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Agenda |
 | 16 October 2003 |
| 17 October 2003 |
| 18 October 2003 |
17 October 2003
| 7:30 | Registration | |
| 9:00 - 10:30 | Overview of Preparatory Regional Consultations (Plenary) Chair: Sálvano Briceño, Hans-Joachim Daerr, Rapporteur: Wolfgang Stiebens | |
| Africa Hesphina Rukato, NEPAD |  (PDF 1,17 MB) (PowerPoint 107 KB) | |
| Asia and the Pacific LeHuu Ti, United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific | (PowerPoint 1,6 MB) (PDF 2,44 MB) | |
| Europe Jochen Zschau, GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ), Potsdam | (PowerPoint 954 KB) (PDF 1.019 KB) | |
| Americas Juan Carlos Villagran, Guatemala | (PDF 403 KB) | |
| Presentation of AOSIS Jagdish Dharamchand Koonjul, Mauritius Ambassador to the UN, Chairman of AOSIS | (MS-Word 36 KB) | |
| Compilation of Regional Findings and Recommendations Seth Vordzorgbe, ISDR consultant, Ghana | (PowerPoint 87 KB) (PDF 449 KB) | |
| Discussion | ||
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break & Group Photo | |
| 11:00 - 12:10 | Panel Discussion (Plenary) | |
| Early Warning, a decision tool for emergency management Chair: Everett Ressler, UNICEF and Carlo Scaramella (WFP), Rapporteur: Everett Ressler, UNICEF | (MS-Word 21 KB) | |
| Panelists: - Peter Billing (ECHO) - Helga Leifsdottir (IFRC) - Detlev Rünger (Federal Foreign Office) | (PowerPoint 480 KB) | |
| Presentation of Afternoon Conference Programme (ISDR) | ||
| 12:10 - 13:30 | Lunch Break | |
| 13:30 - 14:15 | Integrating Flood Early Warning Systems into National Policies Errol Douglas (Jamaica) The challenges of Community Flood Warning Systems in Jamaica | (MS-Word 67 KB) |
| Good practices in Early Warning (Side Rooms) | ||
| Insisiengmay Thanongdeth (Cambodia) The Early Warning System for Mekong River | (MS-Word 28 KB) | |
| Jean Marie Carrière (France) Flood early warning in France | (RTF 44 KB) | |
| Chair: Erich Plate (Germany), Rapporteur: Taito Nakalevu (Fiji) | ||
| Technological Means for Information Sharing C. Y. Lam (China) Harnessing Internet Power to serve weather warning purposes | (PDF 224 KB) | |
| Udo Gärtner (Germany) Early warnings of severe weather warning management of the Deutsche Wetterdienst | (MS-Word 28 KB) | |
| Jaromir Nemec, Ivan Obrusnik (Czech Republic) Lessons learned in early warning, organized civil society efforts and disaster reduction | (MS-Word 40 KB) | |
| Chair: Friedemann Wenzel (Germany), Rapporteur: Laura Kong (USA) | (MS-Word 33 KB) | |
| Effective Early Warning Systems for Tropical Cyclones Luc Chang-ko (Mauritius) Cyclone warning in Mauritius | (MS-Word 73 KB) | |
| Jeremy Collymore (CDERA) Caribbean early warning system for hurricanes | (PDF 51 KB) | |
| Jürgen Kronenberger (Red Cross) We were prepared – What communities of Red Cross Cyclone Shelters did during the recent cyclone warning in Orisa | (MS-Word 26 KB) | |
| Chair: Lee Huu Ti (UNESCAP), Rapporteur: Tejal Dave (India) | (MS-Word 25 KB) | |
| Early Warning Systems for extreme climate related events Jose-Luis Santos (Ecuador) Presentation of the International Center for Research on El Niño (CIIFEN) | (MS-Word 39 KB) | |
| Le Bars (Meteo France, France) Presentation of the new Météo-France vigilance (awareness) system | (RTF 1,18 MB) (PowerPoint 153 KB) | |
| Michael Bründl (Switzerland) Recent developments in avalanche risk management | (PDF 249 KB) | |
| Chair: Ken Davidson (WMO), Rapporteur: Arturo Cabrera Hidalgo (Ecuador) | ||
| 14:30 - 17:30 | Parallel Working Groups (Side Rooms) | |
| WG1: Early Warning Targets 2004-2015 Chair: Klaus Wiersing, Germany, Rapporteur: Katharina Thywissen, UNEP/ISDR | (MS-Word 44 KB) | |
| WG2: From Potsdam (EWC’98) to Bonn (EWC-II) and beyond Chair: Friedemann Wenzel, Germany, Rapporteur: Reid Basher | (MS-Word 33 KB) | |
| WG3: Sustaining the Early Warning Dialogue Chair: Norberto Fernandez, UNEP, Rapporteur: Maureen Fordham, UK | (MS-Word 57 KB) | |
| Parallel Events in the Plenary Hall | ||
| Effective Early Warning – use of hazard maps as a tool for effective risk communication among policy makers and communities (Session organized by the Government of Japan) Chair: Satoru Nishikawa, Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC) Rapporteur: Etsuko Tsunozaki, ADRC | (MS-Word 30 KB) (PowerPoint 555 KB) (MS-Word 35 KB) | |
| Successful Early Warning – cases of volcanic eruptions in Japan Masaaki Nakagawa, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan | (MS-Word 36 KB) | |
| Hazard Mapping Projects in Asia Ryosuke Kikuchi, Infrastructure Development Institute, Japan | (MS-Word 103 KB) (PowerPoint 4,17 MB) | |
| Discussion Muhammad Saidur Rahman, Bangladesh Disaster Preparedness Center | (MS-Word 31 KB) | |
| Yang-Su Kim, National Institute for Disaster Prevention, Republic of Korea | (MS-Word 20 KB) (PowerPoint 6,06 MB) | |
| Norman M. Tungol, Philippines Institute of Volcanology & Seismology (PHIVOLCS) | (MS-Word 22 KB) | |
| Nguyen Huu Phuc, Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development, Viet Nam | (MS-Word 34 KB) (PowerPoint 1,07 MB) | |
| Effective Drought Early Warning – An integrated approach to reducing societal vulnerability to drought. (organized by the ISDR Drought Network) | ||
| Chair: Donald A. Wilhite (USA), Rapporteur: Henri Josserand (FAO) | (MS-Word 29 KB) | |
| Opening remarks by ISDR and the Chair | ||
| Laban Ogallo (Drought Monitoring Center-Nairobi): Drought Early Warning Systems in the Greater Horn of Africa: the role of the drought monitoring centers-experiences and lessons learned | (MS-Word 81 KB) | |
| Pak Sum Low (UNESCAP): The role of regional networks in promoting drought early warning and preparedness | (PowerPoint 1,09 MB) | |
| Kamal Kishore (UNDP-Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery): Study of the last year's drought in India (ADPC and IRI): some interesting insights on the problem of drought | ||
| Orivaldo Brunini (Brazil): Recent experiences with drought early warning in southern Brazil | ||
| Henri Josserand (FAO): Food Emergency | ||
| 17:30 - 18:30 | Panel Discussion (Plenary) | |
| Panel discussion for local authorities: Early Warning and Urban Risks; responsibilities of policy makers Chair: Irmgard Schwaetzer, DKKV, Rapporteur: Helena Molin-Valdes, ISDR | (MS-Word 63 KB) (MS-Word 33 KB) | |
| Panelists: Bärbel Dieckmann, Mayor of Bonn | (MS-Word 33 KB) | |
| M. Enkhbold, Governor of the City of Ulaanbaatar | (MS-Word 31 KB) | |
| Hugo Marcelo Pineda Luna, Mayor of Baños, Ecuador | ||
| Badaoui Rouhban, UNESCO | ||
| Evelia Aparicio de Esquivel, President of the Association of Municipalities in Panama and the Mayor of the City of David | ||
| Hartmut Bosch, Secretary of State, Ministry of the Interior, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany | (MS-Word 33 KB) | |
| Aoto Ken-ichi, Superintendent for Emergency Management, Hyogo Prefectural Government | (MS-Word 35 KB) | |
| 18:30 | Cocktail Cruise on the Rhine hosted by the German Foreign Office | (MS-Word 24 KB) |
