28.01.2019
World Bank started implementation of Technical Assistance Project «Enhancing Disaster Preparedness in Republic of Belarus»
Experts of World bank visited Belarus within the frameworks of implementation of Technical Assistance Project «Enhancing Disaster Preparedness in Republic of Belarus», which focuses on capacity building to ensure disaster preparedness in Belarus through improving services of extreme weather conditions, identification risks, data availability and dissemination and national strategy for disaster risk reduction.
Achievement of the main project goal is planning through realization of three components:
1. Support of the wider political dialog on managing of disaster risks in Belarus.
2. Improving damage and loss evaluation system efficiency.
3. Improving the quality of hydrometeorological services and information on the radiation situation, including early warning systems.
Realization of three components will be conducted through access to international expert knowledge and experience, best practice leadership and more suitable software with open source code and due to possibility of participating in global workshops and regional seminars.
Project will be implemented jointly by Ministry of natural resources and environment protection of the Republic of Belarus and Ministry of emergency situations. Project proposal represents great interest both of Ministry of natural resources and Ministry of emergency situation and for Belarus in general.
Integrated approach will be conducted for risk evaluation and for basic and technogenic emergency situation, prevailing in the Republic of Belarus (floods, storms, wildfires, drought, and risks in radiation monitoring) as the result of the Project. Project will cover existing data bases of emergency situation and process of data exchange.
Within the frameworks of Project road map and investment plan will be developed with plan for modernization of services for providing meteorological, climate, hydrological information and also information in a sphere of radiation monitoring in Belarus.
Opportunities for straightening and creating joint information platform with a purpose of modern and clear access to modern systems will be considered.
The first meeting with World Bank experts took place on January 28, 2019.
Belhydromet representatives briefly reported about the history of hydrometservice, the main activity in a sphere of meteorology, hydrology and radiation monitoring. The experts took place in an excursion through Belhydromet.
Despite of the fact that the first meeting day was introductory, experts team and workers of Belhydromet have already determined necessary questions for the week to discuss.
The meeting with the stakeholders as hydromet information end-users took place on January 29, 2019.
Meanwhile experts were working with Ministry of emergency situation of the Republic of Belarus.
