| Meeting Documents |
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| Provisional Annotated Agenda |
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| Guidelines for Participants |
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| Template for Documentation of Case Studies |
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| Opening Statement by Prof Hong Yan (Deputy Secretary-General of WMO) |
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Background
Material for the Development of Guidelines
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| Volume I: Recent Developments in Disaster Risk Reduction and Opportunities for National Meteorological and Hydrological Services |
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| Volume II: Roles and Upcoming Opportunities of National Meteorological and Hydrological Services in Different Stages of Disaster Risk Reduction |
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Presentations by Panelists
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Opening Session
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Consultation Process Involving Governments and Agencies prior to Adoption of HFA (Marco Ferrari)
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| Background and Introductory Remarks (Maryam Golnaraghi) |
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ITEM 1 - Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA): New Paradigm in DRR
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| HFA and Strengthened ISDR System: a New Paradigm in Disaster Risk Reduction (Paola Albrito) |
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| Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction and Opportunities through Partnership between Red Cross Red Crescent National Societies – National Meteorological and Hydrological Services at the National Level |
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| Humanitarian Reform and DRR (Charlotta Benedek) |
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| Roles and Mandate of WMO and NMHSs relevant to Key Activities of HFA (Maryam Golnaraghi) |
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National Legislation and Coordination Mechanisms
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| India (Sanjiv Nair) |
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| Sri Lanka (Porakara Mudiyanselage Jayatilaka Banda) |
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| Switzerland (Marco Ferrari) |
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| France (Philippe Boullé) |
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| Poland (Tomasz Walczykiewicz) |
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| Brazil (Lauro Fortes) |
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| USA (Herbert White) |
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| Mozambique (Filipe Lucio) |
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ITEM 3 - Regional Strategies, Partnerships and Agreements to Support Implementation of HFA at the National Level
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| Regional and Sub-Regional Strategies for Disaster Reduction in Africa (Martin Owor) |
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| Perspectives for a DRR Regional Strategy in Europe (Paola Albrito) |
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| DRR Strategy in Pacific Islands (Mary Power) |
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ITEM 4 - International Coordination and Collaborations for Capacity Development in Disaster Risk Reduction
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| Role of NMHSs with UN Communication Group (Carine Richard-Van Maele) |
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| Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (Paola Albrito) |
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| Information Sharing among Agencies for Coordinated Contingency Planning and Early Actions (Heïdi Peugeot) |
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| Global Coordination for Coherent Assistance to National Early Warning Systems (Maryam Golnaraghi) |
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ITEM 5 - Status of National Meteorological and Hydrological Services’ Capacities in Support of Disaster Risk Reduction
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| Preliminary Assessment based on WMO National and Regional DRR Surveys |
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ITEM 6 - Role of NMHSs in Risk Identification and Assessment
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| Role of Risk Identification for Development and Implementation of the IGAD Regional Strategy (Laban Ogallo) |
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| Development of a Risk Atlas in India (Sanjiv Nair) |
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| Ongoing Interactions and Feedback between Agencies for Development of Risk Knowledge (Catherine Borretti) |
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| Flood Risk Identification as an Input into Risk Management (Tomasz Walczykiewicz) |
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| Relationships between the US Environmental Hazard Warning Cycle and the Emergency Readiness / Emergency Management Cycle (Herbert White) |
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ITEM 7 - NMHSs and Other Stakeholders’ Role in Early Warning Systems with Multi-Hazard Approach
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| Outcome of the Symposium on Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (Maryam Golnaraghi) |
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| Demonstration Project involving Vigilance System (Catherine Borretti) |
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| Developments in Sri Lanka after the Tsunami (Porakara Mudiyanselage Jayatilaka Banda) |
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| Role of IMGW in Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems with Multi-Hazard Approach (Tomasz Walczykiewicz) |
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| Virtual Centre for Severe Weather Events (Lauro Fortes) |
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| Common Alerting Protocol for Hydrometeorological Hazards (Eliot Christian) |
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| Demonstration Project involving Shanghai Emergency Preparedness System (Yuan Zhaohong) |
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| Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems as a Decision-Making Tool for Integrated Disaster Risk Management (Koumaran Pajaniradja) |
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| Status of Regional and Global Cooperation in Support of Tsunami Early Warning Systems (Kaus Peter Koltermann) |
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| WMO Information System: Linking Users with Hydrometeorological Information and Early Warning Systems (David Thomas) |
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ITEM 8 - Documentation of Different Practices in Early Warning Systems
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| Standard Outline for Documentation of Different Practices in Early Warning Systems with a Multi-Hazard Approach |
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ITEM 9 - Synthesis Session
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| Synthesis and Way Forward |
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