Outline of the
"UN/ISDR Comprehensive Tsunami Disaster Prevention Training Course"

1. Background
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".

2. Objective
The course is to improve the efficiency of tsunami disaster management by national and regional officials, aiming to reduce the loss of life and property in tsunami-prone coastal areas.
Proposed national and local action plans by participants during the course will contribute to formulate realistic disaster reduction plans, which promote resilience for tsunami disasters.
End user focused workshops that will be organized by trainees in four countries would be useful to transfer the knowledge of tsunami disaster mitigation measures and to stimulate and strengthen the capacity of related agencies for disaster preparedness.
Reports of the training will be uploaded on the web page of ICHARM and will provide information on tsunami disaster mitigation, which would be beneficial especially to other tsunami affected countries for establishing comprehensive tsunami disaster mitigation measures.

3. Organizers
-Implementing organization: International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM)　
-Supporting organization: Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

4. Period
2rd June - 11th July 2008 (6 weeks)

5. Participants

6. Curriculum
1st and 2nd week: Lectures and practices on tsunami and its countermeasures, etc.
3rd week: 　 On-sight Survey along Sanriku Coast
4th week: Interim report, practices on Tsunami propagation mapping, Google Earth, etc.
5th week: 　 On-sight Survey along Ki-i peninsula Coast
6th week: 　 Making and presentation of Action plan