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

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**).

**Figure 13.** *Presentation on contingency plan from representatives from two barangays.*

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*Evidence-Based Contingency Planning to Enhance Local Resilience to Flood Disasters*

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

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 engi-

This study was conducted in cooperation with the Municipal Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (MDRRMO) of Calumpit and the Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA). We would like to express our deepest appreciation to Calumpit Municipality Mayor Jessie P. De Jesus and the officers of MDRRMO. We would also like to extend our sincere gratitude to the officers in the Pampanga River Basin Flood Forecasting and Warning Center (PRBFFWC) and the headquarters of PAGASA for their support during the field activities. We also owe a great debt to the National Mapping and Resource Information Authority (NAMRIA) for providing high-resolution DEM data (IFSAR) in the step of risk identification under the MOU between NAMRIA and ICHARM. Last but not least, we thank all persons involved for their kind sup-

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communities for further verification.

neers in flood risk management.

port in conducting this study.

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**5. Conclusions**

**Figure 14.** *Participants of final workshop in Feb. 2016.*

*Evidence-Based Contingency Planning to Enhance Local Resilience to Flood Disasters DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.82312*
