Narrative Description of Project:

The integrated flood risk management (IFRM) approach considers a broad range of factors, from social and economic to environmental and institutional, alongside engineering and disaster preparedness. It emphasizes combining both structural and nonstructural measures to address flood risks comprehensively and generate multiple benefits. Recognizing the inadequacy of single-solution approaches like flood walls, IFRM advocates for a diverse strategy known as the "many baskets, many eggs" approach. This not only enhances long-term flood resilience but also promotes gender equity and capacity development. It acknowledges the unique challenges posed by climate change and aims to ensure that flood risk management benefits society while mitigating the consequences of individual measures failing.

Key Elements of IFRM:

Ø Country or basin –wide approaches

Ø Building resilient infrastructure by integrating grey (i.e. engineering), green (i.e. NBS), and non-structure interventions

Ø Basin-wide flood risk mapping and assessment;

Ø Land use planning (primarily urban)

Ø Flooding, wastewater and solid waste linkage

Ø Forecasting, early warning, hydrometric

Ø Mapping and data management, including the collection of relevant and quality data

Ø Consequences of climate, land-use and population change

Ø Community awareness and engagement 

Ø Economic and loss of life metrics

Ø Financing of IFRM projects and the financial management of residual flood risk

Ø Flood risk management strategies under limited resources

Ø Analysis of benefits of and barriers to implementing IFRMS; and

Ø The selection of flood return periods and other technical considerations for project design,

Ø Making use of existing tools, methodologies and studies 

Description of Actual Services Provided by Your Staff:

The overall objectives of consulting firms is to deliver a clear and benchmarked practical guide, for why and how IFRM should be implemented alongside supporting at least three future ADB investment projects with flood hazard mapping, option modeling and cost-benefit analysis.

While this will involve, in part reviewing and re-purposing available international guides, science and evidence. It will more importantly focus on local contexts and challenges. It will include targeted and creative DMC consultation to ensure knowledge transfer, upskilling and buy in with respect to IFRM.

The Specific task of the consulting firms,

The National Integrated Flood Risk Management Specialist, Nepal will;

Ø Identify and liaise with national stakeholders (e.g. Government Ministries, Agencies, Civil Society Groups, etc.) on behalf of the TA team;

Ø In combination with international team, and following an agreed procedure, undertake high level Strengths, Weakness, Opportunity and Threats analysis for the relevant ADB Developing Member Country (DMC)

Ø Assist in providing information to the international Team on institutional, legislative and planning context for IFRM; as well as identifying opportunities for improvement considering Natural Based Solution where possible;

Ø Work with the international Key Exports to ground-truth the work undertaken at the regional level to relevant country’s national situation;

Ø Provide capacity building support and training to relevant DMC stakeholders alongside the international Team;

Ø Asist with the collection of visas for DMC participants attending workshops;

Ø Provide input to the international team on how to improve IFRM in the relevant DMC;

Ø Support the benchmarking process for the DMC and help with the collection and analysis of data, and institutional analysis;

Ø Provide inputs on IRMS solution in the relevant DMC; and

Ø Input to the benchmarking Report for the relevant DMC