OER: Enhancing collaboration in Flood Disaster Risk Management
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Enhancing Collaboration in Flood Disaster Risk Management

In this course, you will...:
Get to know the most important barriers and enablers of efficient stakeholder engagement
Learn how to map, activate and engage your flood disaster risk management-related network
Get an insight into interesting case studies from around the globe
Learn about effective stakeholder engagement methods that you can use to activate your own network
Course Organization
Welcome to the course “Enhancing collaboration in flood disaster risk management“. In this course you will be provided with the practical tools and background knowledge to improve multi-stakeholder exchange, cooperation and collaboration in the specific area that you’re working in. This way, you can contribute to making flood disaster risk management more effective and create a meaningful impact on your environment.
This course is divided into a welcoming section and three content blocks with various chapters. In each of the content blocks, you will find educative material in video or text format, reflective questions to test your knowledge plus a PDF that summarizes the lessons learned for download. You can also download all of the course content as one PDF in eBook format.
We are looking forward to guide you through the course and provide you with the theoretical background, tools and knowledge that you need in order to involve stakeholders effectively and therefore improve the efficiency of flood disaster risk management in the environment you’re working in.

For questions related to course management and content please contact:
Dr. Sylvia Kruse
sylvia.kruse@ifp.uni-freiburg.de


Prof. Dr. Britta Höllermann
bhoellermann@uni-osnabrueck.de


Fafali Roy Ziga-Abortta
fafali.ziga-abortta@ifp.uni-freiburg.de


Lena Riemann
lena.riemann@ifp.uni-freiburg.de


Khushboo Pareek
khushbooprk@gmail.com

The course is fully self-paced. The course content is divided into 3 blocks. Each block contains various chapters with educative content, reflection questions and additional material to a specific topic. You can directly jump to the block that's most interesting to you, however, we recommend that you follow our structure.
- Block 1: Collaborative Governance - In disaster risk management, there is an increasing acknowledgement of Collaborative Governance. In this block you will learn about the key characteristics and benefits of Collaborative Governance regimes. We will also provide you with the practical guidelines and success factors for establishing Collaborative Governance regimes.
- Block 2: Stakeholder Networks - This block is all about stakeholder networks. How are networks formed and what keeps the ties between individuals of a network alive? You will be asked to map out your own Flood Disaster Risk Management network in a practical exercise.
- Block 3: Stakeholder Engagement - In the third block, we explain the benefits of stakeholder engagement and provide you with tools and techniques to activate stakeholders and ensure effective stakeholder participation in your Flood Disaster Risk management network.
Welcome to the course!
Course Content
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Content


PARADeS project in Ghana © 2023 by Prof. Dr. Mariele Evers, Dr. Sylvia Kruse, Ing. Georg Johann, and Prof. Dr. Daniel Bachmann is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/