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Jacky Huson of Southwell Flood Forum attended this conference.

“It was useful to network with other community flood groups and I made a couple of particularly useful contacts. When I talked to other local Flood groups, it was affirming that Southwell Flood Forum is developing very successfully with good practice and very much along the lines of Community Resilience.”

Below is a summary of the event and presentations.

The National Flood Forum Conference 2014

13th March 2014 — 09:00 to 16:30
Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Community Flood Risk Management: Improving effectiveness and efficiency
Early Lessons from the Flood Resilience Community Pathfinders

National policy on flood risk management is increasingly focused on the benefit of flood risk management interventions to communities and empowering them to take ownership and work with partners. This presents a challenge to many organisations. The aim of this conference is to explore the details of this approach and by assessing evidence from early lessons from the Flood Resilience Community Pathfinders and other projects.

Objectives:

  • To promote and focus on the benefits of community based approaches to flood risk management
  • It will become increasingly important to be able to demonstrate how community approaches help to deliver services efficiently, at less cost and through a range of external partnership arrangements that protect staffing and budget lines
  • Community engagement processes will increasingly become more sophisticated. We need to learn from best practice and take early lessons from the Flood Resilience Community Pathfinder programme

Conference Outputs: