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Agenda |
 | 16 October 2003 |
| 17 October 2003 |
| 18 October 2003 |
16 October 2003
| 8:30 - 9:30 | Registration | |
| 9:30 - 11:00 | Opening Co Chairs of the Conference: Sálvano Briceño, Hans-Joachim Daerr | |
| Opening Statements Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Jürgen Trittin |  (MS-Word 94 KB) | |
| United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Jan Egeland | (MS-Word 307 KB) | |
| Opening Messages Dahou Ould-Kablia, Deputy Minister of Interior, Algeria | (MS-Word 27 KB) | |
| Yang Yanyin, Vice Minister, Ministry of Civil Affairs, China | (MS-Word 33 KB) | |
| Chris Murungaru, Minister of State for Provincial Affairs, Kenya | (MS-Word 38 KB) | |
| Jean Seth Rambeloalijaona, Minister of Interior, Madagascar | (MS-Word 30 KB) | |
| Paul-Uwe Söker, Secretary of State for the Ministry of Interior (Sachsen-Anhalt) | ||
| Jagdish Dharamchand Koonjul, Mauritius Ambassador to the UN, Chairman of AOSIS | ||
| Michel Jarraud, Deputy Secretary-General, World Meteorological Organization (WMO) | (MS-Word 32 KB) | |
| Ad de Raad, Deputy Executive-Coordinator, United Nations Volunteers (UNV) | (MS-Word 34 KB) | |
| Richard Kinley, acting Deputy Executive Secretary, United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, UNFCCC | (MS-Word 30 KB) | |
| Gregoire de Kalbermatten, Deputy Executive Secretary, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) | (MS-Word 35 KB) | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Key Note Speech Klaus Toepfer, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) | (MS-Word 52 KB) |
| Presentation of Conference Programme (ISDR) | ||
| 12:00 - 13:45 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:45 - 14:30 | Good practices in Early Warning in Side Rooms | |
| The Roles of the Community Ali Awan (Pakistan) Community oriented early warning for disaster reduction on scientific basis | (MS-Word 22 KB) | |
| Auriol Miller (CONCERN, DR Congo) Community Preparedness for Volcano Hazards: Concern Worldwide's experience in Goma, DRC | (MS-Word 45 KB) | |
| Ailsa Holloway (South Africa) Early Warning – or message misread | (MS-Word 958 KB) | |
| Chair: Slobodan Simonovic (ICLR), Rapporteur: John Handmer (Australia) | ||
| Global Early Warning Systems Ryosuke Kikuchi (Japan) Using real time flood forecasting and prediction to support flood control decision-making | (MS-Word 103 KB) | |
| Wolfgang Steinborn (Germany) The international Charter Space and Major Disasters and examples of flood warning improvement with information from space | (MS-Word 573 KB) | |
| Laura Kong (USA) Early Warning Systems on Tsunamis from Hawaii | (PDF 677 KB) | |
| Chair: Seth Vordzorgbe (Ghana), Rapporteur: Don Wilhite (USA) | (MS-Word 36 KB) | |
| Early Warning Systems for Geological Hazards Djumarma Wirakusumah (Indonesia) Early warning systems for geological hazards in Indonesia | (MS-Word 34 KB) (PowerPoint 3,22 MB) | |
| Charley Douglas (Vanuatu) Vanuatu volcanic early warning system | ||
| Dario Tedesco (Italy) The January 2002 volcanic eruption at Mt Nyiragongo: UN Risk reduction strategies for the Nyiragongo volcano activity | (MS-Word 38 KB) | |
| Chair: Alberto Maturana (Chile), Rapporteur: Henri Josserand (FAO) | (MS-Word 30 KB) | |
| 14:45 - 16:00 | Special Session on Wildland Fire John Roads (USA) EW wildland fire at global to national level: experimental climate prediction | (PDF 79 KB) |
| Helmut Dotzauer (Germany) EW wildland fire at local level: Community-based fire management | (PDF 25 KB) | |
| Johann Goldammer (Germany) Global synthesis: Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) | (PDF 68 KB) | |
| Chair: Pedro Basabe (ISDR), Rapporteur: Valerie Bode (Austria) | (MS-Word 28 KB) | |
| Integrating Early Warning into Public Policy Processes (Plenary) Chair: Kamal Kishore, UNDP, Rapporteur: Robyn Betts, Australia | (MS-Word 27 KB) | |
| Integration of disaster reduction and early warning into public policy and development Jean Seth Rambeloalijaona. Minister of the Interior, Madagascar Questions & Answers | (MS-Word 259 KB) (PowerPoint 323 KB) (MS-Word 136 KB) | |
| Integrating early warning schemes into flood protection management Stanislaw Tillich, Minister of State, Saxony, Germany Questions & Answers | ||
| Integrating early warning of environmental threats into policy to achieve sustainable development Norberto Fernandez, UNEP Division for Early Warning and Assessment Questions & Answers | ||
| Early Warning, a Tool for Climate Risk Management Reid Basher, Senior Advisor, ISDR Questions & Answers | (PowerPoint 1,08 MB) | |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:30 - 18:00 | Panel Discussion (Plenary) Chair: Kenneth Davidson, (World Meteorological Organization, WMO) Rapporteur: Ailsa Holloway, (University of Cape Town, South Africa) | (MS-Word 32 KB) |
| New Technologies and Low-tech Solutions for Early Warning Systems Panelists: | ||
| Laban Ogallo, (Drought Monitoring Center, Kenya) | ||
| Juan Carlos Villagran (Guatemala) | (PowerPoint 1,28 MB) | |
| Maureen Fordham, (University of Northumbria, UK) | ||
| Douglas Pattie (UNCCD) | ||
| Thomas Schaef (GTZ) | ||
| 18:00 - 19:00 | UN Sasakawa Award for Disaster Reduction Ceremony Presentation of 2003 Sasakawa Award nominees Venue: Kunstmuseum, Museumsmeile, Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 2 | |
| Cocktail hosted by the City of Bonn | ||
