Agenda: SDN Week 2011 - Disaster Risk Management (January 31 - Feburary 3, 2010, Washington, DC)

Day 1
January 31, 2011

 

Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation

9:00 – 9:15

Welcome and Introduction
Abhas Jha, Milen Dyoulgerov

9:15 – 10:30

Financing and Implementing Climate Risk Management

Speaker:

Astrid Hillers, Senior Environmental Specialist, ENV, and Siv Tokle, Senior Operations Officer, ENVGC, “Financing Climate Risk Management: MDB-Implemented Funds”

Julie Dana, Senior Financial Officer, BDM, “Drought Risk Financing”

Niels B. Holm-Nielsen, Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist, LCSUW, “Financing Climate Risk Management for SIDS”

Philippe Ambrosi, Environmental Economist, ENV, Financing Climate Risk Management: An Overview of Adaptation Resources”

 Q&A

Moderator: Abhas Jha

10:30 – 10:45

Coffee Break

10:45 – 12:00

 

The opportunities and operational implications of financing climate smart development

 Panel Discussion
Sofia Bettencourt, Lead Operations Officer, AFTEN
Astrid Hillers, Senior Environmental Specialist, ENV
 Niels Holm-Nielsen, Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist, LCSUW  Abhas Jha, Lead Urban Specialist and Regional Coordinator DRM, EASIN Shobha Shetty, Sector Leader, AFTAR

Panel Facilitator: Marjory Anne Bromhead

Day 2
February 1, 2011
 

6:00 – 8:30

DRM Highlights from the Regions – Progress made over the past year in a specific DRM (country) program
 

AFR – “Introducing Togo as a good practice DRM Country in Africa” (presenter Paolo Caputo)

LCR – “the Haiti Structural Assessment Program” (presented by Ross Gartley)

ECA – “Promoting Regional Cooperation in Disaster Risk Reduction” (presenter Alison Cave and Salman Anees)

SAR – “Regional overview of DRM activities” (presenter Bernice Van Bronkhorst)

EAP – "From DRR planning to sectoral actions: on-going experience in Indonesia" (presenter Iwan Gunawan, Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist)

 

Moderator: Christoph Pusch 

 

8:30 – 9:00

Registration and Coffee

9:00 - 9:15

Welcome
Saroj Jha, Program Manager, GFDRR
 

Opening Remarks
Zoubida Allaoua, Director, Finance, Economics and Urban Development

9:00 – 9:45

 Keynote Speech

"Integrating Disaster and Climate Risk Management in Urban Development - Lessons Learned from the Philippines",

by His Excellency Jejomar C. Binay, Vice President, Philippines

9:45 – 10:45

The Economics of Disaster Risk Reduction

 Presentation by Apurva Sanghi of Natural Hazards, UnNatural Disasters, the Economics of Effective Prevention.

 Panel discussion: “The implication of the EDRR findings on the global DRM agenda“
 

 Guand Zhe Chen, Sector Manager LCSUW

 Jonathan S. Kamkwalala, Sector Manager AFTWR

 Laszlo Lovei, Sector Director MNSSD

 John A. Roome, Sector Director EASSD

 John Henry Stein, Sector Director SASSD

 Wael Zakout, Sector Manager ECCS6

 

Moderator: Zoubida Allaoua, Director FEU

10:45 – 11:00

Coffee Break

11:20 – 12:50

Examples from successful DRR Mainstreaming Approaches in the Regions
 

EAP - "Increasing resilience to natural hazards and climate change in Vietnam" (presented by Zoe Elena Trohanis, Infrastructure Specialist)

AFR – “West Africa Floods 2010 - Respond to prevent” (presenters Carl Dingel and Doekle Wielinga)

ECA – “The Integration of Disaster Risk Mitigation Measures in Istanbul Municipality” (presenter Mara Warwick)

LCR - "The Resettlement Toolkit for Risk Reduction" (presented by Elena Correa)

MNA – “Morocco – Yemen, Towards mainstreaming Disaster Risk Management” (presenters Pierre Rondot and Deepali Tewari)

 

Moderator: Deepali Tewari

12:50

Break for Lunch

13:00 – 14:00

Joint lunch for DRM and Urban Staff in MC Front Lobby (by registration only)

14:00 – 14:30

Speech

“Challenges and Opportunities for Sustainable Development, Perspectives from the Philippines VP”

Address by His Excellency Jejomar C. Binay, Vice President, Philippines to DRM, Urban and Water staff, Preston Auditorium

 Day 3
February 2, 2011

12:50

Break for Lunch

9:00 – 9:20

Welcome and Introduction
Francis Ghesquiere

9:20 – 11:00

GFDRR Disaster Risk Management Labs Overview

Presentations by Stuart Gill, Abigail Baca, Sahar Safaie, Emma Phillips, Keiko Saito and Will Pate

Q&A moderated by Francis Ghesquiere

 

11:00

End of Session

 Day 4
February 3, 2011

 

Innovation in Action: Disaster and Climate Risk Financing

9:00 – 9:20

Welcome and introduction

Olivier Mahul, Program Coordinator, Disaster Risk Financing, GCMNB and GFDRR

Alison Cave, Senior Urban Development Specialist, ECSS6

9:20 – 11:00

Disaster and Climate Risk Financing from Initiation to Implementation

Olivier Mahul, WB disaster risk financing framework  Panel discussion with WB regional representatives and World Bank Treasury representatives on the perspective from the field on engaging in and developing disaster risk financing projects

Niels B. Holm-Nielsen, Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist, LCSUW: "DPL with Cat DDO in Colombia."

Iwan Gunawan, Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialist, EASIS: "Disaster risk financing in the Indonesia DRM program"

Alison Cave, Senior Urban Development Specialist, ECSS6: "The regional Southeast Europe and the Caucasus Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility."

Issam Abousleiman, Lead Financial Officer/Head of Banking Products, BDM: "Treasury’s intermediation role in disaster risk financing"

Q&A

10:30 – 12:00

The Pacific Catastrophe Risk Assessment and Financing Initiative (PCRAFI): A View from the Field

Panel on current progress and expected outputs of the Pacific Catastrophe Risk Assessment and Financing Initiative

Paolo Bazzurro, Director, AIR Worldwide: "Catastrophe risk assessment and modeling tools for the Pacific"

Iain Shuker, Program Coordinator, AFTAR: "Disaster risk financing applications for the Pacific"

Michael Bonte-Grapentin, Disaster Risk Management Specialist, EASNS: "Disaster risk reduction applications for the Pacific"

Q&A