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Summary of the Stakeholders Forum on Integrated Flood Risk Management in Cagayan River Basin

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The stakeholders forum generally aimed to enhance the capacities of policymakers, managers, and practitioners of river basin organizations on flood management through knowledge sharing of new approaches, techniques, methodologies, and good practices from partners here and abroad to help achieve effective implementation of integrated flood risk management as a component of integrated water resources management through stakeholders’ collaboration and consultation. Considering the designed series of activities, the forum highlighted the partnership of the Japan Water Agency and the Cagayan River Basin Management Council, a multipartite information exchange among the Philippine government agencies’ dignitaries, political leaders and legislators, and Japanese stakeholders, and the update reports conveyed by numerous Philippine government agencies as well as their collaborative workshop engagement to scale up international community linkages. It also underscored the inauguration of the International Organization on Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction Management Office, stakeholders’ collaboration for technology transfer and knowledge-sharing activities at NIA stations, and the newly forged partnership between JWA and City of Santiago to promote UN-SDG 6 and water security. By and large, as the event accentuated the need to mainstream knowledge sharing and communication in integrated flood risk management to strengthen effective IWRM practices, it then served as a channel that bridged what the government agencies and organizations know about flood and sedimentation management and what the community partners need to understand to revitalize science-community-government-academe collaboration.