Flood risk reduction through hazard information, resilience measures and collaborative teams
Delivered by: International WaterCentre (Griffith University)
With increasing impacts of climate change creating a range of hazards, including increasing the severity and frequency of flood events, communities and cities across Asia Pacific need to mainstream flood risk reduction into all programs. There is currently a lack of capacity and awareness of steps and tools that can support this, and a lack of connectivity and coordination between relevant sectors. This training workshop targets the mix of agencies responsible for flood planning and preparedness, and for practitioners & policy-makers connect with water management more broadly, including community WASH and water security. It will give participants the opportunity to understand steps and tools to better plan and prepare the risk reduction measures needed to reduce impacts from future floods and other natural hazards. As a result, it will enable local communities to be well informed, prepared and able to endure extreme climatic or other events.
Learning or other Objectives:
- Establish an awareness of the overarching frameworks that are being used globally and nationally throughout the Asia Pacific for Disaster Risk Reduction
- Adapt the Plan and Prepare components of the PPRR cycle, so it is a new focus that allow mainstreaming of all water management needs and community development planning
- Understand, through case studies, how the Plan and Prepare focus can utilise a mix of tools and to readily achieve a mix of suitable measures across national, provincial and catchment scales
- Select an initial mix of risk reduction measures that can reduce flood and other impacts and that can be trialled with colleagues post the workshop
- Identify options to enable cross sectoral capacity building and collective networking on flood risk reduction knowledge and experience
