International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction - Student debate

Debate on reducing economic losses from disasters and promoting local actions in disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation in the agriculture sectors

Judging committee of the debate:

Ms. Carolyn Rodrigues Birkett, Director of FAO Geneva

Ms. Shoko Arakaki, Chief of Branch, Partnerships, Inter-governmental process and Inter-agency cooperation, UNISDR

Ms. Sophie Baranes, Coordinator, Capacity for Disaster Reduction Initiative (CADRI)

Mr. Daniel Maselli, Senior Policy Advisor, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

Moderator: Ms. Wirya Khim, Natural Resources Officer, FAO Geneva

For further information please contact: wirya.khim@fao.org

For registration (until 10 October 2018) please write to sebastian.mengel@bfh.ch with a copy to wirya.khim@fao.org

Agenda

14.00–14.15: Opening Session

Opening remarks by Ms. Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett, Director of FAO Geneva

Welcome addresses by partners:

• Prof. Dr. Urs Scheidegger, Head of Master’s Programme at Bern University of Applied Sciences, School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences
• Ms. Shoko Arakaki, Chief of Branch, Partnerships, Inter-governmental process and Inter-agency cooperation, UNISDR
• Ms. Sophie Baranes, Coordinator, Capacity for Disaster Reduction Initiative
• Mr. Daniel Maselli, Senior Policy Advisor, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation

14.15–14.30: Setting the scene by Ms. Wirya Khim, Natural Resources Officer, FAO Geneva

Background, structure of the debate, and introductions:

14.30–15.00: Debating the proposition: Bottom up and top down approaches are complementary, not contradictory, in terms of informing CCA and DRR policies and strategies to achieve local actions in DRR and CCA!

(Bern University of Applied Science vs. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)                    

15.00–15.15: Coffee Break

15.15–16.00: Judges’ feedbacks and discussion

16.00–16.10: Result announcement and award presentation

16.10–16.15: Closing remarks FAO and partners

16:30–17:30: Reception (light drinks and snacks)