Organizing community participation for flood management: flood management tool series

APFM Technical Document No. 9, 2008:

This tool provides general guidelines for effectively organizing community activities to ensure participation at various levels of decision-making and capacity building in flood management. Several issues related to the engagement of flood managers, NGOs, and policy makers in harmonizing community activities with other development policies and natural disaster, are also addressed to build necessary institutional frameworks to enhance community participation.

This publication is part of the “Flood Management Tools Series” being compiled by the Associated Programme on Flood Management. The contained Tool for “Organizing Community Participation for Flood Management” is based on available literature, and draws findings from relevant works wherever possible. This Tool addresses the needs of practitioners and allows them to easily access relevant guidance materials. The tool is considered a resource guide/material for practitioners.