Collaborating with communities: Citizen Science Flood Monitoring in Urban Informal Settlements
Erich Wolff, Matthew French, Noor Ilhamsyah, Mere Jane Sawailau and, Diego Ramirez-Lovering

TL;DR
This paper explores a citizen science approach to flood monitoring in informal settlements in Fiji and Indonesia, demonstrating how community involvement can enhance flood data collection and participatory risk management.
Contribution
It presents a novel community-based flood monitoring method using citizen science in informal settlements, with insights into its implementation and impact on risk reduction.
Findings
Collected over 5000 flood-related photos from community members
Engagement model and technology were key to project success
Provided insights into participatory flood risk management practices
Abstract
Concerns regarding the impacts of climate change on marginalised communities in the Global South have led to calls for affected communities to be more active as agents in the process of planning for climate change. While the value of involving communities in risk management is increasingly accepted, the development of appropriate tools to support community engagement in flood risk management projects remains nascent. Using the Revitalising Informal Settlements and their Environment (RISE) Program as a case study, the article interrogates the potential of citizen science to include disadvantaged urban communities in project-level flood risk reduction planning processes. This project collected more than 5000 photos taken by 26 community members living in 13 informal settlements in Fiji and Indonesia between 2018 and 2020. The case study documents the method used as well as the results…
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