1. 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

2. Project Objectives

3. 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

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

5. 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

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

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

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

9. 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

10. 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

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

12. 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

13. 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

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

15. 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

16. 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

17. THANK YOU Rizwan Uz Zaman
State Team Leader(Assam) - ACTION ON CLIMATE TODAY (ACT)
Climate Change Innovation Programme (CCIP)
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18. 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

19. 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