Enhancing flood and drought resilience along the river Drava
Beneficiaries & Territory
Local Government of Baranya County (HU) and Virovitica – Podravina county (HR)
Administrative regions of local government of Baranya county and Virovitica – Podravina county, with potential involvement of the whole Hungarian-Croatian Drava region in the future
Goal
Plan activities – in the long-term – aiming at water retention management and sustainable land use.
Water retention management and sustainable land use includes examination of the utilisation of low-lying areas less suitable for agricultural cultivation for water retention, promotes the rehabilitation of water cycles in small regions, enables regular shallow water flooding in many areas, and helps the establishment of floodplain landscape management pilot areas on the long term. On the other hand, cooperation also makes it possible to establish the conditions for drawing up action plans to prepare for or prevent periods of flood threat.
Specific objectives
- Examine best practice pilot programmes
- Elaborate an action plan with the purpose to protect and strengthen the water retention capacity of the environment, soil and aquifers through the restoration and maintenance of the natural characteristics of ecosystems and watercourses, as well as the application of natural processes
Planned activities
- Professional stakeholder outreach holders in Medimurska, Varazdinska, Koprivnicko-Krizevacka, Viroviticko-Pordravska, Osjecko-Baranjska, Vukovarsko-Srijemska, Baranya and Somogy counties, as well as at national level.
- Project design, protocols, terms of cooperation with the elaboration of the basic framework and protocols of the project, including the conditions of cooperation with stakeholder organisations.
- 6-session workshop: Development of cross-border cooperation with national, regional and local authorities and water management experts to map, collect data and possible solutions of target areas.
- Identification of good practices and sharing knowledge.
- Target area mapping through data collection with collection of available data and planning field studies on site which will serve as a basis for the elaboration of the action plan.
- Consultations between professional organisations and exchanges of professional ideas.
- Climate adaptation conference on the target area’s water management with the involvement of a wide range of stakeholders (national, regional and local authorities, as well as water management experts).
- Development of long-term cooperation, laying the foundations of cooperation, involving necessary institutions and networks.
- Elaboration of an action plan for further cooperation and planning.