Date: 10- 13 August 2009

Venue: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Co-organizers: RCUWM-Tehran, ICHARM-Japan, HTC- Kuala Lumpur

Participating Countries/Organizations: Iran, Japan, Malaysia

Number of Participants: 40

Number of Female Participants: 2 (5%)

Objectives/Outcomes:

The main goal of this project was capacity development and the target group would be managers, decision makers and planners involved in natural water disasters management in arid and semi-arid regions of Asia and the Middle East. During this workshop, theoretical visions on the forming procedure of flash floods along with general information by considering the participants level on different managerial methods for these kinds of flood were presented.