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IPA PROJECT BUILDING RESILIENCE TO DISASTERS IN WESTERN BALKANS AND TURKEY

IPA PROJECT BUILDING RESILIENCE TO DISASTERS IN WESTERN BALKANS AND TURKEY Review and evaluation of the IPA Project activities for the second year of implementation ICSEED 13 28 - 29 April 2014 Sari Lappi WMO. P roject highlights

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IPA PROJECT BUILDING RESILIENCE TO DISASTERS IN WESTERN BALKANS AND TURKEY

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  1. IPA PROJECT BUILDING RESILIENCE TO DISASTERS IN WESTERN BALKANS AND TURKEY Review and evaluation of the IPA Project activities for the second year of implementation ICSEED 13 28 - 29 April 2014 Sari Lappi WMO

  2. Project highlights • Overall Objective: To reduce vulnerability of IPA Beneficiaries to natural disasters, in line with the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA), and increase their resilience to climate change. • Project purpose: To enhance the capacity of IPA Beneficiaries to address disaster risk reduction in both today's and the future predicted climate. • Beneficiaries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo*, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and Turkey. • Implementing agencies: UNISDR (4 tasks) WMO (4 tasks). • Funding: EC DG Enlargement, Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA) multi-beneficiary project. • Implementation period: 29 months, May 2012 – October 2014 (subject to approval of project extension by EC. *This designation is without prejudice to positions on status, and is in line with UNSCR 1244 and the ICJ Opinion on the Kosovo Declaration of Independence

  3. TASK 3: Enhance the regional risk assessment and mapping capacities through improved capacity of beneficiaries in hazard analysis and mapping WMO Focus areas TASK 4: Enhance IPA beneficiaries’ capacity to forecast hazardous meteorological and hydrological phenomena and deliver timely warnings to support DRR TASK 5: Develop capacity needed to support climate risk management and climate change adaptation into a national and regional DRR agenda TASK 6: Design a regional Multi-Hazard Early Warning System composed of harmonized national Early Warning Systems within a regional cooperation framework

  4. Activities carried out during the project implementation • 14 training workshops and meetings with 217 participants from the beneficiaries • Riskassessment and mappingtraining, specific to floods and draughts • Improvement of data management • Forecastingtrainingrelated to severeweather • Capacitybuildingrelated to providinglong-rangeforecasts and relatedclimateservices • Design of regionalMulti-HazardEarlyWarning System

  5. TASK 3 • Procurement/upgrading the climate data management systems – CLIDATA and MCH (Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Kosovo*) • Training on application of remote sensing data for drought monitoring • Sava River pilot project on flood hazards • Training on application of remote sensing data for drought monitoring

  6. TASK 4 • On-the job training in severe weather forecasting in the Operational Nowcasting Center of the National Meteorological Administration of Romania • Participation to the European severe weather forecasting testbed in collaboration with European Severe Storm Laboratory • Integration to Meteoalarm - Bosnia and Herzegovina

  7. TASK 4 • Training on DAWBEE Satellite Nowcasting Applications with EUMETSAT • Regional training in Quality Management Systems (QMS) and their application in activities related to DRR • Improving hydro-meteorological data quality – procurement of calibration kits

  8. TASK 5 • Organisation of the South-East Europe Climate Outlook Forums (SEECOF) • Training on long-range forecasts, climate watch related aspects and climate scenarios

  9. TASK 6 • Design of regional Multi-Hazard Early Warning System (MHEWS) • Consultants involved, establishment of the Design Team and the first Design Team meeting • Gap analysis is under development with respect to the four components of effective early warning systems to support preparation of a concept document identifying the technological and institutional needs for building the business case for a regional MHEWS

  10. Activitiesstill to come • Training on flood loss assessment • Upgrade of EUMETCast stations • Training on insurance • Secondment of experts to DMCSEE • Support to SEEVCCC • Finalization of the design of regional Multi-Hazard Early Warning System

  11. Evaluation of the projectactivities • Feedback mostly positive, practical activities meeting the needs of the beneficiaries • Better customized training would be beneficial • Limited resources to attend all project events • Sustainability of the results related to the beneficiaries resources • Impact to strengthened regional cooperation • Further support/projects necessary

  12. Project contacts: WMO/FMI Project Office, Skopje Sari Lappi sari.lappi@fmi.fi WMO Regional Office for Europe Dimitar Ivanov divanov@wmo.int Natalia Berghi nberghi@wmo.int

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