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