CS8: Early Warning for All In the Nile Basin
2:00 PM - 4:30 PMTue
Thematic Area 3: CC adaptation and mitigation
Speakers
Mr. Wasswa Peter
Internee WMO-Geneva
IWR-Rhodes University, Grahamstown
Mr. Ramesh TRIPATHI
Project Officer
World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)
Mr. Washington Otieno
Scientific Officer
World Meteorological Organisation (WMO),
Ms. Erica Allis
Scientific Officer, Services
World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)
Ms. Rui Kotani
DRR Coordinator
GEO Secretariat
Mr. Mashauri Muliro
Programme Management Officer
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
Mr. Zablon Shilenje
Technical Coordinator, Services
World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)
Dr. Sulagna Mishra
Scientific Officer, Hydrology, Water and Cryosphere, Services Department
World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)
Dr. Stefan Uhlenbrook
Director Hydrology, Water and Cryosphere, Department
World Meteorological Organisation (WMO)
Webinar lead questions ================ 1. What are the main climate and weather hazards that normally affect the Nile Basin? 2. What are WMO’s initiatives and project for mitigating the hazards within the framework of EW4ALL? 3. What are some of the lessons learnt from the IGAD-HYCOS project? 4. What are some of the innovative approaches to address the hazards at the community, national, regional and global scale? Paper Presentations ============== 1. HydroSOS 2. Timely and sustained interoperable data access and develop technical capabilities 3. Africa Early Warning For All Action Plan 4. UDRR Contribution to EW4All 5. GEO as a supporting implementing partner of the EW4All Initiative 6. WMO Contribution to EWAll Host: WMO Conveners: NBI Caretakers: Washington, Calvince Rapporteurs: Total duration: 120 Mins