NEED ASSESSMENT FOR CB
PROGRAM, AWCI, NEPAL

Presented By:
Shiv Kumar Sharma
DOI, Nepal

CAPACITY BUILDING IS ONE OF THE
MAJOR CONSTRAINTS FOR
UNDERDEVELOPED COUNTRIES LIKENEPAL FOR ADOPTING MODERNTECHNOLOGYThis symposium is very timely and relevant.
Thanks to AWCI and all the partners on mybehalf as well as from Nepal

The list of Available Capacity Building
Programs circulated through thequestionnaire are very useful covering a wide
range of subjects.
••••All the topics are relevant
It is asked to choose any two topics of the list
It was very hard to make such a choice
Nevertheless, I came up with three of them

• Basis for such a choice is primarily tofill the human resources gap toaccomplish the actions needed tocomplete the demonstration basin
project.

BAGMATI BASIN• Area : 3,700 sq.km• Agriculture Area : 639 sq. km• Population : 2 Million• One of the middle sized rivers in Nepal• Originates from lower mountain and passes
through the two lower physiographic regions• Important from the view point of water
resources development, controlling pollution
and flood damage mitigation• Creates two of the most flood affecteddistricts of Nepal- Sarlahi & Rautahat

Location Map : Bagmati Basin

Some works are already done in linewith AWCI objectives:•••

Integration of GIS data
Inventory of Water uses
Flood hazard maps for various return
periods
Land slide hazard maps
With support from JAXA’s Miniproject

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Rainfall runoff modeling
Direct flood damage assessment /loss
estimation
Prelimanary Flood forecasting and early
warning system based on Historical data

Methodology of Flood Forecasting
Satellite image

Rainfall data(1. TRMM and 2. Rain gauge data)

1. DEM
2. Flood map
3. Landuse map

Hydrologicalmodel(1. HEC HMS and 2. Statistical)

Topographical
Data

Flood hydrographHydraulic model(HEC RAS)

Flood maps

Comparison &Improvement

Community
surveyRating curve
Flood maps for
Diff. Return periods

Flood hazard
Direct flood
Flood maps formaps
damage assessment Diff. Water levels
Populationdata

Flood risk maps

Flood Early
War ning System

Need for Further Actions:• Establish a network of real-time datatransmission using CDMA commerciallyavailable;• Integrate this network to the centralprocessing system;• Develop tools to automate processing• Integrate Techniques of downscaling global
met info to the rainfall runoff model• Constantly validate the flood warning to theobserved data
• Extend this system Appropriate for IWRMP

Need of Capacity Building Program• Three Programs are identified mostappropriate:– (13) Rainfall downscaling and Forecast (UNU)– (3) Flood Simulation (CEOP)– (8) Mini Project (AIT)• The first Program (13) is expected to help us
integrating global met info into the model.
• The second Program (3) will help us refining
the existing rainfall run-off model.
• Through the third Program (8) we want to getsome of our professionals a practicalknowledge on Data Integration Service asenvisaged in Program (1) of CEOP

Type of CBP• We propose the following types for different
CB Programs– Roving Seminar for Flood Simulation– Case Study Modules for Rainfall Downscaling andForecast, and Mini Project– Web based learning can be integrated to both ofRoving as well as Case Study Modules types.

Time Details of CBP• Roving Seminar can be of about 10days.
• Case Study Modules for Rainfall
Downscaling and Forecast can be ofabout 15 days
• Mini Project will typically take about 30
days in two installments.

Location Details of CBP• Roving Seminar can be organise in
Kathmandu for which we can provide
necessary logistics• Case Study Modules for Rainfall
Downscaling and Forecast should be inJapan (UNU)• Mini Project will be in AITParticipation Details of CBP• Roving Seminar (7 persons)• Case Study Modules for Rainfall
Downscaling and Forecast (2 persons)• Mini Project in AIT (3 persons)

The basic principle will be totrain the trainers.