As part of the Integrated Flood and Drought Management and Early Warning for Climate Adaptation in the Volta Basin project, implemented by World Meteorological Organization, Global Water Partnership e Volta Basin Authority, we are conducting the training of national experts from Volta Basin countries. The trainings consist of six national workshops on flood and drought exposure and impacts, which began in September and are now nearing their conclusion, conducted in collaboration with the Institute for Environmental Studies at Vrije University in Amsterdam.
The workshops are taking place for Ghana, Ivory Coast, Togo and Benin in a mixed format, partly on-field and partly remotely to support group work.
The agenda includes two days of elaboration of flood impact and drought exposure maps and one day of return of results with plenary discussion.
Participants have been grappling with key concepts and aspects of risk analysis for months and will now be able to finalize exposure and impact maps for their respective portions of the Volta Basin using a scenario-based approach.
The maps are developed based on data provided by the Local and Global Authorities, and developed through the use of .xls and QGIS.
Downstream of the workshops we will work to standardize the results at the watershed scale and present them in a final session at the regional scale. The final maps will be published on the VoltAlarm regional warning platform.
