Our Mission

The mission of ICHARM is to serve as the Centre of Excellence to provide and assist implementation of best practicable strategies to localities, nations, regions, and the globe to manage the risk of water related disasters.

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ICHARM signs Partnership Agreement with ADB (advance report)
On 13 November, PWRI/ICHARM signed Partnership Agreement with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Regional Technical Assistance titled “Supporting Investment for Water-related Disaster Management (RETA7276)”. The signing was exchanged among Dr. Xianbin Yao, Director General of ADB Regional and Sustainable Development Department, Dr. Tadahiko Sakamoto, Chief Executive of PWRI (hosting agency of ICHARM) and Prof. Kuniyoshi Takeuchi, ICHARM Director.
This agreement is one of manifestation of ICHARM’s commitment as regional Knowledge Hub on water-related disaster risk reduction. (Details will be reported later)

ICHARM Symposium "ICHARM Quick Reports on Floods 2009"
ICHARM will hold "ICHARM Quick Reports on Flood 2009" on 10 December 2009.

Date: 10 December 2009, 9:50-17:00
Venue: ICHARM Auditorium (Tsukuba City, Japan)

You can check more details from here.


October 2009
Newsletter Volume4 No.3 (No.14) is now available

The latest version of ICHARM Newsletter is now available.

<Main topics>
・Master's Course Update
・ICHARM Signs the MOU with IRTCES
・Sentinel-Asia Flood WG
・New version of IFAS (ver. 1.2)
・Coming Events

You can download from here.

19 September 2009
Report on the 2008-2009 Water-related Risk Management Course of Disaster Management Policy Program

ICHARM conducted an annual Master’s program, the Water-related Risk Management Course of Disaster Management Policy Program, from 30 September 2008 to 19 September 2009 as a joint effort with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS).

For details about the course, please visit Master's Course website.

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