Day 2, Tuesday 1 October |
09:00 – 10:30 | 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)
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10:30 – 12:00 | 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)
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Side Events | Droughts in Transboundary Basins: Insights from the 3rd SDG 6.5.2 Report and beyond | From Global to Local: Addressing the Drought and Displacement Nexus for Resilient Communities | UNCCD & IDMP Communities of Learning and Practice: collaborative approaches to drought management and resilience | Impact-based drought prediction – from science to practice. What’s needed and what’s possible? | South Asia, MENA and Southern Africa Regions: Leading the Way in Drought Adaptation |
14:00 – 15:30 | Plenary Session on Social Inclusion and Climate Justice – Workstream 6 |
15:30 – 17:00 | 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)
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Side Events | The International Drought Resilience Observatory Unveiled: Revolutionizing Global Drought Resilience | Gender and Social Inclusion in Drought Management: Policy and Practice | The current state of drought monitoring in South America – progress and perspectives | Global Report on the Economics of Drought – benefits of proactive investments to improve drought readiness | Best Practices for private sector and civil society participation |