This course is a pure face-to-face course. It will take place from 13 to 17 July 2026.

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to Integrated Flood Risk Management (IFRM) under a rapidly changing climate. Moving beyond traditional isolated responses, it combines robust conceptual foundations with practical tools for flood hazard, risk, and climate related loss and damage assessment.

Crucially, this curriculum bridges technical physical interventions with human centric planning. Participants will explore specialized tracks in structural engineering mitigation, urban drainage, and nature based solutions (green infrastructure), alongside early warning systems.

Going a step further, the course addresses vital crosscutting issues including the flood poverty risk nexus, gender sensitive prevention, and the role of the media before culminating in actionable strategies for climate smart water management, efficient irrigation scheduling, and resilient infrastructure design.

• Strengthen understanding of flood risk dynamics and climate impacts
Enhance participants’ knowledge of flood hazards, exposure, and vulnerability under changing climatic conditions, extreme events, and human-induced factors.

• Promote integrated engineering, green infrastructure, and management approaches
Build capacity to design and apply holistic strategies that combine structural engineering mitigation and urban drainage with nature-based solutions (green infrastructure) and non-structural measures like early warning systems.

• Address socioeconomic vulnerabilities and crosscutting risks
Equip participants to analyze the flood-poverty risk nexus, integrate gender-sensitive approaches into flood prevention, and leverage media for effective risk communication and management.

• Advance climate-smart water management and infrastructure design
Expose participants to climate-smart practices, technologies, and irrigation scheduling to design resilient agricultural and drainage systems that adapt to impending climate threats.

• Enhance practical planning and implementation capacity
Bridge theory and practice by supporting participants in calculating climate-related loss and damage, conducting risk assessments, and designing context-specific solutions that contribute to long-term resilience.

Module 1 Introduction to Integrated Flood Risk Management

• Session 1.1 What is integrated flood risk management?
• Session 1.2 Overview of Climate Change and Extreme Events
• Session 1.3 Climate Change and its impact on impending floods
• Session 1.4 Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) and flood management

Module 2: Engineering Mitigation & Integrated Planning

• Session 2.1 Flood hazards and risk assessment
• Session 2.2 Climate-Related Loss and Damage Estimation within Climate Risk Management
• Session 2.3 Engineering Flood Mitigation Structural Measures & Design
• Session 2.4 Urban drainage and hydraulic engineering
• Session 2.5 Early Warning System and Impact-based Forecasting
• Session 2.6 Nature-based solutions for flood mitigation (Green Infrastructure)

Module 3 Crosscutting Issues

• Session 3.1 Gender issues in flood risks prevention and management
• Session 3.2 Flood-Poverty Risk Nexus: Understanding the multi-level socio-economic impact.
• Session 3.3 Media and its role in flood risk management

Module 4 Climate-Smart Water Management and Resilient Infrastructure

• Session 4.1 Introduction to Climate-Smart Water Management
• Session 4.2Climate-Smart Practices and Technologies
• Session 4.3 Irrigation Scheduling and Water Use Efficiency
• Session 4.4 Design of Climate-Resilient Irrigation and Drainage Systems

The course follows a participatory and practice-oriented methodology. Learning is structured around real-world case studies, now featuring engineering design workshops where participants evaluate the effectiveness of various structural mitigation options against climate-induced flood scenarios.

The course is designed for government officials, UN and affiliated staff, development practitioners, planners, engineers, and technical professionals involved in flood risk management, climate change adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and water resources management at national and sub-national levels.

$1,550 (without accommodation)
$2,036 [with accommodation (6 nights)]

Fees are inclusive of course materials (soft copy), cost of instructions and course certificate. For face-to-face training, fee is inclusive of morning and afternoon snacks and lunch during the course

Interested individuals and organizations can register online at www.adpc.net/apply.

For more information about the course, you may also contact Apibarl Bunchongraksa at apibarl@adpc.net and telephone numbers +66 22980681 to 92 ext. 132.