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Integrated Drought Risk Management
Towards proactive drought management approaches
February 2016,
Climate Services for improved Water Resources Management in vulnerable regions to climate change in Latin America and the Caribbean
DR. NATALIA LIMONES.
CONSULTANT
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nlimones@worldbank.orgSlide2
Outline
World Bank previous actions on Drought Resilience. Some pilot experiences
→ What we didPerspectives and next steps → What we plan to do
Integrated Drought Risk ManagementTowards proactive drought management approachesSlide3
1.1. World
Bank
Operations addressing DroughtSlide4
World Bank Operations addressing
Drought
The World Bank intends to help governments, sectors, and Institutions to better manage disaster risk related to droughts in their decision-making processes
There is no better way to build climate resilient societies than managing droughtSlide5
WB Portfolio
The number of WB Projects with drought activities is continuously increasing
The funding for these Projects tooSlide6
WB Portfolio
Eight Global Practices (sectors) oversee the active projects → very cross sectorial phenomenonSlide7
WB Portfolio
Most funded regions in the topic are Africa and Latin America and Caribbean
Number of projects
Total funding (Million of USD)Slide8
Notwithstanding the importance of drought in its portfolio, the
World
Bank does not have a corporate strategy on droughtSlide9
1.2. Workshops
and Learning Sessions
The workshop “Building Drought Resilience” in November 2014
The WB Water Week Workshop in May 2015Slide10
The
objectives
of the drought workshops were to: ↑ awareness & collaboration: WB staff developing projects (TTLs) and client countries. Advise clients on how to use budgets to strengthen drought resilience;share good practices across the WB: characterization, monitoring, and mitigation;Share experiences and build relationships
with the drought community: research institutions, other International Organizations, etc.Topics addressed: the socio-economic impact of droughts, drought monitoring and early warning systems and networks and drought mitigation through planning and policies+ DISCUSSION ON WB GOOD PRACTICES, CHALLENGES, GAPS AND OPPORTUNITIESRATIONALE: not much attention paid to build preparedness and response in order to increase resilience to future droughts → Climate adaptationSlide11
What are the major challenges, gaps and opportunities for building drought resilience?
What role should the World Bank Group play regarding them?
Main reflections from the workshopsSlide12
Gaps in the practice
Need of a
Systematic Proactive Approach in addition to
Reactive ApproachSocio-economic losses must be considered, but also global water security and ecological resilience, not only economic analysisDrought monitoring activities need improvement and coordinationNeed for more capacity building, knowledge transfer, data sharing and more access to information → community involvementOpportunities: the WB roleSupport hydro-meteorological networks and services improvementPromote free and open data exchange initiativesPromote indicators systems to measure drought vulnerabilities and drought impactsSupport of user oriented Drought Monitoring & Forecasting Systems
that include Vulnerability and Impact Monitoring Promote pilot projects to put in practice these approaches
Build internal collaboration and
Communities of Practices
Work in
collaboration with other International OrganizationsSlide13
1.3. Some
pilot experiencesSlide14
WB approach to drought managementSlide15
Support for drought management in Brazil
Drought resilience in Brazil
Dialogue for a policy framework at national levelPilot program at state level in NE region
Both activities enhanced the government’s capacity to manage droughtsCurrent drought in NE Brazil since 2010 is the worst in the past 50-100, getting worseSlide16
Catalyzing
concrete
adaptation actionsLevel 1 – National and
State Dialogue on a National Drought PolicyRelevance and goals of a national drought policy Functions and responsibilities of various institutions involvedDrought committees/councils foundationLevel 2 – Northeast Regional Pilot ProjectsPillar 1: Northeast Drought Monitor (Monitor de Seca do Nordeste) Pillar 3: Drought Preparedness Plans
to mitigate risk and structural issues at multiple
scales
:
river
basin
collective
managed
small
damurban water supply systemscommunity level (rural rainfed agricultural areas)Slide17
Sahel Disaster Resilience Project
Drought in Sahel since 2011
Key challenges to drought response/resilience:Single-purpose vulnerability studies (one sector at a time)Weak community collaboration (no feedback or info)Each country has its own system for food security analysisSlide18
Sahel Disaster Resilience Project
Objective:
increased resilience to extreme weather events and climate variability & changeComponents:Strengthening hydro-meteorological, climate, food security and DRM servicesSupporting regional institutions for DRM Sharing knowledge on water resourcesSlide19
WB support for drought management in Vietnam
First diagnosis accomplished:
Most basic water-related data exists; however, important efforts: data →information → management toolsLots of issues: monitoring network, reservoir operation and design,
control of water use, water accounting, institutional collaboration, etc.More technical assistance is coming!Current moderate drought causing significant damage in Ninh ThuanSlide20
2. Perspectives
and next steps.
Synergies with the UNESCO new proposalsSlide21
Expanding the pilot cases
“
Addressing water security: climate impacts and adaptation responses in Africa, Asia and LAC”, intends to reduce vulnerability in pilot remote drylands and mountains areas immersed in poverty through indicators “CliMWaR
-LAC” includes some pilot case studies for the application of the 3 pillars and to trigger policies for drought preparedness The WB intends to continue financing pilot innovative activities to reduce vulnerability to droughtPURPOSE → A) understand the status of drought preparedness in the project area; B) incorporate new knowledge and facilitate the absorption of existing knowledge on drought resilienceMETHODOLOGY →pillars + flexible and context-specific TARGET →Drought-prone areas, prioritizing arid and semi-arid ones or with low-income settlementsLinkages with UNESCO-IHP projectsSlide22
Fostering internal awareness and knowledge sharing
As a result of climate variability and change, more WB cross-sectorial teams are being requested to support client countries on drought
Internal Community of Practice on the issue Help desk for questions from across the WB WB strategic approach on the topic, based on all the discussion and good practices identified
CliMWaR-LAC is promoting a CoP on drought management tools, so:The WB CoP can benefit from external communities of experts in particular facets of drought to tap into high level expertise and tools for the projects. Equally, the CliMWaR-LAC CoP can benefit from the WB one to incorporate more experiences from the field and from other regionsLinkages with UNESCO-IHP projectsSlide23
THANK YOU!