Case Visit: Learning through Malaysia’s Integrated Flood Management

8 July 2019 -

The frequency of large-scale natural disasters has increased in recent years, as is evident from the rise in the number of disaster events, and the severity and scale of their impact. Immediate action is required to counteract the growing disaster-related losses. With the direct effect of climate change on disasters, linking disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation becomes a necessity. To forge a more resilient and inclusive future ASEAN through the ASEAN Committee on Disaster Management (ACDM) Working Group of Prevention and Mitigation, with support from the Government of Japan, through the ASEAN-Japan Integration Fund, is partnering with the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC), and CTI Engineering (CTII) to implement the project “Disaster Risk Reduction by Integrating Climate Change Projection into Risk Assessment”. This is in support of the ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Response Work Programme 2016-2020, aimed towards “building resilient ASEAN Community to reduce disaster losses and collectively respond to disasters.”

The project is a capacity building initiative directed mainly towards: 1) enhanced ASEAN Member States’ (AMSs) development plans, frameworks, and policies, where Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) are mainstreamed, and 2) strengthened capacities of targeted AMS government officials and institutions on flood and landslide risk assessment and risk mapping, with incorporation of climate projection