Manual on Flood Preparedness Program

The Manual on Flood Preparedness for Provincial and District Level authorities in the Lower
Mekong Delta Countries has been developed based on assessment of the needs of local
disaster management authorities and practitioners to improve flood preparedness planning
in Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam. The manual would help these provincial and district
level DM committees of the riparian countries to develop and implement the Flood
Preparedness Program. In addition, this also serves a purpose as a training resource
handbook for the national disaster management officials, practitioners and NGOs to
conduct capacity building activities on flood preparedness.

This Manual was developed by the Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) through its
internal expertise and various training course curriculum, reference material on floods, as
well as through collaborative projects with the Mekong River Commission Secretariat (MRCS), the National Mekong Committees (NMCs), the National Disaster Management
Offices (NDMOs) and its provincial and district level committees/offices after a series of
consultations, training programs at the national and provincial level, and also through the
actual Flood Preparedness Program development process in provinces and districts in the
Lower Mekong Delta countries, particularly Cambodia and Lao PDR. This Manual is also an
outcome of the component 4 of the Flood Management and Mitigation Program (FMMP) of
the Mekong River Commission (MRC). ADPC, in collaboration with MRC, has been
implementing the following two projects to strengthen the capacities of the provincial and
district level authorities.