Munich Re Foundation Symposium Worldwide disaster prevention - Awareness is the keyDownloadable Documents  | Participants | 100 experts and representatives from the fields of politics, economics and science | | | Location | Akademie Schloss Hohenkammer, Munich, Germany
www.schlosshohenkammer.de | | | Hosted by | Munich Re Foundation
| | | Patronage | Irmgard Schwaetzer, DKKV | |
GoalThe goal is to identify possibilities to improve global disaster assistance: We need to find out how international efforts can be better combined. Further important issue: To what extent are crucial issues such as risk awareness implemented in disaster preparedness strategies? The needs at the very “last mile” will play an important role – here we should find out how disaster assistance can be further optimized finding sustainable and culture adequate solutions. Agenda| Arrival | 15.11.2005 | | | 16:00 – 20:00 | Registration | | | 19:00 | Dinner | | | 20:00 - 22:00 | Welcome, get-together - welcome drinks | |
| Day 1 | 16.11.2005 | Download PDF | | 8:30 | Registration | | | 10:00 - 11:15 | Plenary
Welcome Address & Keynotes | | | Thomas Loster, Munich Re Foundation
Bernd Eisenblätter, gtz
Úrsula Oswald Spring, CRIM-UNAM
Salvano Briceño, UN-ISDR
Johan Schaar, IFRC | Presentation Eisenblätter (75 KB) Statement Briceno (239 KB)
Presentation Briceno (1.8 MB)
Presentation Ursula Oswald Spring (1.9 MB) | | 11:15 - 12:45 | Plenary Presentations
Recent Mega Disasters – Setting the Scene | | 11:15 - 11:45
11:45 - 12:15
12:15 - 12:45 | Peter Hoeppe, Munich Re/Geo Risks Research
Worldwide Natural Disasters – Effects and Trends
Holger Neuweger, AgenZ/gtz
The Millennium Tsunami – Impressions from Banda Aceh
Ernst Rauch, Munich Re/Geo Risks Research
Hurricane Katrina – Effects at the Last Mile | Presentation Hoeppe (2.5 MB)
Presentation Neuweger (1.7 MB)
Presentation Rauch (2.2 MB) | | 12:45 - 14:00 | Lunch | | | 14:00 - 18:00 | Thematic Slot 1 – The Needs
Tailor-Made Solutions for International Disaster Prevention, Awareness and Preparedness in the Developing World | | | 14:00 - 15:30 | Plenary Session – What is needed?
Concept paper by international NGO representatives or community based personalities (also findings from case studies):What are the needs of vulnerable communities/people at risk? Where are visible gaps in risk assessment? How can we better serve people at risk? Christoph Bals, Germanwatch, Germany [Chair] Victor Orindi, African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS), Kenya
Rosalinda Crescini-Tablang, Citizens' Disaster Response Center (CDRC), Philippines
Armie Almero, Center for Relief and Rehabilitation Education and Economic Development (CRREED), Philippines
Eunice Mucache, Red Cross, Mozambique
| Presentation Bals (163 KB) Summary Bals (112 KB) Presentation Orindi (2.2 MB) Presentation Crescini-Tablang and Almero (1.9 MB)
Presentation Mucache (710 KB) | | 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break | | | 16:00 - 17:00 | Discussion Slot 1 | | | 17:00 - 18:30 | Conclusioin - the most urgent issues | | | 19:00 - 23:00 | Dinner and Informal Evening Reception | |
| Day 2 | 17.11.2005 | Download PDF | | 09:00 - 12:00 | Parallel Sessions - Working Groups | | Parallel
Session 1
09:00 – 12:00 | Thematic Slot 2 – Strategies
Risk Management Solution Concepts and International Strategies | | | Disaster prevention initiatives outline risk mitigation strategies focusing on key issues, i.e.:
- the very last mile/people at risk
- risk awareness. | | | 09:00 – 10:30 | David Peppiatt, ProVention Consortium, Switzerland [Chair] Johan Schaar, IFRC, Geneva/Switzerland
Building Safer Communities
Maryam Golnaraghi, WMO, Geneva/Switzerland
WMO’s Global Multi-Hazard Strategy for Reducing the Risk of Hydro-Meteorological Hazards
Stefanie Dannenmann, ISDR,
The Hyogo Framework for Action and the ISDR
Maxx Dilley, UNDP, Geneva/Switzerland
Strengthening Government Capacity to reduce Risk
Hinrich Mercker, InWent, Germany
Capacity Building - The InWent Approach
Thomas Schaef, gtz, Germany
International Cooperation in the Context of Disasters
Karl-Otto Zentel, DKKV, Germany
Disaster Prevention Networks – a Country Approach | Key findings - Slot 2 (92 KB)
Presentation Peppiatt (60 KB)
Presentation Golnaraghi (349 KB)
Presentation Dannenmann (33 KB)
Presentation Dilley (444 KB)
Presentation Schaef (132 KB)
Presentation Zentel (134 KB) | | 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break | | | 11:00 – 12:00 | Conclusion – the most urgent issues | | Parallel
Session 2
09:00 - 12:00 | Thematic Slot 3 – Financial solutions
Financial Disaster Risk Management Solutions in Force - Lessons Learnt | | | 09:00 – 12:00 | Practitioners, politicians, financial experts and engineers present financial risk management solutions in place (or almost in place) and explain key implementation issues (obstacles, time frames, surprises). What can we learn from these examples? | | | 09:00 – 10:30 | Eugene Gurenko, World Bank, Washington [Chair]
Hüseyin Yunak, Milli Re, Turkey
The Turkish Earthquake Insurance Pool (TCIP) – 5 Years of Experience
Francis Ghesquiere, World Bank, Washington
Contingent Credit – the Colombia Experience/The Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Initiative
Leila Moonda, SAIA, South Africa
The SAIA Mzansi Micro Insurance product and the SA Financial Sector Charter
Narender Kande, DHAN Foundation, India
Agro Index Schemes in South India – a Micro Solution
Reinhard Mechler, IIASA, Austria
The Mexico Cat Bond – a solution for countries at risk? | Key findings - Slot 3 (56 KB)
Warner/Bouwer - Disaster Assistance (58 KB)
Yunak - Experience in Turkey (80 KB)
Presentation Ghesquiere (440 KB)
Presentation Moonda (217 KB)
Presentation Kande (173 KB)
Presentation Mechler (632 KB) | | 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break | | | 11:00 – 12:00 | Concluding Session – the most urgent issues | | Parallel
Session 3
09:00 - 12:00 | Workshop
Disaster Assistance: Challenges, Innovations, Solutions at the Community Level | | | 09:00 – 12:00 | Joint workshop on possible risk management solutions on community level in different scales. What is needed? What can be implemented? How can we fill public-private partnerships with life? | | | 09:00 – 10:30 | Juan Carlos Villagrán, UN-University, Germany, [Chair]
Walter Ammann, Koko Warner, SLF/DRM, Switzerland [Chair]Robert Muir-Wood, RMS, United Kingdom
Insuring climate change?
Henri P. Josserand, René Gommes, FAO, Italy
Building Yield Indices for Crop Insurance – African Solutions
Marshall Silver, UNDP, Vietnam/Laos
Disaster Insurance in Vietnam – the Path to Obligatory Solutions
Gordon Woo, RMS, United Kingdom
Remittances & Risk Transfer
Other Speakers | Summary Workshop (48 KB)
Presentation Ammann (223 KB)
Presentation Muir-Wood (774 KB)
Presentation Josserand and Gommes (670 KB)
Josserand - Early Warning (97 KB)
Presentation Silver (370 KB)
Presentation Woo (219 KB) | | 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee Break | | | 11:00 – 12:00 | Concluding Session – the most urgent issues | | | 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch | | | 13:15 - 15:30 | Plenary Conclusion Session
Recommendations regarding the Most Urgent and Cost-Effective Options for Optimizing Disaster Preparedness | | 13:15 – 14:15
14:15 - 15:45 | Working Group Reports (Themes 1,2,3 and Workshop):
Presentation of the most urgent issues
Discussion:
Setting of priorities by the plenum “The ten most urgent issues!”
Report of the conference results to the patron Irmgard Schwaetzer | Hohenkammer Charta - "The ten most important challenges for optimised risk prevention" (11 KB) | | 15:45 - 16:00 | Closing | |
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