Please click on the headings below to find IDMP guidelines, concepts, outcomes of expert meetings and the key documents of the High Level Meeting on National Drought Policy.
![]() | Handbook of Drought Indicators and Indices. WMO/GWP Integrated Drought Management Programme (IDMP). 2016. WMO-No. 1173. WMO, Geneva, Switzerland and GWP, Stockholm, Sweden. [English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish] |
![]() | National Drought Management Policy Guidelines – A Template for Action (Donald A. Wilhite). WMO/GWP Integrated Drought Management Programme (IDMP). 2014. Tools and Guidelines Series 1. WMO, Geneva, Switzerland and GWP, Stockholm, Sweden. |
Standardized Precipitation Index User Guide. World Meteorological Organization. 2012. M. Svoboda, M. Hayes and D. Wood. (WMO-No. 1090), Geneva, Switzerland. |
![]() | Online Drought Indicators and Indices based from the IDMP Handbook on Drought Indicators and Indices. |
Responding to Drought, GWP Briefing Note. [PDF Version Available] |
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Drought monitoring and early warning: concepts, progress and future challenges. 2006. WMO No. 1006, Geneva, Switzerland, 24 pp. |
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Early Warning Systems for Drought Preparedness and Drought Management. 2000. Edited by Wilhite, D.A., M.V.K. Sivakumar and D.A. Wood. Geneva, Switzerland: World Meteorological Organization. AGM-2, WMO/TD N°1037, 2000. 185 pp. |
Benefits of action and costs of inaction: Drought mitigation and preparedness – a literature review. Gerber, N. and A. Mirzabaev. IDMP. [PDF Version Available] |
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Agricultural Drought Indices – Proceedings of an Expert meeting.Sivakumar, Mannava V.K., Raymond P. Motha, Donald A. Wilhite and Deborah A. Wood (Eds.). 2011. Agricultural Drought Indices. Proceedings of the WMO/UNISDR Expert Group Meeting on Agricultural Drought Indices, 2-4 June 2010, Murcia, Spain: Geneva, Switzerland: World Meteorological Organization. AGM-11, WMO/TD No. 1572; WAOB-2011. 219 pp. [PDF version Available – 12.3 MB] |
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Towards a Compendium on National Drought Policy – Proceedings of an Expert Team Meeting. Sivakumar, Mannava V.K., Raymond P. Motha, Donald A. Wilhite, and John J. Qu (Eds.). 2011. Proceedings of an Expert Meeting on the Preparation of a Compendium on National Drought Policy, July 14-15, 2011, Washington DC, USA: Geneva, Switzerland: World Meteorological Organization. AGM-12; WAOB-2011. 135 pp. [PDF version Available – 11.5 MB] |