Workshop on Drought Mitigation & Preparedness: Benefits of Action and Costs of Inaction
Final Report
Concept Note
Presentations
- Social, environmental and economic cost of disasters: lessons from other natural hazards. How to assess the impacts and how to convey such information to Policy makers and financial institutions. The benefits of being prepared for disasters.
- The Need and Role of Drought Impact Information in the Context of Drought Risk Management – Mark Svoboda, Director of the US National Drought Mitigation Center
- Unbreakable; Building the Resilience of the Poor in the Face of Natural Disasters – Stephane Hallegatte, Lead Economist, GFDRR, World Bank
- The Economics of Disaster Risk Reduction – Sebnem Sahin, Senior Environmental Economist, World Bank
- The Cost of Disasters to Agriculture – Mira Markova, Statistics Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- The challenge of measuring Costs of Inaction/ Benefits of drought mitigation and preparedness
- The Challenge; Setting the Scene and Approach Taken – Frederik Pischke, Senior Programme and Network Officer, Global Water Partnership (GWP)
- Findings of the IDMP Working Paper – Nicolas Gerber, Senior Consultant for the Integrated Drought Management Programme (IDMP)
- World Bank experiences building drought resilience: problems and practical solutions encountered
- Vulnerability and Adaptation to Drought: Economic Impact Scenarios – Satya Priya, Senior Water Resources Management Specialist, WB
- World Bank experiences building drought resilience: problems and practical solutions encountered in Malawi – Veronique Morin and Francis Samson, Senior Disaster Risk Management Specialists, WB
- Resilience or Resignation: The Role of Agency and Risk Management in the Face of Climate Change in Poor, Rural Bolivia – Miriam Muller, Social Scientist, and Maria Eugenia Genoni, Senior Economist, WB
- World Bank experiences building drought resilience: lessons from Southern Africa – Catherine Signe Tovey, Program Leader, WB
- Confronting Drought in Africa’s Drylands; Opportunities for Enhancing Resilience – Raffaello Cervigni, Lead Environmental Economist, and Paola Agostini, Lead Environment Specialist, WB
- Learning from the experiences of the IDMP and the Workshops on “Capacity Development to Support National Drought Management Policies”
- The Challenges of Drought Preparedness: Lessons Learned and the Path Forward – Don Wilhite, Former Director of the US National Drought Mitigation Center and IDMP Chair
- Drought policy change: The Mexican case – Mario López Pérez, National Water Commission, México
- Capacity Development to Support National Drought Management Policies – Daniel Tsegai, Programme Officer at United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
- Fragility and conflicts: how drought impacts intensifies instability and vice versa
- The Vicious Cycle of Drought and Fragility in the Horn of Africa – Moses Mung’oni, Disaster Risk Management Specialist, WB
- Response and Impact of drought on East African pastoralists: case studies from Kenya and Tanzania – Terrence McCabe, Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Colorado Boulder
- Attempts to address the challenge across the World
- The Economics of Early Response and Resilience – Courtenay Cabot, Senior Consultant
- Estimating Economic Costs Droughts: Lessons Learned from California – Josué Medellín-Azuara, Senior Researcher, Center for Watershed Sciences, University of California, Davis
- Benefits of Water Institutional Reforms in Reducing Murray-Darling Drought Cost – Jeff Connor, Senior Researcher, University of South Australia
- The ecosystem services framework for measuring costs of inaction and (co-) benefits of action – Neville Crossman, Senior Researcher, University of Adelaide