Support the implementation of national drought plans: integrating national drought plans into National Action Plans (NAPs) - Colombia

 

Background

Upon the request of the Conference of Parties (COP) at its thirteenth Meeting (COP13), the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) and partner institutions established the Drought Initiative. The Drought Initiative focused on three actions: working together at the regional level to reduce drought vulnerability and risk; providing a toolbox that stakeholders can use to boost the drought resilience of both people and ecosystems; setting up drought preparedness system, particularly national drought plans. Following up on the decision, UNCCD has been supporting the development of comprehensive national drought plans.

A project “Enabling Activities for Implementing UNCCD COP Drought Decisions” funded by the Global Environment Facility, jointly implemented by FAO and the UNCCD, is currently running to support the operationalization of national drought plans according to the principles of integrated drought management. Within the framework of this project, FAO, UNCCD, IDMP, and WMO are organizing a regional workshop for Latin America and the Caribbean with the aim to strengthen national and institutional frameworks and to build capacities for the implementation of the national drought plans.

Objectives

The objectives of the workshop are to build capacities on effective planning of drought management and the implementation of drought plans, including the integration of plans with the national action plans to the UNCCD. Furthermore, the workshop will facilitate the peer-to-peer learning and development of the community-of-practice in drought management. Towards these objectives, the workshop will involve five sessions:

1. A global overview of national drought plans – planning towards integrated drought management: the session will present a global-level overview and the results of a multi-criteria assessment of the Drought Initiative submission, including the demonstration of comprehensive tools to support the planning and implementation.
2. Progress on the activities towards the implementation of national drought plans – turning policy into actions to improve resilience: the session will provide an insight into advances in support of the implementation of national drought plans, including a results framework to monitor the implementation.
3. Institutional set-up and coordination of integrated drought management – reviewing institutional responsibilities and roles to manage drought risk: the session will provide best practices and methodologies for enhanced institutional functions and coordination, including a stocktaking of country experiences.
4. Policy alignment and National Action Plans for the UNCCD – mainstreaming drought management into national frameworks: the session will line up new approaches and best practices to align national drought plans to policy frameworks, including a stocktaking of country experiences.
5. Drought finance – financing for integrated drought management: the session will introduce new pathways, approaches, instruments, and tools to increase understanding of drought finance and support the intensification of finance flows.

Full agenda

TUESDAY 01 AUGUST 2023

Introduction

• 08.30 - 09.00: Registration of participants
• 09.00 - 09.15: Opening remarks - FAO, IDMP, UNCCD, WMO, Prof. Carlos Saito, Chair of GWP SAM, University of Brasilia
• 09.15 - 09.30: Tour de table
• 09.30 - 09.40: Presentation of the workshop objectives and agenda – Mr Maher Salman, FAO
• 09.40 - 09.45: Predict, plan and prepare: stop drought becoming a famine – Video demonstration

Session 1 – A global overview of national drought plans – Planning towards integrated drought management
Moderated by Mr Robert Stefanski, WMO 

• 09.45 - 10.05: Highlights of the Global Drought Initiative –Mr Daniel Tsegai, UNCCD
• 10.05 - 10.20: A multi-criteria framework for the assessment of national drought plans: Lessons learnt – Ms Eva Pek, Ahmed Alkhadir, FAO
• 10.20 - 10.45: Q&A session
• 10.45 - 11.00: Coffee break
• 11.00 - 11.10: Tools in service – part I: the Drought Toolbox to support planning for integrated drought management – Mr Suyu Liu, UNCCD
• 11.10 - 11.20: Tools in service – part II: the FAO Drought Portal to support planning for integrated drought management – Mr Maher Salman, FAO
• 11.20 - 11.30: Tools in service – part III: Integrated Drought Management Programme (IDMP) – Mr Valentin Aich, GWP
• 11.30 - 11.50: Common challenges in planning integrated drought management (IDMP) – Ms Eva Pek, FAO
• 11.50 - 12.00: Q&A session
• 12.00 - 12.35: Planning canvas: defining pathways to address common and individual challenges on planning – Mr Maher Salman, FAO
• 12.35 - 12.45: Wrap-up
• 12.45 - 14.00: Lunch break

Session 2 – Progress on the activities towards the implementation of national drought plans – Turning policy into actions to improve resilience
Moderated by Mr Daniel Tsegai, UNCCD

• 14.00 - 14.20: Advances in drought monitoring, forecasting and early-warning – Mr Robert Stefanski, WMO
• 14.20 - 14.40: Risk and impact assessment: A focus on country case studies - Mr Maher Salman, FAO / Mr Daniel Tsegai, UNCCD
• 14.40 - 15.00: Drought risk mitigation in action and the Drought Resilience +10 conference – Mr Valentin Aich, GWP
• 15.00 - 15.10: Tools in service: Drought Risk Assessment Visualization Tool to measure relative drought risk at global level and the European Drought Observatory – Mr Dario Masante, European Commission, Joint Research Center
• 15.10 - 15.30: Gender mainstreaming practices in the context of drought risk management with a focus on Latin America and the Caribbean – Mr Ivan Leonardo Soto Diaz, GWP Central America
• 15.30 - 15.45: Coffee break
• 15.45 - 16.00: A new results framework to link assessments of drought impacts and vulnerabilities across levels –Ms Eva Pek, FAO
• 16.00 - 16.30: Participatory validation: crafting a results framework for the monitoring and evaluation of the implementation of national drought plans and policies – Mr Maher Salman, FAO
• 16.30 - 16.45: One-breath feedback
• 16.45 - 17.00: Wrap-up – Mr Daniel Tsegai, UNCCD

 

WEDNESDAY 02 AUGUST 2023

Session 3 – Institutional set-up and coordination of integrated drought management – Reviewing institutional responsibilities and roles to manage drought risk
Moderated by Ms Alejandra Mujica, GWP South America

• 09.00 - 09.20: Overview of institutional complexities in integrated drought management – Mr Maher Salman, FAO
• 09.20 - 10.45: Case studies: Integrating NDPs into NAPs – First group of countries  – Country delegations
• 10.45 - 11.15: Coffee break
• 11.15 - 11.30: Communicating drought effectively to facilitate the coordination across levels  – Mr Robert Stefanski, WMO
• 11.30 - 12.00: Community of Learning and Practice: a pilot version of Latin America and the Caribbeans – Mr Suyu Liu, UNCCD
• 12.00 - 12.15: Analyzing the institutional dimension of Integrated Drought Management – Ms Sining Cuevas, FAO
• 12.15 - 12.55: Planning canvas: conducting technology and capacity need assessment to empower stakeholders  – Mr Maher Salman, FAO
• 12.55 - 13.00: Wrap-up – Ms Alejandra Mujica, GWP South America
• 13.00 - 14.00: Lunch break

Session 4 – Policy alignment and National Action Plans for the UNCCD – Mainstreaming drought management into national frameworks
Moderated by Ms Simone Lewis, GWP Caribbean

• 14.00 - 14.15: Drought relevant regional and international frameworks for the Caribbean and Latin America – Ms Alejandra Mujica/ Ms Fabiola Tábora/ Mr Simone Lewis, GWP
• 14.15 - 14.30: An approach to align national drought plans to national frameworks – Ms Eva Pek, Ahmed Alkhadir, FAO
• 14.30 - 15.30: Case studies: Integrating NDPs into NAPs – Second group of countries – Country delegations
• 15.30 - 15.45: Q&A
• 15.45 - 16.00: Coffee break
• 16.00 - 16.40: Planning canvas: introducing measures to mainstream drought management into sector-related policies – Mr Maher Salman, FAO
• 16.40 - 16.50: One-breath feedback
• 16.50 - 17.00: Wrap-up – Ms Simone Lewis, GWP

 

THURSDAY 03 AUGUST 2023

Session 5 – Drought finance – Financing for integrated drought management
Moderated by Ms Fabiola Tábora, GWP Central America

• 09.00 - 09.15: The 2030 UN Water Conference: commitments and outcomes – Mr Maher Salman, FAO
• 09.15 - 09.30: Critical assessment of barriers to drought finance – Ms Eva Pek, FAO
• 09.30 - 09.45: Enabling pathways for intensifying drought finance flows – Mr Maher Salman, FAO
• 09.45 - 09.50: Drought Management for Agriculture Resilience – Video demonstration
• 09.50 - 10.05: Tools in service: the FAO Drought Tracker to monitor international finance flows – Ms Eva Pek, FAO
• 10.05 - 10.30: Q&A
• 10.30 - 10.50: Coffee break
• 10.50 - 11.10: Guidance note on Drought Finance  – Mr. Daniel Tsegai, UNCCD
• 11.10 - 12.15: Planning canvas: mapping out financial needs and sources to manage drought risk – Ms Eva Pek, FAO
• 12.15 - 12.40: One-breath feedback
• 12.40 - 13.00: Q&A Session / Wrap-up – Ms Fabiola Tábora, GWP Central America 
• 13.00 - 13.15: Reporting on workshop outcomes
• 13.15 - 13.30: Closing
• 13.30 - 14.30: Lunch break