Water as Leverage principles and Delhi Urban Flood Risk Mitigation Plan and Urban River Management Plan

About this project

During the Delhi Flood Risk Mitigation Planning Workshop in New Delhi of 23-24 June 2025, organised by the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI) in collaboration with the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), it was mentioned that that the city of Delhi has witnessed increasingly frequent urban flooding in recent years, driven by a combination of intense rainfall, inadequate drainage, settlements along the flood plains/natural water bodies and challenges in solid waste management. Two key water-related planning initiatives are currently underway in Delhi:• The Urban River Management Plan (URMP) led by the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG) and the National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), focusing on ecological restoration, urban river integration and resilience.• The Urban Flood Risk Mitigation Plan (UFRMP) coordinated by the Delhi Disaster Management Authority (DDMA) and NDMA, focused on preventing and mitigating flood risks in Delhi’s urban context (Phase III of UFRMP for India).Given the strong interrelation between these two efforts, and ongoing activities between NMCG, NIUA and the Water as Leverage (WaL) team regarding the URMP in Prayagraj, including the URMP WaL recommendations report currently written by the United Nations (UN)-Habitat and Deltares, the WaL team is invited to provide coordinated input as well.The objective of this assignment is to strengthen both the URMP and UFRMP proposals and to ensure their alignment, while inte…

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Netherlands Enterprise Agency · Government

Countries

India

Sectors

Water sector policy and administrative managementRural development

Focus

Climate adaptation · Also contributes

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Netherlands Enterprise Agency

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Stichting Deltares

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Netherlands Enterprise Agency

Published by Netherlands Enterprise Agency to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 8 Jun 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: NL-KVK-27378529-PVW525IN07.

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