**5. Conclusions**

*Recent Advances in Flood Risk Management*

**4.6 Step 6: sharing a contingency plan**

*Presentation on contingency plan from representatives from two barangays.*

annual activity plan.

of the contingency plan consists of six parts: an organisation chart, a resource map which shows the locations of the important facilities in the area (**Figure 7**), a list of equipment, a response strategy as a result of step 4 (**Table 3**), a sectoral plan for each section to follow in order to achieve necessary actions listed in step 4 and an

In the final step, the main focus is to share the developed contingency plan among community members and with other municipalities. Inviting the leaders and related members of the 29 barangays and Calumpit Municipality, a workshop was held to share all the activities. As the project had drawn much local attention, over 100 people attended the meeting. The representatives from the two model barangays introduced their contingency plans and explained how they developed a barangay contingency plan by themselves, as shown in **Figure 13**. At the end of the workshop, ICHARM provided printed maps developed in step 2 to all the 29 barangays so that every barangay could also make an evidence-based contingency plan of their own (**Figure 14**).

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**Figure 14.**

*Participants of final workshop in Feb. 2016.*

**Figure 13.**

This study proposed an effective method to implement evidence-based flood contingency planning for local communities by assuming the dynamic change of inundation using flood simulation, assessing flood risk with key indicators and deciding response strategies against the identified flood risk before a flood occurs. The method was applied to a flood-prone municipality called Calumpit in the Pampanga River basin of the Philippines as the first case study to verify its effectiveness in areas where the availability of natural and socio-economic data is limited. The case study revealed that the proposed method can be successfully applied to data-limited regions. However, the method needs testing in different flood-prone communities for further verification.

As for the limitations of the study, the process of risk identification through flood inundation simulation was conducted by ICHARM although this process should be completed by the provincial or national governments of the country. In order for them to carry out the risk identification process by themselves, training of flood simulation and risk assessment should be provided for managers and engineers in flood risk management.
