN/ISDR is now conducting many 2-year projects of "Building Resilience to Tsunamis in the Indian Ocean" in order to promote tsunami countermeasures in developing countries.
As one of the projects, ICHARM will conduct the "UN/ISDR Comprehensive Tsunami Disaster Prevention Training Course".
　

Curriculum

Week
Date
Activities
1
3-8 June
Lectures and practices on tsunami and its countermeasures, etc.
2
9-15 June
3
16-22 June

On-sight Survey along Sanriku Coast
4
23-29 June
Interim report, practices on Tsunami propagation mapping, Google Earth, etc.
5
30 June-6 July
On-sight Survey along Ki-i peninsula Coast
6
7-11 July
Making and presentation of Action plan

Detailed time table

English / Japanese
Contact: International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM)
Team Leader: Mr. Shigenobu Tanaka
　 tel +81-29-879-6809　Fax +81-29-879-6709