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| Symposium documents |
| Report of the event |
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| WMO Press Release |
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| First Announcement |
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| Annotated Agenda |
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| Guidelines on goals, expected outcomes, and preparation of presentations and documents |
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| Documents related to Sessions and Working Groups |
| Mr Michel Jarraud (Secretary-General of WMO), Opening Statement. |
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| Ms Margareta Wahlstrom (UN Assistant-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs), Keynote Address. |
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| Mr Hong Yan (Deputy Secretary-General of WMO), Closing Statement. |
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| SESSION I: Governance and Organisational Issues Related to Early Warning Systems for Integrated Disaster Risk Reduction |
| Presentations from Panellists |
| Ms Margareta Wahlstrom (UN Assistant-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs), Review of the Hyogo Framework for Action: Governance and Organisational Framework and Reference to Early Warning Systems. |
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| Mr Reid Basher (ISDR Secretariat), Review of the Hyogo Framework for Action: Governance and Organisational Framework and Reference to Early Warning Systems. |
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| Dr Xu Tang (China Meteorological Administration), Lessons learned and recommendations from managing disaster risks in mega-cities. |
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| Mr Everett Ressler (UNICEF), Lessons Learnt through an Inter-Agency Approach for Early Warning / Early Action of Different Hazards. |
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| Mr Maxx Dilley (on behalf of Inter American Development Bank) (Tentative), Financial Implication for Capacity Building: Linking Development with Disaster Risk Reduction |
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| Reference Documents |
| Hyogo Framework for Action: Building the Resilience of Nations and Communities to Disasters (World Conference on Disaster Reduction, 18-22 January 2005, Kobe) |
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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, 27-29 March 2006, Bonn) |
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| Filipe Lucio, Challenges and Issues for Implementation of Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems for Integrated Risk Reduction in Developing and Least Developed Countries |
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| Mostafa Mohaghegh, Early Warnings and Late Reactions? Challenges and Opportunities for Effective National and Global Early Warning Systems |
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| SESSION II and WORKING GROUP A: Risk Identification and Linkages to Early Warnings |
| Presentations from Panellists |
| Mr Pascal Peduzzi (UNEP), Emerging Issues and New Risk Patterns: What is Needed for Identifying Risk? |
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| Dr Steve Zebiak (International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI), USA), Adding Risk Information to Early Warnings for Decision-Support. |
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| Dr Hussein Gadain (Famine Early Warning Systems (FEWS), Kenya), How Risk Identification is Linked to Early Warnings: Tana River Example. |
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| Dr David Green (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA), Role of Technical Agencies Responsible for Hazard monitoring, Observations, Data and Analysis. |
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| Mr Paolo Reggiani (WL Delft Hydraulics, Netherlands), Flood Risk Assessment for Emergency Preparedness and Response. |
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| Reference Documents |
| Maxx Dilley, Risk Identification, a Critical Component of Disaster Risk Management, WMO Bulletin 55 (1), Jan 2006 |
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| Maxx Dilley, Robert S. Chen, Uwe Deichmann, Arthur L. Lerner-Lam, Margaret Arnold, Jonathan Agwe, Piet Buys, Oddvar Kjekstad, Bradfield Lyon and Gregory Yetman, "Natural Disaster Hotspots: a Global Risk Analysis", The World Bank and Columbia University, March 2005 |
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| SESSION III and WORKING GROUP B: Technical and Operational Capacities for Observing, Detecting, Monitoring, Forecasting and Warnings of Hazards |
| Presentations from Panellists |
| Dr Alan Douglas (UK Met Office, UK), Status of Existing Observing Networks for Weather-, Water-, and Climate-Related Hazards: Gaps and Needs in Current Observing Networks. |
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| Dr David Burridge (Former Executive Director of ECMWF, UK), Modelling and Forecasting Technologies for Hydro-Meteorological Events from the Next Hour to Climate Time Frames: Gaps and Needs for Enhancing Forecasting Capabilities and Technologies. |
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| Mr Curtis Barrett (National Weather Service, USA), Viability of a Multi-hazard Approach to Operational Regional Centre in Support of Early Warning Systems. |
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| Dr Patricio Bernal (UNESCO-IOC), Tsunami Early Warning System: Viability of a Multi-Hazard Approach for Enhanced Coastal Risk Management. |
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| Mr Filipe D. F. Lucio (Instituto Nacional de Meteorologia, Mozambique), Status of Scientific and Technical Capacities in Developing and Least Developed Countries in Support of Early Warning Systems: Needs, Gaps and Challenges. |
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| Mr Philippe Dandin (Météo-France), Enhanced early warning for better coastal or marine risk management. |
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| Reference Documents |
| John Kelly, The Global Observing System: its impacts and future. |
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| Susan Barrell, Benefits, challenges and issues of multi-hazard approach to observing networks. |
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| WMO-HWR, Benefits, challenges and issues of multi-hazard approach for the development of warnings. |
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| SESSION IV and WORKING GROUP C: Communication and Dissemination Mechanisms |
| Presentations from Panellists |
| Ms Tanja Cegnar (Slovenia), Introduction. |
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| Dr Cosmas Zavazava (ITU), National Challenges and Needs for Emergency Communication. |
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| Dr Fredrick Branski (NOAA, USA), Global Communication Needs for multi-hazard data and information at International and Regional levels in support of National Early Warning Systems. |
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| Mr Pierre-Alexandre Genillon (WorldSpace France), Satellite-Based Technologies for the National and Regional Dissemination of Early Warnings and Related Critical Data and Information. |
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| Mr José Rubiera (Met Service of Cuba), Experience of Cuba in Early Warnings. |
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| Ms Eunice Mucache (Mozambique Red Cross Society), Disseminating messages to vulnerable communities. |
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| Ms Haleh Kootval (WMO), Critical Need for Education, Training and Public Outreach Programmes between Technical Agencies, and their Stakeholders (Emergency Preparedness Authorities, Media, other Relevant National Agencies). |
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| SESSION V and WORKING GROUP D: Integration of Risk Information and Early Warnings in Emergency Preparedness, Planning and Response |
| Presentations from Panellists |
| Mr Ricardo Mena (OCHA), A few fundamental questions. |
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| Mr Horst Letz (IFRC), Introduction. |
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| Ms Eunice Mucache (Mozambique Red Cross Society), Integrating Early Warnings in Disaster Preparedness and Response Plans. |
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| Dr Francoise Bénichou (Météo-France) & Mr Jean-Michel Tanguy (SCHAPI), Lessons Learned from France’s Vigilance System for Enhanced Emergency Preparedness and Response. |
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| Dr Juan Carlos Villagran de Leon (Institute for Environment and Human Security, UNU), The Anticipated Response: an Essential Element in End-to-End Community-Early Warning Systems. |
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| Ms Joanne Burke (UNDP Disaster Management Training Programme), Lessons Learnt through UNDP’s Capacity Building Programme for Disaster Risk Reduction and Opportunities for Capacity Building in Early Warning Systems. (Tentative) |
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| Mr Kazuhiko Fukami (International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Management) |
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| Reference Documents |
| Horst Letz, Community-Based Preparedness and Response to Multi-Hazard Early Warning |
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| Ricardo Mena, Integration of Risk Information and EW in Emergency Preparedness, Planning and Response |
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| WMO-HWR, Building Resilience through Community Participation |
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