Flood Management Best Practices Training

By the end of this course participants will have acquired the following skills;

• Floods: Definitions, Natural Process and Benefits, Hazards
• The watershed System
• The Water Cycle and Managing Water
• Assessing Flood Risk: Data, Methods and Analysis
• Flood Risk Assessment and Management
• Structural and non-Structural Methods for Flood Risk Management
• Application of Methods According to type of Intervention, Location (In The Watershed) and Scale
• Urban Issues in Flooding
• What Factors Affect Urban Areas and Flooding
• Urban Flood Management Methods
• Urban Flood Governance

Training Modules

Foundational Concepts and Key Crosscutting Issues

• Floods: Definitions, Natural, Process and Benefits, Hazards
• The Watershed System
• The Water Cycle and Managing Water
• Climate and Weather
• Resilience
• Crosscutting Issues

Assessing Flood Risk. Data, Methods and Analysis

• Flood Risk Assessment
• Prioritizing Assessment Results

Flood Risk Assessment and Management – Related Information Needs and Sources

• Characterizing the Watershed

Structural and Non-Structural Methods

• Structural Methods
• Non-structural Methods
• Application of Methods According to Type of Intervention, Location (in the watershed) and Scale
• Factors Affecting Successful Implementation of Structural Methods
• Important Considerations for Design, Implementation, Maintenance and Closure of Structural Methods
• Using the Optimum Combinations of Hard and Soft Structural Methods
• Resource and Cost Planning in Selection and Implementation of Structural Methods
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• What Is Urban Flooding
• Impacts of Urban Flooding
• What Factors Affect Urban Areas and Flooding?
• Urban Flood Management Methods
• Urban Flood Governance
• Urban Coastal Areas and Special Considerations

Way forward After the Training

Participants will develop a work plan, through the help of facilitators that stipulates application of skills acquired in improving their organizations. ASPM will monitor implementation progress after the training.