Integrated Drought Management Programme in Central and Eastern Europe

National Consultation Drought Dialogue Pristina, 12. 11. 2014

Sabina Bokal GWP CEE

Integrated Drought Management Programme in Central and Eastern Europe

GWP CEE Sabina Bokal

Ryn, 6 November 2014

o Global context of the programme

o Partnership

o Main objectives

o Main activities:

• Drought Management Plans

• National Consultation Dialogues

• Demonstration projects

• Regional cooperation

• Capacity building; awareness raising

From one weather extreme to another

Europe has been affected by several major droughts in recent decades.

Global context

GWP Water and Climate Programme

WMO/GWP Integrated Drought Management

Programme

1. WACDEP in Africa & Caribbean

3. Global WMO/GWP IDMP and APFM

4. Deltas Climate Resilience Programme

2. Water and Climate

Programmes – Asia, Latin America

„In terms of water resources management and climate change adaptation, countries in Central and Eastern Europe are sensitive to variability and changing precipitation patterns...increased frequency and severity of extreme weather events – increase of droughts.“ (IPCC)

need for regional and national drought policies & plans from reactive to proactive drought management

integrated approach

Drought – reality in Central and Eastern Europe

Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry (LT)

National Scientific Center for Global Changes (BG)

Research Institute for Soil and Water Conservation (CZ)

10 Country Water Partnerships & 40 organizations

University of Debrecen (HUN)

Department of Hydrology and Climatology, Vilnius University (LT)

Institute of Ecology and Geography (MD)

Institute of Agricultural and Forest Environment (PL)

Institute of Meteorology and Water Management (PL)

National Meteorological Administration (ROM)

Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute

Soil Science and Conservation Research Institute (SK)

Slovenian Forestry Institute

Biotechnical Faculty (SLO)

Limnos Ltd. (SLO)

Ukrainian Research Institute of Forest and Forest Melioration (UA)

Institute of Agricultural and Forest Environment (PL)

• current gaps in the implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) - „...to develop a DMP as a supplementary measure, in case of obligatory measures are not sufficient to avoid water scarcity“

• national governments to help them to incorporate drought management issues into their national programs, policies and plans

• raising awareness about severe drought conditions through efficient dissemination mechanisms

• demonstrating concrete measures that can be later used in drought management in different sectors;

• sharing knowledge and best practices among countries

IDMP CEE focuses mainly on:

Increase the capacity of the CEE region to adapt to climatic variability by enhancing resilience to

drought.

to facilitate national governments to incorporate drought management issues into their national programs, policies and plans

o the first step from crisis management to risk management approach

o to minimize the adverse impacts on the economy, social life, environment when drought appears

o to be prepared in advance o directly linked to WFD & RBMP

Guidelines support tool

National Consultation Dialogues acceptance at the policy level

Support the process of preparation of the Drought Management Plans

• over 300 participants

• key national partners dealing with drought issues

• current status of drought management

• identification of the next steps

• to strengthen cross-sectorial cooperation on horizontal level

• to include interested public and other stakeholders to the preparation of DMPs

1st round of the National Consultation Dialogues November – December 2013

national methodologies for

assessment of historical drought

national drought indicator systems

and evaluation methodologies

national drought classification,

thresholds and early warning systems

national organizational

structures to deal with drought

national program of measures for

preventing and mitigating drought

national research programme

supporting drought management

Objective – to provide and discuss national experiences and steps further

testing innovative solutions for better resilience to drought

o collecting and analyzing data through demonstration projects is the most effective approach and contributes to the enhancement of knowledge and capacity development

o promoting innovative solutions that address critical water security challenges to enhance drought resilience of countries and communities

o focusing on different aspects of drought management and involvement of different sectors outside „water“ sector

o results included into Good Practice Compendium, Guidelines for DMP, GWP Toolbox, ...

DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS

Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia

Natural small water retention measures

to adjust to extreme climate variability; it helps retain water in the land during dry periods and slows down flood waves during flood periods

Slovakia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Poland

Increasing soil water holding capacity

Bulgaria, Ukraine, Slovenia, Lithuania

Drought impact on forest ecosystems

measures for forest adaptation, and for mitigating the negative effects of climate change

to test the methods for improving water infiltration into the soil profile

Identification of agricultural drought characteristics & monitoring method through the application of remote sensing data. Hungary, Slovakia, Romania

Remote sensing agricultural drought monitoring methods

Ukraine, Moldova

Agricultural drought monitoring and

forecasting

Poland, Romania, Lithuania

Drought Risk Management Scheme

Upgrade data assessment and forecasting tools to support drought management and monitoring.

Developing a framework for an integrated operational drought risk management system that can be adjusted to a given drought context.

Regional cooperation

o Drought Management Center for Southeastern Europe

o Cooperation with River Basin Organizations (ICPDR, ISRBC):

o observer status o River Basin Management EG &

Public Participation EG

to enhance regional and transboundary cooperation in the field of drought management

Web-based Platform for detection, monitoring, forecasting

and information exchange:

• commonly agreed products (e.g. drought indices)

• joint comparison and analysis of information

• mutual exchange of knowledge & methodologies

• direct up- and downscaling

• real-time monitoring and forecasting (early warning, preparedness)

European Drought Observatory - EDO

to increase the capacity and drought-related knowledge of the key actors

Capacity building & knowledge exchange

o 3 regional workshops Slovakia, October 2013; Slovenia, April 2014; Hungary, October 2014

o Joint IDMP CEE & DMCSEE capacity building training Budapest, October 2014

o Good practice Compendium o examples of already existing „drought plans“ o good practices from demonstration projects

to raise awareness about severe drought conditions through efficient dissemination mechanisms

Web page

leaflet

Video

Photo competition

Knowledge & awareness rising

http://www.gwp.org/en/GWP-CEE/IDMPCEE/

Thank you for your attention!