Overview of the progress (Apr – Sep 2014)

& Plans (Oct 2014 – Mar 2015)

Sabina Bokal, Programme Manager

3rd IDMP CEE Workshop Budapest, 2 – 4 October 20148

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

drought.

Task Deadline

Development of the Questionnaire

Draft report

Collecting comments

Final report

Act. 1.2: Review of the current status of the implementation of DM plans and measures within RBMP according to EU WFD

Guidelines for preparation of the

Drought Management Plans

1st National consultation

dialouges

Review of current status of drought

planning

review of exsisting Guidelines and

legislative framework

2nd National consultation

dialouges

Testing the Guidelines in national conditions

WP2: National planning process

2014

2013

Development of the draft

Guidelines

June October / November April 2015

Discussion: • completing the Guidelines with national experiences • 2nd NCD (time, content, etc.)

Task Deadline

Draft version of Implementation guide

Survey on properties of available data

Workshop

List of available data sources and list of planned products to be included in the platform

O1: Final version of the Implementation Guide May 2014

O2: Implementation Report December 2014

Act. 1.3: Drought information exchange Platform

Main problem: limitation with providing the data (technical)

Act. 7.1: Good Practice Compendium

Task Deadline

Investigate possible outcome of IDMP CEE activities and who will be the users of the GPC

Current status of existing DMPs and others policy and management documents across Europe analyzed

Information, results and good practices from IDMP CEE activities included

December 2014

Main problem: Demonstration projects – final outputs; what to include?

DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS

Act. 5.1: Increasing soil water holding capacity

„Testing several approaches to agricultural practices which can improve

conditions for soil water holding capacity.“

OUTPUT: Analysis and proposals of preventive measures as a tools

for drought management in agricultural practices and

technologies

Act. 5.2: Drought impact on forest ecosystems

„... identification of mitigation and adaptation measures for forest ecosystems.“

OUTPUT: Remedial measures for the forest ecosystems to

mitigate negative effects of the drought

Act. 5.3: Natural small water retention measures

„adaptation measures to mitigate negative impacts of extreme water situations“

OUTPUT: Guidelines on „Natural landscape retention – combining drought mitigation, flood protection and biodiversity conservation“ Act. 5.4: Drought Risk Management Scheme

OUTPUT: Framework for integrated drought risk mapping that can be adjusted to a given drought context.

Act. 5.5: Remote sensing agricultural drought monitoring methods

„... to upgrade data assessment and forecasting tools to support drought management and monitoring“.

OUTPUTS: o Toolbox with the concrete identification of remote sensing

and GIS data tools for agricultural drought monitoring and forecast

o Guidelines for national governments and local stakeholders to integrate the drought monitoring and intervention levels into national flood and drought protection plans

Act. 5.6: Upgrading agricultural drought monitoring and forecasting: the case of Ukraine and Moldova

OUTPUTS: o Upgraded climate-zoning of Ukraine territory and Dniester

River Basin territory & Drought risk maps for agro sector – identification of drought prone areas

o Upgrading of forecasting models for identification of crop yield losses (UA) & proposals for the precipitation harvesting and practices for moisture conservation (MD)

o Policy makers and stakeholders awareness raising on droughts management/planning

o Drought Management Center for Southeastern Europe

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

• observer status • River Basin Management Expert Group (May, 2014 in Zagreb)

o European Drought Observatory (EDO) - platform for exchanging drought information

Act. 1.1: Cooperation with international basin commissions and regional organizations

o 16th session of the WMO Commission of Agricultural Meteorology in Antay, Turkey (10-12 April 2014)

o International Conference on Sustainability in the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Bonn, Germany (19-20 May 2014)

o Interreg IVC thematic capitalisation event “Policy sharing, policy learning” in Brussels (22 May 2014)

o 39th River Basin Management Expert Group Meeting, ICPDR in Zagreb, Croatia (5-6 May 2014)

o GWP Regional Days and Consulting Partners Meeting in Port of Spain, Trinidad (23-28 June 2014)

... and participation

Act. 1.4: Development of GIS Based Communication Technology Platform for the Sustainable Management of Transboundary Water Resources in Lithuania, Poland and Kaliningrad Region

to develop GIS based communication platform for the sustainable management of transboundary water resources in Lithuania, Poland, Belarus and Kaliningrad Region (Russia)

OUTPUT: compilation of joint transboundary maps on surface water, groundwater, human pressures, including (where possible) drought elements

Workshops Date

1st workshop in Hodrusa Hamre, Slovakia 15 - 16 October 2013

2nd workshop in Ljubljana, Slovenia 8 - 9 April 2014

3rd IDMP CEE workshop & joint DMCSEE/GWP capcity buidling training

2 - 4 October 2014

4th workshop March/April 2015

o Janusz Kindler (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)

o Sándor Szalai (Szent István University, Hungary)

o Henny A.J. van Lanen (European Drought Centre, Wageningen University, the Netherlands

o Robert Stefanski (World Meteorological Organization, Geneva, Switzerland)

o 1st Report (October 2013 – March 2014)

o 2nd Report (April – September 2014)

Act. 6.3: Peer Review Group

Peer Review Group review process

accepted

accepted with modifications

rejected Milestone progress report + Annexes

PRG review - assessment

Activity Leader – reply to PRG & updating annexes

PRG Final confirmation

payment

Milestone reports

• quick insight into your activity

STRUCTURE:

• 1. Basic information

• 2. Activity Report

o Short summary of the milestone report o What have been done after the previous milestone report o Describe the progress to the objectives of your activity o The expected final output(s) o At what stage you are now in the process of producing the final output(s) o Have you introduced any change in the original plan as outlined in the

Activity List? o Identify links with other IDMP CEE activities

• 3. Annexes - milestones / Outputs from Activity Lists

Timetable

Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar1.3. Platforma Output 1 Output 2

1.4 Kaliningrad Output 1 Output 3 Output 4 Output 2

2.1 Guidelines1st draft G

Final

Guidelines

5.1. Milestone 3 Output

5.2. Output 2 Output 3 Output 4

5.3. Milestone 3 Milestone 4 Milestone 5 Output

5.4. Output 2 Output 3

5.5. Output 2 Output 3

5.6. Milestone 3 Milestone 4 Milestone 5

7.1 Good practicesMilestone 1

Draft

Compendium

Final

Compendium

Confusing – outputs, milestones

Main objectives of this workshop:

o to get informed about the progress and plans till the end of the programme

o to identify main problems and challenges and create solutions how to overcome them

o to find connections between activities

o to put activities in the overall context

o to discuss continuation of the programme (which activities, funds, etc.)

Thank you for your attention!

...and let‘s start

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