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Session 3 – Wednesday March 13th

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Session 3 – Planning for Appropriate Drought Response and Relief – Wednesday 13^th

Abstract Nr.	Title	Authors	Affiliation
41	Strengthening National Capacities to Manage Water Scarcity and Drought in West Asia and North Africa.	Sami Areikat	Division for Sustainable Development Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) United Nations, New York, USA
42	Planning for Appropriate Drought Response and Relief : Need For Proactive Mitigation and Resource Stewardship	Anand Bhole Lalitkumar Chaudhari	Institute For Sustainable Development And Research, India
43	Halting Desertification in the Jucar River Basin (HALT-JÚCAR-DES project)	Jauad El Kharraz¹Eric MINO¹Javier Obarti²Elisa VARGAS²Vicente Ramirez²Gabriel Gomez²Teodoro Estrela³Arancha Fidalgo³	¹Euro-Mediterranean Information System on know-how in the Water sector (EMWIS), Sophia Antipolis, France ²EVREN, Valencia, Spain ³CHJ, Valencia, Spain
44	District Level Agriculture Contingency Plans for Drought Mitigation in India	Ch. Srinivasarao YG. Prasad KV. Rao G. Ravindra Chary DBV. Ramana VUM. Rao B. Venkateswarlu	Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (Indian Council of Agricultural Research), Andhra Pradesh, India
45	Establishing a Structured Drought Knowledge at IPMA. A Step Forward a National Drought Policy. Planning for Appropriate Drought Response and Relief.	Vanda Pires	Portuguese Sea and Atmosphere Institute (IPMA), Portugal
46	Integrated Drought Management Programme. Building drought resilience to support global poverty reduction.	Giacomo Teruggi Rober Stefanski Jose Camacho	^{WMO, Geneva, Switzerland}
47	The Global Framework for Climate Services in support of preventive drought management	F. Lucio T. Avellan	World Meteorological Organization, GFCS Office
48	New technologies for a Drought Policy: Response and Relief in Drought events through the use of renewable energy sources	Paulo Pires¹Rui Magno²	¹EFAO – Earth For All Organization ²Bioespaço energia
49	Drought 2012 – Monitoring, Impact and Public Action in Portugal		Office of Planning and Policies
50	Drought Planning, Monitoring and Forecasting: Is It Necessary in the Caribbean?	Adrian Trotman	Caribbean Institute for Meteorology and Hydrology