| " ICHARM conducted a one-year Master's program entitled the ""Water-related Risk Management Course of Disaster Management Policy Program"" for the first time from 30 September 2007 to 19 September 2008 in collaboration with the Japan International Cooperetion Agency(JICA)and the National Graduater Institute for Policy Studies(GRIPS). The elecen students were mainly technical officials,engineers or researchers in the field of river management or weter-related disaster 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 exerises;in the second half,they in several field trips to learn up-to-date flood control countermeasures at work. This is the report of the course activities and its achievement." |
