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Chapter17 SupportingClimateRiskManagement atScale. Insights fromtheZurichFlood ResilienceAlliancePartnershipModel Applied inPeru&Nepal ReinhardMechler,ColinMcQuistan, IanMcCallum,WeiLiu, AdrianaKeating,PiotrMagnuszewski,ThomasSchinko,FinnLaurien andStefanHochrainer-Stigler Abstract There has been increasing interest in the potential of effective science- society partnershipmodels for identifying and implementing options thatmanage criticaldisaster risks“ontheground.”Thisparticularlyholds truefordebatearound Loss andDamage. Few documented precedents and little documented experience exists,however,forsuchmodelsofengagement.Howtoorganisesuchpartnerships? Whatarelearningsfromexistingactivitiesandhowcanthesebeupscaled?Wereport on one such partnership, the Zurich FloodResilienceAlliance, amulti-actor part- nership launched in 2013 to enhance communities’ resilience to flooding at local toglobal scales.Theprogrambrings together the skills andexpertiseofNGOs, the privatesectorandresearchinstitutionsinordertoinducetransformationalchangefor managingflood risks.Working inanumberof countries facingdifferent challenges andopportunities theprogramusesaparticipatoryanditerativeapproachtodevelop sustainable portfolios of interventions that tackle both flood risk and development objectives in synergy.We focus our examination on twocases ofAlliance engage- ment,where livelihoodsareparticularlybeingerodedbyfloodrisk, includingactual andpotential contributionsbyclimate change: (i) in theKarnali riverbasin inWest Nepal, communitiesare facingrapidon-setflashfloodsduring themonsoonseason; (ii) in theRimacbasin inCentralPerucommunitiesareexposed toriverineflooding R.Mechler (B) · I.McCallum ·W.Liu ·A.Keating ·P.Magnuszewski ·T.Schinko F.Laurien ·S.Hochrainer-Stigler International Institute forAppliedSystemsAnalysis (IIASA),Laxenburg,Austria e-mail:mechler@iiasa.ac.at C.McQuistan PracticalAction,Rugby,UK P.Magnuszewski Centre forSystemsSolutions,Wrocław,Poland ©TheAuthor(s)2019 R.Mechler et al. (eds.),LossandDamage fromClimateChange,ClimateRisk Management,PolicyandGovernance,https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72026-5_17 393