Presented by IWMI's Rachael McDonnell at a session on 'Drought Early Warning and Risk Management' at the Water for Food Global Conference, in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA, on April 30, 2019.

1. Bringing solutions to drought
monitoring and management:
from Nebraska to MENA
RACHAEL MCDONNELL
Karim Bergaoui, Makram Belhaj Fraj, Rashyd Zaaboul
International Water Management Institute

2. Pillar 1- Operational CDI-based drought
monitoring

3. Pillar 2- Vulnerability and impact assessments set the baseline and context
• Drought is different
in Jordan, Lebanon,
Morocco, Tunisia
• Environmental,
cultural, social,
economic, political
drivers

4. MENAdrought…
the what next

5. Pillar 1
• Seasonal forecasting
• HydroCDI
Pillar 2
Understanding the $ costs
- government and personal
Understanding the social costs
- gender, rural/urban, refugee

6. Pillar 3 – different droughts, different actions
Mitigation for resilience building
Water and agricultural technology packages
Preparedness
Institutional arrangements that multi-ministerial,
interdisciplinary, and locally owned
Developing policies, plans, decrees – the what, who, how
much, when
Responses
Maps need to trigger actions
Water accounting => drought re-allocation
Drought Insurance – Morocco La Mamda

7. Supporting Morocco manage drought tensions between
agro-pastoralists and farmers
Tensions exacerbated by
recent droughts in 2015-
16, winter of 2017/18
Law passed to manage
the rangelands and the
movements of the
pastoralists – drought
maps to trigger actions

8. Thanks
r.mcdonnell@cigar.org