Empowering Resilience: Baguio’s Journey to Gender-Inclusive Flood Early Warning Systems

The ASEAN Australia Smart Cities Trust Fund (AASCTF), supported by the Australian Government and managed by the Asian Development Bank (ADB), is helping the City of Baguio in the Philippines to develop a flood early warning system (FEWS) through the Baguio City Smart Flood Early Warning, Information and Mitigation System Project. The project aims to increase the city's resilience to extreme weather and flooding brought about by climate change.

To complement the technical development of the FEWS under the project, which focuses on the planning for flood mitigation and the delivery of flood early warning services and responses using smart technologies, the project also conducted a ‘Gender and Inclusion Study’ and developed ‘Policy and Practice Recommendations’, providing specific recommendations and guidance for the development of a gender-transformative FEWS.

Based on the recommendations from the study, the project worked with Baguio city FEWS stakeholders to develop specific actions that they can take as the FEWS is designed and implemented towards the goal of realizing a gender transformative FEWS. Documented in the ‘From Policy Recommendations to Practical Actions’ report, this process aims to provide FEWS stakeholders with a framework by which they can implement the findings and recommendations through tangible actions that prioritize participation of stakeholders in the FEWS design and implementation. It is the process that leads to gender transformative outcomes.

This video highlights the five key steps that Baguio City undertook as part of their ongoing journey towards the development of a gender and socially inclusive FEWS, which might be of value to other ASEAN cities who are undertaking a similar initiative.

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