Strengthening cooperation between river basin management planning and flood risk prevention to enhance the stats of waters of the Tisza River Basin

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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.

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