7:30 | Registration
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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)
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| Asia and the Pacific LeHuu Ti, United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Pacific | (PowerPoint 1,6 MB)
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| Europe Jochen Zschau, GeoForschungsZentrum (GFZ), Potsdam | (PowerPoint 954 KB)
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| Americas Juan Carlos Villagran, Guatemala | (PDF 403 KB)
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| Presentation of AOSIS Jagdish Dharamchand Koonjul, Mauritius Ambassador to the UN, Chairman of AOSIS | (MS-Word 36 KB)
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| Compilation of Regional Findings and Recommendations Seth Vordzorgbe, ISDR consultant, Ghana | (PowerPoint 87 KB)
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| Discussion | |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break & Group Photo
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11:00 - 12:10 | Panel Discussion (Plenary)
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| Early Warning, a decision tool for emergency management Chair: Everett Ressler, UNICEF and Carlo Scaramella (WFP), Rapporteur: Everett Ressler, UNICEF | (MS-Word 21 KB)
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| Panelists: - Peter Billing (ECHO) - Helga Leifsdottir (IFRC) - Detlev Rünger (Federal Foreign Office) | (PowerPoint 480 KB)
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| Presentation of Afternoon Conference Programme (ISDR) | |
12:10 - 13:30 | Lunch Break
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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)
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| Good practices in Early Warning (Side Rooms)
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| Insisiengmay Thanongdeth (Cambodia) The Early Warning System for Mekong River | (MS-Word 28 KB)
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| Jean Marie Carrière (France) Flood early warning in France | (RTF 44 KB)
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| 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)
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| Udo Gärtner (Germany) Early warnings of severe weather warning management of the Deutsche Wetterdienst | (MS-Word 28 KB)
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| Jaromir Nemec, Ivan Obrusnik (Czech Republic) Lessons learned in early warning, organized civil society efforts and disaster reduction | (MS-Word 40 KB)
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| Chair: Friedemann Wenzel (Germany), Rapporteur: Laura Kong (USA) | (MS-Word 33 KB)
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| Effective Early Warning Systems for Tropical Cyclones Luc Chang-ko (Mauritius) Cyclone warning in Mauritius | (MS-Word 73 KB)
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| Jeremy Collymore (CDERA) Caribbean early warning system for hurricanes | (PDF 51 KB)
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| 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)
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| Chair: Lee Huu Ti (UNESCAP), Rapporteur: Tejal Dave (India) | (MS-Word 25 KB)
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| 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)
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| Le Bars (Meteo France, France) Presentation of the new Météo-France vigilance (awareness) system | (RTF 1,18 MB)
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| Michael Bründl (Switzerland) Recent developments in avalanche risk management | (PDF 249 KB)
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| Chair: Ken Davidson (WMO), Rapporteur: Arturo Cabrera Hidalgo (Ecuador) | |
14:30 - 17:30 | Parallel Working Groups (Side Rooms)
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| WG1: Early Warning Targets 2004-2015 Chair: Klaus Wiersing, Germany, Rapporteur: Katharina Thywissen, UNEP/ISDR | (MS-Word 44 KB)
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| WG2: From Potsdam (EWC’98) to Bonn (EWC-II) and beyond Chair: Friedemann Wenzel, Germany, Rapporteur: Reid Basher | (MS-Word 33 KB)
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| WG3: Sustaining the Early Warning Dialogue Chair: Norberto Fernandez, UNEP, Rapporteur: Maureen Fordham, UK | (MS-Word 57 KB)
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| Parallel Events in the Plenary Hall
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| 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)
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| Successful Early Warning – cases of volcanic eruptions in Japan Masaaki Nakagawa, Cabinet Office, Government of Japan | (MS-Word 36 KB)
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| Hazard Mapping Projects in Asia Ryosuke Kikuchi, Infrastructure Development Institute, Japan | (MS-Word 103 KB)
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| Discussion Muhammad Saidur Rahman, Bangladesh Disaster Preparedness Center | (MS-Word 31 KB)
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| Yang-Su Kim, National Institute for Disaster Prevention, Republic of Korea | (MS-Word 20 KB)
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| Norman M. Tungol, Philippines Institute of Volcanology & Seismology (PHIVOLCS) | (MS-Word 22 KB)
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| Nguyen Huu Phuc, Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Development, Viet Nam | (MS-Word 34 KB)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| Pak Sum Low (UNESCAP): The role of regional networks in promoting drought early warning and preparedness | (PowerPoint 1,09 MB)
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| 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)
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| 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)
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| Panelists: Bärbel Dieckmann, Mayor of Bonn | (MS-Word 33 KB)
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| M. Enkhbold, Governor of the City of Ulaanbaatar | (MS-Word 31 KB)
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| 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)
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| Aoto Ken-ichi, Superintendent for Emergency Management, Hyogo Prefectural Government | (MS-Word 35 KB)
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18:30 | Cocktail Cruise on the Rhine hosted by the German Foreign Office
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