The main objective of this training material is to build the capacity of water managers and others to develop strategies for coping with hydro-climatic disasters such as floods and drought within the context of water resources management. An added expectation is improving the resilience of vulnerable communities’ and reducing the impact of extreme events.

The manual was developed at the initiative of the Nile IWRM network with support from United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR). Authors were Wangai Ndirangu, Julius Kabubi and Simeon Dulo. The training manual and supporting Powerpoints are only available in English at the moment and can be downloaded below. Other language versions will be made available soon. All materials (with additional reference documents in English) are available on CD.

English 

Module	Title	Downloads
	Training Manual	5.0MB, 2.4MB
Module 1	Water Related Disasters and IWRM Concepts	0.6MB
Module 2	Disaster Risk Reduction	1.9MB
Module 3	Impact of Climate Change and Variability	0.7MB
Module 4	Drought Risk Assessment	3.0MB
Module 5	Flood Risk Assessment	1.8MB
Module 6	Policy and Institutions for Disasters Management	0.3MB
Module 7	Economics of Disasters	1.4MB
Module 8	Emergency and Humanitarian Response	1.7MB