Can Tho City Urban Development and Resilience Project – Establishing Flood Risk Management Information System in Can Tho City

Project Description:

The overall objectives of this consultancy are to establish a Flood Risk Management Information System (FRMIS), based on a hydrodynamic model, to support the decision making process win Can Tho city in the following areas: a. Operation of the city drainage and flood control and systems taking into account issues such as emergency response, waterway transport, and environmental issues; b. Short and medium-term flood risk management, such as additional measures to be taken in the city and real-time flood forecasting; c. Urban development planning and medium and long term investments, in which future extensions and changes in land use in the future are being designed in a water-sustainable, resilient, cost-effective way; and to build the technical capacity of the city authorities in managing the FRMIS to ensure the smooth operation and maintenance of the system after the project ends.