DAY 1: 24th March 2014

Registration

Ceremonial opening

Welcome : Yoshinobu Fukasawa, Director, UN-Habitat Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Fukuoka

Address by

• His Excellency, David Daly, the Ambassador of the European Union to Sri Lanka and the Maldives (or Chargé d’Affaires a.i.)
• Her Excellency, Robyn Mudie,  the Australian High Commissioner
• His Excellency, Thomas Litscher, the Swiss Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives
• S B Divaratne,  Secretary, Presidential Task Force on Resettlement, Development and Security of the Northern  Province

• “Voices from the Field”  – Video Documentary
• Jaime Royo-Olid,  Programme Manager – Infrastructure and Reconstruction, European Union Delegation to Sri Lanka and the Maldives:
  Programming for developmental ‘Homeowner Driven’ Housing Reconstruction
• Somsook Boonyabancha, Secretary-General of Asian Coalition for Housing Rights, Thailand:
  Participatory Approaches Advocated over the years  in South East Asia.
• David Evans, Settlements Recovery Unit Leader, UN-Habitat, Nairobi:
  Interaction between the Stakeholders immediately following a disaster, and the role for UN-Habitat.
• H M Dayananda, General Manager, Real Estate Exchange Pvt Ltd:
  Enabling Environment for Shelter Rebuilding in Sri Lanka
• Anurag Srivasta, Director (Finance), Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India:
  Indian Government Approach to Post Conflict Reconstruction and Development in Sri Lanka, Lessons Learned
• Q&A

• Opening comments
• Susil Sirivardana, Former Chairperson of the Housing Authority and Writer:
  Contextual Challenges are Fundamental
• Vagisha Gunasekera, Centre for Poverty Analysis (CEPA):
  “Life and Debt”: an Assessment of Indebtedness and Socio-economic Conditions of Housing Beneficiaries in Jaffna, Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu. 
  Rupa Manel Silva, President and Anoma Lalani Jayasinghe, Sri Lanka
• Women’s Development Services Cooperative Society Ltd (WOMEN’S COOP):
  The Successes of the Women’s Bank in Financing
• Shailaja Fennell, Lecturer, Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge:
  Reconstruction as a form of Intervention: examining the role of Local Institutional Mechanisms in building Social Cohesion
• Rasika Mendis – Senior Research Specialist, World Vision:
  Housing Policy and Restitution in the Post Conflict Rehabilitation and Development
  Q&A

• Opening comments
• P S M Charles, District Secretary, Batticaloa:
  Working with Stakeholders with different Interests
• Mona Chhabra, basin-South Asia:
  Owner based processes for generating development policies that are responsive to housing vulnerabilities of the rural poor – efforts of civil society collectives in India
• Mohammad Rahman, National Project Manager, UN-Habitat, Afghanistan:
  Rebuilding Human Capital in Post Conflict Reconstruction
• Sandra D’Urzo, Architect and Senior Officer of the Shelter Department,  IFRC, Geneva:
  Making owner-driven housing work after disasters and crisis: an IFRC perspective
• Dinesh Kangaratnam, National Director, Habitat for Humanity Sri Lanka:
  Enterprise Project Management System for Housing Projects
  Q&A

DAY 2: 25th March 2014

• N Vedanayahan, District Secretary, Mullativu
• Sinnavan Susi,  Home owner from the ‘Support to Conflict Affected People through Housing’ project, Mulliwaikal East, Mullativu
• Sinnarasa Sivakunalan and Sivakunalan Thevajeni, Home owners from Akkaraayankulam Centre, Kilinochchi
• A H M Jezeer, Deputy Project Manager, UN-Habitat, Sri Lanka

• Matthew Barac, Architecture Programme Research Leader, London South Bank University and Chair – Board of Architecture Sans Frontières – UK:
  “Technologies of Belonging: Object Relations in the Architecture of Reconstruction”
• Guido de Vries, Country Director,  ZOA:
  Advocating for a core, incremental building housing approach
• Eleanor J Parker, Building and Social Housing Foundation (BSHF) and Department of Geography, Environment and Disaster Management, Coventry University:
  Achieving Sustainable Post Disaster Reconstruction in the long term: Lessons learned  from Latin America and South East Asia over 3 decades
• Vasant Pulleyanayagam, Housing Consultant, Integrated Housing Services, Practical Action:  
  Participatory Quality Assurance Mechanisms in Construction
• Khyati Halani, All India Disaster Management Institute, Ahmedabad:
  Owner Driven Reconstruction: Where Women are Leaders
• Q&A

• Satprem Maïni  and Lara Davis, Auroville Earth Institute, India (UNESCO Chair):
  Using CSEB for Owner-Driven Reconstruction based on  experiences in Kutch, Gujarat – India, post  2001 Earthquake, and east coast of Sri Lanka post 2004 tsunami
  Building with Earth: Sustainable Resource Management with CSEB
• Hina Zaidi, Senior Architect, Heritage Foundation, Pakistan:
  Local Technologies and improved Vernacular methods in building community capacity
• Vijayaraghavan M Chariar  and Mona Chabra,  Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi:
  “Where are all the Masons trained in Disaster Resilient Technologies?” – Reflections from Indian experiences of Capacity Building of Masons as primary messengers of safety in the built environment
• Piyal Ganepola, Deputy Project Manager, Programmes and Indu Weerasoori, Project Manager / DRR, UN-Habitat, Sri Lanka:
  Challenges in introducing alternative technologies in Homeowner Driven housing
•  Dhammika Gunawardene, Director/Industrial Training, and Anura Dassanayake, Chairman, Institute of Construction Training and Development (ICTAD)
• Q&A

6. Building on learning to meet the challenges ahead

• Panel discussion – Chairs/Facilitators of each session will discuss key points from their respective sessions
• Lalith Lankatilleke, Jan Meeuwissen, Somsook Boonyabancha, Laxman Perera, Disa Weerapana, Kirtee Shah
• Q&A
• Closing Remarks – Jaime Royo-Olid
• Vote of thanks – Saman Ekanayake, UN-Habitat Programme Manager for Sri Lanka a.i.