WMO Drought Activities

R. Stefanski

Chief, Agricultural Meteorology Division

Head of IDMP Technical Support Unit

WMO

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Global Framework for Climate

Services

WORLD CLIMATE CONFERENCE - 3

Geneva, Switzerland

31 August–4 September 2009

Goal:

Enable better management of the risks of

climate variability and change and

adaptation to climate change at all levels,

through development and incorporation of

science-based climate

information and prediction into planning,

policy and practice.

GFCS Priorities

Agriculture

Disaster risk reduction

Water

Health

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GFCS Components

User Interface Platform (UIP)

Climate Services Information System (CSIS)

Observations and Monitoring

Research, Modeling and Prediction

Capacity Building

5

High-Level Meeting on National

Drought Policies

March 11-15 2013

Over 414 participants from 87 countries

Main Partners – UNCCD, FAO, WMO

Key message: Help countries move from

reactive to proactive drought policies

12 representatives of UN agencies and

international and regional organizations

(UNU, IFRC, IOM, CBD, WFP, IAEA, UNECA, JRC,

ICARDA, GWP, ACMAD, ISDR)

Final Declaration adopted – www.hmndp.org

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Regional National Drought Management

Policy Workshops

Central & Eastern Europe, Romania - July 2013

Latin America and Caribeean, Brazil, Dec 2013

Asia-Pacific, Vietnam, May 2014

Eastern & Southern Africa, Ethiopia, Aug 2014

North Africa and SW Asia, Egypt, Nov 2014

West Africa / Wrap up – 2015

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National Drought Management Policy

Workshops - Sessions

Country Reports

Keynote Presentation – Don Wilhite

Drought monitoring and early warning systems - WMO

Vulnerability and risk assessment – UNCCD

Biodiversity and Drought – CBD

Drought preparedness, mitigation and responses – FAO

www.ais.unwater.org/droughtmanagement

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Global Drought Information System (GDIS)

Pasadena, California (Caltech campus) – 11-13 Dec

The focus of the workshop is to review our current

understanding of drought worldwide, and developing

plans for moving forward with an experimental global

drought information system (GDIS).

Workshop sponsors: WCRP, NIDIS, WMO, GEO, JRS, and

USCLIVAR

FA 1

Operational

Agricultural

Meteorology

COMMISSION FOR AGRICULTURAL METEOROLOGY President: Byong Lee, Vice-President: Federica Rossi

FOCUS AREAS (FA)

FA 2

Science and

Technology for

Agricultural

Meteorology

FA 3

Natural Hazards

and Climate

Change/Variability

In Agriculture

FA 4

Capacity

Development in

Agricultural

Meteorology

Management Group

(MG)

Expert Team on Drought

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WMO Publications on Drought

Integrated Drought Management Programme

- IDMP

www.idmp.info

IDMP Publications

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Outcomes of Sep 2014 IDMP Meetings

Proposed publications:

Integrated Drought Management Framework

Document

Drought Indices Handbook

Series of Case Studies

Engage with partners to exchange information on

drought to further enhance HelpDesk

Consider forming Technical Review Group or Groups to

provide technical review for specific activities and

information. Comprised of existing IDMP Partners.

Develop cooperation mechanism with partners to allow

contributions to IDMP in consistent way avoiding

duplications.

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Outcomes of Sep 2014 IDMP Meetings 2

For Implementation of national and regional initiatives,

connect with Partners and their projects & local

stakeholders.

Consider organizing an international conference on

drought management in 2016 and to organize

subsequent conferences with a frequency of two/three

years that could become a point of reference for those

involved in drought management.

Include representatives of the regional IDMP

programmes in the Advisory Committee as observers

www.wmo.int

Thank you for your attention

rstefanski@wmo.int