DTP1-152-2.1 - JOINTISZA

The over exploitation, water regime modification, contamination and growing flood events amplified by climate change negative effects require harmonized, integrated actions from countries in shared river basins. The project will focus on interactions of two key aspects, the river basin management (RBM) and flood protection, taking into account the relevant stakeholders who have pivotal role in the Tisza RBM planning process. The main aim of the project is to further improve the integration of the water management and flood risk prevention planning and actions in the next RBM planning cycle, in line with the relevant EU legislations. The project will ensure better embedding of flood risk management planning into the RBM planning process and will also encourage the involvement of relevant sectors (such as flood risk management, water resource management, urban hydrology management, drought management) and interested stakeholders. In long term the project will initiate the change of better contribution to the implementation of the Flood Risk Directive and Water Framework Directive. The project involves four types of target groups, the national water administrations, water research institutes, international organisations and other interested stakeholders, NGOs. The project will be elaborated by means of joint actions of five countries (UA, RO, SK, HU, RS) sharing the TRB. The bridge between stakeholders will be ensured via the ICPDR Tisza Group and EUSDR PA4 platforms, where the information will be transferred from the experts level to policy level. The management and communication plan will ensure the wide range involvement of target groups. More over the pilot actions will give specific platform for information sharing and learning interactions. As the result of the transnational cooperation the main output of the project is the final draft updated Integrated Tisza RBM Plan, which already includes the main aspects of the Flood Risk Directive.

The project is fully in line and will contribute to the programme result indicator, by means of the joint and cooperative work of key actors from river basin management and flood risk prevention sectors towards the development of the update of integrated Tisza river basin management plan (ITRBMP). This results in better and intensified cooperation between the river basin management and flood management / flood risk prevention sectors within the Tisza River Basin. The improved GIS database will serve as a long term pool of data for further use by the countries concern and will also basis of the pressure and status analysis in relation to the identified significant water management issues. The updated ITRBMP will include the joint programme of measures for furter improvement of the status of rivers. Outcomes of the pilot activities will be embedded to the ITRBMP and will give input in specific areas such as drought, climate change and urban hydrology. This can be good example and applicable approach for other European countries having shared river basin. Outcomes of the testing processes within the pilot activities will serve as a basis of the learning interactions. The applied stakeholder involvement process can facilitate active participation of wider target groups in the management planning process.