Online Training
A short overview of the Natural and Nature-Based Flood Management Methods module is available on the WWF Adapt training portal.
WWF conducts virtual training that includes a combination of synchronous and asynchronous learning sessions. For more information, read stories from trainings in Latin America and Southeast Asia.
To obtain a hard copy of the Flood Green Guide, or for more information on the Flood Green Guide training program, training, or resources, please email [email protected].
Natural and Nature-based Flood Management:
A Green Guide
About the Flood Green Guide and Training Program
WWF, in partnership with the US Agency for International Development Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA), developed the Natural and Nature-based Flood Management: A Green Guide, also called the Flood Green Guide, to support the use of natural and nature-based methods for flood risk management. The guide is also supported by a training program and resource library.
The Flood Green Guide
The Flood Green Guide provides practical guidance and tools to understand the local context related to flood risk, leading those responsible for flood management through analysis, method selection, and decision-making at multiple stages of a typical flood risk management project cycle. It is designed for those involved in flood management, including municipal governments, community groups, and nongovernmental organizations.
Please contact us if you are interested in Flood Green Guide training or have questions.
Download a copy of the Flood Green Guide in English, Spanish, or Sinhala.
Flood Green Guide (FGG) Knowledge Map
FGG Knowledge Map is a web based tool that helps the FGG users and trainees to explore and navigate through the subject areas related to Nature-based Methods for Flood Risk Management. It provides short introductory descriptions about each topic along with links to key resources / seminal texts. The FGG Knowledge Map is structured based on the FGG Framework. It visually illustrates the inter-connections among related subject-areas using network diagrams.
Watershed Level
Community Level
Household Level
Floodplain Level
The Flood Green Guide outlines structural and non-structural methods for flood management based on an integrated approach. Flooding has consequences at multiple levels, including national, regional, watershed, floodplain, community and household. In most instances, the guide recommends a combination of multiple flood risk management methods. It recommends to first apply non-structural methods, then soft structural methods, and -- only if needed -- hard structural methods as part of an integrated approach. The size of the circles reflects that prioritization.
Flood Green Guide Training
Workshop Training
The Flood Green Guide training curriculum covers a range of key topics, including flood risk analysis, climate assessments, objective setting, method selection, community engagement, and urban issues. The training methodology includes videos, presentations, individual and participatory group exercises, and scenario planning.
A Flood Green Guide Trainer's Guide is available, with activity duration, objective, relevant Flood Green Guide stage and chapter, and materials and resources for each subsection.
Flood Green Guide training workshops and research-related activities have taken place around the world, including in Bangladesh, Namibia, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Thailand, and the United States.
Online Training
A short overview of the Natural and Nature-Based Flood Management Methods module is available on the WWF Adapt training portal.
WWF conducts virtual training that includes a combination of synchronous and asynchronous learning sessions. For more information, read stories from trainings in Latin America and Southeast Asia.
To obtain a hard copy of the Flood Green Guide, or for more information on the Flood Green Guide training program, training, or resources, please email [email protected].
Flood Green Guide (FGG) Training Youth Champions Pilot Program
Out of over 400 applicants and following a 3-stage selection process WWF has recruited 9 candidates between 24-30 years old from three regions: Africa; Latin America and the Caribbean; Asia and the Pacific Islands. The selected Youth Champions have a variety of backgrounds and expertise from disaster risk management, community and youth engagement to climate change adaptation, and will have the opportunity to collaborate with their peers from other regions as well as with the FGG Training team.
The goal of this program’s first pilot is to bring these young leaders to an in-person workshop to work together and design WWF’s FGG Youth Champions program “with youth and for youth”, that can be implemented in subsequent years. The FGG youth champions will also benefit from a training on nature-based approaches to flood management, communication, leadership, advocacy skills, among others.
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