BSRP
Kaspars Zurins, Niclas Bergman, Johanness Delstra, Viesturs Jansons
Presented at the Black Sea – Danube Regional Conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in Chisinau, Moldova – October 2006
Overview of the Sava Commission activities
International Roundtable on Protection and Sustainable Use of Trans-boundary Waters in South East Europe, 15-16 December 2011, Zagreb, Croatia
The document summarizes the minutes of a meeting between representatives from the European Union, Azerbaijan government agencies, and consulting companies working on the EPIRB project. The meeting focused on discussing progress implementing the project, which aims to improve water quality in transboundary river basins. Key discussions included updates on developing water monitoring programs, a river basin management plan for a pilot area, implementing pilot projects in Azerbaijan, and next steps for activities during a nine-month extension period with additional funding. Representatives from beneficiary agencies and consulting companies presented on the status of various pilot projects being implemented in Azerbaijan with support from the EPIRB project.
The document summarizes a technical workshop on progress under the EU Water Initiative Plus (EUWI+) in Belarus. Key points discussed include:
- The launch of a new report on water security in Belarus summarizing EUWI+ work, including regional case studies and tools to improve water security.
- Progress on developing River Basin Management Plans (RBMPs) for the Dnieper and Pripyat rivers, including biological and chemical monitoring. Upgrading of monitoring infrastructure was also discussed.
- The timeline and priority steps for adopting Belarus' new national Water Strategy to 2030, which aims to achieve sustainable development goals for water. Legislative and institutional changes to facilitate the strategy's implementation were also considered.
This PPT is about how technology is used as a form of communication tool not only in our life but also in developing the business and various types of communication tools in this modern technology world.
People like to communicate the way *they* want to, not the way they are *made* to. Furthermore, employees now expect access to consumer class "usable" technologies in their business environments - "Consumer Grade" trumps "Business Grade" 10 times out of 10.
This is the world of Communications In The Cloud, where the synchronous modalities of Voice and Text meet the asynchronous modalities of Email, SMS, IM, Twitter, and the like. These modalities can - poorly - emulate each other, but genuine innovation and value is provided by services that can seamlessly move across these synchronous and asynchronous channels as users' needs change.
ICT is an umbrella term that includes any communication device or application used to transmit information, like radio, TV, phones, computers, and networks. ICTs are often discussed in specific contexts like education, healthcare, or libraries. Student benefits provide funding for living expenses, rent, meals, and require academic progress in countries with free higher education like Finland and Sweden. Feedback is information sent to an individual or group about prior behavior to modify future actions and achieve desired results. Communication is a two-way process of understanding through exchanging and creating shared meaning between people or places.
BSRP
Kaspars Zurins, Niclas Bergman, Johanness Delstra, Viesturs Jansons
Presented at the Black Sea – Danube Regional Conference on Nutrient Pollution Control in Chisinau, Moldova – October 2006
Overview of the Sava Commission activities
International Roundtable on Protection and Sustainable Use of Trans-boundary Waters in South East Europe, 15-16 December 2011, Zagreb, Croatia
The document summarizes the minutes of a meeting between representatives from the European Union, Azerbaijan government agencies, and consulting companies working on the EPIRB project. The meeting focused on discussing progress implementing the project, which aims to improve water quality in transboundary river basins. Key discussions included updates on developing water monitoring programs, a river basin management plan for a pilot area, implementing pilot projects in Azerbaijan, and next steps for activities during a nine-month extension period with additional funding. Representatives from beneficiary agencies and consulting companies presented on the status of various pilot projects being implemented in Azerbaijan with support from the EPIRB project.
The document summarizes a technical workshop on progress under the EU Water Initiative Plus (EUWI+) in Belarus. Key points discussed include:
- The launch of a new report on water security in Belarus summarizing EUWI+ work, including regional case studies and tools to improve water security.
- Progress on developing River Basin Management Plans (RBMPs) for the Dnieper and Pripyat rivers, including biological and chemical monitoring. Upgrading of monitoring infrastructure was also discussed.
- The timeline and priority steps for adopting Belarus' new national Water Strategy to 2030, which aims to achieve sustainable development goals for water. Legislative and institutional changes to facilitate the strategy's implementation were also considered.
This PPT is about how technology is used as a form of communication tool not only in our life but also in developing the business and various types of communication tools in this modern technology world.
People like to communicate the way *they* want to, not the way they are *made* to. Furthermore, employees now expect access to consumer class "usable" technologies in their business environments - "Consumer Grade" trumps "Business Grade" 10 times out of 10.
This is the world of Communications In The Cloud, where the synchronous modalities of Voice and Text meet the asynchronous modalities of Email, SMS, IM, Twitter, and the like. These modalities can - poorly - emulate each other, but genuine innovation and value is provided by services that can seamlessly move across these synchronous and asynchronous channels as users' needs change.
ICT is an umbrella term that includes any communication device or application used to transmit information, like radio, TV, phones, computers, and networks. ICTs are often discussed in specific contexts like education, healthcare, or libraries. Student benefits provide funding for living expenses, rent, meals, and require academic progress in countries with free higher education like Finland and Sweden. Feedback is information sent to an individual or group about prior behavior to modify future actions and achieve desired results. Communication is a two-way process of understanding through exchanging and creating shared meaning between people or places.
The document provides a chronological history of communications technologies from 3500 BC to 1994 AD. It describes the development of early writing systems by ancient civilizations, the establishment of postal services in China and Rome, the invention of printing presses and movable type in China, Johannes Gutenberg's printing press in Europe, the development of telegraph, telephone, radio, television, computers and the internet over the centuries. Key inventions and milestones in communications are highlighted across different eras.
Who would be the target audience for you're media product ?guest9e0839
This document discusses the target audience for a psychological thriller film. It analyzes survey data showing that psychological thrillers are most popular among 18-24 year olds, as this age group watches thrillers the most. The surveys also found that psychological thrillers tend to be more favorable towards females, going against some common stereotypes. The document then lists common traits of psychological thrillers like suspense, excitement, and tension. It provides examples of how the author's film demonstrates these traits, such as using music to build tension and leaving the audience wondering what a character is doing and why.
The Entrepreneur's Source is hosting a virtual "Start a Business Weekend" event from March 23-25 that will allow local individuals to explore business opportunities and franchise concepts from their home or office computer. Attendees can interact live with representatives from leading franchise companies, listen to industry expert presentations, and gather free resources from dozens of virtual business booths. The event aims to make exploring business ownership convenient by providing a powerful way to research options using innovative virtual technology and networking.
Land use planning is an important part of integrated water resource management. The document discusses the need for an integrated approach to landscape management and outlines some of the challenges. It also describes tools for integrated management in Slovakia, including landscape ecological planning and territorial systems of ecological stability. Coordination between spatial planning, flood risk management, and other sectoral plans is key to effective integrated landscape management according to the document.
The document summarizes the Global Water Partnership (GWP), an intergovernmental organization that works to advance sustainable water resource governance and management. It discusses GWP's role in developing a proposed post-2015 development agenda water goal. GWP conducted country consultations to inform the proposed goal, which calls for a dedicated water goal to ensure water is not overlooked by sectoral interests and to underpin sustainability. GWP's executive secretary advocated for a dedicated water goal during a United Nations debate.
The document summarizes the Integrated Drought Management Programme in Central and Eastern Europe. It discusses how countries in the region are sensitive to changes in precipitation patterns and the increasing risk of droughts due to climate change. The program aims to help the region enhance resilience to drought through regional cooperation, national planning, demonstration projects, capacity development, and knowledge sharing. Specific projects are testing innovative solutions for natural water retention, increasing soil water holding capacity, and analyzing the vulnerability of forest ecosystems to drought in various countries in the region. The results of these demonstration projects will feed into drought management guidelines and tools.
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The document summarizes the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), an agency of the United Nations focused on weather, climate and water. It has 191 member countries and runs 10 scientific programs through a secretariat and technical commissions. It also describes the Integrated Drought Management Programme (IDMP), a joint initiative of WMO and the Global Water Partnership launched in 2013 to support drought policy implementation. The IDMP takes a proactive, collaborative approach including knowledge sharing, capacity building and demonstration projects.
This document discusses the damages caused by drought in agriculture, the environment, and water supply. It analyzes how drought is evaluated in agriculture as a lack of water in soil, and the measures taken to regulate soil moisture through irrigation, drainage, and soil use practices. It notes that soil is an important water reservoir, and that maintaining the proper water balance in territories is important. However, water holding capacity is decreasing due to issues like soil compaction. Improving water retention in soil is needed, such as through subsoiling to drain water deeper into the soil profile. Taking these measures would benefit agriculture, the environment, villages, and national economies.
The document discusses water policy and management in the Caucasus region. It notes the difficulties in involving local stakeholders and lessons learned. Key challenges include a lack of integrated management, weak coordination between government institutions, insufficient funding and resources for monitoring water ecosystems, and limited participation of civil society and local communities in decision making. Stronger stakeholder involvement is needed for developing and implementing integrated water resource management plans at the local level.
The CarpatClim project aims to improve climate data in the Carpathian region by rescuing, quality controlling, and homogenizing daily meteorological data from 1961 to 2010 at a 0.1° resolution. The project will produce a digital climate atlas and indicators for drought monitoring. It involves 9 countries and will calculate drought indices like SPI, SPEI, and RDI on a 0.25° grid to analyze drought characteristics and correlations between indices over the 1961-2010 period. The data and outputs will be made freely available online to support applications in agriculture, hydrology and other sectors.
This document discusses the importance of public education in protecting and restoring river ecosystems. It notes that education efforts often follow restoration projects, and are dependent on donors and funds. As a result, approaches are ad hoc and effectiveness is unknown. It recommends starting studies on social perceptions of water ecosystems, evaluating educational programs and activities, and developing education programs on ecological river functioning. The Global Water Partnership pledges to support information sharing on best practices by 2015 and assess public education effects in river projects by end of 2012.
This document summarizes the process and major achievements of the DROUGHT-R&SPI project from its initial call to completion. The project established four pan-European drought dialogue forums to foster research and science-policy interfacing. It also developed drought monitoring and forecasting tools, created an inventory of European drought impacts, and assessed drought impacts and vulnerability across multiple sectors. The project involved collaboration across 12 partners over 4 years, with a budget of 4.2 million Euros funded by the European Commission.
The document discusses events that took place on Danube Day 2006 to raise awareness about the Danube River watershed. It notes that over 130 events were held across 13 countries, engaging tens of thousands of people. Events ranged from festivals to educational activities for children. The day inspired international cooperation and highlighted the river as a shared resource. It was celebrated on a large scale and helped make progress toward improving the future of the rivers and communities in the Danube watershed.
The document summarizes the ongoing work of developing an integrated framework for drought risk management in Poland, Lithuania, and Romania. The framework includes components for drought hazard assessment, vulnerability analysis, risk visualization and mapping. It will provide a systematic approach and generic concepts that can be detailed and adjusted for specific regional contexts. The ongoing work involves identifying national measures for drought assessment, developing methods for hazard and vulnerability mapping, conducting sector-based risk assessments, and integrating the components to form drought risk maps. The goal is to provide recommendations for an operational decision support system to improve drought governance and risk identification in the region of the Middle and Upper Odra River basin.
The document discusses several topics:
1. A new report on public participation in water management was prepared for the GWP CEE Public Participation Task Force. The report analyzes case studies and projects and makes recommendations.
2. GWP CEE country partnerships celebrated World Water Day with various national and local events promoting integrated water resources management.
3. The calendar lists upcoming water-related conferences and meetings around Europe in 2005 focusing on topics like the EU Water Framework Directive, flood management, and freshwater sciences.
Fourth IDMP CEE workshop: Development of GIS Based Communication Technology Platform for the Sustainable Management of Transboundary Water Resources in Lithuania, Poland, Belarus and Kaliningrad Region by Edvinas Stonevicius
The document summarizes a project to develop a GIS-based communication technology platform for managing transboundary water resources shared by Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, and Russia's Kaliningrad Region. Workshops brought together water management and GIS experts from the countries to create a shared GIS database with maps and data on surface and groundwater, pressures, impacts, and more. An interactive map and video were produced to help stakeholders access and understand the database, improving cross-border cooperation on issues like drought planning and developing river basin management plans. The GIS platform is intended to facilitate ongoing collaboration around topics like the water-energy-food-climate nexus.
The document provides a chronological history of communications technologies from 3500 BC to 1994 AD. It describes the development of early writing systems by ancient civilizations, the establishment of postal services in China and Rome, the invention of printing presses and movable type in China, Johannes Gutenberg's printing press in Europe, the development of telegraph, telephone, radio, television, computers and the internet over the centuries. Key inventions and milestones in communications are highlighted across different eras.
Who would be the target audience for you're media product ?guest9e0839
This document discusses the target audience for a psychological thriller film. It analyzes survey data showing that psychological thrillers are most popular among 18-24 year olds, as this age group watches thrillers the most. The surveys also found that psychological thrillers tend to be more favorable towards females, going against some common stereotypes. The document then lists common traits of psychological thrillers like suspense, excitement, and tension. It provides examples of how the author's film demonstrates these traits, such as using music to build tension and leaving the audience wondering what a character is doing and why.
The Entrepreneur's Source is hosting a virtual "Start a Business Weekend" event from March 23-25 that will allow local individuals to explore business opportunities and franchise concepts from their home or office computer. Attendees can interact live with representatives from leading franchise companies, listen to industry expert presentations, and gather free resources from dozens of virtual business booths. The event aims to make exploring business ownership convenient by providing a powerful way to research options using innovative virtual technology and networking.
Land use planning is an important part of integrated water resource management. The document discusses the need for an integrated approach to landscape management and outlines some of the challenges. It also describes tools for integrated management in Slovakia, including landscape ecological planning and territorial systems of ecological stability. Coordination between spatial planning, flood risk management, and other sectoral plans is key to effective integrated landscape management according to the document.
The document summarizes the Global Water Partnership (GWP), an intergovernmental organization that works to advance sustainable water resource governance and management. It discusses GWP's role in developing a proposed post-2015 development agenda water goal. GWP conducted country consultations to inform the proposed goal, which calls for a dedicated water goal to ensure water is not overlooked by sectoral interests and to underpin sustainability. GWP's executive secretary advocated for a dedicated water goal during a United Nations debate.
The document summarizes the Integrated Drought Management Programme in Central and Eastern Europe. It discusses how countries in the region are sensitive to changes in precipitation patterns and the increasing risk of droughts due to climate change. The program aims to help the region enhance resilience to drought through regional cooperation, national planning, demonstration projects, capacity development, and knowledge sharing. Specific projects are testing innovative solutions for natural water retention, increasing soil water holding capacity, and analyzing the vulnerability of forest ecosystems to drought in various countries in the region. The results of these demonstration projects will feed into drought management guidelines and tools.
How to plan and design your next digital projects. Multi screen digital strategy explained. How organizations and corporates should manage their websites, mobile apps and mobile (or responsive) websites.
for more info visit http://www,realcommerce.co.il
The document summarizes the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), an agency of the United Nations focused on weather, climate and water. It has 191 member countries and runs 10 scientific programs through a secretariat and technical commissions. It also describes the Integrated Drought Management Programme (IDMP), a joint initiative of WMO and the Global Water Partnership launched in 2013 to support drought policy implementation. The IDMP takes a proactive, collaborative approach including knowledge sharing, capacity building and demonstration projects.
This document discusses the damages caused by drought in agriculture, the environment, and water supply. It analyzes how drought is evaluated in agriculture as a lack of water in soil, and the measures taken to regulate soil moisture through irrigation, drainage, and soil use practices. It notes that soil is an important water reservoir, and that maintaining the proper water balance in territories is important. However, water holding capacity is decreasing due to issues like soil compaction. Improving water retention in soil is needed, such as through subsoiling to drain water deeper into the soil profile. Taking these measures would benefit agriculture, the environment, villages, and national economies.
The document discusses water policy and management in the Caucasus region. It notes the difficulties in involving local stakeholders and lessons learned. Key challenges include a lack of integrated management, weak coordination between government institutions, insufficient funding and resources for monitoring water ecosystems, and limited participation of civil society and local communities in decision making. Stronger stakeholder involvement is needed for developing and implementing integrated water resource management plans at the local level.
The CarpatClim project aims to improve climate data in the Carpathian region by rescuing, quality controlling, and homogenizing daily meteorological data from 1961 to 2010 at a 0.1° resolution. The project will produce a digital climate atlas and indicators for drought monitoring. It involves 9 countries and will calculate drought indices like SPI, SPEI, and RDI on a 0.25° grid to analyze drought characteristics and correlations between indices over the 1961-2010 period. The data and outputs will be made freely available online to support applications in agriculture, hydrology and other sectors.
This document discusses the importance of public education in protecting and restoring river ecosystems. It notes that education efforts often follow restoration projects, and are dependent on donors and funds. As a result, approaches are ad hoc and effectiveness is unknown. It recommends starting studies on social perceptions of water ecosystems, evaluating educational programs and activities, and developing education programs on ecological river functioning. The Global Water Partnership pledges to support information sharing on best practices by 2015 and assess public education effects in river projects by end of 2012.
This document summarizes the process and major achievements of the DROUGHT-R&SPI project from its initial call to completion. The project established four pan-European drought dialogue forums to foster research and science-policy interfacing. It also developed drought monitoring and forecasting tools, created an inventory of European drought impacts, and assessed drought impacts and vulnerability across multiple sectors. The project involved collaboration across 12 partners over 4 years, with a budget of 4.2 million Euros funded by the European Commission.
The document discusses events that took place on Danube Day 2006 to raise awareness about the Danube River watershed. It notes that over 130 events were held across 13 countries, engaging tens of thousands of people. Events ranged from festivals to educational activities for children. The day inspired international cooperation and highlighted the river as a shared resource. It was celebrated on a large scale and helped make progress toward improving the future of the rivers and communities in the Danube watershed.
The document summarizes the ongoing work of developing an integrated framework for drought risk management in Poland, Lithuania, and Romania. The framework includes components for drought hazard assessment, vulnerability analysis, risk visualization and mapping. It will provide a systematic approach and generic concepts that can be detailed and adjusted for specific regional contexts. The ongoing work involves identifying national measures for drought assessment, developing methods for hazard and vulnerability mapping, conducting sector-based risk assessments, and integrating the components to form drought risk maps. The goal is to provide recommendations for an operational decision support system to improve drought governance and risk identification in the region of the Middle and Upper Odra River basin.
The document discusses several topics:
1. A new report on public participation in water management was prepared for the GWP CEE Public Participation Task Force. The report analyzes case studies and projects and makes recommendations.
2. GWP CEE country partnerships celebrated World Water Day with various national and local events promoting integrated water resources management.
3. The calendar lists upcoming water-related conferences and meetings around Europe in 2005 focusing on topics like the EU Water Framework Directive, flood management, and freshwater sciences.
Fourth IDMP CEE workshop: Development of GIS Based Communication Technology Platform for the Sustainable Management of Transboundary Water Resources in Lithuania, Poland, Belarus and Kaliningrad Region by Edvinas Stonevicius
The document summarizes a project to develop a GIS-based communication technology platform for managing transboundary water resources shared by Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, and Russia's Kaliningrad Region. Workshops brought together water management and GIS experts from the countries to create a shared GIS database with maps and data on surface and groundwater, pressures, impacts, and more. An interactive map and video were produced to help stakeholders access and understand the database, improving cross-border cooperation on issues like drought planning and developing river basin management plans. The GIS platform is intended to facilitate ongoing collaboration around topics like the water-energy-food-climate nexus.
Benefits of Transboundary Cooperation in Neman and Pregolya River BasinsGlobal Water Partnership
The document summarizes a project on transboundary cooperation in the Neman and Pregolya River Basins between Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, and Kaliningrad Oblast. The project aimed to compile GIS maps of the shared river basins and strengthen professional links between water managers. Experts from the countries collaborated to create GIS databases and maps showing hydrology, pollution sources, and water quality. The outputs benefited river management planning and identified data gaps. Future benefits of continued cooperation could include improved health, ecology, tourism, and regional water management in the Baltic Sea region.
Information as a basis to establish transboundary cooperation: the experience...Iwl Pcu
Objectives: To initiate and/or improve bilateral and multilateral co-operation, leading To institutional strengthening and capacity building under the Convention.
To prepare effective and efficient monitoring and assessment programmes which are sustainable in the specific economic contexts of the countries concerned.
To support approximation to European Union environmental legislation in CEEC countries.
Information as a basis to establish transboundary cooperation: the experience...Iwl Pcu
The Bug River basin spans parts of Ukraine, Belarus, and Poland. This document discusses the Bug Pilot Project, which aimed to establish transboundary cooperation on water management in the basin. Key achievements of the project included raising awareness of the importance of collecting water information, bringing monitoring programs closer to EU standards, and facilitating practical cooperation between the countries through joint field work and data exchange. However, not all tasks were completed, such as establishing a trilateral agreement or fully implementing proposed monitoring changes. The project helped advance transboundary cooperation but its recommendations still require ongoing implementation.
Country Progress and Regional Cooperation 2018-2019OECD Environment
The document provides updates on water management progress in Armenia. It discusses:
1) Development of legislation and plans to approximate the country's water laws with EU directives. This includes roadmaps for implementation and amendments to laws.
2) Improvements to monitoring networks and laboratories, including new equipment, training, and plans for accreditation.
3) Initiatives to strengthen stakeholder participation and transboundary cooperation, such as public consultations on river basin management plans and bilateral meetings.
4) Next steps include finalizing basin plans, continuing capacity building, and procuring additional monitoring equipment and database development. Challenges include adopting plans to substantiate legal reforms.
This document discusses a project to improve governance and access to drinking water and sanitation in the rural Nirnova sub-basin of Moldova. It involves cooperation between France and Moldova. The project aims to create a local inter-municipal structure covering the Nirnova sub-basin to manage drinking water and sanitation projects. This structure would develop a multi-year program and serve as a contact point for implementing measures from the river basin management plan. The document also describes an assessment that was conducted and the creation of a "platform of mayors" to discuss establishing the inter-municipal structure and selecting initial demonstration projects.
Slovenian National Committee of the International Hydrological ProgrammeUNESCO Venice Office
Water Family Meeting and Symposium on Water Equity in South-East Europe and the Mediterranean
28-29 March 2019 Palazzo Zorzi, Venice (Italy) -
Mitja Brilly, IHP National Committee, Slovenia
EU4Environment water and data regional launch eventOECD Environment
The document summarizes a regional launch event for a new European Union program on water resources and environmental data in Eastern Partnership countries. It includes an agenda for presentations and feedback on the program outline, goals to improve environmental resilience and extend environmental databases. Implementing partners will lead on specific outputs like river management plans, water monitoring, economic analysis, and improving availability of statistics on topics like water, land, and air quality. The program aims to engage stakeholders and improve open data and policy-relevant information to support decision-making. National kick-off events will take place in each country during an inception phase leading to validation and start of implementation activities.
The document summarizes a regional launch event for a new European Union program on water resources and environmental data in Eastern Partnership countries. It includes an agenda for presentations and feedback on the program outline, goals to improve environmental resilience and extend environmental databases. Implementing partners will lead on specific outputs like river management plans, water monitoring, economic analysis, and improving availability of statistics on topics like water, land, and air quality. The program aims to engage stakeholders and improve open data and policy-relevant information to support decision-making. National kick-off events will take place in each country during an inception phase leading to validation and start of implementation activities.
Baltic Landscape Project and its Polish prospect as a practical contributi...CIFOR-ICRAF
This presentation by Piotr Grygier describes the Baltic Landscape Project with its goals, the new integrated landscape planning, the role of tourism, water management and conclusions derived from considering and managing all these different factors.
The OECD is working on several projects related to the water-food-energy nexus and supporting sustainable development goals in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. This includes developing indicators of water, food and energy security for Kyrgyzstan; revising design standards for small water supply systems in Moldova; and creating an economic assessment model for multi-purpose water infrastructure in Kazakhstan. The goals are to improve water, food and energy security, support more efficient resource use, and integrate nexus approaches into national policies and statistics. Future plans include expanding this work to other countries in the region.
This document summarizes the development of guidelines for drought management plans in Central and Eastern European countries. It describes how national consultation dialogues were held in 10 countries to review drought management and develop the guidelines. The guidelines provide a step-by-step process for drought management planning and were refined based on case studies and national examples. Key elements addressed in the guidelines include drought monitoring, indicators, risk assessment, public participation, research needs, and the relationship to water framework directive requirements. The document evaluates progress made in strengthening drought management planning in the region and proposes next steps to further harmonize methods and address remaining weaknesses.
Improving Water Governance in Norway using the OECD Principles on Water Gover...OECDregions
The document summarizes the evaluation of Norway's River Basin Management Planning process from 2010 to 2015 using the OECD Principles on Water Governance as a reference. The evaluation was conducted by Norway's National Committee of Agencies for Water Management with support from the Office of the Auditor General of Norway, the Institute for Urban and Regional Research, and a peer review from Sweden and Finland. The evaluation identified successes in catchment-based management, increased data sharing, and stakeholder engagement. It also noted needs for improvement in clearly allocating roles and responsibilities between authorities and encouraging more integrated policymaking across sectors. Actions have since been taken to address these issues through revised regulations and national policy guidelines.
Participatory approaches towards water management: transboundary cooperation ...Iwl Pcu
GOAL OF THE BEF: Networking of different stakeholders by enhancing co-operation and capacity building on environmental management:
Vertical cooperation: international, Baltic Sea region, national, local
Horizontal cooperation – different interest groups.
Participatory approaches towards water management: transboundary cooperation ...Iwl Pcu
This document summarizes participatory approaches to water management in the transboundary River Lielupe between Latvia and Lithuania. It describes the Baltic Environmental Forum (BEF), an NGO that works to enhance cooperation and public participation in environmental management. The BEF is working on a project to involve NGOs in water management policy according to the EU Water Framework Directive and national legislation. Tools for public participation discussed include networking NGOs, developing a joint vision and action plan, and building dialogue between NGOs and authorities for the River Lielupe basin, which is at risk for eutrophication and lacks proper waste and drinking water management in some areas. The main conclusions are that long-term partnerships and a permanent structure are
GWP CEE has been active in several areas from 2009-2013 including cooperating with strategic partners like the UNECE Water Convention and ICPDR, contributing to EU regional strategies like the Danube Strategy, working on sustainable sanitation and public awareness. Some challenges have included flexibility given capabilities at national and regional levels and seeking legal status for GWP CEE. Lessons include enhancing cooperation between GWP CEE and TEC to produce higher quality products and exploring interregional cooperation.
The document summarizes progress in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Belarus on various water management initiatives supported by the EUWI+ program. In Armenia, key accomplishments include developing two river basin management plans, upgrading water monitoring infrastructure, and establishing an integrated water data management platform. Azerbaijan's achievements involve adopting a national water strategy, upgrading laboratories, and developing a river basin management plan. Belarus convened inter-agency meetings on water issues and worked to align legislation with EU directives.
This document summarizes the progress of the Pan Baltic Scope project from June to September 2018. It describes workshops and meetings held between partner countries to facilitate cross-border collaboration on maritime spatial planning in the Baltic Sea region. Key activities included discussions of ecosystem-based approaches, cumulative impact assessment tools, green infrastructure mapping and land-sea interactions. Data sharing was advanced through the development of a shared data model and platform. Planning forums and bilateral meetings addressed specific national and border issues. The document indicates that work is ongoing on case studies, monitoring, economic analysis and further integrating land-sea interaction concepts.
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The document summarizes a survey of the use of treatment wetlands (TW) for wastewater management in small communities (<2000 inhabitants) in Central and Eastern Europe. The survey found that while some countries like the Czech Republic have extensive experience with TW, other countries make little to no use of them due to factors like lack of awareness, deficient legislation, negative past experiences, and land limitations. Barriers to wider adoption of TW include unawareness among authorities and the public, deficits in wastewater discharge limits and planning programs, and institutional and market barriers. Solutions proposed include promoting TW through information sharing, improving legislation, and demonstrating good practice examples.
This document discusses follow up topics and activities for the Integrated Drought Management Programme in Central and Eastern Europe (IDMP CEE) and the Drought Management Center for Southeast Europe (DMCSEE). Four main thematic areas are proposed:
1) Drought monitoring including improving monitoring through remote sensing and connecting to existing platforms.
2) Upgrading drought risk assessment including promoting a common approach to risk assessment across countries and developing a drought risk atlas.
3) Drought cost assessment including developing a common methodology to assess costs and selecting pilot areas.
4) Drought management including updating drought management schemes, developing policy recommendations, and initiatives to harmonize drought planning methods across countries.
This document discusses research needs and vision for an integrated drought management programme in Central and Eastern Europe. It outlines several key points:
1. Climate change is projected to increase the frequency and severity of droughts globally, causing billions in losses annually. Many parts of the world are seeing long-term drying trends.
2. Future research should focus on drought as a natural hazard, impacts, and policy responses including developing drought management plans. Better communication of climate information to decision-makers is also needed.
3. Specific research needs include improving drought predictability, understanding impacts on environment and socioeconomics, and developing tools to assess and communicate drought risks under climate change. Maintaining cooperation and collaboration frameworks between research and
This document discusses Slovenia's involvement in several regional water management initiatives and plans. It begins by providing context on Slovenia's geographic position and participation in the 1992 UN Earth Summit. It then outlines key concepts from Agenda 21 like integrated water resource management. The rest of the document summarizes Slovenia's role in developing and implementing management plans for bodies of water like the Mediterranean Sea, Danube River, Sava River, and Adriatic-Ionic sea region. It also highlights examples of improved water quality and cooperation between Slovenia and neighboring countries on issues like pollution response.
This document discusses the EU Strategy for the Danube Region and tools for project implementation within the strategy. It provides background on macro-regional strategies in Europe, including the Danube strategy. It outlines the strategy's objectives and pillars related to protecting the environment. Specific priority areas and actions are described for restoring water quality and managing environmental risks. The roles of steering groups and coordinators in implementing the strategy through projects are explained. Guidelines for obtaining a letter of recommendation for project proposals are also provided.
The document discusses various European Union funding programmes that could be pursued for projects related to water management, floods, and droughts. It provides information on the LIFE Programme, Horizon 2020, and European territorial cooperation programmes, outlining details like eligible project types, financing amounts, and application procedures. Key funding opportunities mentioned include LIFE for demonstration projects, Horizon 2020 for applied research and innovation, and transnational cooperation programmes for developing joint strategies across borders.
The document discusses the European Open Data Centre (EODC) and its goals and services. The EODC aims to develop shared earth observation resources and connect science with operations through collaboration. It provides various services including data access, software development support, and a science integration platform. The EODC infrastructure is based in Vienna and utilizes the local Scientific Cluster supercomputer for processing. It seeks cooperation from public, private, scientific and commercial partners to further its mission.
The document describes the SATIDA project which aims to (1) develop a platform to analyze satellite data and link it to socioeconomic assessments to monitor drought risk, (2) test this with Doctors Without Borders in Central African Republic and Ethiopia, and (3) create a mobile app for field data collection. It outlines SATIDA's objectives, method of combining precipitation, soil moisture, temperature and vegetation indices to calculate an enhanced drought index, and demonstrates the platform and app for analyzing current and forecasted drought conditions and impacts.
The document discusses the Global Water Resources and Drought Management Initiative (G-WADI) network. It provides background on G-WADI, including its establishment, objectives, and organizational structure. It then summarizes activities of the Southeastern European G-WADI region, including validation of satellite rainfall estimates, outcomes of the 2014 Belgrade meeting, and future plans for the region. Key points are strengthening regional capacity for water resource management in arid/semi-arid areas through information sharing, training, and collaboration between regional centers.
This document discusses drought hazards and climate change impacts in Romania. It notes increasing temperatures, more hot days, and decreasing precipitation, especially in southern regions. This increases the probability of drought events. Climate models project increases in tropical nights and heat waves by 2021-2050.
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The Integrated Drought Management Programme was launched in 2013 by the WMO and GWP to support implementing the outcomes of the High-Level Meeting on National Drought Policies. The HMNDP final declaration emphasized developing proactive drought risk management strategies including mitigation, planning, science, technology, public outreach, and resource management. It also promoted greater collaboration on observation networks and delivery systems to improve public awareness of drought risk and incorporate drought plans into development policies. The IDMP held regional workshops in several areas from 2013-2015 to provide guidance on developing national drought management policies.
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Drought has varying impacts on forests in Bulgaria, Slovenia, Lithuania and Ukraine, and adaptation measures need to start now to mitigate these effects. Proposed follow-up pilot projects in forests would assess drought impacts, develop drought management plans, and establish demonstration projects in vulnerable forest types like mountain spruce-beech forests, Dinaric fir-beech forests, and weakened coppice oak forests. Successful projects require expertise in fields like meteorology, hydrology, biology and ecology in addition to forestry and GIS specialists.
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Improve and protect the public health of Nairobi residents and visitors.
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Goals:
Build awareness and capacity for source separation as essential components of sustainable waste management.
Build new environmentally sound infrastructure and systems for safe disposal of residual waste and replacing current dumpsites which should be commissioned.
Current solid waste management situation:
The status.
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collection efficiently is at about 50%.
Actors i.e. city authorities, CBO’s , private firms and self-disposal
Current SWM Situation in Nairobi City:
Solid waste generation – collection – dumping
Good Practices:
• Separation – recycling – marketing.
• Open dumpsite dandora dump site through public education on source separation of waste, of which the situation can be reversed.
• Nairobi is one of the C40 cities in this respect , various actors in the solid waste management space have adopted a variety of technologies to reduce short lived climate pollutants including source separation , recycling , marketing of the recycled products.
• Through the network, it should expect to benefit from expertise of the different actors in the network in terms of applicable technologies and practices in reducing the short-lived climate pollutants.
Good practices:
Despite the dismal collection of solid waste in Nairobi city, there are practices and activities of informal actors (CBOs, CBO-SACCOs and yard shop operators) and other formal industrial actors on solid waste collection, recycling and waste reduction.
Practices and activities of these actor groups are viewed as innovations with the potential to change the way solid waste is handled.
CHALLENGES:
• Resource Allocation.
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Third IDMP CEE workshop: Development of GIS Based Communication Technology Platform by Bernardas Paukštys
1. Activity 1.4. Development of GIS Based
Communication Technology Platform for the
Sustainable Management of Transboundary Water
Resources in Lithuania, Poland and Kaliningrad
Region (Russia)
Bernardas Paukštys, GWP-Lithuania
3rd IDMP CEE Workshop
Budapest, 2 & 4 October 2014
2. AIMS OF THE “KALININGRAD” PROJECT
• To build an informal and professional partnership to
facilitate official dialogue, cooperation and investment
on the shared river basin systems between RF
Kaliningrad Oblast, Poland, Lithuania and Belarus.
• To strengthen professional links between water
managers and GIS experts in neighboring countries of
Belarus, Lithuania, Poland and Kaliningrad oblast.
3. Kaliningrad project is related to 2 other larger projects:
a) GWPCEE International Drought Management Programme
b) part of the project on “Building a Framework for Collective
Action in the Management of the Transboundary Waters in
Kaliningrad, Russia; Lithuania, and Poland (Baltic Sea
Region)” started in 2012 by the SIWI, GWP-Lithuania and
GWP-Poland .
Output 4 of GWPCEE Integrated Drought Management Programme (IDMP)
LINKS WITH OTHER PROJECTS
4. BUDGET, TIMETABLE, PARTICIPANTS KL
PROJECT
Financed by the public agency - Swedish Institute.
• Budget: 3000,000 SEK (~300 thous. EUR). GWP LT and
PL gets ~10 thous. EUR each.
• Implementation period: September 2012 – August 2015.
Project participants:
• SIWI and SEI (Sweden),
• GWP Lithuania and GWP Poland,
• Atlantic Branch of P.P.Shirshov Institute of Oceanology
(Kaliningrad),
• Russian Academy of Science (Moscow).
5. ACTIVITIES OF KALININGRAD PROJECT
• A kick-off workshop was held in November 2012 in Vilnius.
• 1st workshop was held on 17-19 June, 2013 in Kaliningrad.
The topic was: Cooperation between Lithuania, Poland and
Kaliningrad Oblast (Russia) for the Management of
Transboundary Neman and Pregolya River Basins
• 2nd workshop on economic benefits of cooperative
investments was held on October 25-27 in St. Petersburg,
Russian Federation. The topic was: Cross-Border
Collaboration of Businesses, Academia and Authorities: The
Case of Water Management in the Triangle “Kaliningrad-
Poland-Lithuania”.
• 3rd workshop will be held 4-7 November 2014 in Poland.
6. BELARUS – NEW
IMPORTANT PROJECT
PARTNER
In order to fully
cover Neman river
basin it has been
decided to involve
Belarus into the
project.
7. ACTIVITIES WITH OF BELARUS
1st meeting between SIWI, SEI (Sweden), Belarus and GWP-
Lithuania on “Management of the Nemunas (Neman) river basin
with the accent to water and energy nexus” was organised by GWP-
LT in Vilnius 6-7 February 2014. 15 participants from SIWI, SEI,
Belarus and Lithuania attended the workshop, including
representatives of MoE and MoFA of Lithuania.
2nd meeting on the same topic was organised in Minsk, Belarus
15-16 of May 2014.
18 participants from governmental, scientific organisations and
Belarus municipalities attended the workshop.
8. THANKS TO GWP IN 2013 A NEW COMPONENT
WAS ADDED :
• Development of GIS Based Communication Technology
Platform for the Sustainable Management of Transboundary
Water Resources in Lithuania, Poland and Kaliningrad
Region (Russia).
• A web-based GIS information system will be created for
sharing of information by project partners and stakeholders:
governments, NGOs, the media, and other interested parties
in and outside the basin.
• GIS maps, web database and GIS visualization of the
transboundary and climatic clusters is being prepared by the
project participants;
9. NEW ACTIVITIES SUPPORTED BY THE GWP
• Three licences of ArcGIS software were purchased for the
development of GIS products for BY, RU and LT;
• A workshop for the GIS experts and water managers from
Lithuania, Poland, Kaliningrad and Belarus was held in
Warsaw, 2-4 July 2014; 14 experts attended the meeting.
• Concluding workshop of experts from the project countries
will be held on 4-7 November in Poland back-to-back with the
main workshop.
• The tasks and activities do not fully comply with the IDMP
requirements and we do not have drought experts in our
team but we will include climatic aspects into the maps.
10. SURFACE WATER:
• Hydrological network
• Existing surface water monitoring network
• Water bodies and their status
GROUNDWATER:
• Groundwater monitoring network
• Groundwater aquifers (bodies)
• Groundwater quantitative and chemical status
PRESSURES AND IMPACTS:
• Hydropower plants
• Point sources
• Diffuse pollution
JOINT GIS MAPS USING JOINT CRITERIA
14. IMPACT OF CLIMATE CHANGE ON NEMAN RB
Difference between1961-2009 average
and 2021-2050 average runoffs
15. • The only problem is that non-EU countries (Belarus and
Russia) have uneven hydrological information and limited
information on human pressures.
• They have delineated some water bodies but have not
classified them.
• Some information from Russia is collected by our partners
unofficially.
• Future cooperation with Russia is not quite clear.
PROBLEMS&CHALLENGES
16. • The final project workshop will be held in Ryn, Poland 4-7
November 2014 where results of the project will be presented
and discussed;
• The final output will be transboundary GIS maps, including the
interactive map and joint databases which will be shared
between the project countries. Some maps will be used
(hopefully) by the IDMP and – very important - for the 2nd
RBMPs in Poland and Lithuania.
• It is planned to continue professional cooperation and we are
looking for the funds. We hope that our cooperation will
contribute to official transboundary agreements between RU-
BY and LT
NEXT STEPS AND FUTURE PLANS