モンゴルにおける防災啓発─防災カルタ、市民主導防災─および遠隔教育

Since October 2017, the JICA Grassroots Technical Cooperation Project（Partner Type）ʼDisaster Preparedness Awareness Project for Large-Scale Natural Disasters Associated with Global Environmental Change in Khovd Province, Mongoliaʼ has been implemented. This JICA project was originally planned to run for five years until September 2022, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the project was approved to be extended until FY 2023 in recognition of the results so far achieved through trust with the local population. A record of activities to date has been reported in previous issues of this publication. This paper therefore reports on activities since October 2022. The main contents of the project are awareness-raising activities through ʻcartaʼ for the education of disaster reduction and workshops for the establishment of a resident-led disaster reduction system. Based on the reactions and responses from the Mongolian side at the end of the JICA project, it is concluded that the dissemination of disaster reduction ʻcartaʼ and disaster reduction volunteers are important keys to promoting citizenled（bottom-up）disaster reduction in Mongolia, and that further nationwide development should be aimed for in the future. In addition, in collaboration with the JICA project, the distance education project funded by the Grant-in-Aid Scientific Research Fund has been promoted jointly with the National University of Mongolia since FY2021. Under a comprehensive agreement, the Open University of Japan has also implemented cooperation in technology transfer to the National University of Mongolia. The survival of the traditional nomadic system in Mongolia is extremely important, as it is flexible and mobile, and from the perspective of resilience as ʼknowledge that survives crisesʼ, it has an alternative orientation towards global issues. Distance education is a revolutionary educational system in nomadic societies in the sense that it enables people to receive higher education while continuing their nomadic lifestyle. The Open University has a great deal to contribute in this field.