Each speaker may submit documents which will be uploaded to the Web site of the event. Attendees could also present additional written contributions for the Seminar’s debates.

The Permanent Secretariat will prepare a final report on the Seminar and compile all written contributions presented by the speakers and participants, and will upload them to SELA’s Web page.

Base Document:

The Permanent Secretariat will prepare two base documents as guides for the discussions of the event.

• Continuity of business and operations during disasters in Latin America and the Caribbean: Balance and recommendations
  SP/II-SR-ASPPGRD/DT Nº 2-13

• Continuity of Operations (COOP) and Continuity of Government (COG): Proposal for their implementation in Latin America and the Caribbean
  SP/II-SR-ASPPGRD/DT N° 3-13

Presentations:

• Speech by the Director of Integration and Cooperation Affairs of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA), Juan Acuña.

• The Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction
  Speaker: Andrew Maskrey, Senior Advisor/Coordinator, United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction UNISDR

• Continuity of government vis-à-vis disaster situations in Latin America and the Caribbean
  Speaker: Ana Lucía Hill Mayora, SELA’s Consultant

• Continuity of business operations vis-à-vis disaster situations in Latin America and the Caribbean
  Speaker: Yves Dávila, SELA’s Consultant

• Presentation on partnership between public and private sectors and cooperation efforts in Colombia
  Speaker: Ángela Gómez Rodríguez, Director of Environmental Regulation

• Colombia: Unidad Nacional para la Gestión del Riesgo de Desastre -Presidencia de la República
  Ponente: Sr. Carlos Iván Márquez

• México: Secretariat of the Interior (SEGOB)
  Speaker: Luis Felipe Puente Espinosa, General Coordinator of Civil Protection of the Secretariat of Government

• USAID / Office of United States Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID- OFDA)
  Speaker: Sidney Velado

• Experience in Dosquebradas
  ECOPETROL
  Speaker: Sr. Jaime Bocanegra, Vicepresidente de Transporte

• Brazil
  Swiss-Re
  Speaker: Claudia Melo, Client Manager, Global Partnerships

• Haiti: Social Worker Foundation CINA
  Cimenterie Nationale S.E.M
  Speaker: Wilson Ramírez

• Stephenson Disaster Management Institute Louisiana, EE.UU. de America.
  Speaker: Andrés Calderón. Associate Director

• Technological Plans for Emergencies
  APELL Process-Colombia
  Speaker: Sra. Olga Lucía Sarría, Director

• Mutual Aid Committee in Salazar Gómez, Bogotá
  Speaker: Sr. Omar Ramírez. Consultor HSSE, Merck, S.A.

• National Plan to Respond to Road Emergencies
  The Integral Responsibility Group of Colombia (RIC)
  Speaker: Sra. Ana Elvia Pardo de Castro

• Florida International University (FIU)
  Speaker: Sr. Juan Pablo Sarmiento, Co-Director of the Disaster Risk Reduction Programme

• National Unit for Disaster Risk Management in Colombia
  Speaker: Sr. Carlos Iván Márquez, Director General.

• National Business Association of Colombia (ANDI)
  Speaker: Sra. Ángela Gómez Rodríguez, Director of Environmental Regulation

• Municipal Coordination of Civil Defence of Belo Horizonte
  Speaker: Col. Alexander Lucas Alves, Municipal Coordinator of Civil Defence

• White Helmets Commission (Argentina)
  Speaker: Rodolfo Alberto Cerviño, Second Vice-Chairman

• Presentation by the insurance company La Positiva - Peru
  Speaker: Sra. Lourdes del Carpio, Deputy Manager of Rural Insurance

• Presentation by UNISDR Private Sector Partnership (PSP)
  Speaker: Sra. Kiki Rebecca Lawal, Business Partnerships Programme Officer.

• Forum Empresa
  Speaker: Luz Ángela Díaz Vera, Asistente de Proyectos en Red Forum

• Caribbean Association of Industry and Commerce (CAIC)
  Speaker: Sr. Dav-Ernan Kowlessar, Management Consultant

• CEMEX
  Speaker: Sra. Dulce Alejandre, Manager of Corporate Social Responsibility

• Business Network for Prevention and Early Response to Disasters: “Experience of the private enterprise in Peru”
  Speaker: Cecilia Rosell, Manager of the Social Responsibility Committee for the National Society of Industries (SIN)

• IntegraRSE: Central American Network for Corporate Social Responsibility
  Speaker: Matthias Dietrich, Executive Director of UNIRSE, INTEGRARSE Member

• REDSOC - Venezuelan Network of Social Development Organizations
  Speaker: Consuelo Morillo, Director

• Ingenio Mayagüez, S.A. in Colombia
  Speaker: Sr. Alexander Morales, Head of Manual Harvest