Guidelines for Drought Management Plan and National Consultation dialogues

1. Act. 2.1 & 2.2: Guidelines for
Drought Management Plan &
National Consultation dialogues
First IDMP workshop – 15-16 October,
Hodrusa Hamre, Slovakia
Elena Fatulova, GWP Slovakia

2. Activities
Activity 2.1 - Guidelines for Drought
Management Plans
Activity 2.2 - National consultation
Dialogues

3. Guidelines – why, how?
Objective ●to prepare the Guidelines which will serve as a
support tool for the preparation of the DMPs
Principles ●to be in line with current EU drought policy as
expressed in the relevant official documents
●to apply integrated approach in context with
WFD objectives according RBMPs
●to follow existing official documents
●to be a practical tool based on practical
experiences (EU, CIS)
●to respect country specific conditions

4. Guidelines – how?
Level
National or local DMP
Basis
● Drought Management Plan Report,
Including Agricultural, Drought Indicators
and Climate Change Aspects (Report
2007)
● Slovak Case Study
● National experiences of involved countries
● Outputs from another activities of the
IDM Programme

5. Guidelines – working plan
Timetable: First phase:
●Slovak case study – March 2014
Second phase:
●Draft of the Guidelines – May 2014
●National proposals, experiences,
comments – December 2014 - CZ, HU,
PL, LIT, SLO, ROM, BG, UA, MD
●Guidelines for DMP – April 2015

6. National Consultation Dialogues
Objective: gather information required for Activity
2.1 (and 1.2) through the national
dialogues organised separately in each
involved countries
Partners: SK, CZ, HU, PL, LIT, SLO, ROM, BG,
UA,MD
Duration: October 2013 – April 2015

7. National Consultation Dialogues
Tasks: ●elaboration of the action plan and time
schedule for the national dialogues;
●identification of the national partners
dealing with drought issues;
●organising national dialogues – meetings,
seminars, workshops according to the action
plan;
●gathering and processing of national
information relating the drought
management issues
●elaboration of the progress reports

8. National Consultation Dialogues
Next steps:
● elaborate the action plan and time schedule
for the national dialogues throughout the
activity
● organise at least one national seminar by
the end of this year (2013)

9. 1. How should the public participation be organized
to improve management of drought risks?
2. Which measures can help the introduction of
effective drought risk management?
3. Which elements (components) of the drought
management system require a special attention
in the guideline?