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Third African Drought Adaptation Forum (September 17-19, 2008, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)The African Drought Risk and Development Network’s third annual Forum took place in Addis Ababa on the 17th-19th of September 2008. The focus this year was on the significance of climate change to the development of drylands in Africa, and the practicability of adaptation to the drylands of Sub-Saharan Africa. The Forum sought to build partnerships with existing African Networks working on drought risk reduction-related areas including on food security, climate change, and water resource management, among others. It brought together some 80 policy makers, government officials, UN agencies, donors, practitioners from local and international NGO’s and CBO’s, the media and applied researchers from around Africa, and the Arab states to exchange practical experiences, findings and ideas on how to adapt to the increasing threat of drought and climate change in the drylands of Africa. DAY 1 1. Opening Session: Chair: Ousmane Laye, Chief, Environment and Sustainable Development, Food Security and Sustainable Development Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa i) Brief Remarks Josue Dione, Director, Food Security and Sustainable Development Division, UNECA Pedro Basabe, Secretariat of the UN-International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Director, Rural Economy and Agriculture, African Union Commission Brief remarks + Opening Ms. Alessandra Tisot , Country Director, United Nations Development Programme, Ethiopia ii) Self Introductions 2.Introductory Session: Chair: Walter Knausenberger, USAID a) Drought and development in Africa 'A selective review of drought risk management initiatives in Africa' Charles Acol, UNECA b) Facilitating peer learning on drought and development in Africa 'Principles of collaborative learning Stacey' Young, USAID 'Networking on water management in Africa' Bancy Mati, IMAWESA network 'The African Drought Risk & Development Network' Eric Patrick (UNDP-DDC)
3. (Session 1): Drought risk management as applied climate change adaptation for Africa
African case studies: Drought management practices as adaptation options
4. (Session 2): Drought risk management as applied climate change adaptation for Africa
DAY 2 1. Review of key points from Day 1 , Eric Patrick (UNDP-DDC) Presentation of promising practices and adaptation strategies – participants’ collective template results 2. (Session 3) Drought management as applied disaster risk reduction : Chair:
3. (Session 4) Technical capacity building seminar: drought risk management tools for projects, programs & policy Chair:Paolo Paron, FAO-SWALIM
DAY 3 1. Review of key points from Day 2: Presentation of drought risk management HFA based framework synthesized from group work and distribution of questionnaire on future contributions to the Network 2. Session 5: Mainstreaming drought risk management good practice in projects and policy Chair:Walter Knausenberger, USAID
Project and country participant panel and plenary discussion: how do we identify good practice and make good use of it?
3. Session 6: Mainstreaming drought good practice What is the role of knowledge networking? Chair:Pedro Basabe, UN-ISDR
4. Summary, Way Forward for the Network, Eric Patrick, UNDP DDC 5.Additonal Material
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