One page project management application on flood preparedness: case study of Thailand

Since the disaster of flooding in 2011, it realized over Thailand how important the powerful water management is. It was the worst flooding that caused the severe losses to Thai economy and society of which the contributed factor to this crisis are not only the natural but also manmade. Therefore, the idea of providing effective information of water resources system to the decision makers is considered as necessary tool for coping with flood situation. In order to support the immediately response during flood crisis, the powerful decision support system that can provide important information is needed. Even, the water resource system over a river basin contains a lot of information that is too complex to understand. The decision makers still need all necessary data in the simple form that can assist them to decide not only to minimize loss from flood but also to state the problem in different scenario. Therefore, the one page project management (OPPM) principal has been introduced by Department of Water Resources (DWR) to simplify all necessary information over the river basin in different flood scenario. This information contains the details of flood scenario, tasks in each process of flood risk management as well as the list of responsible organizations in each scenario. The objective of this paper is to share Thailand's experience on application of OPPM on flood preparedness. It is obviously that coupling with the result from hydrological study, OPPM can be a powerful visual tool to communicate all the information contained on the one page report for flood risk management purpose.