ALNAP and ProVention consortium recently published a paper of lessons from responses to flooding in the expectation that it will prove useful to those who are involved in responding to the flooding in southern Africa.

This briefing paper provides a synthesis of and introduction to key lessons from evaluations of relief and recovery/humanitarian response programmes to flooding in the last 20 years from Africa, Asia and the Americas. The paper is intended for people working in relief and recovery operations for floods – those who have to decide if, when and how to intervene. Selected reading references are mentioned after each of the issues discussed and a listing of key resources and a bibliography of the evaluations used are included at the end of the paper.
 
Please follow this link to download the paper: http://www.alnap.org/publications/pdfs/ALNAP-ProVention_flood_lessons.pdf
 
This is the latest in the series of Lessons Papers produced by ALNAP and the ProVention Consortium.