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Training Workshop
on Integrated Flood Management, Flood Forecasting and Early Warnings
Antalya, Turkey, 8 to 12 April 2013
WORKSHOP REPORT
This document has been produced with the financial assistance of the European Union. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.
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SUMMARY
Purpose: Sensitization and capacity building workshop for senior and medium level national officers, and advocacy for further spinoff national workshops on developing strategies for flood management.
In the framework of the IPA/2012/290552 multibeneficiary project “Building Resilience to Disasters in Western Balkans and Turkey”, a workshop on Integrated Flood Management (IFM), flood forecasting and early warning was organized to take place in Antalya, Turkey, from 8 to 12 April 2013. The overall objective of the workshop was to strengthen the knowhow and capacities of the participating countries, and to establish a network for exchange of information related to flood forecasting and flood management. Specifically, the workshop was divided in three main thematic areas, aiming at:
Introducing and fostering the IFM concepts and tools available for implementing IFM at the national and transboundary levels;
Presenting topics related to flood forecasting & early warning systems and practices, making use of the materials developed in line with the WMO Manual on flood forecasting and early warning;
Illustrating with a handson demonstration the DEWETRA platform as an example of integrated system for realtime monitoring and natural risks prevision and prevention.
Hosted by the Turkish State Meteorological Service, five facilitators alternated to deliver lectures and handson demonstrations on the three topics listed above to circa 31 participants from 10 different countries as per the attached list of attendance (Annex 1).
The overall reception of the messages related to Integrated Flood Management (covering all the different aspects, i.e. legal ad institutional, social, environmental and economic) was positive and followed by expression of interest from four different countries (Turkey, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro and Lebanon) to host similar capacity building workshops on the topic of IFM leading in a second stage to the development of national flood management strategies.
Moreover, the workshop provided an excellent opportunity to widely disseminate the notions included in the WMO Manual on Flood Forecasting and Warning involving one of the main authors of the manual, and developer of training materials related to the topic, as lecturer. To give an example of application of the lessons learnt in the first two phases of the workshop, experts of the CIMA Research Foundation, recognized Support Base Partner in support of the HelpDesk for IFM, held a handson demonstrative session on the use of the realtime observation and forecasting platform DEWETRA. This platform integrates different hydrological and meteorological observation networks with multiple forecasting methods providing an operational tool in support of decision making for disaster risk reduction.
1. Introduction
In the framework of the IPA/2012/290552 Multibeneficiary Project: “Building resilience to disasters in Western Balkans and Turkey”, and specifically to comply with the Project Task 4 “Enhancing IPA Beneficiaries to prepare and deliver accurate and timely warnings for hazardous meteorological and hydrological phenomena”, WMO planned a five days training workshop to build the capacity on integrated flood management, flood forecasting and early warnings.
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The workshop was planned to be a sensitization and capacity building program for senior level and medium level national/local officers benefiting from increased capacities in managing flood risks. Over the past years, flood management efforts have focused primarily on ad hoc solutions, which are reactive rather than proactive. There is a need to develop new approaches to flood management for which an Integrated Flood Management (IFM) approach is now recommended.
Although many countries may already have developed and adopted an Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and catchments based water resources management approach, there is a need to upgrade this IWRM to incorporate the IFM principles and strategies. The IFM capacity building program focused on this need, while at the same time it provided the knowhow basis of flood forecasting and early warning, through the presentation of the recently developed WMO Manual on Flood Forecasting and Early Warning, as well as an overlook on proven flood forecasting methodologies through the experience of selected APFM partners.
2. Activities
2.1 In accordance with session 2 of the workshop agenda (Annex 2), a series of presentations were made to introduce and foster the Integrated Flood Management concept and the tools available for implementing IFM at the national and transboundary level. This activity was led over three days by WMO representatives, during which an overlook over the present state of flood management at the national level was given by the representatives of the ten participating countries, with particular focus on Turkey.
2.2 Based on the recently developed WMO Manual on Flood Forecasting and Early Warnings, a detailed technical presentation was delivered over one full day by Mr. James Dent, coauthor of the above mentioned Manual and developer of the correspondent presentation material. Notwithstanding the importance of flood forecasting and early warning as an essential component of IFM, Mr. Dent provided an insight on the establishment and operation of flood forecasting and early warning systems based on his proven, multidecennial experience in the sector.
2.3 In order to present an application of an operational, multihazard, integrated system for real time monitoring, forecasting and early warning, the CIMA Research Foundation was invited to give a handson demonstration on the use of the DEWETRA platform, in its capacity as Support Base Partner in the framework of the activities of the IFM HelpDesk. Adopted as an operational platform for flood forecasting and early warning by the Italian Civil Protection Agency, DEWETRA is already in use in Albania with the support of the CIMA Research Foundation.
The session was given within a period of one full day by Dr. Marco Massabo and Dr. Luca Molini from the CIMA Research Foundation.
3. Major issues and outcomes
3.1 The participants demonstrated extended interest in the topics of IFM and flood forecasting, building on increasing resilience to disasters and identifying potential synergies with other ongoing national activities, such as public awareness raising, institutional mapping, and communicating flood risk and disseminating warnings.
3.2 Independently from the IPA project and in the framework of the IFM HelpDesk activities, other national workshops have been requested by four of the participating countries (Turkey, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Lebanon, and Montenegro). Requested topics cover the
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development of national strategies for flood management and technical sessions on flood modeling and forecasting (Croatia, Serbia, Jordan).
3.3 Participants were informed of the opportunity to make use of the DEWETRA platform at the national and international level. By building on the experiences and lessons learnt in the application of the platform in Albania, some of the participants proposed to have in the framework of the IPA a pilot project on flood forecasting and early warning focusing on the Drina basin (involving Albania, Kosovo*, Montenegro, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia).
4. Findings and problems encountered
4.1. Country presentations have shown the need for overall strengthening of the hydrological observation network and technical expertise in forecasting in most of the West Balkan countries, Lebanon and Jordan. The institutional framework for an efficient flood forecasting and early warning service proved to be insufficient in some of the countries (Bosnia & Herzegovina, Kosovo*, Jordan).
4.2 The inclusion of Lebanon and Jordan in the workshop held in the framework of the IPA activity raised some concerns from other participating countries, particularly in regard to limited availability of funds for the IPA project.
4.3 Some of the participants expressed their appreciation in eventually receiving a certificate of workshop attendance.
4.4 Discussions on the technical sessions on flood forecasting and early warning have identified linguistic difficulties in terms of understanding and usage of technical terms. Some of the participating parties expressed the need for interpreters and further translated WMO and APFM publications material for future workshops and initiatives.
5. Conclusions and recommendations
There is a need to use the momentum established here to further advocate for adoption of IFM strategies at the national and international level, to provide technical support on a demand driven basis to the requesting countries, and to facilitate further information exchange between the countries, in order to ensure sustainability of the achievement made in the IPA project.
*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
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ANNEX 1
Training Workshop on Integrated Flood Management, Flood Forecasting and Early Warnings
812 April 2013, Antalya, Turkey
LIST OF PARTICIPANTS
ALBANIA Prof. Petrit ZORBA Institute of Geosciences, Energy, Water and Environment Rruga Don Bosko Nr 60 Tirana, Albania Tel: +355 682151684 Fax: +355 42229317 Email: [email protected]
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
Mr.DarkoBorojevic Republic HydrometeorologicalServiceRepublic of SRPSKA Rakovackihrudara 6p Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina Tel: +387 513 155 38 Fax: +387 513 155 38 Email: [email protected]
Ms. Ivana Veselcic Department for International Cooperation Protection and RescueSector Ministry of Security Tel: +387 33 492 725 Fax: +387 33 492 795 [email protected]
CROATIA Mr.BorivojTerek Drzavnihidrometeoroloskizavod 10000 Zagreb, Croatia Tel: +385 1 4882 663 Fax: +385 1 4851 520 Email: [email protected]
KOSOVO* Prof. SyleTahirsylaj Hydrometeorological Institute Bill Clinton Str. nr. 86 Pristine 1000 Tel: +381 38 603 842 Email: [email protected]
MONTENEGRO Mr. DarkoNovakovic Institute of Hydrometeorology and Seismology IV proleterska 19 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro Tel: +382 20 655 435 Fax: +382 20 655 197 [email protected]
Ms. SlavkaMiletic Sector for Emergency Management IlijePlamencabb 81000 Podgorica, Montenegro Tel: +382 20 801 815 Fax: +382 20 641 906 mup.emergency.cz@tcom.me
SERBIA Ms. MarijaIvkovic RepublicHydrometeorological Service Kneza Viseslava 66
Ms. MarijaPavlovic Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Serbia, Sector for
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11000 Belgrade Tel: +381 11 30 50 923 Fax: +381 64 68 01 145 [email protected] [email protected]
Emergency Management Omladinskihbrigada 31 11070 New Belgrade, Serbia Tel: +381 64 892 8077 Fax: +381 11 2282 909 [email protected]
THE FORMER YUGOSLAVREP UBLIC OF MACEDONIA
Mr. VaskoStojov Hydrometeorological Service Str. Skupi 28, 1000 Skopje The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia Tel: +389 230 97112 Fax: +389 230 97 118 Email : [email protected]
Mr. Dusko Petrovski Head of Department for Operation& Coordination Crisis Management DimceMircev No. 9 1000 Skopje Tel: +389 02 32 49 210 Fax: +389 02 3136 226 [email protected]; [email protected]
JORDAN Mr.RaedRafid Jordan Meteorological Department P.O. Box 34/011 Amman 111 34, Jordan Tel: +962 648 94 408 Fax: +962 648 944 09 Email: [email protected]
Mr.Moh’dKarajugli Salem Hindawish St. Building 41 P.O.Box 5412 or P.O.Box 5012 Tel: +962 6 5652264 Fax: +962 6 5680075 [email protected]
LEBANON Dr. Nabil Aaamacha LitaniRiver Authority Bishara El Khoury Street P.O. Box 11 3732 Lebanon Tel: +961 1 662 117 Fax: +961 1 662 117 Email: [email protected] [email protected]
Ms. Bernadette Karam Lebanese Disaster Risk Management Unit Disaster Risk Management Unit Grand Serail, Serail Hill Beirut Lebanon Tel: +961 (1) 980439 Mobile: +961 (3) 299839 bernadette.karam@undp lebprojects.org
Dr. Abdullah Ceylan Research Department TurkishState Meteorological Service Ankara, Turkey Tel: +90 312 3022505 Fax: +90 312 3612040 Email: [email protected]
AyhanErdoğan Forecast Department TurkishState Meteorological Service Ankara, Turkey Tel: +90 312 3022539 Fax: +90 312 3607912 Email: [email protected]
TURKEY
Bayram Ali Taş The General Directorate of Combating Desertification and Erosion Ankara, Turkey Tel: +90 312 2075763 Email: [email protected]
EkremGülsoy Research Department TurkishState Meteorological Service Ankara, Turkey Tel: +90 312 3022471 Fax: +90 312 3612040 Email: [email protected]
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ErcümentAvşar Regional Directorate of Meteorology TurkishState Meteorological Service İzmir, Turkey Tel: +90 554 8880751 Fax: +90 232 2742123 Email: [email protected]
ErdemOdabaşı Research Department TurkishState Meteorological Service Ankara, Turkey Tel: +90 312 3022507 Fax: +90 312 3612040 Email: [email protected]
GönülKılıç Research Department TurkishState Meteorological Service Ankara, Turkey Tel: +90 312 3022509 Fax: +90 312 3612040 Email: [email protected]
HakkıBaltacı Regional Directorate of Meteorology TurkishState Meteorological Service İstanbul, Turkey Tel: +90 535 9840922 Email: [email protected]
HüseyinŞahin Research Department TurkishState Meteorological Service Ankara, Turkey Tel: +90 312 3022476 Email: [email protected]
H. YükselÖzalp Forecast Department TurkishState Meteorological Service Ankara, Turkey Tel: +90 312 3022535 Fax: +90 312 3607912 Email: [email protected]
IşılSakın General Directorate of Water Management Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs Söğütözü Cad. No: 14/E Ankara, Turkey Tel: +90 312 207 57 36 Email: [email protected]
M. AyhanErkan Research Department TurkishState Meteorological Service Ankara, Turkey Tel: +90 312 3022507 Fax: +90 312 3612040 Email: [email protected]
Mustafa Diren General Directorate of State Hydraulic Works Ankara, Turkey Tel: + 90 312 4178300/ext.2872 Fax: Email: [email protected]
ÖzlemVelioglu Disaster and Management Precidency KızılırmanMah., UfukÜn. Cad. Çukurambar Ankara, Turkey Tel: +90 312 258 23 23/1744 Fax: +312 287 38 51 [email protected]
SıtkıEraydın General Directorate of Forestry Ankara, Turkey Tel: +90 312 2076473 Fax: +90 312 2076503 Email: [email protected]
A.TolgaTaştekin Regional Directorate of Meteorology TurkishState Meteorological Service Isparta, Turkey Tel: +90 246 5592014 Fax: + 90 246 5592015
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Email: [email protected]
WMO GiacomoTeruggi Programme Officer Associated Programme on Flood Management Climate and Water Department WMO 7 bis, avenue de la Paix, Case postale 2300, CH 1211 Geneve, Suisse Tel: +41 0 22 7308354 Fax: +41 0 22 7308043 Email: [email protected]
Jan Moritz Krüger Junior Professional Officer Associated Programme on Flood Management Climate and Water Department WMO 7 bis, avenue de la Paix, Case postale 2300, CH 1211 Geneve Suisse Tel: +41 0 22 7308243 Fax: +41 0 22 7308043 Email: [email protected]
CIMA Luca Molini Researcher CIMA Research Foundation International Center on Environmental Monitoring Univercity Campus Via A.Magliotto 217100 Savona, Italy Tel: + 39019230271 Fax: + 3901923027240 Email: [email protected]
Marco Massabo Project Leader CIMA Research Foundation International Center on Environmental Monitoring Univercity Campus Via A.Magliotto 217100 Savona Italy Tel: + 39019861418 Fax: + 3901923027240 marco.massabo@cimafoundati on.org
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
James Dent Consultant Hadleigh, Suffolk United Kingdom Email: [email protected]
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ANNEX 2
Training Workshop
on Integrated Flood Management (IFM), Flood Forecasting and Early Warning
for building resilience to disasters in Western Balkans and Turkey
Antalya, Turkey, 8 – 12 April 2013
AGENDA
I. Session 1 Opening and Introduction
‐ Welcome speeches ‐ Introduction of workshop contents, objectives, scope and purpose, structure of sessions and expected outcomes
II. Session 2 Integrated Flood Management: concept, principles, components
‐ From Flood Control to Flood Management: effects and limitations of traditional flood management options in light of future challenges ‐ Legal and Institutional Aspects of Flood Management ‐ Social Aspects of Flood Management ‐ Environmental Aspects of Flood Management ‐ Economic Aspects of Flood Management ‐ Group Exercises ‐ Informative session: the APFM HelpDesk and the IFM Tools
III. Session 3 Flood Forecasting and early warning
‐ Main aspects ‐ Methods and models for flood forecasting: choosing the best available option ‐ Model calibration and data requirements ‐ Monitoring networks for flood forecasting and early warnings ‐ Real time data transmission and management ‐ Structure and organization for flood warnings
IV. Session 4 DEWETRA: a multihazard integrated platform in support of flood forecasting and early warning
‐ Hindsight on the system and its applications ‐ Handson system’s functionality’ demonstration ‐ Ongoing and expected implementations in the Balkan region
V. Session 5 – Wrap up and Closure
Recommendations and the wayforward
