Climate Resilient Flood Management In Urban Assam Rizwan Uz Zaman State Team Leader - (Assam) ACTION ON CLIMATE TODAY - Climate Change Innovation Programme (CCIP) March 2019 | Bangkok

Project Objectives

Project Phases State level inception workshop SCOPING PHASE State level inception workshop Meetings with state level departments Introductory visits to the cities Meeting with community, CSO’s and local govt institution ENGAGEMENT AND ASSESSMENT Town-scale rapid qualitative assessment Shared Learning Dialogues using Climate Resilience Framework (CRF) Detail neighbourhood-scale quantitative assessment HRVA framework CONSOLIDATION AND RECOMENDATIONS Validation of findings through State-level Rountable meeting with all stakeholders Individual meetings with departments for specific sectoral inputs

Methodology City selection: Dibrugarh, Majuli, Jorhat, Silchar Shared learning dialogues Collaborative Sharing and not extracting HRVA analysis: quantitative survey to capture the HRVA

Qualitative assessments City specific analysis Historic causes of flooding Qualitative assessments Primary causes of inundation Factors causing vulnerability Causal link Flood vulnerability Housing typology Solid waste Services Medical services Hazard analysis Flood hazard analysis Drainage Flooding Risk Assessment

City specific analysis - Dibrugarh HRVA - Dibrugarh Scale Map of Dibrugarh HRVA - Majuli Scale

City specific analysis - Silchar HRVA - Silchar Scale Map of Silchar

City specific analysis - Jorhat HRVA - Jorhat Map of Jorhat Scale

Flood Risk Infrastructure Flood risk includes both the chance of an event taking place and its potential impact Flood risk is harder to manage in existing developed areas; however modification measures such as dams or levees can change the behaviour of floodwaters. Chance of a flood Consequences of a flood Exposure to flood waters Vulnerability due to flood waters FLOOD MITIGATION AND RISK TRANSFER MEASURES FOR INFRASTRUCTURE Structural Levees Floodwalls Seawalls Dams Floodways & spillways Channels Controlled overtopping Levee armouring Seepage control Non-Structural Natural systems Risk mapping Hazard forecasting, early warning systems, & emergency plans Flood Insurance Dry and wet floodproofing Land-use planning and zoning Construction standards and building codes Acquisition and relocation Map of Jorhat

Learning & Broad Recommendations- Structural Measures Maintaining reservoirs, flood protection systems Augment storm water drainage network Strengthening critical infrastructure Regulate environmental flows Road re-layering improvements

Solid waste management plan Learning & Broad Recommendations- Planning & Policy City development plan Solid waste management plan City transport plan Drainage masterplan INTEGRATE

Learning and Broad Recommendations- Forecasting and warning Learning & Broad Recommendations- Forecasting and warning Strengthening existing flood forecasting systems Installing Doppler radar in the state Automatic weather stations along the rivers and tributaries Data and its analysis to be shared with departments heads in cities

Learning & Broad Recommendations- Capacity Building Training departments to prepare and implement department's flood contingency plans and SoPs Build capacities of officials to establish a command and hierarchy system to collect, analyse and disseminate early warning data Identification of nodal person in each department responsible for disaster management activities Refresher courses for updating skills and knowledge, flood rescue management at department and community level

Outputs of the Actions A policy paper, detailed report with city specific findings and climate resilient flood management action plans

Actions adopted 5 key projects have been recommended that will have the bearing on the State Governments to implement. Project 1: Development of catchment area of Barak Project 2: Conservation of water bodies Project 3: Enhancing revenue of ULB through property tax reforms and fees for basic services Project 4: Review of CPHEEO (design and O & M) manuals for water supply Project 5: Developing and implementing SoPs for assessing impacts of Urban Flooding/ waterlogging

Way forward The actions proposed in the project were refined in order to make them effective for implementation. Stakeholders from Cities, State Government and other relevant departments were consulted to validate the action plans and establish investment requirement, time requirement and institutional responsibility for implementation of the actions proposed Preparation of implementation guidance document & city specific knowledge products to facilitate cross learning and dissemination plan adopted Identification of state-level projects for cohesive action towards urban flooding into the plans of different department

THANK YOU Rizwan Uz Zaman State Team Leader(Assam) - ACTION ON CLIMATE TODAY (ACT) Climate Change Innovation Programme (CCIP) Mob- +91- 9999109757 | E-mail: rizwan.zaman@actiononclimate.today

About the project About the project Part of the larger multi-country ‘Action For Climate Today (ACT) program funded by DFID Government Partner: Assam State Disaster Management Authority, Government of Assam Main theme: Climate resilient flood management action plans for 4 cities in Assam that include –Silchar, Dibrugarh, Majuli, and Jorhat

Phase - 2 OBJECTIVE The overall purpose of Phase - 2 of the project is to create enabling environment for uptake of the city flood management action plans which would be done by detailing the following aspects and training the ULB and urban planners to adopt these, along with providing recommendations for state-level projects: Qualitative assessment of cost and benefits of the recommendations Develop an Implementation Guidance for Flood Management Action Plan City level Capacity Building on the Implementation guidance Support stakeholder departments in establishing linkages with the donor agencies like WB, ADB to support implementation