About CoDRRA

CoDRRA stands for the Community Disaster Risk Reduction Association. We share information that can help people respond when a disaster occurs, whether they work in disaster response or are helping their community.

We use the Sphere standards to explain what people affected by a disaster should be able to expect from assistance. Our resources cover mental health and psychosocial support, the living conditions in evacuation shelters and ways organisations can assess their own humanitarian work.

Our team

Nahoko Harada, chair

Trains practitioners and trainers in quality and accountability in humanitarian assistance. She also teaches the INEE Minimum Standards for Education in Emergencies, the Minimum Standards for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action (CPMS), and psychological first aid (PFA), including PFA for children.

She is a member of the Japan Quality and Accountability Network (JQAN), a director of the Disaster Medical ACT Research Institute, and a council member of the Japanese Association for Disaster Medicine. She serves on disaster welfare and psychiatric response teams in Miyazaki and is a member of Japan’s Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT).

Kayako Chishima, vice chair

Trains practitioners and trainers in quality and accountability in humanitarian assistance. She also teaches PFA for children, is a member of JQAN, and serves in the Japan DMAT secretariat.

Masahide Koda, website administrator

Trains practitioners in quality and accountability in humanitarian assistance and teaches PFA for children. He is a member of JQAN and a council member of the Japanese Association for Disaster Medicine.

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