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WORKSHOP
SG 1: Reducing Climate and Environmental Risks & Action Area A: Managing Cryosphere and Water Risk
Rautahat, Nepal
27 March 2023 to 28 March 2023
Shailendra Shakya & Vijay Khadgi
Together with our partners Small Earth Nepal and Mandvi ‘Empowering Women’, we are organising a dissemination workshop to share the findings of a scoping study for implementing Community Based Flood Early Warning Systems (CBFEWS) in the Lal Bakaiya River Basin. The Lal Bakaiya River flowing across Rautahat and Bara districts in Nepal is prone to flooding, impacting the communities living along the river. The study aims to understand the scope and assess the risk of vulnerable communities living along the river basin and determines the feasibility of implementing CBFEWS through literature review, flood modelling, field surveys, and interactions with community, government officials and other stakeholders.
The workshop will be attended by practitioners, community representatives, government officials, and disaster response agencies. The CBFEWS will be implemented encouraging strong community participation. The Transboundary Working Group (TbWG) on Community Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) of the Koshi Disaster Knowledge Hub will be invited to observe and advise the process.
Participants use the GEDSI inclusive approach to build on community-based responses to flood risk management and disaster resilience.
Time
Activity
Facilitator
09:00–09:30
Introduction and welcome remarks
Mandvi
09:30–10:00
Introduction to CBFEWS and the scoping study
ICIMOD
10:00–10:30
Findings of the CBFEWS scoping study Component 1: Risk knowledge
The Small Earth Nepal (SEN)
10:30 – 11:00
Discussions
SEN and TbWG members
11:00 – 12:00
Panel discussion: Role of communities in flood disaster response
Speakers: Sanjay Pandey, Yugantar, India
Partha Jyoti Das, Aaranyak, India
CDO/CAO, Mandvi, Community representative
12:00–12:30
Lunch
12:30–13:45
Travel to Nijgadh
13:45–14:45
Field visit: Joint assessment of potential site for river monitoring station
14:45–15:45
Travel to Hotel Tarai Inn, Chapur
15:45–16:45
Sustainability of CBFEWS
Component 5: Sustainability
Introduction to sustainability mechanism
Sustainability mechanism in action
Rajan Subedi, Oxfam Nepal
Satish Kumar Singh, Member of Provincial Assembly
16:45–17:45
Group discussion: Is CBFEWS sustainability important in your opinion and what can your municipality contribute?
Anju Jha, Mandwi
18:00
Reception dinner
09:00–09:15
Review of Day 1
09:15–10:15
Overview of Flood Risk Management (FRM) and CBFEWS
Shakti Gurung, Centre for Disaster Management Studies
10:15–11:15
Potential site and caretaker discussion
Component 2: Monitoring and warning
Mandwi and ICIMOD
11:15–12:15
Other complementary measures to reduce impact of floods (NbS linkage) and discussion
Srijana Shrestha, Ministry of Forests and Environment
12:15–13:15
13:15–14:15
Exercise: Development of communication chart Component 3: Dissemination and communication
ICIMOD, Mandwi, TbWG
14:15–15:15
Closing and way forward
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