Associate Programme on

Flood Management

Integrated Drought

Management Programme

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Consulting partners meetingStockholm; 1 September 2013

Frederik Pischke, Senior Programme Officer IDMP/APFM

Sabina Bokal, IDMP Programme Manager

WMO/GWP Associate Programme on

Flood Management (APFM)• From reactive to pro-active

approaches;

• From Ad-hoc to Integrated Flood

Management

• Towards a culture of prevention by

managing flood risk & living with

floods;

• Balancing flood risk and achieving

sustainable development needs;

• Change in decision making

processes to include risk

management approaches.

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WMO/ GWP Associate Programme on

Flood Management - BackgroundCurrently in its 11th year of activity

Joint Initiative

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Global Water Partnership (GWP)

Operations

Technical Support Unit (TSU) embedded in the WMO Hydrologyand Water Resources Branch (6 (part-time) staff)

Trust Fund contributors: USAID and Switzerland

In-kind contributors: Germany, Italy

Support Based Partners

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APFM Support Base Partners

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APFM Activities

• Compilation of guidance and advisory tools

• Developing training and advocacy material

• Field Demonstration Projects

• Strategic advice on flood management

through a HelpDesk

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www.floodmanagement.info

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WMO/GWP Integrated Drought

Management Programme (IDMP)www.droughtmanagement.info

WMO/GWP IDMP Approach

1. To shift the focus from reactive to proactive

measures through drought mitigation, vulnerability

reduction and preparedness;

2. To integrate the vertical planning and decision

making processes at regional, national and

community levels into a multi-stakeholder

approach including key sectors, especially

agriculture and energy;

3. To promote the evolution of the drought knowledge

base and to establish a mechanism for sharing

knowledge and providing services to stakeholders

across sectors at all levels;

4. To build capacity of various stakeholders at different

levels.

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WMO/GWP IDMP Aims and Objective

Objective: “To support stakeholders at all levels by providing

policy and management guidance and by sharing scientific

information, knowledge and best practices for Integrated

Drought Management”

Aims:

1. Building climate resilience;

2. Reducing economic and social losses;

3. Cutting across sectoral, disciplinary, and institutional boundaries;

4. Responding to specific regional and national needs and

requirements

5. Alleviating poverty in drought-affected regions

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Structure of the IDMP

Joint Initiative

World Meteorological Organization (WMO)

Global Water Partnership (GWP)

Operations

Technical Support Unit (TSU) embedded in the WMOClimate Prediction and Adaptation Branch

Support Based Partners

Launched March 2013 at the High Level Meeting onNational Drought Policies

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WMO/GWP IDMP Areas of Work

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...and raindancing

1) Development of Tools

2) Capacity Building

3) Responding to Regional

and National Needs

4) Demonstration Projects

5) Development of a

HelpDesk

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GWP Network

- Established at the World Climate Conference 3 to

incorporate science-based climate information and

prediction into planning, policy and practice on the

global, regional and national scale

- Improve climate related information

- Build capacity to use this information

APFM and IDMP are elements of the GFCS

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Integrated Drought

Management Programme in

Central and Eastern Europe

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Sabina Bokal, IDMP Programme Manager

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• helping countries to improve national

drought monitoring and management

policies (DMP) – to increase preparedness

and reducing drought impacts;

Challenges ...

• raising awareness about severe drought conditions through

efficient dissemination mechanisms;

• combining / joining already existing drought platforms for

exchanging drought data, relevant for drought detection

and monitoring;

• demonstrating concrete measures that can be later used in

drought management policies in different sectors;

• sharing knowledge and best practices among countries.

1. INCEPTION PHASE:

• Task Force

• Inception report & Regional workshop (Oct 2012)

2. Preparation of a Regional Programme proposal (Nov 2012 –

Jan 2013)

• More then 40 organizations actively involved

• Official start in February 2013

3. PLANNING PHASE (March 2013 – June 2013):

• Partnership: activity leaders, activity working groups

• Budget: detailed budget, budget flow, contracting

• Workplan: detailed description of each activity,

implementation plans, milestones, etc.

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What have we done till now?

PARTNERSHIP

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• 10 CEE countries: Bulgaria,

Czech Republic, Hungary,

Lithuania, Moldova, Poland,

Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia,

Ukraine

• Over 40 differnet

organizations:

o Ministries & state agencies

o Universities

o Hydro-Meteo services

o Research institutes

o River basins directorates

o Regional centres: DMCSEE

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Regional

activities

STRUCTURE & Outputs

o review of the current situation

o guidelines for preparation of the DMP

o national consultation dialouges

o drought information exchange Platform

• Regional & transboundary connection;

• Involvement of 10 countries (different sectors);

• Bottom-up approach (national consultation dialogues,

workshops);

• Important role of CWPs – coordinators of the national

experts team;

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Demonstration

projects

STRUCTURE & Outputs

o increasing soil water holding capacity

o assessment of drought impact on forest

ecosystems

o natural small water retention measures

o drought risk management scheme

o using remote sensing agricultural drought

monitoring methods

o upgrading agriculture drought monitoring

and forecasting

Good practice

compendium

Concrete demonstration of

measures that can be later

used in drought

management policies;

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STRUCTURE & Outputs

• Workshops development of the Guidelines for DMPs

(2.1) and coordination of the regional activities under

WP1 & WP2

• Capacity building trainings for key actors from different

sectors to build capacity for integrated drought

management (cooperation with WMO, CapNet, ...)

o 4 Workshops

o 2 Capacity building trainings

o Compendium of good practices

o Dissemination activities (policy

brief, articles, web information,

etc.)

o Improving fundraising capacity of

CWP and RWP

Capacity building &

Knowledge

exchange & Build

capacity of GWP

Thank you for your attention!

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