Technical Workshop on Locusts in Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA), Tashkent, Uzbekistan 13-15 November 2019

Provisional Agenda

Opening

1. Opening address

2. Election of Chairman, Vice-Chairman & Drafting Committee

3. Adoption of the Agenda

Session 1: National 2019 locust campaigns and forecasts for 2020

4. National locust campaigns in 2019 (countries’ presentations)

Session 2: Implementation of the Programme to improve locust management in Caucasus and Central Asia

5. Overview on Programme implementation in 2019 and funding situation

6. Regional cooperation in 2019:

a) Joint-Survey: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation, May 2019

(countries’ presentation)

7. National capacities’ development in 2019

Training-of-Trainers on locust management

a) Regional sessions:

- Locust monitoring and information management, including the Automated System

for Data Collection (ASDC) and the Caucasus and Central Asia Locust Management

System (CCALM), Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation, February/March

2019 (countries' presentations)

- Locust spraying and pesticide risk reduction, including ASDC, Armenia, Azerbaijan,

Georgia, Russian Federation, March 2019 (countries' presentations)

b) National sessions:

- National sessions on locust monitoring, spraying and pesticide risk reduction, including

ASDC use, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russian Federation, April-June 2019

(countries' presentations)

c) Training sessions

- Regional Training on locust monitoring and information management, including ASDC

and CCALM, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, September 2019 (countries’ presentation)

d) Equipment to strengthen operational capacities: update on delivery to CCA countries

8. Programme of work during 2020

Session 3: Developing monitoring and analysing systems

9. Developments of ASDC in 2019 (situation update, issues encountered, lessons learnt and recommendations) and next steps for 2020

10. Results of the Workshop on Locust Data Analysis, Forecast and Reporting in CCA and steps forward

Session 4: Risk reduction for human health and the environment

11. Monitoring impact of locust control operations

a) Developing a global system for health and environmental monitoring of locust control

operations, including on-the-job training on monitoring techniques, June 2019, Georgia
(country’s presentation)

b) Monitoring impact of locust control operations: Human Health and Environment

Monitoring Teams’ work in Azerbaijan and Georgia, May-September 2019 (countries'
presentations)

12. Progress made on control operations, pesticides and biopesticides, and on safety and environmental precautions (countries feedback)

Closing

13. Any other business

14. Closure address