Botswana Agenda

Resilience Frontiers

Second Brainstorming Meeting

22 to 26 August 2022

Botswana Global Adaptation Week 2022

Agenda outline

22 to 26 August 2022

SECOND

Brainstorming

Meeting

Botswana Global Adaptation Week

AGENDA

9:00:

High-level opening ceremony

(Gaborone International Conference Centre (GICC), Plenary Hall)

10:30:

Coffee break

11.00:

Resilience Frontiers Second Brainstorming Meeting opens (GICC, room tba)

12:30:

Lunch

14:00:

Session I

Imagining the future; exploring the realm of ‘challenging yet plausible’; defusing

the ‘unexpected’

14:30:

Session II

Through guided exercises, participants will get to know each other and their

contributions and potential relevant to the Resilience Frontiers eight pathways

15:30:

Coffee break

16:00:

Session II continued

18:00:

Reception hosted by the Government of Botswana

Day 1

Monday 22 August

Day 2

Tuesday 23 August

9:30:

Session III

Through guided exercises, participants will discuss the future and the future of

the Resilience Frontiers eight pathways

10:30:

Coffee break

11.00:

Session III continued

12:30:

Lunch

14:00:

Session III continued

15:30:

Coffee break

16:00:

Session III continued

Report back to the room

17:30:

Evening activity

Hot Poets

9:30:

Session IV

After a presentation, participants will discuss concepts developed on Days 1 & 2,

including ‘surprising insights,’ uncertainties and implicit assumptions

10:30:

Coffee break

11.00:

Session V

Through a series of exercises, participants will develop future scenarios

12:30:

Lunch

14:00:

Session V continued

15:30:

Coffee break

16:00

Session V continued

Report back to the room

17:00:

Evening activity

Day 3

Wednesday 24 August

9:30:

Creative workshop

10:30:

Coffee break

11.00:

Session VI

Through a series of exercises, participants will discuss cross-cutting elements of

the Resilience Frontiers eight pathways as well as overarching synergies and

challenges

12:30:

Lunch

14:00:

Session VI continued

15:30:

Coffee break

16:00:

Session VI continued

Report back to the room

Day 4

Thursday 25 August

9:30:

Session VII

Plenary discussion on the developed storylines of the Resilience Frontiers eight

pathways

10:30:

Coffee break

11.00:

Closing of Resilience Frontiers Second Brainstorming Meeting

12:30:

Lunch

Note: Coffee breaks and lunches are provided through generous contribution by the

Government of Botswana

Day 5

Friday 26 August