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Research, Development,and Utilization of BeppuModel Disability-inclusiveDisaster Risk Reduction:Towards SeamlessConnections betweenNormal and DisasterTimes

[O1-15-01] Research, Development, and Utilization of Beppu Model Disability-inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction: Towards Seamless Connections between Normal and Disaster Times

*Shigeo Tatsuki¹, *Junko Murano², *Kazuhiko Abe³, *Anna Matsukawa⁶, *Bill Ho⁴, *Taku Sugano⁵, *Aya Tsujioka¹ (1. Doshisha University, 2. Beppu City, 3. Tohoku Fukushi University, 4. Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, 5. Osaka City University, 6. Disaster Reduction and Human Renovation Institution)

Keywords:Disability-inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction, Leave no one behind during disaster times, seamless connection between social services and disaster response

Older and/or disabled people have been known to suffer more serious damages in disasters. After the Great East Japan Earthquake, Tatsuki (2013) pointed out that the root cause of the proportionately heavier damages is due to the siloed approaches taken by everyday social service and crisis time disaster management organizations and to the lack of coordination between normal and disaster time responses. One solution is to involve social workers who make care plans for everyday living needs during normal time and to ask them to simultaneously prepare disaster care plans. This session shares a Research, Development and Utilization project that interlinks normal time social services and disaster time local responses to persons with disabilities (PWD). A three-year project was launched in Beppu City in 2016 that led to the standard operation procedure (SOP) for assessment, informal human resources matching, and inclusive disaster response simulation during disaster drills. At the end of the project, a quasi-experimental, inverse propensity score weighted impact evaluation demonstrated a significant increase of DRR literacy scores only among the experimental group PWDs. In 2018, Hyogo prefecture initiated the Beppu-model SOP utilization grant program. Based on the preliminary results in Harima township, one of the two initial municipalities, Hyogo prefecture decided to expand the grant program to all Hyogo municipalities. As a result, 37 out of 41 local governments applied for the project as of April, 2019. The similar Beppu model SOP utilization have been spreading to other areas of Japan such as Sendai, Kyoto, Ibaraki and Suginami cities. Overseas applications of Beppu Model is also currently being planned. This session concludes with future research/practice directions such as integrating pre-disaster care planning to post-disaster case management practices.