IFI Action List as of October 2010
Orange rows: Short‐term products/activities
Blue rows: Mid‐term products and/or continues activities
Green rows: New proposals and/or early stage projects
NoItems1

Web‐tutorials

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Flood Hazard Mapping
Manual3

Peer‐review of the Flood
Forecasting Manual456

Peer‐review of the Large‐
scale Flood Report
Global Extreme Flood Events
under the Climate Change
ThreatFlood disaster prevention
and mitigation measures inthe Asia and the Pacific

Task Force‐ UNU‐ISP (Herath)‐ UNESCO‐IHE (Uhlenboork)‐ UNU‐EHS (Renaud)‐ WMO‐ ISDR (Basher)

Coordinator
UNU‐ISP (Herath)
WMO (Tyagi)

Contributors‐ WMO‐ UNESCO‐IHP‐ ICHARM‐ UNU(EHS)‐ ICHARM

The Next Step(s) and Deadline‐ Circulate a brief formal description of the manual to use IFI brand‐ Peer‐review of the manual by IFI partners‐ Peer‐review by the IFI partners
http://www.whycos.org/chy/manual_on_flood_forecasting/manual_on_flood_forecasting.html‐ Circulate the draft of the report to IFI partners‐ Publish the report under brand of IFIWMO (Tyagi)

All IFI Partners

ICHARM (Takeuchi)

All IFI Partners‐ IAHS‐ UNESCO‐IHP

IHP (Demuth)‐ ICHARM‐ A review and update on global extreme flood events under the climatechange threat‐ UNESCO‐IHP (Demuth)‐ ICHARM (Takeuchi)

IHP (Demuth)
through UNESCO‐
Jakarta Office

UNESCO‐Jakarta‐ Sharing information and report to the IFI partners‐ ICIWaRM (Stakhiv)‐ Australia‐BOM(Stewart)‐ Sum‐up studies and working together to develop a new guideline fordeveloping countries

7

Flood Frequency Analysis‐ UNESCO‐IHP‐ WMO‐ ICHARM

IHP (Demuth)

8IFM HelpDesk

All IFI PartnersWMO (Tyagi)

9Strategy for Flood
Forecasting and Early
Warning in the Zambezi
Basin

WMO (Tyagi)‐ USAID/OFDA‐ Sharing information of the project with IFI partners to use for the West
Africa Flood Management, etc.

10IFASICHARM (Takeuchi)‐ WMO‐ UNESCO‐ Circulate a brief formal description of the project to use IFI brand‐ Contribution of the project to the new project of UNESCO‐IHP onhydrological modelling of extreme events (flood& drought)

11

Enhance the resilience of
Sub‐Saharan AfricanCountries to Floods
Disasters‐ UNESCO‐ WMO (Tyagi)‐ ICHARM

IHP (Demuth)‐ AGRHYMET‐ ECOWAS‐ Reporting the result of the meeting in Benin in February‐ WMO will support the project by involving the national meteorologicalservices in six target countries

12

UNSGAB/HELP Item No. 2
on Flood Forecasting andEarly Warning Systems‐ UNESCO‐IHP‐ WMO‐ ISDR‐ ICHARM‐ UNU‐UNESCO‐IHE‐ IFI partners will report on their related activities to this item
‐ Link this item to the ongoing activities by IFI partners such as manual onflood forecasting by WMO, IFAS by ICHARM and web‐tutorials by UNU‐ IFI products can be delivered to achieve target of this item

ICHARM (Takeuchi)‐ Circulate a brief formal description of IFM HelpDesk to use IFI brand‐ Contribution to the HelpDesk by IFI partners when it is necessary

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UNSGAB/HELP item No. 30
Flood Preparedness Indicesand Risk Indicators‐ UNESCO‐IHP‐ WMO‐ UNESCO‐IHP‐ WMO‐ UNU‐ISP‐ ISDR‐ IAHS‐ UNESCO‐IHP‐ WMO‐ UNU‐ISP‐ ISDR‐ IAHS
‐ UNESCO‐IHP‐ WMO‐ UNU‐ISP‐ ISDR‐ IAHS
‐ UNESCO‐IHP‐ WMO‐ UNU‐ISP‐ ISDR‐ IAHS

ICHARM (Takeuchi)‐UNU‐EHS‐ WWAP‐ Sending documents and information on checklists and preparedness
indices such as UNESCO‐WMO manual on assessing capabilities for water
resources management to ICHARM‐ Formulation an outline of the activity for IFI partners contribution

IHP (Demuth)‐All IFI partners‐ IFI Book Series “Flood Management in a Changing Climate”

IHP (Demuth)‐ UNU‐ISP‐ ICHARM‐ IFI Book Series ”Flood Management in a Changing Climate”

IHP (Demuth)

All IFI partners‐ IFI Book Series ‐ “Flood Management in a Changing Climate”

IHP (Demuth)

All IFI partners‐ IFI Book Series ‐ “Flood Management in a Changing Climate”

IFI Chair (Stewart)

All IFI Partners‐ Outline the format of a brief project description to circulate among IFIpartners

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Extreme Precipitation andClimate change

15

Hydrologic Modeling ofFloods

16

Flood Inundation Modelling

17

Flood Risk Management

16

Monitor/evaluate IFI
activities and how to use IFIbrand?

17

IFI Exposure in InternationalConferences

18

IFI Reporting/Evaluation
Mechanism

IFI Chair (Stewart)

All IFI Partners

19

The Next IFI Meeting

IFI Chair (Stewart)

All IFI Partners

All IFI Partners‐ IFI participation in WWF, Global Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction,
UNESCO‐IHP Intergovernmental Council, ICFM5, IUGG General Assemblyand so on.
‐ Chair to revise progress reporting procedures with assistance from IFISecretariat‐ IFI Secretariat at ICHARM will assist the IFI Chair for reporting of the IFIactivities‐ The progress of the IFI activities will be evaluated in the next IFI
meeting‐ IFI Secretariat at ICHARM will assist the IFI Chair to organize the next IFI
meeting on May 2011 in Geneva‐ The IFI Secretariat at ICHARM will assist each activity’s coordinator/task force and will report the result to the IFI Chair.
‐ A report on IFI achievements will be delivered in the next UNESCO‐IHP Intergovernmental Council.
‐ IFI website will continuously cover IFI activities.