On the 9th, the government held a meeting with the National Resilience Promotion Council of the Cabinet Secretariat (chaired by Kiyoshi Kobayashi, professor emeritus of Kyoto University) and began a comprehensive review of the mid-term plan for implementing national resilience (photo). After evaluating the impact of the current ``Five-Year Accelerated Measures for Disaster Prevention, Mitigation, and Recovery'', we will decide on the policy for formulating the plan. The council will listen to the opinions of local governments and other parties and compile a draft proposal. The plan will be discussed at the National Resilience Promotion Headquarters, headed by the Prime Minister, and approved by the Cabinet.
About 15 trillion yen will be invested in the Acceleration Measures over the five years from 2021 to 2025. The plan will become a statutory plan based on the National Resilience Basic Act and will be the successor to the Acceleration Measures. The plan determines the timing, content of the measures, goals, and scale of the project. In the Basic Policy for Economic and Financial Reform and Management 2024 (Basic Policy), the government stated that it will "maximize the speed" in reviewing the plans. Government ministries and agencies confirmed the plan to start developing the review after holding a review at a liaison meeting in July.
Opening the meeting that day, Katsuhiko Niwa, deputy director of the National Resilience Promotion Office of the Cabinet Secretariat, said, “We need to make efforts to prevent and mitigate natural disasters and enhance national resilience so that we can minimize the damage caused by large-scale natural disasters.” - large-scale natural disasters that can strike at any time,” he pointed out. He then announced, “Starting today, we will conduct a review of the mid-term implementation plan.”
During the meeting, during the review of the five-year acceleration measures, there was a discussion of the individual measures and the state of cooperation between the measures. In the future, data on individual measures will be collected from ministries and agencies and the evaluation will be discussed at the same meeting.
Regarding the coordination between assessment measures, the assessment will be considered from three changes: external disaster forces/resistance, social conditions, and the project implementation environment. The assessment will take into account the decline in disaster resilience of infrastructure (aging), population decline, lack of human resources, efforts of ministries and agencies including the "Basin Flood Control Project 2.0" of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, and lessons learned from the Noto Peninsula earthquake that are expected to be implemented.
At the meeting, acting chairman Nobuo Fukuwa (professor emeritus at Nagoya University) pointed out that there was a delay in the construction of earthquake-resistant buildings due to the damage caused by the Noto Peninsula earthquake, and expressed the view that there should be a “separate mechanism” to lead (evaluate) the category.''
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