Japan – World Bank Collaborative Project Objective - IISEE

Japan –World Bank Collaborative Project
Learning from Mega Disasters:
A Program of Knowledge
Sharing and Exchange
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Junko Sagara
Consultant, The World Bank
February 22, 2012
Objective
The Government of Japan and the World Bank have been
jointly developing a collaborative framework to :
• Identify and share lessons learnt from Japan’s recent
experiences from the Great East Japan Earthquake and
post‐disaster reconstruction efforts
• Facilitate mutual learning and cooperation in building
resilient societies through mainstreaming of Disaster
Risk Management (DRM) in the development
strategies

Components of the eJapan – World Bank
Collaborative Project
Component 1 Component 2 Component 3
Documentation of
Knowledge
Preparation and
lessons learned
from the Great East
exchange and
sharing , blended
dissemination of
Sendai and final
Japan Earthquake
and Tsunami
learning and web
community
reports
Expected
Outputs
by Component
Component 1:
Knowledge Notes
(out of the
documentation
lessons learned)
Component 2:
A series of GDLN
sessions (Global
development
learning
network)
Component 2:
Component 2:
Component 3:
Community of
Practice
E‐learning on
KNs
Sendai report and
Final program
report

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