The document summarizes the Integrated Drought Management Programme (IDMP), a joint program between the World Meteorological Organization and the Global Water Partnership. The IDMP aims to help countries move from reactive to proactive drought management through preparedness, vulnerability reduction, and an integrated multi-stakeholder approach. It will develop tools and guidelines, conduct demonstration projects, build capacity, and respond to regional needs through a new Drought HelpDesk platform. The IDMP has engaged many partner organizations and aims to improve drought understanding, monitoring, policy, and risk reduction.

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Integrated Drought
Management
Programme (IDMP)
A joint Programme of the World
Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the
Global Water Partnership (GWP)
Frederik Pischke

2. Launch at the High-Level
Meeting on National Drought
Policies, March 2013
Over 414 participants from 87 countries
Main Partners – UNCCD, FAO, WMO
1 Prime Minister address (Niger)
UN SG (video message)
18 ministerial addresses (11 from Africa)
12 representatives of UN agencies and international and regional
organizations (UNU, IFRC, IOM, CBD, WFP, IAEA, UNECA, JRC,
ICARDA, GWP, ACMAD, ISDR)
Final Declaration adopted – www.hmndp.org
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3. IDMP Approach
1. From reactive to proactive measures through
drought mitigation, vulnerability reduction and
preparedness;
2. To integrate the vertical planning and decision
making processes at regional, national and
community levels into a multi-stakeholder
approach including key sectors, especially
agriculture and energy;
3. To promote the evolution of the drought
knowledge base and to establish a mechanism for
sharing knowledge and providing services to
stakeholders across sectors at all levels;
4. To build capacity of various stakeholders at
different levels.

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The Cycle of Disaster Management
Source: Wilhite 2006

5. Expected Outcomes IDMP
The IDMP aims to add value and close the gaps with regard to:
•Better scientific understanding of, and inputs for, drought
management;
•Improved knowledge base, with better access to information and
products;
•Capacity for drought risk assessment, monitoring, prediction
and early warning;
•Improved policy and planning for drought preparedness and
mitigation across sectors; and
•Drought risk reduction and response.

6. Engaging Partners
• High interest at the global level IDMP
Advisory Committee attended by 15
organizations
• Exchange of letters with interested
Organizations and defining activities of
cooperation using the IDMP as a platform.
• On development of IDMP Help Desk, IDMP
will engage Support Based Partners (SBP)
to respond to Help Desk requests
• Partners will focus on technical area of
mutual interest

7. Organization that confirmed
their interest to participate in
IDMP (Status April 2014)
•Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations (FAO)
•United Nations Convention to Combat
Desertification (UNCCD)
•Australian Bureau of Meteorology
•Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)
•International Center for Agricultural Research
in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
•International Water Management Institute
(IWMI)
•Joint Research Centre (JRC)
•Mexico’s National Water Commission
(CONAGUA)
•Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI)
•U.S. National Drought Mitigation Center
(NDMC)
•UNDP Cap-Net
•United Nations Development Progamme
(UNDP)
•United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
•United Nations Environment Programme
(UNEP)
•United Nations Office for Disaster Risk
Reduction (UNISDR)
•University of Nebraska Daugherty Water for
Food Institute
•University of Southern Queensland
•UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity
Development
•World Bank
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8. IDMP Areas of Work
1) Development of Tools
2) Capacity Building (cross-cutting)
3) Demonstration Projects
4) Responding to Regional and
National Needs
5) Development of Drought
HelpDesk

9. Development of Tools
- Tools and guidelines to support the
integrated management of
droughts
- Currently development of National
Drought Management Policy
Guidelines
- Case Studies, Early Warning
Systems and Drought Indicators
envisioned

10. Demonstration projects
- Innovative projects to support
national and regional needs
- First projects envisioned in
South Asia on a Drought Early
Warning System

11. Responding to Regional
and National Needs (1)
- Support to regional IDMP in Central and
Eastern Europe (IDMP CEE)
- IDMP in Horn of Africa (IDMP HOA) and
West Africa (IDMP WA) funding approved,
currently hiring project manager
- Designing aforementioned demonstration
project in South Asia
- Workshop in Central America on IDM
followed by training on SPI

12. Responding to Regional
and National Needs (2)
- Support to the Mexican National Programme
against Drought (PRONACOSE)
- Support work in the Mediterranean and in
Latin America
- Contribution to National Drought
Management Policies Initiatives (NDMP)
workshops with UNW-DPC, FAO, UNCCD, &
WMO
- Support to Drought Workshop in Turkey
towards development of Turkish drought
policy

13. Drought Help Desk
- Modelled on APFM HelpDesk
(www.floodmanagement.info)
- Entry point to contact IDMP
- Get existing information (Find)
on Integrated Drought Management
- Request support (Ask for help)
on Integrated Drought Management
- Connect to activities/ other initiatives
- To be launched with first availability in late 2014
- Will be web based and respond to specific requests

14. Drought HelpDesk
Find Resources
- Drought Management Tools/ Guidelines
- Training Material
- Library
- Discussion group using social media
Ask for Help
- Personal assitance for Drought Management
(policies, laws, strategies, technical assistance)
- Capacity building
- A rapid guidance to the tools of the Help Yourself section
Connect:
- Link to IDMP activities
- Connect with other organizations

15. www.droughtmanagement.info

16. Thank Youwww.droughtmanagement.info
frederik.pischke@gwp.org