Monday 30 September
Opening Session
- Managing the Enigma of Drought: It’s Not About our Toolsets, It’s About our Mindset! – Mark Svoboda, PhD, Director and Professor (National Drought Mitigation Center – University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Plenary Session on Drought Resilience and Global Mechanisms – Workstream 1
- Droughts GAR Special Report 2021: Findings and Recommendations – Jenty Kirsch-Wood, Head of Global Risk Analysis and Reporting (UNDRR)
- Nature Restoration Financing as a tool for drought risk management
- Providing consistent data and information on the status of water resources as the basis for integrated drought risk management – Stefan Uhlenbrook, Director, Hydrology, Water and Cryosphere (WMO)
Plenary Session on Drought Risk Governance: The Regional, National, and Local Challenges – Workstream 2
- Governance: From drought risk to resilience – Roger S. Pulwarty, Senior Scientist (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA))
Plenary Session on Drought impact Monitoring, Assessment and Forecasting – Workstream 3
Tuesday 1 October
Plenary Session on the Need to Turn Drought Policies into Action – Workstream 4
- The Age of Resilience: Drought Challenges & Opportunities at the Global level – Daniel Tsegai, Programme Officer (UNCCD)
- Institutional coordination mechanisms for drought management: A global taxonomy – Maher Salman, Senior Land and Water Officer, AWM Lead (UN-FAO)
- Drought Monitoring, Impact Assessment and Forecasting – Andrea Toreti, Senior Scientist (JRC); Robert Stefanski, Chief, Applied Climate Services Division (WMO); Mark Svoboda, PhD, Director and Professor (National Drought Mitigation Center – University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
- Youth-Led Initiatives Addressing Drought – JulietGrace Luwedde, Global Focal Point (UNCCD Youth Caucus)
- Policies Into Investment Design – Nathan Engle, Senior Water Resources Management Specialist (The World Bank)
- Regional cooperation for drought management – Péter MOLNÁR, General Directorate for Water Management (Hundary)
- Policy options for enhancing the drought agenda at national level – Biljana Kilibarda, MSc, Institute of Hydrometeorology and Seismology, Montenegro (UNCCD NFP), Chair (UNCCD CRIC)
- Policy Options For Enhancing The Drought Agenda At The National Level – Bongani Masuku, Principal Secretary (Ministry of Agriculture, Kingdom of Eswatini)
Plenary Session on Ecosystems – Workstream 5
- Key Insights into Droughts and Ecosystems Research – Anne Sophie Sabino Siemons, PhD (Vrije University)
- Accelerating Adaptation: Nature-based Solutions for drought (and flood) resilience – Tom Iseman, Director of Water Scarcity and Markets for the Global Freshwater Program (The Nature Conservancy)
- Managing Drought and Ecosystems in Arid regions: the case study of Saudi Arabia – Matteo Zampieri, Senior Scientist (Climate Change Center, National Center for Meteorology, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia – Physical Sciences and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia)
- Leveraging Industry 4.0 Technologies for Managing Soil Salinization and Drought – Nima Shokri, Professor, Chair of Geo-Hydroinformatics and the Director (Institute of Geo-Hydroinformatics, Hamburg University of Technology)
Plenary Session on Social Inclusion and Climate Justice – Workstream 6
- Introduction – Andre Itan Valencia, Project Support Officer (IOM)
- Gender Integration in National Drought Plans – Case of Zambia – Dr Nawa Shalala Mwale, Gender Advisor (GWP South Africa (GWPSA))
- Integrating Traditional Knowledge With Modern Technology to Manage Drought in Local Communities using e-PRA (Participatory Rural Appraisal) and Google Earth Imagery – Prachi D. Patil, Senior Program Officer (Watershed Support Services and Activities Network (WASSAN))
Plenary Session on Drought Risk Finance – Workstream 7
- Guide on Workstream 7 – Maher Salman, Senior Land and Water Officer -AWM Team Lead (UN-FAO)
- AI-powered monitoring and assessment of drought finance flows – Dávid Papp, PhD (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
- Evolution of the design of public investment design in drought risk management – Eva Pek, Land and Water Officer (UN-FAO)
- The economic cost of drought – an upcoming report – Mark Schauer, Senior Avisor (ELD Initiative)
- Financial instruments to address drought impacts in Montenegro –
- Biljana Kilibarda, MSc, Institute of Hydrometeorology and Seismology, Montenegro (UNCCD NFP), Chair (UNCCD CRIC)
- The Survival and Recovery Assistance Program for Sustainable Recovery of Farmers and Fisherfolks – PATRICK BENSON B. ESPANTO, (Department of Agriculture – Bureau of Soils and Water Management, The Philippines)
- Private financing: challenges and opportunities – Mónica Altamirano de Jong, PhD (Altamira)
Wednesday 2 October
Plenary Session on Public-Private-Civil Society Partnerships – Workstream 8
- Introduction
- Public-Private-Civil Society partnerships: Drought in Brazil: Proactive Management and Policy
- Partnerships for Drought Monitoring in Eswatini
- The practice of social participation in desertification prevention and control: Taking 100 Million Suosuo Initiative as an example – Jing Sun, Director of Desertification Prevention and Control (SEE Foundation)
- DR in the Colorado River Basin: Partnerships and Patience
Plenary Session on Health – Workstream 9
- Health Threats from Drought – Antonios Kolimenakis, Technical Officer Climate Change and Health (WHO); Dr Carlos Corvalan, Climate Change and Health Expert (WHO); Dr Aderita Sena, Climate Change and Health Expert, (WHO)
- Drought Impacts on WASH – Richard Johnston, Co-Lead (WHO, WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme on Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene (JMP))
- Drought and Public Health: A Roadmap for Advancing Engagement and Preparedness – Elizabeth Ossowski, M.S., Sr. Program Manager, (National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA))
- Drought and Health: Communication & Engagement – Summer Woolsey, Communications and outreach coordinator (MPH, University of Nebraska Medical Center)
- Drought and Health – Jesse E. Bell, PhD (University of Nebraska Medical Center)