Presentation by Sabrina Couvin Rodriguez (Deltares, Netherlands) at the Climate Adaptation Symposium 2023, during the Delft Software Days - Edition 2023 (DSD-INT 2023). Wednesday, 29 November 2023, Delft.
2. Table of contents
• EPIC Response Framework
• Case studies
• ERAM
• Main findings
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3. EPIC Response Framework
• Provides a new perspective on hydro-climatic
risks by looking at the combined management of
floods and droughts
• Identifies the roles of different government
agencies in managing these risks and highlights
where and how these agencies need to
collaborate
• Represents the most extensive compendium of
flood and drought policies and programs that
currently exists in the literature
• Creates a mechanism for engaging in policy
discussions in a structured manner to identify
gaps, constraints, and opportunities for
advancing a country’s hydro-climatic risk
management system can be discussed in a with
a broad range of stakeholders
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4. EPIC Response components
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• The EPIC Response Framework describes the
most common flood and drought risk
management programs normally implemented
by national agencies.
• Organized in a mnemonic device: Enable,
Plan, Invest, Control and Respond.
• All programs interact synergistically and in
complex ways but in a general downward
cascading manner, ultimately determining the
environmental, social and economic impact of
floods and droughts.
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5. EPIC Programs
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• Grouped in the program areas are more than
40 flood and drought risk management
programs.
• Not all programs will be relevant for all
countries or cities.
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6. EPIC Response Framework
• A program description which highlights key elements of an effective program based on global good
practice.
• Linkages to sectoral frameworks describing the national legislation that typically authorizes each
program – normally tied to a specific sector, WRM, DRM, Hydro-met, agriculture, natural resources,
social protection and finance.
• Key Agency Actions which lists important functions that the responsible sector agency can
undertake to ensure effective program implementation
• Generic program evolution. Recognizing that program development is an evolutionary process, the
report describes four levels for each program nascent, engage, capable and effective. It describes a
plausible storyline in the development of each program in the EPIC Response.
• Key resources that provide users with the possibility to dig deeper into guidelines and lessons
learned related to specific programs.
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Nascent Engaged Capable Effective
No legal framework or
formal program. Ad hoc
approach.
Legal framework
authorizes the program,
but program not yet
operational.
Program is operational but
still in early stages of
implementation.
Legal framework has been
refined based upon
experience, with mature
program implementation.
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7. EPIC Response case studies
• The Netherlands
• California, USA
• Tanzania
• Philippines
• Assam State, India
• The Gambia
• Mozambique
• Beira, Mozambique
• Comoros
• Madagascar
• Suriname
• Egypt
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8. ERAM builds and operationalizes the content of the
EPIC Response Framework into an assessment
methodology and associated on-line platform
Leads practitioners into a step-by-step process, prompting them to answers
questions about the status of the national sector frameworks and key agency
actions.
9. EPIC Response
Assessment
Methodology
(ERAM)
• The ERAM aims to support clients to assess the
status of their hydro-climatic risk management
systems and where program collaboration could be
strengthened
• Self-guided decision support system to inform
the continuous evolution of flood and drought
management systems
• The ERAM main elements include:
• Assessing the level of development of flood and
drought risk management systems, including program
components and the collaboration between them.
• Creating visuals for benchmarking exercises and
highlighting areas that are most needed and/or primed
for improved collaboration and coordination.
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10. Levels of Analysis
1. EPIC Response expert consultant and a local
consultant performs a desk review.
2. Targeted engagement with key
experts/resource people to undertake
assessment.
3. Structured workshop with groups of experts to
refine assessment and generate
recommendations.
4. Structured workshop with policy-
makers/stakeholders to discuss assessment
findings and recommendations.
Scope
Geographical Scope
• Country analysis
• Regional/provincial/state analysis
• Local/city analysis
Institutional Scope
• Single or multiple agency
• Single or multiple program areas
• Single or multiple program
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How to apply it
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12. ERAM Output
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• Compiled into a report and a high impact visual.
• Radial chart efficiently represents all EPIC
Response Programs, organized by its main
principles in different colors while at the same
time showing the level of evolution of programs
from Nascent all the way to Effective.
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13. ERAM Output
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• Compiled into a report and a high impact visual.
• Radial chart efficiently represents all EPIC
Response Programs, organized by its main
principles in different colors while at the same
time showing the level of evolution of programs
from Nascent all the way to Effective.
22. ERAM Application Emerging Findings
• Provides a useful framework for systematically evaluating key elements of hydro-climatic risk
management systems.
• Can be applied and adequately tailored to a variety of contexts from nascent to effective risk
management systems.
• Is best used periodically to accompany a continuous institutional strengthening process.
• EPIC Response is designed for unitary governments. Some relevant programs, such as watershed
management, are complex to address in the context of a transboundary basin.
• Continuous feedback to enhance UX
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23. ERAM Platform new UX
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1. Simplify the national sector and agency
action framework.
2. Provide assessments for the evolution table
only and request the facilitator to justify or
give the response.
3. Improved automatic mapping of programs to
agencies.
4. Have the whole of society programs done
on an agency specific basis.
5. Set aside the linkages and references
associated with each program.
6. Simplified reporting.
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ERAM Platform new UX – Program description
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ERAM Platform new UX - Questionnaire
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