Monday, May 16
08:00 – 18:00 Second partnership council meeting, global resilience partnership (by invite only) – Global Resilience Partnership
09:00 – 12:00 Designing robust projects in face of deep uncertainty – World Bank Group
09:00 – 16:00 Applied disaster risk assessment (DRA) – Improving the evaluation and quantification of natural hazards – Ambiental Technical Solutions Ltd.
09:00 – 16:00 Training on concepts and terminology for analytics related to disaster risk finance and insurance – World Bank Group
09:00 – 17:00 Building a community of practice for resilience of small island states to climate and disaster risks (by invite only) – World Bank Group & GFDRR
09:00 – 17:00 Build a mobile weather station in one day with open source hardware and software – Code for Resilience, International Water Management Institute & GFDRR
10:00 – 12:00 Let´s shake your community – Earthquake hazard mapping approach for community resilience – Disaster Risk Management Hub Tokyo – GFDRR, World Bank Group
13:00 – 15:30 Getting to safe: Understanding the nexus of disasters, conflict and fragility – Germany, GFDRR, UNDP, World Bank, WHS Secretariat
13:00 – 16:00 Solving the puzzle: Where to invest to understand risk (by invite only)- UK Department for International Development (DFID) & GFDRR
13:00 – 17:00 Systems thinking: A new perspective on strategy (by invite only) – SecondMuse
Tuesday, May 17
08:00 – 18:00 Second partnership council meeting, global resilience partnership (by invite only) – Global Resilience Partnership
09:00 – 11:00 Disaster and climate risk-sensitive planning for public investment decisions: Learning from two public-sector experiences of Peru and Lao PDR – Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), Bangkok and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH
09:00 – 11:00 Safe to smart: Risk as a milestone in ‘Smart City’ planning – ARUP
09:00 – 12:00 Building a community of practice for resilience of small island states to climate and disaster risks (by invite only) – World Bank Group & GFDRR
09:00 – 12:00 Earth observations, open data and climate services for climate risk management and humanitarian programming in developing countries – International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Societies; Columbia University, International Research Institute for Climate and Society; Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre; European Space Agency – ESRIN: Earth Observation Science & Applications
09:00 – 12:00 Flood risk management – Bringing needs and tools together – riocom
09:00 – 17:00 Learning InaSAFE through open data for resilience serious game! – GFDRR, Open Data for Resilience Initiative (OpenDRI), InaSAFE, DM Innovation, Australian Aid & Kartoza
09:00 – 17:00 RASOR global community of practice – Inaugural meeting – Rasor Project
09:45 – 17:00 Learning across communities of practice: Risk assessment for disaster risk reduction and climate risk management – Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change (CMCC), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
13:00 – 15:00 Comprehensive climate risk management – Linking disaster and climate risk management concepts and implementation – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
13:00 – 15:00 Responsible data use in understanding risk – UN OCHA, GovLab, Humanitarian Data Exchange & GFDRR
13:00 – 16:00 Building a global database of flood protection standards – VU University, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM)
13:00 – 16:00 Changing the course: Science and forecast-based financing make humanitarians act faster! – Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre
14:00 – 18:00 Dealing with coastal risks in small island states. Training session on simple assessments of coastal problems and solutions in small island developing states (by invite only) – Deltares, SimpleCoast, GFDRR & World Bank Group
15:30 – 17:00 Opportunity mapping for ecosystem based approaches to disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation – United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
15:30 – 17:00 Protecting the poor from natural disasters – Better data, faster response – World Bank Group
Wednesday, May 18
09:00 – 10:30 DRR in fragile settings – The case of Afghanistan – GFDRR & World Bank Group
09:00 – 10:30 Engage with INFORM – The index for risk management – UN OCHA, DG-ECHO – European Commission, Joint Research Centre – European Commission
09:00 – 10:30 Turning adversity into opportunity: Moving towards resilient post-disaster recovery – UNDP, EU, World Bank & GFDRR
09:00 – 11:00 Risk assessment, risk reduction and risk mitigation – What role do models, numbers, text and stories play? – EURAC Research
09:00 – 12:00 Satellite data for enhanced risk management and reduction – Innovative technologies and future applications – The Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (CEOS)
09:00 – 12:00 Developing evidence-based risk profiles for public policy and decision making – United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
09:00 – 12:00 Urban floods and last mile early warning: Serious gaming, partnership discussion for practitioners and more! – Sponsored by the Urban Flood Community of Practice (World Bank)
09:00 – 12:00 Young scientists platform on DRR – Young Scientists Platform, UN Major Group of Children and Youth