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Flash Flood Risk Management – A Training of Trainers Manual
Session 12 Integrated Flash Flood and
Watershed Management
Time: 90 minutes
Objectives
To introduce the concepts of integrated flash flood and watershed management, including:
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An integrated approach to flash flood management
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The major components of watershed management
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Watershed management measures
Activities
Activity 12.1: Integrated flash flood management (IFFM)
Time: 45 minutes
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Discuss the traditional approaches to flash flood management.
Discuss the shifting paradigm in flood management.
Discuss the concept and objectives of IFFM.
Discuss the key elements of IFFM in the context of integrated water resource management (see Box
11 in RM 12.1)
Engage the class in a quick question and answer session to help
you assess how much they have understood about IFFM and
what it aims to achieve.
Note to the
trainer
Reiterate that IFFM aims to:
• support sustainable development by balancing development
needs and flood risk;
• support livelihood security and reduce vulnerability by
ensuring that different activities of poverty alleviation are
incorporated into the planning;
• use environmental preservation as a means of flood
prevention;
• reduce the number of lives lost.
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Also reiterate that IFFM is an attempt to integrate:
• land and water management;
• upstream and downstream concerns;
• structural and non-structural measures;
• short-term and long-term strategies;
• local- and basin-level measures;
• top-down and bottom-up decision making;
• development needs with ecological and economic concerns;
• institutions with different functions.
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