Session Overview

This session organized by OCHA ROWCA will focus on enhancing tools for monitoring flood impacts to strengthen preparedness and response strategies through collaboration among key stakeholders.

This session will present a regional case study highlighting OCHA ROWCA’s flood impact monitoring platform, Climap.info, and explore how existing tools can be strengthened to improve real-time data collection and analysis. Through contributions from regional and national partners, the session will examine operational lessons learned, complementarities with early warning and disaster risk reduction platforms, and opportunities to enhance collaboration.

The discussion will aim to identify practical recommendations to strengthen evidence-based flood preparedness and response strategies across the region.

Objectives

• Present Climap.info and gather partner feedback.
• Share operational experiences from West and Central Africa.
• Explore complementarities with regional forecasting and disaster management platforms.
• Identify gaps and priority improvements in flood impact monitoring systems.

Speakers

• OCHA ROWCA – Climap.info regional case study (15 min)
• UNICEF & NEMA Nigeria – Operational experience (15 min)
• ACMAD – Collaboration on the Flooding Outlook (10 min)
• UNDRR – Synergies with disaster risk reduction platforms (5 min)

Target Audience

National Disaster Management Organizations (NADMOs), UN agencies, NGOs, regional institutions, and donors interested in strengthening impact monitoring, preparedness, and response.

Expected Outcome

Concrete recommendations to enhance collaboration, improve flood impact monitoring tools, and reinforce coordinated, evidence-based humanitarian and disaster management responses.