The Third Session of Disaster Resilience Week (1st Day)

Opening Keynotes : 10:30 - 11:00 Virtual (MS Teams and YouTube webcast) Organizing Partner(s): United Nations Satellite Centre (UNITAR-UNOSAT)

• Mr. Nikhil Seth, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Director, United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR)
• Mr. Kaveh Zahedi, Deputy Executive Secretary for Sustainable Development, UNESCAP
• Launch of The Risk and Resilience Portal- An Asia Pacific Disaster Resilience Network Initiative (Video)

Theme Session on the disaster-climate-health riskscape : 11:00 - 12:00 Virtual (MS Teams and YouTube webcast) Organizing Partner(s): United Nations Satellite Centre (UNITAR-UNOSAT)

• Brief presentation of The Risk and Resilience Portal of the Asia Pacific Disaster Resilience Network by ESCAP and UNITAR-UNOSAT
• Expert discussion on the disaster-climate-health  riskscape

Panelists: Papua New Guinea, AHA Centre Disaster Resilience partnerships with ESCAP : 12:00 - 12:10 Virtual (MS Teams and YouTube webcast) Video on partnership agreements Break : 12:10 - 13:00 The Regional Learning Platform on Strengthening Disaster, Climate and Health Resilience: 13:00 - 14:15 Virtual (MS Teams and YouTube webcast) Session 1: Policy Coherence Organizing Partner(s): UNDRR, Thailand (MFA) Expert discussion session on the process of including biological and natural hazards into a multi-hazard framework. Towards building resilience post COVID-19, the session will further discuss the potential for inclusion of cascading risks into the multi-hazard framework.

• Panelists: UNDRR, Thailand, WHO, Rockerfeller Foundation

The Regional Learning Platform on Strengthening Disaster, Climate and Health Resilience: 14:30 - 15:45 Virtual (MS Teams and YouTube webcast) Session 2: Multi-hazard integrated early warning systems Organizing Partner(s): WMO, Republic of Korea (NDMI)

• Expert discussion session on pathways to facilitate regional cooperation on integrated early warning systems for natural and biological hazards to address complex and cascading risks, include through leveraging the Asia-Pacific Disaster Resilience Network and the annual sub subregional and national climate outlook forums.

Panelists: WMO, Republic of Korea (NDMI), UK Met Office, RIMES