TY - CHAP
T1 - Enhancing community resilience through capacity development after GEJE
T2 - The case of Sendaishi-chiiki Bousai leaders (SBLs) in Miyagi prefecture
AU - Sakurai, Aiko
AU - Sato, Takeshi
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas (No. 2651008) from Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Springer International Publishing AG.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The Sendaishi-chiiki Bousai Leader (SBL) Program was launched in 2012 as a capacity development initiative in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture (one of the severely affected municipalities in the Tohoku region), in response to the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE). The Program emphasizes strengthening each community’s disaster resilience by fostering locally based leaders to promote sustainable disaster risk reduction activities within existing chonaikai (neighborhood association) networks. Over its 4 years of implementation, 584 SBLs have been certified. The SBL Program is designed to emphasize learning from the lessons of the 2011 GEJE experience in Sendai City and conducting disaster management activities based on the community’s local disaster risk. The SBL Program has helped identify a new generation of individuals who can lead community disaster risk reduction (DRR) activities. In the SBL Program, each community is placed in the driver’s seat but is not left alone. After the training, the city government supports certified SBLs by providing opportunities for follow-up and SBL exchanges. The Sendai City experience indicates that developing the capacity of a community’s DRR leaders in a post-disaster period can contribute to enhancing that community’s disaster resilience for better community rebuilding.
AB - The Sendaishi-chiiki Bousai Leader (SBL) Program was launched in 2012 as a capacity development initiative in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture (one of the severely affected municipalities in the Tohoku region), in response to the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE). The Program emphasizes strengthening each community’s disaster resilience by fostering locally based leaders to promote sustainable disaster risk reduction activities within existing chonaikai (neighborhood association) networks. Over its 4 years of implementation, 584 SBLs have been certified. The SBL Program is designed to emphasize learning from the lessons of the 2011 GEJE experience in Sendai City and conducting disaster management activities based on the community’s local disaster risk. The SBL Program has helped identify a new generation of individuals who can lead community disaster risk reduction (DRR) activities. In the SBL Program, each community is placed in the driver’s seat but is not left alone. After the training, the city government supports certified SBLs by providing opportunities for follow-up and SBL exchanges. The Sendai City experience indicates that developing the capacity of a community’s DRR leaders in a post-disaster period can contribute to enhancing that community’s disaster resilience for better community rebuilding.
KW - Capacity development
KW - Community-based disaster risk management
KW - Sendai
KW - The Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE)
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-58691-5_7
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-58691-5_7
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85024105448
T3 - Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research
SP - 113
EP - 126
BT - Advances in Natural and Technological Hazards Research
PB - Springer Netherlands
ER -
