Guidebook for Urban Resilience was developed to provide guidance to the national and local government officials in ASEAN Member States (AMS) in charge of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Urban...
Philippines + 11 more
Philippines + 11 more
Guidebook for Urban Resilience was developed to provide guidance to the national and local government officials in ASEAN Member States (AMS) in charge of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Urban...
China + 1 more
On March 11, 2011 the most devastating earthquake and tsunami in the country’s history hit Japan’s northeastern coastline causing unimaginable death and destruction. Three years earlier on May 12,...
Nations across the world must increase their efforts, both on an individual basis and collectively, to combat the rising number of natural disasters which annually cause thousands of deaths and...
Indonesia + 6 more
As a tsunami, earthquakes and typhoons battered huge swathes of the Pacific region, the Japan Disaster Relief (JDR) system has experienced one of the busiest periods in its entire history in...
Burkina Faso + 15 more
During the first quarter of fiscal 2009 (April to June), JICA (President Sadako Ogata) signed a total of 46 grant agreements. Key details of two of the major projects are provided below. A complete...
The Solomon Islands need both short- and long-term relief to rebuild schools, hospitals, clinics and other infrastructure in the wake of an April 2 earthquake-tsunami during which 52 persons were...
As the Solomon Islands continued to search for the missing and tried to recover from a devastating tsunami, JICA announced the dispatch of emergency supplies. The agency, which has volunteers and...
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) on July 19 rushed badly needed supplies to Pangandaran in western Java island, which suffered heavy damage and casualties following a massive July 17...
Background The city of Banda Aceh is located at the northern end of the Sumatra Island, about 4 km inland from the coast. It had a population of about 220,000 at the time of the disaster, living over...
Indonesia + 2 more
Since March 2005, JICA has been carrying out projects for the recovery, rehabilitation, and development of tsunami-affected areas in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives. Indonesia A huge...
On November 29 JICA dispatched four special rescue experts to Thailand, one of the countries severely damaged by the 2004 Sumatran earthquake and tsunami. They will work as visiting instructors at...
A major earthquake struck off the western coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, in the predawn hours of March 29. In response, JICA, following a decision by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, dispatched two...
Title of Program: Pre-Survey on Special Measures for Post-Disaster Rehabilitation in Aceh Time of survey: April 21 – 23, 2005 Member of Team - Mr. Hatori Hiroyuki, JICA Expert, Mangrove Information...
Indonesia + 3 more
In response to the devastation brought by the December 26 earthquake off the Indonesian island of Sumatra and the ensuing tsunami across the Indian Ocean, JICA immediately began providing emergency...
Sri Lanka + 1 more
In order to ascertain what kinds of emergency relief and reconstruction assistance should henceforth be offered to deal with the massive damage from the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster, the Japan...
Emergency relief to Tsunami disaster in PNG Tsunamis(tidal wave) ,estimated at between 23 feet and 33 feet high, was caused by earthquake with the magnitude of 7.o on richter scale, struck the...