Flash Flood Vulnerability Mapping in West Africa
The Flash Flood Vulnerability Mapping service focuses on improving flash flood vulnerability mapping and early assessments of the potential socioeconomic impacts of anticipated floods.
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The Flash Flood Vulnerability Mapping service focuses on improving flash flood vulnerability mapping and early assessments of the potential socioeconomic impacts of anticipated floods.
Through SERVIR, USAID and NASA play a key role in supporting the President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience (PREPARE). Our work was recently highlighted in the new White House publication “Helping the World PREPARE: A Primer on U.S. International Adaptation and Resilience.”
Community-based Flood Early Warning Systems (CBFEWS) demonstrate the power of demand-driven climate adaptation and its ability to deliver real impacts that save lives and protect livelihoods.
|Erica Kriner, Dorah Nesoba
As part of this service, SERVIR HKH, with the technical support of Brigham Young University developed a streamflow prediction tool that incorporates all primary and secondary rivers in the HKH region
The Climate Change Vulnerability, Impacts and Assessments Service assesses climate change impacts on vulnerable communities, water resources, and ecosystems in order to better address resilience building activities.
The Monitoring Extreme Weather in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) service provides a customized numerical weather prediction toolkit to assess high impact convective weather events over the HKH region.
The Hindu Kush Himalayan (HKH) region is no stranger to water- and weather-induced hazards. Every year, these disasters result in loss of lives, livelihoods, and damage to infrastructure throughout HKH countries.
Floods are a recurring event in the HKH region that often have disastrous consequences. To help better understand these events, SERVIR HKH developed the Flood Inundation Mapping Tool, a cloud-based system developed to map flood areas in Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and the northeast part of India.
On January 30, 2024, Administrator Samantha Power announced new initiatives to accelerate and expand programs that contribute to the President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience (PREPARE), aimed at preparing communities and building their resilience to these perpetual and deadly climate “shocks.”