This virtual session highlighted and featured ongoing developments towards integrated approaches to flood risk management in Pakistan post-2022 floods, incorporating both structural and non-structural measures. Presentations and Q&A featured a range of stakeholders overseeing, implementing, and supporting actions toward integrated flood risk management in Pakistan.

The devastating floods of 2022 in Pakistan killed over 1,700 people and 1.2 million livestock and displaced over 7.9 million people. The risks to the country from increasingly variable and intense floods are expected to grow under future climate changes. The poor, and often women and girls, are most vulnerable to these impacts. Pakistan’s traditionally infrastructure-oriented approach to flood protection – primarily for riverine floods – has proven to be limited in flexibility to address these emerging risks.

Speakers

• Asian Development Bank
• Federal Flood Commission, Ministry of Water Resources, Government of Pakistan
• Irrigation Department, Government of Punjab, Pakistan
• Deltares
• Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)

Event objectives and expected outcomes

The event featured presentations and Q&A from a range of stakeholders overseeing, implementing, and supporting actions toward integrated flood risk management in Pakistan. A representative from the Federal Flood Commission highlighted the government’s activities post-flood including updating the national flood protection plan (National Flood Protection Plan – IV) and developing a master plan for flood telemetry. A representative of the Punjab Irrigation Department presented how resilience approaches will be built into their flood reconstruction and risk management investments. Representatives from Deltares and JICA highlighted key opportunities and lessons learned for integrated flood risk management with examples from around the world and in Pakistan.

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