Development of a national strategy against flooding (Algeria)

Ministry of Water Resources (Algeria)

Development of a study that defines the strategy to be followed in order to fight against flooding, specially: flooding risks management and prevention.

The objectives are divided into three blocks:

Identification, classification and presentation of areas with significant flooding risk

• Data and background collection, inventory and classification.
• Analysis and validation of the available information
• Diagnosis of the current situation and the circumstances exposed to flooding.  The following works were accomplished, between others:
• Field visits to heightened exposure areas.
• Definition of the flooding typology according to its source.
• Determination of priority action areas.

Proposal of an action plan with structural and non-structural measures in order to prevent flooding and mitigation of flooding risk

• Preventive and protection actions facing events which cause flooding.
• Evaluation, summary and comparison of the defined alternatives.
• Timetable of actions setting.

Action protocol training facing events which cause flooding.