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Workshop on Risks and Impacts from Extreme Events of Droughts in ASEAN Countries

Workshop on Risks and Impacts from Extreme Events of Droughts in ASEAN Countries. 22-23 September 2010 Bangkok, Thailand. RIEE-Droughts 22-23 Sep 2010. Funded by Govt. of Thailand, ASEAN-US TATF, and JAIF Attended by 9 AMS except Viet Nam FAO, UNEP, IUCN, and MRC also attended

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Workshop on Risks and Impacts from Extreme Events of Droughts in ASEAN Countries

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  1. Workshop on Risks and Impacts from Extreme Events of Droughts in ASEAN Countries 22-23 September 2010 Bangkok, Thailand

  2. RIEE-Droughts 22-23 Sep 2010 • Funded by Govt. of Thailand, ASEAN-US TATF, and JAIF • Attended by 9 AMS except Viet Nam • FAO, UNEP, IUCN, and MRC also attended • Approx. 40 attendants • With one-day Preliminary Meeting

  3. RIEE-Droughts 22-23 Sep 2010 Preliminary Meeting • 21 Sep 2010 by reps from TH, ASEC, TATF, and Consultant

  4. RIEE-Droughts 22-23 Sep 2010 Opening Session 22 Sep 2010 • Keynote Speech delivered by Mr. Surapol Pattanee, then DDG-DWR, now DPS-MNRE

  5. RIEE-Droughts 22-23 Sep 2010 Opening Session 22 Sep 2010 Cont’d • Welcome Remarks delivered by Ms. Jennifer Collier Wilson, General Development Officer, Regional Development Mission for Asia, United States Agency for International Development;

  6. RIEE-Droughts 22-23 Sep 2010 Opening Session 22 Sep 2010 Cont’d • and Mr. Kosuke Takeda, First Secretary, Embassy of Japan in Thailand

  7. RIEE-Droughts 22-23 Sep 2010 Opening Session 22 Sep 2010 Cont’d • Opening Remarks delivered by Mr. Chong Hou Chun, Director, Water Supply Network Department, PUB Singapore on behalf of Mr. Chua Soon Guan, Asst. Chief Executive (Policy), PUB Singapore, Chairperson of AWGWRM

  8. RIEE-Droughts 22-23 Sep 2010 Photo Session 22 Sep 2010

  9. RIEE-Droughts 22-23 Sep 2010 Session 1 22 Sep 2010 • Global Perspectives – Climate Change Challenges of Drought Management: Policy and Planning by Mr. Christopher Konecki • Low Impact Development and Water Resources Management by Dr. Puripus Soonthornnonda • Climate Change: Drought, Economic, and Food Security Nexus (The Philippine Case) by Dr. Rolando Dy

  10. RIEE-Droughts 22-23 Sep 2010 Session 2 22 Sep 2010 • Country Report on Drought by AMS • Brunei • Cambodia • Indonesia • Lao PDR • Malaysia • Myanmar • Philippines • Singapore • Thailand

  11. RIEE-Droughts 22-23 Sep 2010 Session 3 22 Sep 2010 • Break-out the first break-out session • focused on identifying, listing and prioritizing capacity gaps and obstacles to improving the current drought management capacity status in each AMS individually and in ASEAN regionally. • The two working groups developed prioritized listings of gaps and barriers to improving forward planning and adaptation strategies, including risk oriented management to accommodate the temporal variability nature of extreme weather events. • Each of the breakout working groups was oriented around a focus area, e.g. financial needs, technology needs, and awareness building needs.

  12. RIEE-Droughts 22-23 Sep 2010 Session 4 23 Sep 2010 • Best Practices • Issues and Options for Drought Management in a Climate ChangingWorld by Mr. Thierry Facon, Senior Water Management Officer, FAO

  13. RIEE-Droughts 22-23 Sep 2010 Session 4 23 Sep 2010 Cont’d • Best Practices • MRC’s Perspective on Drought Management by Mr. Hour Ix, Regional Drought Management Study Expert, MRC

  14. RIEE-Droughts 22-23 Sep 2010 Session 4 23 Sep 2010 Cont’d • Best Practices • Drought Management: IUCN’s work across the globe by Mr. Binayak Das, Regional Water and Wetlands Program, IUCN

  15. RIEE-Droughts 22-23 Sep 2010 Session 4 23 Sep 2010 Cont’d • Best Practices • Best Practices on Internatioal/Regional Drought Management by Dr. Ampai Harakunarak, Task Manager, GEF-International Waters, Asia and the Pacific Region, UNEP/DGEF/ROAP

  16. RIEE-Droughts 22-23 Sep 2010 Session 5 23 Sep 2010 • Action Planning (Break-out) • the working groups considered possible best practice solutions to address the priority gaps, and • laid out the identified resource needs for the AMS, and ASEAN, as a whole, • to both better manage extreme events and to forward plan.

  17. RIEE-Droughts 22-23 Sep 2010 Session 6 23 Sep 2010 • Consolidation of Recommendations/Drought Management Plan of • The Workshop • identified six priority gaps • Selected sixteen best-practice based solutions • Recommended nineteen action plan steps for submission to the AWGWRM

  18. RIEE-Droughts 22-23 Sep 2010 Session 6 23 Sep 2010 • Recommended nineteen action plan steps for submission to the AWGWRM

  19. RIEE-Droughts 22-23 Sep 2010 Session 6 23 Sep 2010 • Recommended nineteen action plan steps for submission to the AWGWRM

  20. RIEE-Droughts 22-23 Sep 2010 Session 6 23 Sep 2010 • Recommended nineteen action plan steps for submission to the AWGWRM

  21. RIEE-Droughts 22-23 Sep 2010 Session 6 23 Sep 2010 • Recommended nineteen action plan steps for submission to the AWGWRM

  22. RIEE-Droughts 22-23 Sep 2010 Conclusion • The procedural process post workshop was also discussed, with the final understanding that • the results of the gap identification, solutions, and action step deliberations would be passed to the ASEAN Secretariat as the Consolidated and Recommended Action Plan, • and then by the Secretariat onward to the Chair of the AWGWRM for the AWGWRM’s review, comment, and possible upward endorsement to the ASEAN Senior Officials on the Environment.

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