Caribbean Early Warning System Workshop

WORKSHOP SESSIONS: Presentations and session concept notes:
Opening Ceremony

Session 1: EWS in the Caribbean (2000 – 2015): highlights, gaps,  lessons learnt and key points

• Early Warning Systems in the Caribbean: A Desk Review
  Jeremy Collymore, Honorary Research Fellow, Institute for Sustainable Development, University of the West Indies

• FORSAT: Strengthening of the Hydro-meteorological Early Warning System
  Pablo de Varona de Varona, Director, Observation Instruments and Methods Department, Meteorological Institute of Cuba (INSMET), Cuba

• Community-centered Flood EWS: the Central American Experience
  Pablo Gonzales, Principal Specialist and Chief, Organization of American States (OAS)

• Early Warning Systems: Best practice examples from the Pacific Region
  Pacific Delegation, Vanuatu Government, Vanuatu Red Cross, IFRC Pacific

Session 2: Institutional arrangements for EWS in the Caribbean: Regional to local

• Examining Governance and Institutional Arrangements  for Multi- Hazard EWS: A CDEMA Perspective
  Elizabeth Riley, Deputy Executive Director, CDEMA

• Bog Walk Gorge EWS & Road Closure St. Catherine, Jamaica
  Horace Glaze, Senior Director, Preparedness & Emergency Operations, Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM), Jamaica

• Anguilla’s Road to TsunamiReady
  Susan Hodge, Programme Officer, Department of Disaster Management, Anguilla

Session 3: Knowledge Fair Tools:

• Multi-Hazard App
  International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)

• The Checklist on Law and Disaster Risk Reduction
  International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

• Local and Inclusive Early Warning System toolkit including Family Emergency Plan Handicap International in support to the National System for Risk and Disaster Management, Haiti

Presentation:

• Strengthening Hydrometorological Operations and Services in Caribbean SIDS
  Nnyeka Prescod, Advisor of Transport and Disaster Risk Reduction, Association of Caribbean States (ACS)

Session 4: Harmonization of EWS towards multi-hazard application

• Harmonization in Early Warning Systems
  Jeremy Collymore, Honorary Research Fellow, Institute for Sustainable Development, University of the West Indies

• Caribbean Geological Risks Reduction Task Force - Think Tank on volcanic risks management
  Pierre Scholl, Disaster Risk Reduction Officer, French Red Cross

• Towards Harmonization of Caribbean EWS: Perspectives of the Seismic Research Centre, UWI
  Lloyd Lynch, Instrumentation Engineer, Seismic Research Centre, Universality of the West Indies

• Early Warning System: Response Capabilities, Saint Lucia
  Velda Joseph, Director, National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO), Saint Lucia

• Hamonization in Existing EWS
  Shawn Boyce, Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH)

• Perspective on harmonization around hazards and harmonization within the EWS component - Dissemination and Communication
  Kerry Hinds, Director (a.i.), Disaster Emergency Management (DEM)

• Institutional Arrangement, Harmonization for Early Warning Systems
  Donna Pierre, Disaster Risk Management Specialist, CDEMA

Session 5: Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) based EWS
The Anguilla Warning System - Investigating the CAP experience
Susan Hodge, Programme Officer, Department of Disaster Management, Anguilla

• Transitioning from a Comprehensive Early Warning System to a CAP based system: The Virgin Islands Experience
  Dale Lake, Emergency Communications Manager, Department of Disaster Management, British Virgin Islands

Session 6: Integrate vulnerable groups in the development and implementation of EWS
National Early Warning Systems

• Local and Inclusive Early Warning System: Haiti Experience
  Joseph Edgard Celestin, National expert in Communication and Advocacy, UNDP and DPC Haiti

• National Approaches for Inclusion of Vulnerable Groups in EWS: Experience of Saint Lucia
  Velda Joseph, Director, National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO), Saint Lucia

• Vulnerable Groups Integrated into EWS in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  Michelle Forbes, Deputy Director, National Emergency Management Organization (NEMO), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Community-based Early Warning Systems

• Integrating humanitarian protection in early warning systems
  Video: Early Warning System – Preparing for saving lives
  Carlos Arenas, Project Coordinator, Oxfam-Plan International-Habitat for Humanity, Dominican Republic

• Increasing the Disaster Response Mechanism for Persons with Disabilities through Early Warning Systems

Theresa Grant, Social Affairs Officer, Combined Disabilities Association, (CDA), Jamaica

• Integration persons with disability into community-based early warning systems (no presentation available)
  Selwyn Brooks, Chairman, District Emergency Organisation, Saint James Central, Barbados

Closing Session