（9）Citizen Cooperation and Disaster Risk Reduction
Organizer
Citizen Cooperation Promotion Section, City of Sendai
Speaker
- Junichi Kano
- Representative Director, Iwate Cooperative Reconstruction Center /
Representative Director, Rias NPO Support Center - Kenichiro Toyama
- Secretary-general, Fukushima Cooperative Reconstruction Center
- Taku Sugano
- Principal Investigator, Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution / Director, Personal Support Center
Facilitator
- Chie Endo
- Chairperson, Community Design Lab/ Director, Tohoku Community Consortium
Overview
In the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 outlines the importance of improving the response ability of the local community through independent efforts by citizens and local groups in promoting disaster risk reduction and disaster mitigation. We will introduce examples of citizen activity groups' efforts with regard to issues exposed by the Great East Japan Earthquake, and those of cooperation between various stakeholders.