8:00 – 8:30

Registration

8:30 – 10:00

Overview of training objectives and program

Dean Cira and Christoph Pusch, World Bank (7 minutes)

Participant introductions, icebreaker

(20 minutes)

Disaster Risk Reduction: An Overview

Margaret Arnold, ProVention Consortium (15 minutes)

PowerPoint Presentation

From Emergency Response to Ex Ante Risk Reduction: Lessons from LAC

Maricarmen Esquivel, World Bank (15 minutes)

PowerPoint Presentation, Knowledge Note

Questions and clarifications

10:00 – 10:30

Coffee break

10:30 – 12:00

Case Studies on DRR Investments and Entry Points:

Risk Reduction in Gujarat: Lessons from Earthquake Emergency Recovery Project 

Shyamal Sarkar, World Bank (15 minutes)

PowerPoint Presentation, Knowledge Note

Mainstreamed DRR in Bangladesh: Local Government Support Program

Steve Commins, ProVention Consortium (15 minutes)

PowerPoint Presentation, Knowledge Note

VietnamNatural Disaster Risk Management Project

Severin Kodderitsch, World Bank (15 minutes)

PowerPoint Presentation, Knowledge Note

15 minute question and answers on the cases

30 minute group discussion on cases and DRR entry points. Session Facilitator: Margaret Arnold

12:00 – 13:30

Lunch

13:30 – 15:00

DRR and Climate Change -  Additional Case Studies:

Andra Pradesh (India): Climate Change Adaptation Study

Priti Kumar, World Bank (15 minutes)

PowerPoint Presentation, Knowledge Note

Group Exercise:

The Case of Coastal Cities and Environmental Sanitation Project in Vietnam

Dean Cira, World Bank (15 Minutes)

PowerPoint Presentation

30 minute discussion on DRR investments and merging the DRR and Climate Change Adaptation agendas. Session Facilitator: Steve Commins, ProVention Consortium

15:00 – 15:15

Introduction to Working Groups

Yasemin Aysan, ProVention Consortium (10 minutes)

15:15 – 15:30

Coffee break (suggest that people get coffee and bring it to their WG

15:30 – 17:00

East Asiaand Pacific’s DRM Business Plan: Challenges and Issues to be Addressed

Dean Cira, World Bank (15 minutes)

PowerPoint, Knowledge Note

WG1: Developing a Regional DRM Strategy for EAP

Resource person: Dean Cira, WB

Facilitator: Zoe Trohanis, World Bank

South Asia’s DRM Business Plan: Challenges and Issue to be Addressed

Christoph Pusch,World Bank(15 minutes)

PowerPoint Presesntation

WG2: Developing a Regional DRM Strategy for SAR

Resource person: Christoph Pusch, WB

Facilitator: Yasemin Aysan, ProVention

WG3: DRM Strategy for Pakistan

Resource person: Raja Rehan Arshad

Facilitator: Steve Commins, ProVention

17:00 – 17:30

Report Back: Interim discussions on Working Groups

17:30 – 20:00

Free time for emails, workouts, relaxing

9.00 – 10:40

Introduction to Risk Financing and Transfer

Overview of Risk Financing and World Bank Instruments (including CAT DDO)

Issam Abousleiman

PowerPoint Presentation, Knowledge Notes I & Knowledge Notes II

World Bank (30 minutes)

Q&A 10 minutes

The Role of Risk Analysis:

Development of a Common Risk Information Database for China

Wang Jun, World Bank (15 minutes)

PowerPoint Presentation, Knowledge Note

Modeling Cat Risks in India

Satya Priya, RMSI representative (20 minutes)

PowerPoint Presentation, Knowledge Note

Q&A 10 minutes. Session Moderator: Margaret Arnold, ProVention Consortium

10:40 – 11:00

Coffee break

11:00 – 11:45

Group Brainstorming on how to Incorporate Risk Financing Approaches into the Tasks of the Working Groups

Facilitator: Yasemin Aysan

11:45 – 13:00

Risk Financing/Transfer Case Studies:

Regional Level: Caribbean Catastrophic Risk Insurance Facility

Maricarmen Esquivel, World Bank (15 minutes)

PowerPoint Presentation, Knowledge Note

Country Level: Mongolia Livestock Index Insurance

Nathan Belete, World Bank (15 minutes)

PowerPoint Presentation

Micro Level: Microinsurance overview and application in India (Includes brief on social safety nets)

Margaret Arnold and Yasemin Aysan , ProVention Consortium (15 minutes)

PowerPoint Presentation, Knowledge Note

30 minutes discussion of cases. Session Moderator: Margaret Arnold, ProVention Consortium

13:00 – 14:30

Lunch

14:30 – 16:15

WG1: EAP Strategy

Resource person: Dean Cira, WB

Facilitator: Zoe Trohanis, World Bank

PowerPoint Presentation

WG2: SAR Strategy

Resource person: Christoph Pusch, WB

Facilitator: Yasemin Aysan, ProVention

WG3: Pakistan Strategy

Resource person: Raja Rehan Arshad

Facilitator: Steve Commins, ProVention

PowerPoint Presentation

16:15 – 17:00

WG Interim Updates on Progress

Opportunity for each of the Working Groups to provide brief overview of where they are so far on strategy development, raise any major issues, receive feedback from other groups.

Facilitator: Steve Commins, ProVention Consoritum

17:00 – 17:15

Coffee break (participants can bring coffee to their WG

17:15 – 18:15

Donor Round-Table on Partnerships and Collaboration (To be finalized)

19:30 – 23:00

Optional self-pay dinner cruise

Group Presentations and Peer Review

15 minutes presentation and 15 minutes of feedback for each Working Group

11:00 – 11:30

Coffee break

11:30 – 12:15

Wrap-Up and Next Steps

Pull together lessons learned and priorities indicated by participants over past two days.  How might these lessons now be integrated into country and regional strategies to increase the Bank’s engagement with client countries on these issues?

Facilitators:  Steve Commins and Yasemin Aysan

12:15 – 13:00

Training Evaluation

13:00 – 14:30

Lunch and Group Photo

Special Presentation: Launch of Disaster Reconstruction and Risk Reduction Global Information Database.

Wolfgang Fengler and Jock McKeon, World Bank

PowerPoint Presentation

14:30 – 16:30

Optional: Separate Team Meetings of World Bank EAP and SAR Teams

16:30

Event Concludes