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TIME6 th Caribbean Conference on Comprehensive Disaster Management“CDM: Reflection, Introspection, Moving Forward “Hyatt Regency, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad5 th – 9 th December, 2011CONCURRENT: SESSION 2CDM Reflection: Retracing Steps, Celebrating Achievements, Distilling Gaps(Note: These sessions will have a Working Break between 3:15 pm and 3:45 pm)2:00 pm – 4:30 pm CONCURRENT SESSION 2ARoom: Regency VFocus: Civil Society – A Force of Change inDisaster Risk ManagementSession Chair: Mr. Reginald Burke,Regional Coordinator, Caribbean YouthEnvironment Network (CYEN), BarbadosSession Sponsor: UNDPTopic: Effecting change from thebottom up: The Evolving Role of CivilSociety in Disaster Risk ManagementSpeaker: Ms. Cecilia Babb, Director,Caribbean Policy Development Center(CPDC), BarbadosQuestions and DiscussionPresentation of Papers Topic: Tool for SelectingVulnerable Communities – RedCross Disaster Risk ManagementResource CenterPresenter: Mrs. Tamara Lovell,Disaster Management ProjectCoordinator, Red Cross CaribbeanDRM Resource Center, BarbadosQuestion and AnswerTopic: Community-based DisasterRisk Management Planning: TheCase of JamaicaSESSIONCONCURRENT SESSION 2BRoom: Regency VIFocus: Innovation in Development PracticeSession Chair: Ms. Marva Titley-Smith,Chief Planner, Virgin Islands (British)Session Sponsor: EU in collaboration withWB/GFDRRTopic: Redefining Development –Scaling-up Disaster Risk ManagementInvited Speaker: Mr. Andrew Maskrey,Coordinator, Global Assessment Report onDisaster Risk Reduction, United NationsInternational Strategy for Disaster Reduction(UNISDR), Geneva, SwitzerlandQuestions and DiscussionPresentation of Papers Topic: Innovative Building PracticesPresenter: Dr. Richard Clarke,Head, Department of Civil &Environmental Engineering,University of the West Indies (UWI),Trinidad & TobagoQuestion and AnswerTopic: An Innovation in HospitalSafety: Reflections on Safe HospitalInitiative in the CaribbeanPresenter: Dr. Jean Luc Poncelet,Area Manager in EmergencyCONCURRENT SESSION 2CRoom: Regency IVFocus: The Role of Science, Educationand Research in Effective Disaster RiskManagementSession Chair: Dr. Barbara Carby,Director, Disaster Risk Reduction Center(DRRC), University of the West Indies(UWI), JamaicaSession Sponsor: UNDPTopic: The Changing Space forApplied Science, Education andResearch in advancing Disaster RiskManagementSpeaker: Professor Winston Suite,Professor Emeritus, Coordinator, ProjectManagement Programme, University ofthe West Indies (UWI), Trinidad & TobagoQuestions and DiscussionPresentation of Papers Topic: Presentation on changesin certification and accreditationin Small Island Developing StatesPresenter: Dr. David Smith,Coordinator, Institute forSustainable Development,University of the West Indies(UWI)Question and AnswerPage 8 – Version 10 (Updated 28 November, 2011)