UNESCO

This short course focuses on aligning the short-term focus of disaster recovery and the long term scope of climate resilient planning. The face-to-face portion of this course will be held at The HEAD Foundation facilities in Singapore.

The course consists of an online portion covering much of the theory and background. Participants can run through the material and perform task at their own pace, which makes the course ideal for high level practitioners and executives. The second part of the course will consist of a 1-week face-to-face training in Singapore with a focus on skill and application. Participants will develop a take-home plan tailored to their particular conditions and needs.

The course builds on the knowledge acquired from IHE-Delft courses such as Urban Flood Management and Disaster Risk Mitigation, Water Resources Planning, Water Sensitive Cities, and Water Conflict Management, among others. Yet, the focus on resilient recovery is new and offers an innovative approach that differs from the typical courses on disaster management, flood risk management or climate adaptation.

This course introduces current theory and practice of flood risk estimation and modelling of floods in urban areas. It provides hands-on practice with industrial standard software.

The main objective of this course is to provide the most up-to-date information on the topic of urban flood modelling and disaster management and to enable participants to be more effective in applying modelling tools and techniques for urban flood management. Different modelling approaches are considered and they range from data driven to physically based, from conceptual to detailed 1D-2D modelling. These approaches are then embedded in the wider context of flood risk assessment and disaster management. This wider context considers everything from how the urban planning process should take place in areas with potential flood risks, to urban hydrology, climate change, flood hazards, environmental impacts, public health issues and the conceptual design of flood protection schemes.

Learning Objectives:

• To explain structural and non-structural flood resilience measures such as, conventional and innovative structures, early warning systems, etc.
• To learn how to produce different flood risk maps in a GIS environment and how to calculate different types of flood damages, and
• To assess the performance of existing and new drainage systems by using models within the context of different flood risks (pluvial, fluvial, coastal and flash floods)
• To propose and judge different adequate technical rehabilitation measures to mitigate urban flooding.

This course will introduce the learner to resilient schools and education. It aims to strengthen disaster risk management by providing adequate training on school safety planning and implementation in the context of the commitments of the 2030 Agenda and Systemic Risk. The overall aim of the online course is to strengthen the preparedness, mitigation, recovery and response capacities of the education sector and communities to disaster risks through disaster risk reduction education, school disaster management and safe learning facilities. The course will be comprised of eight modules, each running over two weeks. The online course is structured around the Comprehensive School Safety Framework (CSSF), and is divided in 8 modules aiming to provide a wide-ranging overview of the challenges and opportunities to secure resilient schools and education. Each module consist of presentations, lecture notes, reading list, and related resources (such as videos, bibliography, reports, and study cases among others). The course will be delivered by renowned experts in resilient schools and education.

Learning Objectives:

• To strength the understanding of resilient schools and education in the context of systemic risk and the Agenda 2030.
• To increase the capacity of policy makers and planners, related stakeholders, practitioners, and, other interested parties, to integrate DRR in their national education policies and plans, including the development and/or revision of national, regional and local disaster management plans;
• To train and guide decision‐makers, related stakeholders and practitioners, and other interested parties to improve the resilience of education facilities
• To improve the capacity of national authorities, related stakeholders and practitioners, and other interested parties to support school disaster management;
• To increase the capacity of curriculum developers, related stakeholders and practitioners, and other interested parties, to integrate DRR education in national curricula. As well as to increase these capacities on non-formal education modalities;
• To highlight the importance of multi-hazard assessment for the three pillars of the CSSF, and reinforce the capacities on technical and non-technical tools;
• To introduce the theory behind the VISUS methodology and its multi-hazard characterization, as well as its different phases and outcomes of the implementation;
• To highlight the importance of planning for and during emergencies with its specific particularities;
• To support the development of action plans for the implementation of the comprehensive school safety framework approach

The lectures in this online course introduce the learner to the Climate Risk Informed Decision Analysis (CRIDA), a collaborative approach to address an uncertain future. The course is comprised of 12 modules of 1 hour each, which include readings, video lectures, knowledge checks and assignments. The video lectures include recorded presentations of scientists from global research and development organisations, recorded at the May 2019 CRIDA Training that was held at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.

This online course ends in a capstone project where you - the learner - is asked to develop your own CRIDA Case Study for your own unique local condition, using all the knowledge and tools you have learned during the lectures.

This course introduces the participants to the state-of-the-art concepts and practices of flood risk management. It covers the European experience in managing floods and stresses in the use of the latest tools in flood risk management.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand and apply the main principles of flood risk management; conceptualise and apply the main principles of flood risk assessment
• Understand the Hydroinformatics tools available for flood risk management
• Conceptualise the main principles of EU flood directive and have knowledge about European experience in flood risk management
• Understand and explain the main principles of flood forecasting and warning and uncertainty issues associated with flood forecasts
• Utilise their hands-on experience in the step-by-step modelling procedure to build flood inundation models