1. Local resilience capacity building for flood mitigation CAPFLO
Kick-off meeting DG ECHO
20 January 2016, Brussels

2. Administrative information
Agreement reference: ECHO/SUB/2015/713831
Eligible cost: €
EC co-financing: €
Duration: 01/01/ /12/2017

3. Partnership Coordinator: Partners:
Institute of Government and Public Policies (IGOP) - Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain)
Partners:
Leuphana University Lünenburg (Germany)
Instituto per la Ricerca Sociale soc. coop (Italy)
Stichting vu-vumc. (Netherlands)
Université Paris est Créteil Val de Marne (France)
Public authorities and collaborators involved:
Public authorities: Civil protection authorities and river basin authorities (rivers: Ebro, Elbe, Po, Meuse, Seine)
External collaborators: University of Pittsburgh, University of Lausane, UNISDR

4. Introduction Area of activity: Prevention. Urban resilience. Floods.
Background and need:
Higher flood risk in the coming decades, greater socio-economic damage
Traditional flood risk management has become inefficient, new approaches are needed
Capacity building have been incorporated in natural hazards prevention policy
Capacity building have been linked with public involvement
Description:
The project aims to promote participatory capacity building processes for flood mitigation at local level. It focuses on social and civic capacities, seeking to better understand how these resilient capacities operate to mitigate flood effects, how they could be participatory built at community level, and how these participatory capacity building processes could be transferred to other urban areas.

5. Objectives
To design two consistent tools (the Assessment Tool and the Participatory Tool) to assess and develop social and civic capacities, as urban resilient capacities, for flood mitigation.
To assess social and civic capacities in 5 high flood risk urban river stretches in different Member States.
To carry out, in these 5 pilot urban river stretches, participatory capacity building processes, implementing pilot actions aiming to develop social and civic capacities for flood mitigation.
To identify and share good practices on social and civic capacity building.
To produce a Guideline on social and civic capacity building in order to facilitate the replication of participatory capacity building processes in other urban areas.

6. Tasks Management and reporting Assessment tool design
Capacity assessment
Participatory tool design
Participatory capacity building
Good practices
Guideline elaboration
Publicity

7. Key deliverables Capacity assessment tool (05/16)
Results of social and civic capacity assessment (08/16)
Participatory tool (11/16)
Participatory mechanism report (02/17)
Participatory capacity building report (05/17)
Good practice report (07/17)
Guideline publication on capacity building for flood mitigation (11/17)
Final project report (12/17)

8. Main events
Kick off meeting of the CAPFLO partners (01/16) and 3 coordination meetings (months 8, 16, 24)
International workshop I (participatory methods to improve social capacities) (10/16)
Participatory capacity building processes and Pilot action implementation (12/16-05/17)
International workshop II (capacity building for floods mitigation) (09/17)
Open seminar (project results) (12/17)

9. Follow up
Dissemination: international conferences, website, publications in scientific journals, mailing list
Presentations of the results of the project in local communities
Application of tools and guideline in other urban areas
New proposal H2020 ‘societal challenges’

10. Thank you Contact: marc.pares@uab.cat alba.ballester@gmail.com