Topic Outline
The 1st Regional Workshop for Eastern European countries was held from July 9-11, 2013, in Bucharest, Romania.
Recognizing that the impact of droughts can be significantly reduced through a shift from crisis based, reactive and piece meal approaches of emergency and recovery strategies to a more proactive and risk-based drought management policies, several United Nations agencies approached the UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development (UNW-DPC) to start a new multi-year capacity development initiative. The organizations include the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Secretariat and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
In a series of planned workshops, the first regional workshop for Eastern Europe, with the National Meteorological Administration of Romania as the host institution, was conducted in Romania based on expressed interest and capacity of its organization to host the workshop. The three-day workshop was attended by 24 participants from 10 countries in the Eastern European region: Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Republic of Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia and Turkey.
The purpose of this webpage is to present the detailed contents of the workshop.
1. Background Materials
2. National Reports
3. Presentations
Session 1: Opening Session
Overview of the initiative and scope of the Regional Workshop
Keynote address: Risk based National Drought Policy: background, challenges and opportunities
Session 2: Country presentations on drought status and management strategies
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Croatia
Macedonia
Moldova
Montenegro
Romania
Serbia
Slovenia
Turkey
Session 3: Drought monitoring and early warning systems
Part 2: FAO – Agriculture Stress Index System (ASIS)
Presentation of working group results and discussion
What are the current procedures/challenges on early warning systems?
What are the meteorological and hydrological networks, data quality, sustainability needed?
Session 4: Vulnerability and risk assessment
Presentation of working group results and discussion
Who is vulnerable (socially/economically) and why?
What are the mitigation policies and plans that reduce drought impacts/government intervention?
Session 5: Drought preparedness, mitigation and responses
Presentation of working group results and discussion
Drought preparedness measures and stakeholders
Drought mitigation measures and stakeholders
Drought response and recovery measures and stakeholders
Session 6: Towards action plan – Developing Drought Management Policy
Presentation of working group results and discussion
What are the challenges for developing national drought policies?
What are the institutional arrangements necessary for developing national drought policies?
What are the steps being undertaken for developing national drought policies?
Session 7: Wrap-up and concluding session
Links to other Regional Workshops
International Kick-Off Workshop
Regional Workshop for Latin America and the Caribbean
Regional Workshop for Asia-Pacific
Regional Workshop for Eastern and Southern Africa
Regional Workshop for Near East and North Africa Region
Regional Workshop for West and Central Africa countries