GLOBAL FACILITY FOR DISASTER REDUCTION AND RECOVERY

Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Reduction and Assessing Disaster Damage and Losses in Development

Training Workshop for Sub-Saharan Africa

14-17 April, 2008

Novotel Hotel, Dakar, Senegal

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

08.15-09.00	DAY 1: MONDAY, APRIL 14 Registration
09.00–10.30	Opening Ceremonies Chair: Republic of Senegal Welcome by Host Government Opening Statements: Bouri Jean Victor Sanhouidi, UN Resident Coordinator, Senegal African Union World Bank Keynote speech – Hon. Minister of Interior, Republic of Senegal Group photograph
10.30–11.00	BREAK
Chair: Bouri Jean Victor Sanhouidi, UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative, Senegal Theme: The HFA – shared understanding and implementation challenges in Africa Objectives: exchange common understanding on disaster risk reduction concepts, the Hyogo Framework for Action and the ISDR system learn lessons from how countries assessed and responded to recent disasters as impetus for mainstreaming identify key factors and processes in mainstreaming disaster risk reduction from country experiences
11.00 -13.00	Presentation and discussion of Workshop Agenda by Seth Vordzorgbe, UN/ISDR Panel presentation and plenary discussions 1. Enhancing understanding of disaster risk reduction, ISDR and the HFA by Helena Molin-Valdes, Deputy Director, UNISDR 2. Status of GFDRR at the country level in SSA (Track II and Track III) by Trond Vedeld, Regional Disaster Risk Coordinator, Africa Region, The World Bank 3. Disaster risk reduction in Sub-Saharan Africa – progress and challenges by Foday Bojang, Commission of the African Union Plenary discussions
13.00–14.30	LUNCH
14.30-16.00	How countries have responded to recent disasters in Africa Chair/Discussant: Ms. Gina Rakotorimana, Bureau National pour la Gestion des Risques des Catastrophes, Madagascar Panel presentation 1. Ghana 2. Mozambique (tbc) Plenary discussions
16.00-16.30	BREAK
16.30-18.00	How countries have mainstreamed disaster reduction into their development processes Chair/Discussant: Micho D. Mwaluma, Deputy Secretary, Office of the President, Kenya Panel presentation 1.Senegal 2. South Africa Plenary discussions Workshop Facilitator’s recap and perspectives for DRR
DAY 2: TUESDAY APRIL 15 Chair: Ms. Mabuza Khangezime Glory, Director, Budget and Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Kingdom of Swaziland Theme: mainstreaming disaster risk reduction and climate change into development Objectives: raise participants’ awareness of the need to base mainstreaming on a firm knowledge of hazard risks and vulnerabilities expose participants to the range of available tools representing a common base of knowledge in mainstreaming disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation outline linkages between disaster risk reduction and climate change at the national and household levels agree on institutional, coordination and monitoring requirements for effectively integrating disaster risk reduction into development identify existing country capacities and opportunities for strengthening capacities for mainstreaming
08.30-09.30 09.30-10.30	Panel presentations I – risk assessment and mainstreaming 1. Disaster risk assessment: a critical step in mainstreaming DRR by Seth Vordzorgbe, UNISDR 2. Mainstreaming DRR: tools and practical considerations in application by Fenella Frost, UNDP/BCPR Plenary discussions
10.30-11.00	BREAK
11.00-11.45 11.45-12.45 12.45-13.00	Panel presentations II – climate change, climate variability, vulnerability and disaster risk reduction 1. Climate change, human vulnerability, and social risk management for rural households by Paul B. Siegel, Consultant 2. Reducing risk to climate hazards as part of sub-regional and national development - linking the climate change and DRR agenda by Simon Anderson, International Institute for Environment and Development Plenary discussions Working Groups formation and guidance
13.00-14.30	LUNCH
14.30-15.30 15.30-16.00 16.00-16.30	Parallel Working Groups Session Working Group A – risk assessment as the central step in mainstreaming 1. What information on hazard risks and vulnerabilities is necessary for mainstreaming? 2. How can hazard and vulnerability knowledge be applied in mainstreaming? 3. What are the key capacity needs in planning and managing risk assessment? Group Facilitator – Seth Vordzorgbe, UNISDR Working Group B - institutional dimensions of mainstreaming 1. What are appropriate Institutional roles and structures for mainstreaming? 2. How best can institutions involved in mainstreaming coordinate their roles? 3. What are key benchmarks for monitoring and assessing progress in mainstreaming? 4. What are the key capacity implications for mainstreaming DRR? Group Facilitator – Fenella Frost, UNDP/BCPR Working Group C - linking disaster risk reduction and climate change/climate variability adaptation How is the Hyogo Framework for Action useful as a guide for identifying risk-reducing adaptation measures? How can strategies and tools of climate change adaptation serve as mechanisms for DRR? How best can climate change focal points and disaster managers be brought together to develop and implement national plans for adaptation and for reducing risk? What are the key capacity implications in integrating disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation? Group Facilitators – Paul Siegel (Consultant) and Simon Andersen (IIED) Working Groups presentations Plenary discussions
16.30-17.00	BREAK
17.00-18.30 19.30-20.45	Follow-up: Strengthening capacities for mainstreaming Objective: Identifying capacity challenges facing countries in mainstreaming and opportunities for enhancing them 1. Presentations by countries (Kenya, Djibouti, Malawi, Madagascar, Burkina Faso): current or anticipated capacity challenges in mainstreaming 2. Presentations by UNISDR, UNDP, WHO, FAO and the World Bank,: opportunities and approaches for strengthening country capacities for mainstreaming Workshop Dinner
DAY 3: WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16 Chair: Mr. D. Herve Ludovic de Lys, Director, OCHA/ROWA Theme: Disaster damage and loss assessment Objectives: expose participants to the range of available tools representing a common base of knowledge for assessing disaster damage and losses identify information and other requirements for effective damage and loss assessment expose participants to estimation of financial needs for recovery and reconstruction using information from damage and loss assessment
08.30-08.45 08.45-09.30 09.30-10.00 10.00-10.30 10.30-11.00	Overview of Day 2 and link to Day 3: By Seth Vordzorgbe, UNISDR Session Presenter and Facilitator: Roberto Jovel, World Bank Consultant 1. Conceptual framework and capabilities and limitations of the ECLAC Methodology for damage and loss assessment in Sub-Saharan Africa Plenary discussion 2. Damage and loss assessment in infrastructure sectors (housing, transport, water, electricity) Plenary discussion
11.00-11.15	BREAK
11.15-11.45 11.45-12.30 12.30-13.00	3. Damage and loss assessment in social sectors (education and health) Plenary discussion 4. Damage and loss assessment in productive sectors (agriculture, industry, tourism)
13.00-14.30	LUNCH
14.30-15.00 15.00-15.30 15,30-16.00	Plenary discussion – loss assessment in productive sectors 5. Practical considerations for damage and loss assessment Discussion
16.00-16.30	BREAK
16.30-17.00 17.00-17.30 17.30-18.00 18.00-18.30	6. Assessment of macro-economic impact of disasters Discussion 7. Estimating financial needs for recovery and reconstruction, from damage and loss assessment Summary discussion
DAY 4: THURSDAY, APRIL 17 Chair: Foday Bojang, Commission of the African Union Theme: Assessing and reporting progress on strategic areas of the Hyogo Framework for Action Objectives: to expose participants to the HFA reporting framework, process, methodology and mechanisms have countries agree on national and regional indicators and timelines for reporting on progress on HFA implementation to UNISDR secretariat
08.30-08.40 08.40-09.00 09.00-09.20 09.20-09.50 09.50-10.15 10.15-11.00	Recap of Day 3 by Seth Vordzorgbe, UN/ISDR Importance of HFA Reporting within the ISDR system by Helena Molin-Valdes, UN/ISDR Overview of the ISDR-Africa Framework for HFA reporting by Pedro Basabe, UN/ISDR Plenary discussion of ISDR-Africa framework for HFA reporting Processes for implementing the overall ISDR Framework for HFA reporting – the on-line mechanism by Shefali Juneja, UN/ISDR Plenary discussion of HFA reporting issues
11.00-11.30	BREAK
11.30-12.30	Agreements on regional HFA reporting in Africa by country and REC representatives
12.30-13.30	Closing overview of workshop deliberations: Seth Vordzorgbe, UN/ISDR Closing remarks: UNDP, UNISDR, World Bank Closing Statement: Government of the Republic of Senegal