Locations
Flood Risk Management
Integrated Climate-Resilient Transboundary
Background
The Project assists the Drin River riparian states in the implementation of an integrated climate-resilient basin-wide flood risk management approach aiming to improve their capacities to manage flood risk at regional, national and local levels and to enhance the resilience of vulnerable communities to climate-induced floods.
Objectives
- Improved climate and risk-informed decision-making, availability and use of climate risk information
- Improved institutional arrangements, legislative and policy framework for climate resilient FRM
- Strengthened community resilience through improved flood management
Major Achievements
- Optimized hydrometeorological monitoring network design developed for each of the Drin River Basin (DRB) riparians following the relevant network and institutional assessments
- Hydromet monitoring networks strengthened by procurement, installation and/or upgrade of 20 fully automated hydrological and 13 meteorological stations across the basin
- Hi-res Digital Elevation Models (DEMs) and topographic data sets acquired, a basin-wide hydrological model developed to simulate scenarios and calculate hydrographs for studies of the Areas of Potentially Significant Flood Risk (APSFRs)
- Detailed hydraulic model developed for the Crni/Black Drim sub-basin in North Macedonia and targeted APSFRs in Albania, alongside a 1D model of the entire basin
- Methodology and tools developed for vulnerability assessment and prioritization of communities at risk
- A tailored GIS-based flood risk model developed, integrating various spatial socio-economic (s/e) data with the flood hazard maps, performing vulnerability assessment and producing vulnerability maps that include damage and lost assessments. S/e database for the communities at risk established
- Tailor-made trainings on FRM delivered to practitioners, decision-makers and communities
- Appraisal led the design of the (non)structural local flood protection measures undertaken across the prioritized communities
- Structural risk reduction measures constructed/ underway in prioritized areas
- Community resilience strengthened through participatory design and implementation of non-structural measures
- Development of the basin FRM strategy and plan and sectoral FRM policies underway
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