World Bank Group2016-01-072016-01-072015-05-01https://hdl.handle.net/10986/23591A regional cooperation effort coordinated by the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) has created a credible system that links multiple stakeholders to work together to address flooding and its impacts. The Flood Preparedness and Early Warning (FPEW) project that ran until 2010 operated in Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan. It created a regional flood preparedness and early warning program which is ongoing, reducing the risk of flood devastation for over 2 million people in the region.en-USCC BY 3.0 IGOFLOODINGTECHNOLOGYPREPAREDNESSEARLY WARNING SYSTEMSFLOOD SEASONRISKSFLOODPLAINSDROUGHTSWATERSHED MANAGEMENTWARNING PROGRAMEMERGENCYFLOOD-PRONE AREASEARLY WARNINGCLIMATE CHANGEFLOOD EVENTSTENTSANNUAL RUNOFFFLOOD PREPAREDNESS ACTIVITIESFLOOD WARNINGAGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONBANKFLOOD EARLY WARNINGCAPACITY-BUILDINGFLOOD CAPACITYCLIMATERELIEF AGENCIESRELIEF ORGANIZATIONSDAMAGEFLOOD LEVELFLOOD RISKSFLOOD RISKNATIONAL CAPACITYCAPACITY BUILDINGDISASTEREARLY WARNINGSDEVASTATIONFLOOD INCIDENTSWARNING SYSTEMFLOODIMPACTS OF FLOODSFLOOD FORECASTINGWATER RESOURCESFLOOD PERIODSEDIMENTLOCAL FLOODINGRIPARIAN COUNTRIESRELIEFWATERSHEDRISKMITIGATIONFLOOD FORECASTFLOOD PREPARATIONFLOOD DISASTERSWARNING SYSTEMSFLOODSBASINSCAPACITYEARLY WARNING SYSTEMWATERFLOOD MITIGATIONFLOOD PRONE AREASBASIN FLOODSFORECASTINGEMERGENCY PREPAREDNESSDISASTERSEVACUATIONFLOOD PREPAREDNESSFLOOD PROBLEMSFLOOD EMBANKMENTWATER LEVELSMODELINGRUNOFFHYDROLOGICAL DATARELIEF EFFORTSCAPACITY-BUILDING ACTIVITIESRAINFALL DATAEMERGENCY SHELTERSFLOOD WARNINGSBriefWorld Bank10.1596/23591