Joint GWP/DMCSEE training: WMO Drought Activites by Robert Stefanski

1. 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.

3. 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

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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

12. 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

14. Integrated Drought Management Programme - IDMP
www.idmp.info

15. 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

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Thank you for your attention
rstefanski@wmo.int