Report on the technical training on basin planning

There is a growing sense of urgency around the need to improve resilience within river basins, and for this to become a critical part of water management plans. The increased frequency and unpredictability of floods and droughts is a priority concern across scales from transboundary to local, along with the other multiple drivers that cause depletion and degradation of shared water resources. The Flood and Drought Management Tools (FDMT) project (http://fdmt.iwlearn.org/) is funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) International Waters (IW) and implemented by UNEP, with the International Water Association (IWA) and DHI as the executing agencies. The project is developing online technical applications which can be applied individually or together at the basin or local level to facilitate the inclusion of information about floods, droughts and future scenarios into Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) planning, Transboundary Diagnostic Analyses (TDA) and Strategic Action Plans (SAP), and Water Safety Planning (WSP). The project is being implemented from 2014 - 2018, and 3 pilot basins (Volta, Lake Victoria and Chao Phraya) are participating in development and testing. The Flood and Drought (FD) Portal (www.flooddroughtmonitor.com) is the main output of the project and has a series of technical applications supporting stakeholders to carry out baseline assessments using readily available satellite data, impact assessments through the analysis of the data, planning options and a means for disseminating information to relevant groups or individuals. Understanding how to use these tools is an important aspect of the future operational use and sustainability of the FDMT project, therefore, capacity on the use and application of the flood and drought portal, as well as giving stakeholders an opportunity to provide feedback on the functionality of the portal will go a long way to achieving this. The project therefore holds trainings with targeted stakeholders to provide an overview and hands on exercises on the web based decision support system developed as part of the project. The expected outputs of the training were to provide insight into the developed applications supporting basin and catchment organisations with river basin planning related tasks and build capacity to use the developed applications within river basins. It should be noted that the web-based applications are freely available and can be used after the training without any associated cost or fee. The technical training contained presentation on the topics such as identification of environmental impacts and the underlying causes, selection of relevant indicators, access to near real time data for planning, drought assessment, basin planning and dissemination of relevant reports or bulletins. The training took place over a full day at the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) offices in Geneva, Switzerland on 31 May 2018.

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