This document outlines the agenda for a two-day workshop discussing drought management. On the first day, there were presentations on the progress of various drought-related activities and demonstration projects in different countries. In the afternoon, there was a training session on a drought information exchange platform. The second day focused on the demonstration projects, with each project briefly presenting their progress and plans for the future. The workshop aimed to foster collaboration between the projects and discuss next steps.

1. Tuesday, 8th April 2014
TIME TOPIC OF DISCUSSION SPEAKERS
08.45 – 09.00 Registration
09.00 – 09.15
Welcome addresses
Launch of the GWP Strategy
Workshop agenda and aims
Martina Zupan &
Richard Muller &
Natalia Alexeeva &
Sabina Bokal
9:15 – 9.30 Global IDMP Frederik Pischke
9.30 – 10.00 Review of the overall progress till now Sabina Bokal
10.00 – 11.00
Presentation of the 1
st
Peer Review Group Report
Discussion
Peer Review Group
Agenda

2. 11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 – 12.00
Act. 1.2:
Presentation of the final version of the Review of the current status of
the implementation of DM plans and measures within RBMP according
to EU WFD
Discussion
Elena Fatulova
12.00 – 12.45
Act. 2.1 & 2.2:
Guideline for Drought Management Plan & National Consultation
dialogues
Discussion
Elena Fatulova
12.45 – 13.00
Act. 1.3
Drought information exchange platform
(Progress till now and presentation of the afternoon training)
Gregor Gregorič
13.00 – 13.30
Budget
Next milestones preparation
Discussion on open issues
Sabina Bokal

3. 13.30 – 14.30 Lunch at the hotel
Communications and future activities
(the rest of the participants)
Training on act. 1.3: Drought information
exchange Platform (conference room in the 7
th
floor)
(for partners involved into this activity)
Gregor Gregorič, Luka Honzak (DMCSEE)
14.30 – 15.15
Communication activities
Gergana Majercakova
Platform training (1st part):
Drought information exchange Platform
15.15 – 16.00
Future events, follow up activities, fundraising,
etc.; discussion
Natalia Alexeeva, Richard Muller, Sabina Bokal
16.00 –16.30 Coffee break
16.30 – 17.00
Recent achievements in drought research and
science-policy interfacing
Henny A.J. van Lanen, European Drought
Centre
Act. 1.3 training (2nd part)
Drought information exchange Platform
17.00 – 17.30
IPCC new reports: what is new in climate
change science
Lučka Kajfež Bogataj
18.30 Tour around Ljubljana & Dinner

4. Wednesday, 9th April 2014
TIME TOPIC OF DISCUSSION SPEAKERS
9.00
Day 1 Wrap up
Introduction of the Day 2
DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS - brief presentation of the
progress, reaction to PRG report, future plans and links
Activity Leaders
All participants
09.00 – 09.30
Good practice compendium (presentation of the content and
process of preparation)
Discussion
Tanja Tajnik
All participants
09.30 – 09.40
Act. 5.1: Drought management by agricultural practices and
measures-increasing soil water holding capacity
Pavol Bielek
09.40 – 09:50 Act. 5.2: Assessment of drought impact on forest ecosystems Galia Bardarska
09.50 – 10.00 Act. 5.3: Natural small water retention measures Tomasz Okruszko
10.00 – 10.30 Discussion All participants

5. 10.30 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 – 11.10
Act. 5.4: Drought Risk Management Scheme: a Decision support
system
Tamara Tokarczyk
11.10 – 11.20
Act. 5.5: Policy oriented study on remote sensing agricultural
drought monitoring methods
János Tamás
11.20 – 11.30
Act. 5.6: Upgrading agricultural drought monitoring and
forecasting: the case of Ukraine and Moldova
Anna Tsvietkova,
Dumitru Drumea
11.30 – 12.00 Discussion All participants
12.00 – 12.30 Conclusions of the workshop and next steps
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch at the hotel
13.30 – 15.30 Separate working meetings of each demonstration project

6. Aims of the workshop
 try to find connections – transboundary project
 future tasks that can be done jointly
 to refresh – what are the main outputs, results, what we
want to achive?
 to discuss future activities (next workshop/training, follow
up, etc.)