WWF7 newspaper article on ICHARM's concluding session

The Japanese drainage system newspaper (Gesuido shimbun, 下水道新聞) published an article (22nd of April) about ICHARM's activities during the WWF7 last month. It shows a picture of the concluding session we organized on the final day with ICHARM's director Prof. Koike sitting on the left.

The approximate translation is as follows (verified by an anonymous Japanese ICHARM employee): 

ICHARM discussed the proposed roadmap to disaster prevention and mitigation of water-related disasters

On the 17th of April the International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management (ICHARM, with as Director Toshio Koike, Professor at the University of Tokyo Graduate School) reported the summary of the seven sessions on water-related disasters where discussion has taken place during the 7th World Water Forum as Thematic Process, corresponding to the theme of "Adapting to change: Monitoring risk and uncertainty for resilience and disaster preparedness." Views were exchanged on the Implementation Roadmap, a plan that contains the future goals and efforts on this theme.

The proposed roadmap covers the following goals and requires water-related stakeholders around the world to voluntarily pursue related efforts:

▽ understanding of water-related disaster risks

▽ governance strengthening for risk management

▽ investment in reduction of water-related disaster risks for disaster mitigation

▽increased "building-back better" in disaster rebuilding, rehabilitation and reconstruction plans

The roadmap is accompanied with specific actions so as to periodically consolidate such efforts and share information. 

Director Koike, who participated in the said Thematic Process, said “We will review the progress of each of the efforts at ICHARM and actively share such information”.

 The roadmap will be announced in mid-May.