Despite substantial success in establishing National Drought Policies, drought impacts continue to increase around the globe. This session will review progress since the High-level Meeting on National Drought Policy (HMNDP) held in 2013 and discuss o the way forward to scaling up and accelerating implementation of Integrated Drought Management.

In March 2013, a High-Level Meeting on National Drought Policy (HMNDP) put the need for proactive approaches to Drought Management for the first time on the global agenda. Subsequently, National Drought Policies were successfully established in many countries. Today, more than 70 countries have national drought policies based on the principles of risk reduction. Despite this great success during the last ten years, the impacts of drought continue to increase in most regions of the world due to climate change and other human induced drivers like growing water demand. In order to take stock of what has been achieved since the HMNDP but even more, to discuss options on what needs to be done during the next decade, key organizations working on global drought issues are planning a HMNDP+10 conference in 2023. This session is a forum for the global drought community to connect, collect ideas and topics for the HMNDP+10 and finally to setting the agenda for the next ten years of Integrated Drought Management. The guiding question will be, what needs to be done and who needs to play what role to implement Integrated Drought management at scale, towards a world where everyone is prepared for drought.