Improving Resilience to Floods in the Polog Region

To instigate transformational change in managing flood risk in the region, accelerating the shift from purely reactive responses to floods to integrated systems to manage hazards, vulnerabilities and exposure of communities and assets to prevent/mitigate losses and alleviate the impact of future floods. In particular, the expected positive impacts include: 1) Improved understanding of flood risks in the Polog region and the capacity to manage them in an informed manner. 2) Enhanced disaster preparedness of institutions and communities in the Polog region for effective response, recovery, rehabilitation and reconstruction. 3) Implementation of priority flood risk mitigation measures informed by international best practices to effectively reduce future risks in the Polog region, and 4) Improvement of the national legal and regulatory framework for disaster risk reduction in line with the Sendai Framework and the EU Floods Directive and conceptualization of risk financing and risk transfer mechanisms. Furthermore, within the framework of the flood protection approach, the beneficial values of the “eco-system” based flood protection measures are demonstrated and serve as a basis for national scaling-up. Nature-based solutions for flood risk reduction are sustainable solutions for flood risk reduction.