Official Statements

Delegations are invited to provide five-minute Official Statements. Guidelines are provided below.

Who can make a statement?

All delegations can express their interest in making an Official Statement. Only registered and confirmed participants can submit the request on behalf of their delegation.

How can I make a statement?

There are two types of statements– written and oral. Written Statements: we encourage all delegations to submit a written statement via the RPA website. In general, written statements are around 500 words.

Oral Statements: in addition to a written statement, all government delegations may deliver oral statements at the Regional Platform. A maximum of 5 minutes is allocated. As such, countries are encouraged to ensure that their statements, when delivered orally, do not exceed 5 minutes.

Other delegations can submit a request to make an oral statement, however, time slots are limited and we may not be able to accommodate every request.

Oral Official Statements will be delivered in a parallel session room from a podium and will be video recorded and available by webcast on the Regional Platform website. The list of speakers will be available on this website prior to the Regional Platform.

Will the Statements be made public?

All statements, whether oral or written, will be available to the public on the Regional Platform website and may also be distributed to the media.

Official Statements schedule:

• Tuesday 07: 16:00-19:00
• Wednesday 08: 16:00-19:00

Deadline January 15th, 2017.

Guidance on the format for Official Statements

• Statements should be of 500 words maximum 
• Official Statements to the Fifth Session of the Regional Platform "Towards Risk Informed Sustainable Development" are encouraged to focus on the following:  - The challenges and opportunities in implementing the Sendai Framework at national and local levels (Progress since the adoption of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and national targets as per the Sendai Framework); and/or  - Ways forward surrounding DRR and climate change adaptation (CCA) as inherent to sustainable development and as key elements of resilient development policies, planning and investment (Baseline situation related to the Sendai Framework's global targets). 

For further information related to Official Statements please review the Guidelines document.

Day 1 - Tuesday, March 7
Time	Approximate start	Space No.	Country or organization	Presenter	Title or Function
	15:50		Representatives of the Canadian Government and UNISDR chairing the session on Official Statements report to Room 510
	15:55		Representatives of countries and organizations presenting Official Statements report to Room 510
16:00-17:00	16:00		Introduction by the Government of Canada and UNISDR representatives who are receiving the official statements
	16:06	1	Argentina	Ambassador Alejandro Daneri	President of the White Helmets Commission
	16:12	2	Colombia	Carlos Iván Márquez Pérez	Director General of National Unity for Disaster Risk Management
	16:18	3	Costa Rica	Julisa Ulate Arias	Executive Director of the National Commission for the Prevention of Risks and Emergency Response
	16:24	4	Cuba	Mr. Luis Macareño Veliz	Deputy National Chief of Staff for Civil Defence of the Republic of Cuba
	16:30	5	Ecuador	Miguel Jarrin	Risk Management Secretariat
	16:36	6	Guatemala	Sergio García Cabañas	Executive Secretary of Conred, Head of Country Commission
	16:42	7	Haiti	Jude Saint-Natus	Deputy Minister
	16:48	8	Honduras	Sofía Cerrato	Ambassador of Honduras
17:00-18:00	17:00	9	Jamaica	Major (retd) Clive C. Davis	Director General
	17:06	10	Paraguay	Joaquín Daniel Roa	Minister of the Interior
	17:12	11	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	Hon. Alpehus Frederick Stephenson	Ministro de Gobierno
	17:18	12	Trinidad and Tobago	Shelly Bradshaw	Specialist in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
	17:24	13	United States of America	David Applegate	Acting Assistant Director of the United States Geological Service
	17:30	14	Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA)	Ronald Jackson	Executive Director
	17:36	15	Organization of American States (OAS)	Pablo González	Principal Specialist, Risk Management and Adaptation to Climate Change
	17:42	16	Latin American Parliament (Parlatino)	Elias Java (TBC)	Secretary General
	17:48	17	United States Agency for International Development (USAID)	Ayse Sezin Tokar
18:00-19:00	18:00	18	International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies	Walter Cotte	Regional Director
	18:06	19	OCHA	Wendy Cue	Chief of Regional Office
	18:12	20	UNICEF	C. Douglas Reimer	Regional Head of Emergencies
	18:18	21	Coordination Centre for the Prevention of Natural Disasters in Central America (CEPREDENAC)	Guillermo González González	President pro tempore
	18:24	22	Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC)	Gerson Martinez	Minister of Public Works of El Salvador, Representative of the pro temporepresidency of CELAC
	18:30	23	MERCOCIUDADES	José Manuel Corral	Mayor of the City of Santa Fe
	18:36	24	Brazil	TBC	TBC
	18:42	25	CORELAC - Coalition for the Resiliency of Children and Youth in Latin America and the Caribbean	TBC	TBC
	18:48	26	Oxfam International	Enrique Garcia Hidalgo	Regional Humanitarian and DRR Coordinator for Oxfam International
Day 2 - Wednesday, March 8
Time	Approximate start	Space No.	Country or Organization	Presenter	Title or Function
	15:50		Representatives of the Canadian Government and UNISDR chairing the session on Official Statements report to Room 510
	15:55		Representatives of countries and organizations presenting Official Statements report to Room 510
16:00-17:00	16:00		Introduction by the Government of Canada and UNISDR representatives who are receiving the official statements
	16:06	27	Canada	Mark Holland	Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
	16:12	28	The RET	Remi Mannaert	Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean
	16:18	29	World Animal Protection	Eugenia Morales	World Manager of the Disaster Project
	16:24	30	Regional Coordination for Risk Management	Wilson Galo	The Role of Civil Society in Resilience and Reduction of Vulnerability in the Dry Corridor of Central America
	16:30	31	Group for risk management in the educational sector in Latin America and the Caribbean	TBC	Representative of the Ministry of Education
	16:36	32	American Firefighters Organization	Lic. José Marco España	Secretary of Institutional Relations
	16:42	33	Autonomous State University of Mexico - Faculty of Nursing and Obstetrics	Dr. Miriam Gómez Ortega	Lead for Civil Protection, Chief of the Academic Corp for Research, Promotion and Education for Health. Disaster Prevention Line.
	16:48	34	Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction (GNDR)	María Verónica Bastias	Regional Coordinator, GNDR
17:00-18:00	17:00	35	Dominican Republic	Zoraima Cuello	Deputy Minister of Governmental Monitoring and Coordination Ministry of the Presidency
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