Building smart governance to manage flooding risk of river communities

SMARTRIVER

March 01, 2020 until May 31, 2023 Official web site of the project

Programme: Interreg ADRION (Adriatic-Ionian transnational programme 2014. - 2020.)
Programme priority: Sustainable Region
Project implementation period: 01/03/2020 - 31/12/2022
Project budget: 1.293.470,25 €
Lead partner organisation: Comune di Senigallia (Municipality of Senigallia)

 

Partners:

• Marche Region - Civil Protection and Territorial Security department (IT)
• Zadar County Rural Development Agency - AGRRA (CRO)
• City of Osijek (CRO)
• Regional Development Agency Podravje - Maribor (SLO)
• Municipality of  Maribor (SLO)
• Municipality of  Patras (GR)
• Sarajevo Economic Region Development Agency SERDA (BIH)
• Municipality of Ilijas (BIH)
• Change - Regional Development Agency (AL)
• Municipality of Selenica (AL)

PROJECT SUMMARY

SMARTRIVER, involving 6 river basins affected by climate change (Misa, Glafkos and Charadros, Neretva, Drava, Vjosa, Bosna), is based on three high territorial challenges:

• increasing the climate adaptation capacity of river communities;
• creating a smarter model of governance, by enhancing PPs’ capabilities to transnationally tackle climate-change in river basins;
• promoting active participation of local communities in planning risk reduction strategies

SMARTRIVER aims at mainstreaming risk reduction policies on river basins of Adriatic-Ionian areas, improving the adaptation capabilities of PPs, stakeholders and relevant actors, providing a common framework to face with environmental, economic and social vulnerability to climate change.

Contracts’ common framework, setting up shared methodologies, structured knowledge exchange and capacity building actions, promoting a transnational model of governance to reduce climate change impact in the Adriatic-Ionian Macro-region. Tailored Pilot actions based on flooding risk assessment are carried on in order to taste the effectiveness of FRRP (Flooding Risk Reduction Plans).