The journey of the IFI initiative
18-22 Jan 2005
Inauguration ofIFI at WCDR inKobe
WMO/UNESCO/UNISDR/UNU

May: XIVth WMO Congress
welcomed the initiative andsuggested to establish a joint
UNESCO/WMO Committee onFloods. The proposed ICHARM will
constitute a global facility for thisprogramme.

2003

2002

2004

17-22 Jun : 15th UNESO-IHP
IGC Resolution XV-14 on Joint
UNESCO/WMO Programme on
Floods> 12-14 Jul : Preparatory meeting inTsukuba. A joint UNESCO/WMO task
team (6 members) produced a concept
paper "The Joint UNESCO/WMO FloodInitiative (JUWFI)"> 20-24 Sep : 16th IHP-IGC approved theconcept paper and renamed as "TheInternational Flood Initiative (IFI)".
> 20-29 Oct : 12th WMO CHy discussed
the Concept Paper1

IFI Strategic Structure
Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM)
SendaiFramework

Integrated Flood Management (IFM)

Paris
Agreementscience &technology
database

HazardAssessment
Monitoring

Maximizing
net benefits from theuse of flood plains

Minimizing
social, environmental
and economic risks

SDGs

supportingtools
local, national,
regional
initiatives
Vulnerability
assessment andcapacity buildingExposure
Assessment

Focus
Areas

capacitybuilding
financialmechanisms

Synthesis

Finance andinvestment

Communicationand engagement

Expected Stakeholders
IFI
promoters

AcademicSociety

Government

Funding
AgenciesDB
operational
supporters

Project
investors &ownersｚ

IFI Implementation Framework• Analyzing and formulating policies• Visualizing values of preparedness
and investment efficiency

Support inSound Policy-making
Risk Assessment• Developing integrated
disaster risk assessment• Identifying locality andcommonality• Improving disaster literacy• Promoting co-design and coimplementation among stakeholders

Support inCommunity of Practice

Risk Change
Identification• Monitoring and predictingchanges in disaster risk
locality andData & Statistics • Identifying
commonality• Promoting data collection, storage, sharing, and statistics
3• Integrating local data, satellite observations and model outputs

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IFI Implementation Framework 2016-2022
Phase-3 Operation: Strengthen & Expanding
Nationallevel

Country A

Country B

Regional
level

Country C

Country D

Country E

Country F

Country E

Country F

Country E

Country F

IFI Partners

Phase-2 Prototyping: Install in Specific Areas
Nationallevel

Country A

Country B

Regionallevel

Country C

Country D

IFI Partners

Phase-1 Demonstration: Existing Infrastructure
Nationallevel

Country A

Regional
level

Regional
Coordination
Framework

Country B

Country C

Country D

IFI Partners••••

Commonality & Priority
Sharing knowledge, best practiceStrengthening capability
Establishing a forum for promoting dialogue

NationalCoordination
Framework•••••

Locality
Institutional arrangements
Observation & data integration
Natural & Socio-economic
Communities of practiceStructure Image of Specific Support
CEOS, APRSAF, GEO
Expected Partner

Space Agency

Space Agency
Local Community

Local Community

Research InstituteResearch Institute

UniversityUniversity

University

Funding AgencyFunding Agency

Funding Agency

ICHARM

River Bureau

River Bureau

River Bureau

WMO

Hydro-Met

Hydro-Met

Hydro-Met

UNISDR

DisasterDisaster

Disaster

IFI Partners

Country A

Country B

RBA

IAHS, IAHR
UNU
UNESCONARBO

Main support:
Sub-support:

Local Community

An Example of PDM for IFI Partners
Project Design Matrix for IFI Partners (Phase-I)
Country

Philippines

Sri Lanka

PakistanIndonesia

Malaysia

MyanmarVietnam

WMO: To strengthen regional cooperation in DRR and to increase national early warning capabilities
UoTokyo: For strengthening Myanmar’s disaster risk reduction to contribute to Myanmar’s steady economic growth with safe cities formation: 1) Establishment of flood early warning system with tidal effect; 2)
Purpose Assistance of river basin development plan including land-use and infrastructure plan considering climate change; 3) Capacity and human resource development.
Herath: Integrated flood and water mangement for the western province trhough an inter-agency collaborative mechanism(Common) NARBO: To promote Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) through enhancing the capacity of River Basin Organizations
ICFM: To provide common platform for presentation of the progress made by IFI partners on all IFI related activities.
To allow for exchange of experience in flood risk management with the main objective of raising resilience to flooding on all levels (individual, community, regional, national and international).
WMO: Flash Flood Guidance System (FFGS)UNESCO: Strengthening capacities for better response and community resilience against hydro hazards
Output UoTokyo: Establishment of EWS with bias corrected satellite rainfall and risk communication technology using advanced hazrd maps and so on
Herath: Real time flood forecasting, Risk assessment, Operational Guidelines for facility operation(Common ) NARBO: Spiral up IWRM (Enhanced the progress of IWRM), especially in flood management
ICFM: Proceedings of the ICFM Conferences; special reports from IFI organized sessions; and special issues of the International Journal for Flood Risk Management based on the best contributions to the ICFM
Conferences.

Output(Specific)

WMO: SAFFGSUNESCO(PCRWR): Technicalcapacity building of Pakistan
agencies involved in flood
management, forecasting,early warning and flood hazard
WMO: SAOFFGS
WMO: SAFFGS
analysis by providing required
UNESCO(UKM): To provide
Herath: Real time flood
WMO: SAOFFGS
UoTokyo: To create andsoil physical and hydraulicSustainability Science based
WMO: SAOFFGSICHARM: Develop risk indicies foreasting, Assessment for
update the flood hazard map.
properties data, covering the NARBO: Support DSS (Decision solution for Urban Stormwater
evolving risks (urbanto assess flood and drought
To create rainfall data for the WMO: MRCFFGS
whole Indus River catchment Support System) for basin
Management plandevelopment and climate
risk for the formulation offlood forecasting combined
including the Eastern rivers
NARBO: Support DSS (Decisionmanagement
socio economic development change), Operational guide
between in-situ and satellite(Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi andSupport System) for basinlines for flood control facilities
Sutlej) in Pakistan. Such data
management
is pre-requisite forhydrological models forpartitioning rainfall into
infiltration and runoff
components

An Example of PDM for Participating Countries
Project Design Matrix for Country (Phase-I)
Country
River Basin

Philippines
the Pampanga River basin

Lead Organization(s)UP Diliman, UP Los Banos

Overall Goal
Project Purpose
Output(1) Data &Statistics

Activites
Executor
Expected Partner
Output(2) Risk
Assessment Activites
Executor
Expected Partner
Output(3) Risk
Activites
ChangeIdentification Executor
Expected Partner
Output(4) Support inSound Policy- Activites
makingExecutor
Expected Partner
Output(5) Support inCommunity of Activites
Practice
Executor
Expected Partner

Develop and standadize data collection sytem for the development of risk indicies to assess flood and drought risk・Formulate data archiving system
・Standardize damage data・Investigate the current data collection system and availability of data
・Identify the effect of water related disasters to the direct and indirect damage to the socio-economic activities of local major cities
DOA, DPWH, NAMRIA, NEDA, OCD, PAGASA, PSA
ICHARM, WMO, UNISDR・Simulation current and future water related hazard
・Simulate current and future water related disaster risk
・Identify the causal relationship of hazard, disaster and resulting effect to the socio-economic development
・Develop water related hazard simulation model・Develop water related disaster risk simulation model・Investigate the causal relationship of hazard, disaster and resulting effect to the socio-economic development
DOA, DPWH, NAMRIA, NEDA, OCD, PAGASA, PSA
ICHARM, UNU, UNESCO, UNISDR
・Establish monitoring system of water related hazard and damage
・Investigate current system of data collection and prepare proposal
・Evaluate the impact of future climate change
DOA, DPWH, NEDA, OCD, PAGASA, PSA
ICHARM, WMO, UNISDR
・Provide basic data of disaster risk under current and future condition
・Provide policy alternatives to reduce disaster risk
・Analyze disaster risk assessment result to be reflected in the policy making
・Select altenatives and identify the effectiveness to reduce disaster risk and residual risk
DILG, DOA, DPWH, NEDA, OCD
ICHARM, NARBO
・Improve capacity of local community in disaster risk reduction activities
・Develop mechanism to formulate contingency planning・Identify the issue of capacity development of local community in disaster risk reduction activities
・Clarify and enhance the role and resposibility of national, provintial and local government to the improvement of the capcity of community fordisaster risk reduction
DILG, OCD, PAGASAICHARM, NARBO

HELP-IFI Jakarta Statement (draft Oct.31, 2016)-Towards an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary partnershipto consolidate flood risk reduction and sustainable development 1. Present Status
2. Key Directions
3. Actions• increasing losses• Sendai+SDGs+Paris Each country:• human factors +• budgetary imitations • platform on waterclimate change
and capabilities
and disaster• globalized and• spiral-up approach(<national platform)
interconnected 21C • interdisciplinary and IFI Partners:• gap between
transdisciplinary• assist the platformscience and society • quantifying andDonors:• lack of effective
minimizing the• incremental support
inter-agency
uncertaintycoordination• data• assessment• change identification• awareness• preventive investment• response-recovery

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