Speakers

2nd - 4th June 2021
Latin America and
the Caribbean Regional
Dialogue Platform

Dunja Dujanovic

Dunja Dujanovic

FAO
Early Warning Early Action Lead 

Anticipation?
A moral obligation and an essential part of disaster management

My vision?
A world where preventing humanitarian crises is considered as non-negotiable as responding to them

Christof Johnen

Christof Johnen

German Red Cross 
Head of International Cooperation 

Anticipation?
Anticipation to me is a core humanitarian approach putting people and their dignity at the centre.

My vision?
Cooperation between scientists, governmental agencies, humanitarian actors and communities at risk makes humanitarian aid faster, more reliable, and more responsive to the needs of people.

Maarten Van Aalst

Maarten Van Aalst

Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre
Director

Anticipation?

My vision?

Martha Keays

Martha Keays

International Federation of the Red Cross Red Crescent Societies
Regional Director for the Americas

Anticipation?
Save lifes

My vision?
The IFRC Americas Regional Office and its National Societies are focused on building the resilience of the communities we serve. That is why we are committed to promoting disaster preparedness and anticipatory measures that allow us to protect our communities from multiple hazards and increasingly frequent extreme events. Today, science allows us to make more accurate decisions, and we are determined to ensure that information reaches those who need it most early and in a timely manner, to continue to save lives and ensure the sustainable future of our region.

Miguel Barreto

Miguel Barreto

World Food Programme (WFP)l
Regional Director 

Anticipation?

My vision?

 Andrés González

Andrés González

Anticipation?

My vision?

 Ing. Agr. Christian Miguel Florentín Vera

Ing. Agr. Christian Miguel Florentín Vera

Departmental Secretary of Production to the Governorate of the Department of Caazapá, Paraguay

Anticipation?
Preparing for a future event

My vision?
Promoting resilient farmers

Alejandro Terán

Alejandro Terán

Cruz Roja Alemana
Project Manager FbF Readiness Honduras - Guatemala

Anticipation?
Oportunidad de optimizar el tiempo y recursos para proteger a las comunidades.

My vision?
Comunidades resilientes

Annalisa Staffa

Annalisa Staffa

World Food Programme (WFP)
Strategic planning and programme evaluation consultant

Anticipation?
Anticipation it’s preparation: “If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!”. Benjamin Franklin.

My vision?
To be a physical therapist for organizations.

Benjamin Bernard

Benjamin Bernard

Instituto Geofísico de la Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Ecuador
Profesor Agregado a Tiempo Completo

Anticipation?
Successful strengthening and updating of the early action plan for volcanic ash fallout.

My vision?
Real exercises are the best way to test and improve our plans.

Bernardo Rodriguez Vidal

Bernardo Rodriguez Vidal

Programa Mundial de Alimentos (PMA)
Proyecto de preparación ante emergencias basado en pronósticos de riesgos climáticos en República Dominicana

Anticipation?
Ofensiva antes de un impacto.

My vision?
Ideas alcanzadas

Carlos Arturo Colindres Mejía

Carlos Arturo Colindres Mejía

Honduran Red Cross
National Risk Management Manager

Anticipation?
Help without risking.

My vision?

Carlos Iván Márquez Pérez

Carlos Iván Márquez Pérez

Colombian Red Cross

Anticipation?
Forecast, going ahead, saving lives

My vision?
Less vulnerable communities and more resilient

Carolina Cerrudo

Carolina Cerrudo

Servicio Meteorológico Nacional de Argentina
Profesional especializado en servicios hidroclimáticos en la Dirección de Servicios Sectoriales

Anticipation?
Abordaje integral de los sistemas de alerta temprana

My vision?
Interdisciplina

Catalina Jaime

Catalina Jaime

Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre
Climate and Conflict Manager

Anticipation?
A crucial apporach on the face of a changing climate

My vision?
Early Warning and Early Action reaching people affected by armed conflict and violence

Claudia Griselda Herrera Melgar

Claudia Griselda Herrera Melgar

Coordination Center for Disasters Prevention in Central America and the Dominican Republic (CEPREDENAC)
Executive Secretary

Anticipation?
To be adequately prepared for various hazards, to prevent the consequences that may arise and allow us to evaluate different scenarios to mitigate and promote early recovery.

My vision?
Strengthen resilience in the Central American region and the Dominican Republic. Build mechanisms and tools to strengthen the prevention and response capacities of the institutions of integrated risk management and civil protection in each of the countries of the region.

Eddie Wasswa Jjemba

Eddie Wasswa Jjemba

Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Center
Urban Resilience Advisor

Anticipation?
Resilience

My vision?
Cities champion anticipatory mechanisms to reduce impacts extreme weather events

Edgar Barroso

Edgar Barroso

Tecnológico de Monterrey
Director del Laboratorio de Emprendimiento y Transformación de la Escuela de Gobierno y Transformación Pública.

Anticipation?
Key to the future

My vision?
Build things that matter now and will be important in the future.

Eladio Solano León

Eladio Solano León

National Meteorological Institute, Costa Rica
Head of the Synoptic and Aeronautical Meteorology Department

Anticipation?
Prevention- Preparation

My vision?
Inform people in time so that they can prepare for and cope with possible impacts that may occur.

Elieth Moraga Blanco

Elieth Moraga Blanco

Costa Rican Red Cross
Project Coordinator

Anticipation?
A way to protect people and their livelihoods

My vision?
Growing

Fernanda Ayala

Fernanda Ayala

Ecuadorian Red Cross
GIS Especialist

Anticipation?
A window of opportunities to prepare and strengthen communities

My vision?
The data and information management are a solid backup for humanitarian actions

Hugo Hidalgo León

Hugo Hidalgo León

Universidad de Costa Rica
Director, Centro de Investigaciones Geofísicas, Profesor Escuela de Física

Anticipation?
Pronósticos de ciclones tropicales

My vision?
Herramienta para generación de alertas

Humberto Vergara

Humberto Vergara

Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, The University of Oklahoma
Research Scientist

Anticipation?
Actions should be proportional to the forecast horizon.

My vision?
Community empowerment

Jeff Woods

Jeff Woods

German Red Cross / IFRC, Africa Region
Advisor, Humanitarian Assistance in Urban Contexts



Anticipation?
Coalition building and coordination.

My vision?
Urban and sustainable.

Jorge Ruíz

Jorge Ruíz

Galileo University of Guatemala
Professor

Anticipation?
Being always ready and more resilient

My vision?
Promote the education and knowledge management

Juan Bazo

Juan Bazo

Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre
Climate Science Advisor

Anticipation?
Ser mas eficaces

My vision?
Abogar por la implementación de pronósticos basados en impacto.

Julia Chasco

Julia Chasco

Servicio Meteorológico Nacional de Argentina
Responsable del Departamento Meteorología y Sociedad

Anticipation?
Un paradigma que llegó para quedarse.

My vision?
Una sociedad plenamente consciente y colaborativa para un futuro verdaderamente resiliente

Juvenal Medina

Juvenal Medina

Centro Nacional de Estimacion, Prevencion Y Reduccion del Riesgo de Desastres - CENEPRED
Jefe Institucional

Anticipation?

My vision?

Karen Romero

Karen Romero

Specialist in Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation and Facilitator of the Anticipatory Action Planning Process in Caazapá, Paraguay. 

Anticipation?
Be prepared for what is coming

My vision?
Generating tools for the most vulnerable

Krishna Krishnamurthy

Krishna Krishnamurthy

World Food Programme (WFP)
Regional Adviser: Forecast-based Financing and Climate Services

Anticipation?
Proactive

My vision?
Secure and flexible financing to enable implementation of anticipatory actions

Lena Schubmann

Lena Schubmann

World Food Programme (WFP)
Programme & Policy Officer

Anticipation?
Taking action before events happen to mitigate potential negative impacts

My vision?
Innovative solutions that empower the most vulnerable populations to mitigate risks for their livelihoods

Marcelin ESTERLIN

Marcelin ESTERLIN

Unite Hydrometeorologique d’Haiti (UHM)
Coordonnateur, Représentant Permanent d'Haïti auprès de l'OMM

Anticipation?

My vision?

Marco Antonio Ríos

Marco Antonio Ríos

Forecast-based Financing (FbF) German Red Cross
GIS Specialist

Anticipation?
Predict

My vision?
Change the impacto of extreme events, through predictive analysis with BIG DATA.

Mariano Alfonsi

Mariano Alfonsi

Argentine Red Cross
National Coordinator of Risk Analysis

Anticipation?
Planning for anticipation is reaching the communities before. This allows us to reduce the impact and the risk.

My vision?
An emergency response center in anticipation and the reduction of disasters risk.

Marion Khamis

Marion Khamis

FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean
Disaster Risk Management and Resilience Specialist

Anticipation?
All the rest is “too late”

My vision?
Foresight without action is not different from blindness

Mathieu Destrooper

Mathieu Destrooper

German Red Cross
International Delegate for Preparedness, Anticipation and Forecast Based Financing

Anticipation?
Anticipation is the missing link to use our humanitarian capacity and finances when we know what extreme disasters are about to happen. Quick early actions and good disaster preparedness means better community resilience!

My vision?
Use anticipatory action to get quicker and better to the people in need in crisis and disasters.

Mauricio Santos

Mauricio Santos

German Red Cross
Regional Programs Officer

Anticipation?
Mitigate risks to adapt to a changing future

My vision?
A more resilient región to extreme events and climate change effects

Miguel Arestegui Espinal

Miguel Arestegui Espinal

Practical Action Peru
Flood Resilience Programme Manager

Anticipation?
Responsibility

My vision?
Climate justice

Nadia Ortega

Nadia Ortega

International Federation of the Red Cross Red Crescent
Disaster Risk Management Senior Officer

Anticipation?
Action

My vision?
We are a region with great potential to develop anticipatory financing programs, not only to meet the needs that may be generated by natural events, but also to apply this type of approach in more complex situations such as displacement, thanks to the efforts that has been generated in preparedness by all sectors over the years: from government entities and civil society to humanitarian partners. In order to develop this potential to its maximum expression, it is a matter of focusing the efforts of the actors present in the region so that, together, we can work to ensure that any event that can be forecasted in advance with pre-established response mechanisms and save as many lives as possible.

Natalie Acosta

Natalie Acosta

German Red Cross
Regional Communication Officer


Anticipation?
Thinking outside the box

My vision?
Make known that early actions are necessary for our communities’ resilience!

Natascha Bing

Natascha Bing

German Red Cross
Research Associate



Anticipation?

My vision?
Time to adapt anticipatory action to the urban context.

Nora Machuca Mejía

Nora Machuca Mejía

Instituto Nacional de Sismología, Vulcanología, Meteorología e Hidrología-INSIVUMEH - Guatemala
Climatología 

Anticipation?
Información

My vision?
Cultural

Paris Kazis

Paris Kazis

WFP
Global FbF Coordinator

Anticipation?
Common sense

My vision?
More and more positive stories of humanitarian crises averted thanks to Anticipatory Action

Paula Pagniez

Paula Pagniez

Willis Towers Watson
Climate and Resilience Hub, Director  

Anticipation?

My vision?

Raquel Peña

Raquel Peña

FAO - Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean
Regional Specialist in Emergency and Disaster Risk Management 

Anticipation?
"Anticipation is essential to save lives and protect the livelihoods of the most vulnerable people. There is no resilience without anticipation".

My vision?
In Latin America and the Caribbean, anticipation is the best bet to mitigate the impact of climate-related hazards/disasters as well as systemic risk.

Sabina Ortiz

Sabina Ortiz

Cruz Roja Ecuatoriana
Técnica Nacional de Reducción de Riesgos

Anticipation?
El conocimiento cientifico y el comunitario es integral, contribuyen en la generación de capacidades en cada localidad

My vision?
El gestionar acciones en base a pronósticos, impactos e información científica desde el enfoque de la preparación, contribuyen a la coordinación con actores a nivel comunitario e institucional generando capacidades y recursos ante posibles emergencias y/o Desastres.

Stefanie Lux

Stefanie Lux

German Red Cross
Lead Anticipation Unit 

Anticipation?
Can take time to set up, but once it is established allows us to reduce suffering and losses and helps people recover more quickly from extreme events.

My vision?
Mechanisms of anticipatory action in high-risk countries around the world.

Stephen McAndrew MBE

Stephen McAndrew MBE

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
DEPUTY REGIONAL DIRECTOR AMERICAS REGION

Anticipation?
That FBF strategies result in more efficient actions.

My vision?
A safer and more resilient Americas Region

Urbe Secades

Urbe Secades

World Food Programme, Dominican Republic
Programme Manager for Disaster Risk Management and Climate Change Adaptation

Anticipation?
Proactively managing foreseeable climate extreme events to reduce human suffering and losses.

My vision?
Resilient communities adapting to the impacts of extreme climate events

Verónica Rivera Cabrera

Verónica Rivera Cabrera

Guatemalan Red Cross
Climate Change Program Coordinator

Anticipation?
Save lives

My vision?
Manage the necessary assistance in an efficient way to provide adequate attention to the vulnerable population.