There are increasing tendencies of occurrence of flood disasters worldwide. Recently the importance of non-structural countermeasures such as a flood hazard map has been recognized.

ICHARM has conducted the training course of "Flood Hazard Mapping" from 2004 to 2008 and this training course has contributed to grow the understanding of the importance of hazard mapping in Asian countries.

This new course “Local Emergency Operation Plan with Flood Hazard Map”, targeting all the regions suffered from flood disasters, aims to strengthen the resilience of the disaster management organizations and local communities against floods through making the local disaster management plan combined with disaster prevention facilities, flood hazard map and flood forecasting/warning system.