ProGIRH

The German development cooperation, implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is carrying out the project “Multisectoral Management of Water Resources in the Mantaro River Basin (ProGIRH)”, a technical cooperation project financed by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The Project started in January 2022, its total duration is three years. The objective of ProGIRH is to improve the management of water resources in the Mantaro River basin, in an integrated and climate-sensitive manner. ProGIRH has five components all related to integrated water resources management:1. Improvement of information services; 2. Capacity building; 3. Multisector coordination mechanisms; 4. Support to the evaluation of environmental assessment instruments; 5. Exchange of good practices. Of special concern is to better understand the role and development of hydroclimatic extremes (such as floods and droughts), which are increasing in number and intensity. Not much is known about how hydroclimatic risks manifest in the study region and research is necessary to quantify the climatic risks under different scenario conditions with the aim to define suitable and sustainable adaptation measures. Once available, the results of the analysis will feed into the information services and capacity building program of ProGIRH.

The cooperation between GIZ/ProGIRH and PIK/B-EPICC pursues to close the research gap by quantifying the historical and climate change impacts on floods and droughts at the regional scale of the study sites by applying the hydrological model to investigate specifically the development of extremes in the Mantaro River basin considering the local landscape pattern.

Maybe we can add here the following information from the project proposal: 1. Test and improve, where necessary, the climate data and hydrological model for the target region (Mantaro River Basin). 2. Simulate hydroclimatic extremes and analysis of the results. 3. Communicate and provide the results to water resources planners and researchers in Peru with a specific focus on floods and droughts, including risk estimations and extreme value statistics. 4. Support water resources planning and management in the Mantaro basin (and other river basins in Peru) under climate change conditions, with a particular emphasis on adaptation to extremes. 5. Provide capacity building and training. 6. Support the exchange of information between researchers, research institutes and between research and water resources planners/managers, establishing the basis for possible future cooperation.