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Japan NC has published recently this report through Science Council of Japan.  This report is a product of IRDR working group 6 on “Online Synthesis System” based on the discussion at Japan NC.

The report provided four recommendations:

• (1) The scientific community should develop the Online Synthesis System (OSS) to promote DRR and Sustainable Development.

To support enhancement of synthesis for strengthening disaster resilience and promoting sustainable development, the scientific community should develop the Online Synthesis Systems (OSS) under interdisciplinary cooperation with international scientific organizations, various on-site stakeholders, and UN/international agencies. The OSS should be equipped with functions for users to explore, collect, archive, and search in various languages, scientific information as well as information of experiences, including good practices and success/failure stories, shared from all over the world and basic information on legal systems and policies. The OSS should also have functions to integrate these data and information, conduct forecast and simulation, facilitate effective risk communications through visualization, and establish information exchange and dialogue among stakeholders. The OSS should be functional in each mother tongue so that it will be used in each country under international cooperation.

• (2) The scientific community should foster Facilitators.

Knowledge, experiences, and methods suitable for their location should be provided and external experiences and resources should be effectively introduced so that on-site stakeholders can in an inclusive and participatory manner enhance disaster resilience and sustainable development effectively, taking advantage of the OSS and based on integrated scientific knowledge. To do so, Facilitators are required to assist stakeholders who effectively apply science and technology, protect their lives and assets, and continue their livelihoods and businesses. Therefore, the scientific community should foster Facilitators in collaboration with local universities, disaster research centers, and scientific institutions and in mutual cooperation with society.

• (3) On-site stakeholders, in cooperation with Facilitators and effectively taking advantage of the OSS, should develop integrated scenarios for DRR and Environment/Development and execute concrete measures toward enhancement of disaster resilience and achievement of SDGs.

​On-site stakeholders and the scientific community should take collaborative actions, with effective utilization of OSS and support from Facilitators, by sharing the understanding of disaster risk through every dialogue, forming a cyclic system of consilience, discovering the relationship of causes and effects between DRR and Environment/Development scientifically, and deepening quantitative understanding. Above all they should clarify the effects and roles of DRR in achieving SDGs and reflect them on their activities

• (4) International scientific organizations, UN/international agencies and international aid agencies should support the development of the OSS, Facilitators and integrated scenarios for each country and region to take actions.

International and regional scientific organizations should accelerate activities of scientific communities in countries in terms of knowledge sharing on science and technology and designing information base. UN/international agencies and international aid agencies should establish a system to assist countries to raise awareness on the above, and develop and manage the information base in the context of improving quality and effectiveness of assistance in DRR and Environment/Development fields.