Understanding of integrated flood forecasting, warning and management approach pre, during and post flood events.

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Even the flood forecasting software used by the Environment Agency, Delft-FEWS, has been developed by the Dutch.

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The key message from the workshop included the need to link climate change and variability responses to develop necessary flood forecasting and management capacity in Pakistan.

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Experts in the region say that because multilateralism has not been promoted in the region, efforts such as, for instance, regional flood forecasting has not progressed well.

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All of the aforementioned organizations play a vital role ranging from flood forecasting to flood management and knowledge platform will enhance their inter-organizational coordination framework while sharing precipitation, stage, and discharge data in near real-time.

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Although India insists on bilateralism even while sharing of river-flow data for flood forecasting, officials from Bangladesh have told the BBC that the idea has not worked well because they receive the figure of the flow only from areas nearby the Indo-Bangladesh border areas.

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In the aftermath of 2010 floods, UNESCO has initiated a major project "Strategic Strengthening of Flood Warning and Management Capacity of Pakistan" for upgrading the flood forecasting and early warning system, and for the risk mapping of flood plains along the Indus River, in cooperation with the government of Japan.

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This will allow plans to be speeded up and extended and for flood warning and forecasting to be improved.

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Build understanding of all stakeholders on forecasting and early warning process to enhance confidence on flood warnings.

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