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Testing and Revising the Guidelines October 2006

European Commission - EuropeAid Co-operation Office Euro-Mediterranean Regional Programme For Local Water Management Mediterranean Drought Preparedness and Mitigation Planning (MEDROPLAN). Testing and Revising the Guidelines October 2006. Contents.

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Testing and Revising the Guidelines October 2006

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  1. European Commission - EuropeAid Co-operation OfficeEuro-Mediterranean Regional Programme For Local Water ManagementMediterranean Drought Preparedness and Mitigation Planning (MEDROPLAN) Testing and Revising the GuidelinesOctober 2006

  2. Contents 1. The MEDROPLAN drought mitigation Guidelines 2. How are the Guidelines tested and revised? 3. Conclusions from the testing and revision

  3. Authors and collaborators Editor Iglesias Authors Ameziane, Benbeniste, Bonaccorso, Cancelliere, Casado, Christofides, Cubillo, Fernández, Flores, Gabiña, Garrido, Garrote, Iglesias, Keravnou-Papailiou, Laban, Lapeña, Lebdi, Louati, Mellouli, Moneo, Ouassou, Pangalou, Quiroga, Rossi, Saracoglu, Soriano, Tigkas, Tsakiris, Tsiourtis, Vangelis, Viñuales Collaborators Abid, Alba, Alouini, Anastasis , Barghout , Belghiti, Ben Slama, Bergaoui, Bouchahoua, Cristaudo, El-Euchi, Ezzine , Fadhila, Ibáñez, Jelassi, Jradi , Lazhar, Liebana , Lopez-Francos , Mathlouthi , Mediouni, Moriarty, Nicolosi , Ouattar , Oulkacha , Quiroga , Rejeb , Sarsour, Tayaa , Wilhite, Zehri, Ziyad More ……

  4. The Guidelines help formulate drought management plans based on risk management approach and not a reactive crisis approach

  5. Design of the Guidelines • Complements the continuous effort (country, region, basin level) of different sectors • Support for the management policies • Based on legislation, organization, vulnerability, administrational dynamics and actual technologies • Protocol and analytical context for systematic formulation of drought management plans based on risk management and preparedness • Flexible product that allows the incorporation of different analysis criteria, management priorities and application in other regions

  6. Who is the end-user of the Guidelines? • Wide range of stakeholders • Avoiding the use of scientific or technical language that can be hard to understand for a non-specialist

  7. Set up a multidisciplinary stakeholder team to define purpose and process (Organizational component) Public review, revision and dissemination (Testing the Guidelines) Evaluate the legal, social, and political process (Organizational component) Identify and select priority activities, based on the agreed criteria (Operational Component) Identify risk and potential vulnerabilities (Methodological Component) How were the Guidelines developed?

  8. Arabic, English, French, Greek, Italian, Spanish Executive Summary Organizational component Methodological Component English, French, and the language of the correspondent country The planning framework English and French Operational component EXAMPLES of application Tutorial Components of the Guidelines

  9. TRIGGERS • Social unrest • Sings of tension • Regional Governments warning • Farmers complaints 1 INSTITUTIONS Ministry of Agriculture (MAPA) Funding (Tax abatement; Subsidies) INSTITUTIONS Finance Ministry Approval of budget INSTITUTIONS Ministry of the Environment River Basin Authority Actions related to water policy 2 6 5 Permanent Office for Drought All members are from the MAPA (High-level officials representing Planning, Sectoral Offices, Director of the Insurance Agency) • PROPOSED ACTIONS • 1. Related to the finance of the farming sector • 2. Related to water • DECCISIONS PROCESS • President call’s for Committee: • Analysis of situation • Exclusive attention to risks non covered by the pro-active plans (i.e., non-insured) 3 4 7 APPROVED ACTIONS 1. Tax policy: • Reduction/elimination of land taxes • Reduction of Social Security contributions 2. Agricultural Policy: • Advancement of CAP Payments 3. Agricultural Insurance: • Advancement of indemnity payments 4. Water Policy: • Funding for drilling wells for animal drinking Institutional analysis http://www.iamz.ciheam.org/medroplan/

  10. Operational component MANAGER (s) (i.e., RBAs) INSTRUMENT (s) (i.e., Basin Hydrological Plan) INDICATORS Permanent Monitoring: Hydrological, Socio-economic (macroeconomic and demography), Environmental PRE-ALERT Monitoring shows the initial stage of danger Objective: Ensure acceptance of measures to be taken in case …. by raising awareness of danger ALERT Monitoring shows that drought will have impacts Objective: Overcome situation, guarantee water supply while emergency measures can be put in place EMERGENCY Monitoring shows that impacts have occurred and supply is not guaranteed if drought persists Objective: Minimise damage, the priority is drinking water

  11. Operational component INDICATORS Permanent Monitoring: Hydrological, Socio-economic (macroeconomic and demography), Environmental MANAGER (s) (i.e., RBAs) INSTRUMENT (s) (i.e., Basin Hydrological Plan) MEASURES • PRE-ALERT • Low cost, indirect, voluntary • Non structural directed to influence water demand, avoid worse situations • Focus on communication and awareness • Intensification of monitoring and evaluation of worse case scenarios • ALERT • Low cost, direct, coercive, direct impact on consumption costs • Non structural directed to specific water use groups • Water restrictions except for drinking water • Changes in management • Revision of tariffs • Rights Exchanging Centres • EMERGENCY • High cost, direct, restrictive, approved as general interest actions • Structural, new infrastructure, intra-basin, inter-basin, transboundary transfers • Non structural, new groundwater abstraction • Water restrictions for all users

  12. Examples of the application in Mediterranean countries Testing and revising the Guidelines

  13. Visit MEDROPLAN on the web atwww.iamz.ciheam.org/medroplan

  14. Why is it necessary to establish a dialogue among all stakeholders from the beginning? • To enhance the quality and acceptance of drought management plans • To enhance acceptance and trust in incorporation of scientific and technical knowledge in management

  15. How are the guidelines tested and revised Last phase of the MEDROPLAN project Why is it necessary to test the guidelines? • Singularity of drought events, different approaches • Different institutional and organizational structures, applicability of the guidelines • Collection of knowledge and previous experiences • Dynamic document that needs revision and update

  16. Methodology for testing and revising General structure of the testing and revision process • Selection of the River Basins for the testing and revising TAJO and EBRO • Identification of stakeholders in the selected River Basin. • Contact with the selected stakeholders and distribution of the guidelines • Discussion about the contents and applicability of the guidelines through personal interviews and questionnaire. • Analysis of results and conclusions

  17. Identification of stakeholders for interviews Participating institutions and organizations • Ebro River Basin Authority • Zaragoza City Council • Irrigators Communities Alto Aragón and Canal de Aragón y Cataluña • Farmers’ organizations: COAG y UAGA • ENESA • Universidad Politécnica de Madrid • Universidad San Jorge de Zaragoza

  18. Agenda for interviews with stakeholders Presentation and discussion of the questionnaire Individual reading of the guidelines and the questionnaire First Interview: Integrated water resources management. Rafael Romeo, Ebro River Basin Authority Objective: Experience of an established drought management plan. Second Interview: Economic instruments applied to drought management. Fernando Burgaz, ENESA; José María Sumpsi, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid Objective: Analysis of the existing and potential proactive measures and their adoption in management policies Discussion about the results of the two interviews. Debate leaded by the participants in the third and fourth interviews

  19. Agenda for interviews with stakeholders Third interview : Users’ groups. Javier Celma, Zaragoza City Council; Carlos Oliva, Irrigators Community Alto Aragón; Julio Terrazas, Irrigators Community del Canal de Aragón y Cataluña Objective: Compare the point of view of two users’ groups with different priorities and vulnerability in order to determine the real existing of conflict among them. Forth interview: Groups affecting public opinion. Felipe Medina, COAG; Jose María Percebal, UAGA-COAG Aragón; José Juan Verón. President of the assotiation of press in Aragón and Universidad San Jorge Objective: Evaluate the reality of quantitative analysis of impacts that support the perception affecting general public opinion Discussion about the results of the two interviews. Debate leaded by the participants in the first and second interviews General discussion and presentation of preliminary conclusions

  20. Analysis of results and conclusions • Each MEDROPLAN team will produce a report about this testing phase. • Reports will be distributed to the stakeholders present in this meeting for final remarks and conclusions • Individual meetings to verify final conclusions derived from this phase

  21. Presentation of questionnaire 6 Sections with different analysis objectives • Specific questions for decision makers (Ebro River Basin Authority, Zaragoza City Council) • Specific questions for experts (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Universidad San Jorge, ENESA) • Specific questions for stakeholders (Irrigators Communities Alto Aragón and Canal de Aragón y Cataluña, Farmers’ organizations: COAG and UAGA

  22. SECTION I: Decision making process in your institution, organization • Characterization of activity and functional scope of the institution • Management capacity in relation to drought management (mainly for decision makers)

  23. SECTION II: Your role in the drought management decision making process • Characterization of the individual role of stakeholders in drought management • Moment and methodology of participation in the planning process

  24. SECTION III: Impacts and drought management actions • Identification of drought’s impacts on your activity • Analysis of measures applied to manage drought and application scope

  25. SECTION IV: Dialogue and integrated decision making with managers, stakeholders and experts • Interactions among the different stakeholders (cooperation and conflicts) • Frequency of interactions, mechanisms and timing of interactions in the planning process

  26. SECTIONV: Guidelines evaluation • General evaluation aspects of the MEDROPLAN Drought management guidelines • Role of the guidelines in drought management • Relation among the designed guidelines and real experiences of participants

  27. SECTIONVI: Guidelines revision • Specific evaluation aspects of the MEDROPLAN Drought management guidelines • Evaluation of guidelines usefulness • Particular evaluation of each of the guidelines components (The Planning framework, Organizational Component, Methodological Component, Operational Component)

  28. Main conclusions from testing

  29. Thank you for your attention! Visit MEDROPLAN on the web www.iamz.ciheam.org/medroplan

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