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Side Events
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Time Periods |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
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8h30 to 9h30 |
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SE-T1 SE-T2 |
SE-W1 – Integrated management of land and water resources – IHDP (CICG Room 3) SE-W2 – – Drought-related policies in Ceará State, Brazil – Funceme /Ceará State Government (CICG Room 4) |
No Side Events Session starting at 9h00 |
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12h30 to 13h30 |
SE-M1 – Practical Steps to Drought Preparedness and Risk Management: Kick-off to the 2013 World Day to Combat Desertification, the UN Decade for Deserts and the Fight against Desertification and the UN Decade on Biodiversity – WMO and UNCCD (CICG Room 3) SE-M2 – Introducing Lake Urmia Basin (Iran) Drought Risk Management Plan – Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran (CICG Room 4) |
SE-T3 – Science, Stakeholders and Institutional linkage for developing drought policy for the state of Tamil Nadu, India – Tamil Nadu Agricultural University (CICG Room 3) SE-T4 –International Kick-off of the National Drought Management Policies Initiative: Capacity Development to Support the Development of National Drought Management Policies – UNW-DPC, WMO, UNCCD. FAO (CICG Room 4) |
SE-W3 – Towards more drought resilience: Reducing the human made drought – tapping existing knowledge – WOCAT/UNCCD (CICG Room 3) SE-W4 – Kickoff Event on the Establishment of Integrated Drought Management Programme (IDMP) – GWP, WMO (CICG Room 4) |
SE-Z3 – Climate services for food security and resilience: Linking regional, national, and community-level drought early warning systems to decision-making – WFP, FEWSNET, IFRC (CICG Room 18) SE-Z4 – Water, Social Inclusion And Integration – Government of Brazil (CICG Room 4) |
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17h30 to 18h30 |
SE-M3 – Making of the U.S. Drought Monitor Product and its Applications – US National Drought Mitigation Center (CICG Room 3) SE-M4 – The Global Framework for Climate Services in support of preventive drought management – WMO/GFCS (CICG Room 4) |
SE-T5 – Micro Level Realities and Policy Coherence: Towards drought resilient agriculture in the semi-arid tropics of Asia – ICRISAT (CICG Room 3) SE-T6 – Mise en œuvre des politiques et des interventions prioritaires du Plan d’Action National de Lutte Contre la Désertification (PAN/LCD) et du Plan d’Action National d’Adaptation au changement climatique (PANA) pour la lutte contre la sécheresse en République Démocratique du Congo (CICG Room 4) |
SE-W5 – Early warning and adaptation to drought in the peri-Saharan region – Sahara and Sahel Observatory (CICG Room 3) SE-W6 – Recent Advances and Challenges on Agriculture Drought Monitoring and Early Warning System – George Mason University (CICG Room 4) |
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