Expert Training on Risk and Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Planning – Water Management Sector
Date: 19-20.01.2015
Place: Ankara, Turkey
Organizer: ECRAN Secretariat with EC TAIEX Unit
Key vulnerabilities are associated with many climate-sensitive systems, including food supply,
infrastructure, health, water resources, coastal systems, ecosystems, global biogeochemical cycles,
ice sheets and modes of oceanic and atmospheric circulation.
During the regional ECRAN Adapt Seminar in Skopje in July 2014, the ECRAN beneficiaries have
identified the sectors in the Western Balkans and Turkey that are most vulnerable to climate change.
Water resources is one these sectors. Measures have been proposed for vulnerability mitigation.
However, the key to adaptation to climate change is the integration of the issue of climate change in
the water sector’s relevant strategic, planning and programme documents both at national and
regional levels as well as the local level.
Using the Climate Adapt Tool, as well as other available tools, the participants will be guided through
the framework and process of assessing climate-related risks and vulnerabilities in their own
technical areas. They will learn to understand and assess current and future hazards, identify sources
of climate data and information, assess risks and impacts and assess a selection of societal
components of risk and vulnerability.
Wider objective
To promote climate adaptation action in the Western Balkan countries and Turkey.
Specific Objectives
To enhance the understanding about climate adaptation action in the water sector among a core of
Beneficiary countries’ representatives, supporting the creation of national climate adaptation
policies and planning as a basis for action.
Expected Results of the Workshop
- strengthened awareness and understanding of climate change adaptation needs and options among water sector experts from Western Balkan countries and Turkey established;
- Improved understanding of (the applicability of tools for) risk and vulnerability assessment in the water sector, including the applicability of the Climate Adapt Tool;
- foundation for improved cooperation and coordination among authorities in Western Balkan countries and Turkey in the area of climate adaptation action established;
- awareness of the need to speed up and enhance climate adaptation action planning in the Western Balkan countries and Turkey
