Flood Damages, Benefits, and Flood Risk in Focal Areas

Surveys have been carried out in three districts in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta, in four districts in Cambodia, in two districts in Laos and two districts in Thailand. These areas are being referred to as the focal areas. In all focal areas the district officials have been visited and baseline and flood damage information has been...

Strategic Directions for Integrated Flood Risk Management in Focal Areas

This document presents strategic directions for flood risk management in the focal areas in the Lower Mekong Basin (LMB) based on an initial evaluation of the impacts of a variety of flood risk management options on risk reduction and on potential loss of flood benefits. The strategic directions have been developed for a number of...

Best Practice Guidelines for Flood Risk Assessment

The MRC Secretariat has developed Best Practice Guideline (BPG) for Integrated Flood Risk Management under FMMP-C2 to provide policy-makers, managers and FMM professionals in the MRC and Member Country line agencies with a common standard to apply in:...

Best Practice Guidelines for Integrated Flood Risk Management Planning and Impact Evaluation

These BPG are meant to provide guidance to policy makers and project planners in executing agencies within the MRC Member Countries and the National Mekong Committees (NMCs), as well as to managers in the MRC Secretariat, engaged in the preparation of Integrated Flood Risk Management (IFRM) strategic directions (choice...

Best Practice Guidelines for Structural Measures and Flood Proofing

These Best Practice Guidelines (BPG) are prepared as a checklist of planning, functional requirements, design criteria and specifications of specific flood control structural works including assessment and needed actions to be taken in case of increased flood risk. The BPG for development and design of...