TOWS WG Inter-ICG Task Team on Disaster Management & Preparedness

TOWS WG Inter-ICG Task Team on Disaster Management & Preparedness

18 – 19 Feb 2020, Paris cedex 07, France

Through Resolution XXIV-14 the IOC Assembly at its 24th Session decided to establish a Working Group on Tsunamis and Other Hazards Related to Sea-Level Warning and Mitigation Systems (TOWS-WG), tasked primarily to advise the IOC Governing Bodies on coordinated development and implementation activities on warning and mitigation systems for tsunamis and other hazards related to sea level of common priority to all Intergovernmental Coordination Group on Tsunami Warning and Mitigation Systems (ICG/TWSs). The Task Team on Disaster Management and Preparedness advises and reports to the TOWS-WG. A meeting of the Task Team will take place will take place in Salle VII, UNESCO HQs, 18-19 February immediately prior to the 13th meeting of the TOWS-WG, 20-21 February 2020. An associated meeting dedicated to the "Tsunami Ready" Pilot programmme, open to inter-ICG Task Teams and ICG representatives, will take place on February 17,2020.

Location

Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO
7, place de Fontenoy

75732 Paris cedex 07
France

Organisers and Staff

Organisers
Mr Bernardo Aliaga Rossel
Mr. David Coetzee
Ms. Esmeralda Borja
Staff
Mr Bernardo Aliaga Rossel
1

Opening and Meeting Organization

2

Reflection on TT Report to TOWS WG XII (2019)

4

Significant Operational Events Since Last Meeting - Joint session with TT TWO

5

Tsunami Glossary Update - Joint session with TT TWO

6

Development of Key Performance Indicators in relation with Sendai Framework Indicators - Joint session with TT TWO

7

Local Source Tsunami SOPs - Joint session with TT TWO

8

National Tsunami Warning Centre Competency Framework - Joint session with TT TWO

9

Planning for the Ocean Decade

10

UNESCO-IOC Tsunami Ready (UNESCO-IOC TR) pilot programmes

11

Tsunami Evacuation Mapping – M&G 82

12

Tsunami Guidance for Maritime and Ports

13

Structural design guidance for buildings that can be used for vertical evacuation

14

Schools Programmes

15

World Tsunami Awareness Day (WTAD) 2020

16

Presentation: Israel Earthquake & Tsunami Exercise 2019

17

Task Team Report to TOWS WG XIII

18

Close of Meeting

Report Documents

Code Title
Report of the Inter-ICG Task Team on Disaster Management and Preparedness (TT-DMP)_February 2020

Agenda Documents

Agenda Code Title
16 Israels 2019 tsunami exercise
17 TOWS WG XIII -WMO Pres 02022020
2 TOWS-WG-XII_3_eo
3 TTDMP - ICG CARIBE EWS Report
3 Working Group 4 Update TOWS TTDMP - christa
3 IOTWMS forTOWS-WG 2020
3 ICG_PTWS Report to TOWS TTDMP_2020.2
3 TTDMP 2020 ICG-CARIBE EWS CTIC Summary
9 Ocean Decade_TOWS

Participant Stats:

Staff and organisers 4
Confirmed 9
Not Confirmed 1
Not-participating 0
Total 14
Groups: CD, IOC , ITIC, TSR
Created at 12:25 on 27 November 2019 by Mr Bernardo Aliaga Rossel
Last Updated at 17:59 on 6 March 2020 by Mr Luis Ernesto Aguilar
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