Guidelines and Background Documents for Development of National Drought Plan

Guidelines and Background Documents for Development of National Drought Plan (Annex I, Chapter 2). The chapter provides guidelines for selecting and calculating indicators or indices to monitor and forecast drought onset, end and impacts, and identify triggers for different management responses during drought. Drought is a natural hazard highly suitable to monitoring because the slow onset of droughts makes is possible to observe changes in precipitation, temperature, soil moisture, surface, and groundwater reserves and social and economic behaviours.