| ICHARM conducted a one-year Master’s program entitled the “Water-related Disaster Management
Course of Disaster Management Policy Program” from 1st October 2020 to 15th September 2021 in
collaboration with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the National Graduate
Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS). The seven students were mainly technical officials, engineers or
researchers 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 mainly attended lectures and exercises; in the second half,
they worked on their individual studies, this enabling them to prepare and complete their master’s theses
and to visit numerous locations across Japan over the course of several field trips in order to learn about
up-to-date flood control countermeasures in action.
This report details the course activities and the achievements thereof and aims to contribute improvements in the next year.
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