Agenda
2025 Hurricane Season Preparedness Event (HSPE)
20 May
Time | Description | Facilitator/Panelist | Connection Link |
9:00-9:30 | Event Opening Opening remarks by regional emergency management organizations: CDEMA & CEPREDENAC | Shelley Cheatham, OCHA Elizabeth Riley, CDEMA Adherbal de la Rosa, CEPREDENAC |
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9:30-10:30 | Global and Regional Trends and Dynamics 2025 Atlantic Hurricane Season Forecasting and Governance: Insights from the World Meteorological Organization
Scientific Modelling in Action: Colorado State University's Forecast for the 2025 Season | Rodney Martinez, WMO Levi Silvers Colorado State University | |
10:30-11:00 | International and Regional Emergency Response Mechanisms
The Regional Response Mechanism RRM by CDEMA | Dario Alvarez, OCHA
Rasheed Pinder, CDEMA | |
11:00-11:10 | Coffee Break | ||
11:10-12:40 | Impact Assessments and Data Analysis During Emergencies Needs assessments and alignment with national mechanisms WASH emergency need assessment package Rapid Needs Assessment Teams (RNAT) Post-Disaster Needs Assessments (PDNA) | Brenda Eriksen, OCHA Randy Warner, OCHA Victor Nagakane, UNICEF Rasheed Pinder, CDEMA Luis Gamarra, UNDP | |
21 May
Time | Description | Facilitator/Panelist | Connection Link |
9:00-9:15 | Opening remarks | Rogerio Mobilia, OCHA |
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9:15-10:30 | Anticipatory Action (AA) Key concepts and frameworks developed in the region Case Study: Anticipatory action framework for storms in Haiti (WFP, IOM, UNICEF)
Best practices, experiences and integrating anticipatory action into national/regional planning (WFP)
| Raquel Peña, OCHA
Corentin CARTUYVELS, WFP
Xabier Garay, FAO | |
10:30-10:45 | Coffee Break | ||
10:45-11:30 | Humanitarian Financing Financing mechanisms for preparedness and rapid response The CERF The DREF |
Jacopo Damelio, CERF Marco Vargas, DREF
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11:30-12:30 | Integrating Accountability to Affected Population into Humanitarian Response
| Veronique Durroux, OCHA Alessandra Rossi, UNICEF/Lisa McClean-Trotman, Carla Guananga, IFRC Sylvia Moreira, IOM/Matheus Bizarria, OIM
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22 May: clinics
The clinics will be delivered in a blended format, combining both online and in-person sessions, the latter at the main Meeting Room, Building 128, Ciudad del Saber, Panama. The objective of this week is to provide more interactive spaces focusing on specific topics and regional coordination, allowing participants to engage in discussions and activities tailored to key preparedness themes. These sessions will be hands-on and offer participants the opportunity to dive deeper into specialized areas of hurricane season preparedness and response.
Time | Description | Session lead/co-led | Connection Link and Format |
9:15-10:15 | Environmental dimensions of preparedness and response | Lilia Blades, CRC – IFRC Amanda George, IFRC – Global Shelter Cluster |
Session language: English |
10:15-10:30 | Coffee Break | ||
10:30-11:30 | Mass Evacuation in Disaster (MED, former MEND guidelines) | Amalia Torres, IOM / CCCM Cluster Marta Leboreiro, OIM / CCCM Cluster |
Session language: English |
PiN Methodology
| Brenda Eriksen Joel Cruz Eric Allen, NARAS |
Session language: English | |
12:30-13:30 | Lunch Break | ||
13:30-14:30 | WASH Coordination and response (UNICEF) - English session
| Jean C. Barbiche – UNICEF Victor Nagakane - UNICEF
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Session language: Spanish |
Child protection in emergencies | Catalina Fernandez, UNICEF Mariana Zavala, World Vision International |
Session language: Spanish Interpretation Spanish-English available
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14:30-15:30 | Mitigating Gender-Based-Violence in emergencies | Cecilia Bertolini, UNFPA Alessandra Rossi, UNICEF
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Sessin language: Spanish Simultaneous interpretation from Spanish to English available |
Environmental footprint in humanitarian response (English session) | Pierre Houllier Natalia Corro Barrientos - Red Cross Guadalupe
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Session language: English | |