| " ICHARM conducted a one-year Master's program entitled the ""Water-related Risk Management Course of Disaster Management Policy Program"" from 29 September 2008 to 19 September 2009 in collaboration with the Japan International Cooperation Agency(JICA) and the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies(GRIPS). The nine students were mainly technical officials,engineers or researches in the field of river management or water-related disasters in developing countries. This course aims to foster solution-oriented practitioners with solid theoretical and engineering bases who can serve for planning and practices of flood management within the framework of integrated river basin management at all levels from nations to localities. In the first half of the course,the students attended mainly lectures and exercises;in the second half,they worked on their individual studies to complete the Master's theses and visited many places across Japan through several field trips to learn up-to-date flood control countermeasures at work. This report details the course activities and the achievements thereof." |
