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This symposium highlights the theme ¡°Managed Retreat as a Tool for Disaster Resilience with a Diversity/Gender Perspective¡± based upon case studies on Japan, the US, Nepal and the Philippines.  The major findings of the research project on the Managed Retreat as a Tool for Disaster Resilience: Japan and the US, funded by the Japan Foundation for 2018-2019 and jointly conducted by the University of California and Japan Women¡¯s Network for Disaster Risk Reduction (JWNDRR) will be also presented at this Symposium.

Program

Opening Remarks

Masato Miyazaki
Special Representative, Japan, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ 

Representative of JICA

Ms. Akiko Domoto
President, Japan Women¡¯s Network for DRR

Coordinator:  Mikio Ishiwatari
JICA Senior Advisor for DRR

Panel Discussion

1. ¡°Research Project on the Managed Retreat as a Tool for Disaster Resilience: Japan and the US¡±
   Dr. Mikio Ishiwatari JICA Senior Advisor for DRR
   
2. ¡°Managed Retreat as a Tool for Disaster Resilience in the US¡± 
   Prof. Nicholas Pinter University of California, Davis
   
3. ¡°Resettlement Program of the Poor Urban Areas of Kathmandu, Nepal, Promoted by Local Women NGOs¡± 
   Ms. Lumanti Joshi, LUMANTI
   
4. ¡°Inclusive Resilience in South Asia Region¡± (Title TBD) 
   Ms. Keiko Sakoda, DRM Specialist, ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳
   
5. ¡°Relocation Program Planned and Undertaken by the Government of the Philippines after 2013 Typhoon Yolanda¡±
   JICA staff (TBD)¡±  

Moderator

Yumiko Tanaka
Vice President of JWNDRR

This project is funded by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP)