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The Associated Programme on Flood Management (APFM) is a jointinitiative of the World Meteorological Organization and the Global WaterPartnership. It promotes the concept of Integrated Flood Management(IFM) as a new approach to flood management. The programme is finan-cially supported by the governments of Japan and the Netherlands.The World Meteorological Organization is a Specialized Agency of theUnited Nations. It co-ordinates the meteorological and hydrological serv-ices of 185 countries and territories and as such is the centre ofknowledge about weather, climate and water.The Global Water Partnership is an international network open to allorganizations involved in water resources management. It was created in1996 to foster Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM).
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This concept paper draws much information from contributions made byColin Green, Clare Johnson and Edmund Penning-Rowsell, of the FloodHazard Research Centre (FHRC) at the University of Middlesex, U.K., atthe request of the WMO/GWP Associated Programme on FloodManagement. It has been enriched through contributions and commentsmade by participants at the Session on Integrated Flood Managementheld during the Third World Water Forum in March 2003 in Kyoto,members of WMO’s Commission for Hydrology (CHy) and other experts. APFM Technical Document No. 1, second edition© The Associated Programme on Flood Management, 2004
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