| Workshop Documents |
Final Report (English) |
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Group Picture |
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List of Documents |
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Doc 1 |
MHEWS Workshop Brochure |
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Doc 2a |
Agenda of the MHEWS Workshop (March 22 - 25) |
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Doc 2b |
Agenda of the Coordination meeting with international and regional donors and partners (March 26) |
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Doc 3 |
MHEWS Workshop Discussion Topics |
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Doc 4 |
Instructions for the Trainers |
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Doc 5a |
Instructions for the Working Groups at MHEWS Workshop |
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Doc 5b |
Questionnaire for the Working Groups at MHEWS Workshop |
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Template for Initiatives and Project Documentation |
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| Presentations of the Sessions |
Session 1 |
Opening and introduction
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| Background and objectives by Dr Maryam Golnaraghi |
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| Ten Guiding Principal of Effective Early Warning Systems (in English, French and Spanish) |
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Session 2 |
Presentations of good practices in multi-hazard early warning systems |
Early Warning System For Tropical Cyclones in the Republic of Cuba
By Mr Miguel Angel Puig Gonzalez - National Civil Defense,
Dr Tomas Gutierrez Perez and Dr José Rubiera Torres - Instituto de Meteorologia |
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The Vigilance system in France , (continental and overseas)
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Mr Jean-Noel Degrace - Dirrection Interrégional Antilles - Guyane, Météo-France / Martinique |
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| Multi-Hazard Early Warning System in Italy |
Dr Paola Pagliara - Italian Civil Protection
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Dr Sergio Pasquini - Italian Meteorological Service
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| Shanghai Multi-Hazard Early Warning system |
Overview of Shanghai Multi-hazard Early Warning system and the role of Meteorological Services by Mr Haizhen Mu – Deputy Director, Shanghai Meteorological Bureau, China Meteorological Administration
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Bacterial Food Poisoning (BFP) Forecasting and Early Warning System Based on Meteorological Factors of Shanghai by Mr Lei Zhang – Deputy Director, Shanghai Food and Drug Administration
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Multi-Hazard Early Warning System in the United States of America
Mr. Nick Crossly – Director of County Emergency Management and Homeland Security and President of the International Association of Emergency Managers Mr. Lynn P Maximuk, Director, NOAA National Weather Service Central Region
Mr
H James Keeney, Regional Warning Coordination Meteorologist, NOAA National Weather Service, Central Region Headquarters |
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Session 3 |
Regional Initiatives in Disaster Risk Reduction and Early Warning Systems
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Panel 1 |
Discussion on National Disaster Risk reduction platforms and regional coordination mechanisms in Central America and the Caribbean
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Sistematización Y Sostenibilidad – En El Marco De La Política Centroamericana De Gestión Integral Del Riesgo - PCGIR by
Mr Ivan Morales, Executive Secretary, CEPREDENAC |
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| Comprehensive Disaster Management (CDM) by
Ms Andria Grosvenor, Technical Manager, Preparedness and Country Support, CDEMA |
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The Regional Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in the Americas by
Mr Pablo Gonzalez, Chief of Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation Section, OAS |
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| Taller de Entrenamiento en SAT Multiamenazas con énfasis en Sociedades Institucionales y Coordinación by Mr. Julio Garcia, Regional Office for the Americans, UN-ISDR |
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Panel 2 |
Discussion on Risk Assessment and the Central America Probabilistic Risk Assessment Programme (CAPRA) and Global Risk identification programme (GRIP)
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| Información asociada a huracanes históricos: Potencial aplicación al sistema CAPRA en Costa Rica by Dr. Eric Alfaro, Professor, Center for Geophysical Studies, University of Costa Rica |
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| Programa Global de Identificación del Riesgo by Dr. Carlos Villacis, Global Risk Identification Program Coordinator, UNDP |
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| Central American Probabilistic Risk Assessment by Ing. Benjamín Huerta, Risk Management expert, ERN, Mexico |
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Panel 3 |
Discussion on Technical Capacity Development in Early Warning Systems
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| WMO technical capacity development for meteorological, hydrological and climate-related hazards – Ms. Haleh Kootval (WMO) |
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| Severe Weather Forecasting Demonstration Project (SWFDP): Lessons learnt, Opportunities for the future by Peter Chen |
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| Tsunamis and Coastal Hazards Warning System for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions (ICG Caribe EWS) by Ms Judy Thomas, Inter-governmental Coordination Group for Tsunami Warning System (UNESCO-IOC) |
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WMO RA IV Hurricane Committee and Early Warnings in RA IV by
Dr José Rubiera-Torres |
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| Development of Meteorological Services in the Caribbean – Caribbean Meteorological Organization by Dr David Farrel |
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| Building up sustainable Regional Information Systems for Climate Risk Management by
Ms. Abigail Alvarado, CIIFEN |
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Panel 4 |
Discussion on Early Warning Systems and link to humanitarian contingency planning and assistance
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| SAT y Planes de Contingencia by Nelson Castaño, Coordinator of Disaster Risk Management for the Americas, IFRC |
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| Early Warning Systems and link to humanitarian contingency planning and assistance by Mr. Elbyn Ramirez, Manager of SATCA Project, WFP |
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| The Link of EWS to Humanitarian Contingency Planning and Assistance: the Eastern Caribbean Donor Group for Disaster Management by Mr Ian King, Disaster Risk Reduction Advisor, UNDP Barbados and the OECS |
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Session 5 |
Outcomes of the working groups
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| Working Group A |
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| Working Group B |
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| Working Group C |
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| Overall oucomes of Working Groups A, B, C |
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Special
Session on Haiti |
Coordination for rainy and hurricane season 2010 and long term Multi-hazard EWS development
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| Soutien d’urgence de MétéoFrance au Centre National Météorologique d’Haïti by Jean-Noel Degrace |
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Urgent assistance for Haïti
by Peter Chen |
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Mise à jour sur les efforts du Canada – Services météo
byAbdoulaye Harou |
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| Administrative and Logistical Information |
| Inf 1 |
Information Note for Participants (Hotel, Transport, Insurance, etc) |
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| Reference Documents |
| Report of the Second Experts' Symposium on Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems (MHEWS II) (May 2009) |
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| Report of the First Experts’ Symposium on Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems (MHEWS-I) (May 2006) |
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| Third International Conference on Early Warning (EWC-III), March 2006 |
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| Second International Conference on Early Warning (EWC-II), October 2003 |
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| International Conference on Early Warning Systems for Natural Disaster Reduction (EWC-I), September 1998 |
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| Global Survey of Early Warning Systems: An assessment of capacities, gaps and opportunities toward building a comprehensive global early warning system for all natural hazard (Third International Early Warning Conference, March 2006) |
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| Hyogo Framework for Action: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters (World Conference on Disaster Reduction), January 2005 |
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