Meeting / Workshop on the Progress of Project Activities was held on 17.12. 2020 via Zoom platform due to the pandemic situation caused by Covid-19. The project progress meeting has been agreed during the previous meeting – workshop on the topic of the Second Project Progress Report Draft, held on September 17th, 2020. This meeting was not specified in the Terms of Reference, but Consortium members considered it beneficiary given the extension of the entire Project term.
The meeting was attended by 29 participants, including Clients from two countries (B&H and Montenegro), a representative of the World Bank and representatives of all Project Beneficiaries (from Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina) as well as JV expert team members.
The meeting followed the agenda and was accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation with a description of the progress on project activities performed between September and mid-December.
The Consultant`s expert team discussed future exchange of necessary data and present model use case and proposal for acquisition module with Clients and Beneficiaries representatives.
The representative of the World Bank asked about the role of the energy sector in this Project and emphasized the need for cooperation between water management sector and electric power sector in defining reservoir management scenarios.
During the Meeting was concluded that will be necessary an additional meeting in the second half of January 2021 for a more detailed discussion on the topic of the proposed Scenario for using the integrated model and the time schedule of capacity building activities.