Flood risk management in South Asia
This document reports on a workshop addressing the problems and impacts of floods and aiming to provide more understandable and action-oriented information to policymakers in the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) region (Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka), in order to develop a regional road map to implement components of the Action Plan on Flood Risk Mitigation which are relevant to the mandate of the SAARC Disaster Management Centre (SDMC).
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