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Sustainable Cities, Urban Water System, Climate Change and How Corporations can join in
Assela Pathirana was invited by Bureau Veritas (https://www.bureauveritas.com/) Bangladesh to deliver a seminar to its management team on the topic of adaptive planning. The title of the seminar was “Sustainable Cities, Urban Water System, Climate Change and How...
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Workshop: Decentralized Data Acquisition Techniques (DDAT) for Adaptive Delta Management
12 September 2019, LGED Training room We live in a rapidly changing world. Managing complex adaptive systems like Deltas in this context needs continuous monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of external influences on the systems, internal changes, and impacts of...
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MOOC On Adaptive Delta Management – Launching Ceremony
We are excited to announce the public opening of the MOOC on Adaptive Delta Management Developed by DeltaCap project. A free & online course on (climate) information services to support planning and decision-making in context of the BDP2100. At a glance Official...
read moreJoint Workshop on Modelling for Polder Management
Organised by Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), the Institute for Water Modelling (IWM) and Deltares (from the Netherlands) on 19th June 2019 was extremely successful. Read the event summary report...
read moreTraining on “Adaptive Delta Management & Design and Execution of ToT”
From 8 to 10 July a training has been given by DeltaCAP at LGED training center on Adaptive Delta Management and Train the Trainers principles. The participants (25pp) consisted predominantly of young and mid-career technical staff from LGED, GED, BWBD, and IWM. The...
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July 8-10, 2019Venue: LGED, Dhaka ...
read moreICWFM7 – International Conference on Water and Flood Management 2019
Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 (BDP) has been approved in September 2018. This longer term, integrated, holistic and adaptive plan with 50 to 100 years’ time frame also brings about the need to think practically how the implementation can take place, and how planning and implementation processes can be adjusted in this longer term while considering the policy implications. At the same time, there is also a pressing need for generating new capacities and knowledge. This is an enormous challenge with various practical questions. For instance, how to take into account the longer term planning objectives while preparing the next five-year plan? How to incorporate climate change and other longer term issues in day-to-day implementation of water projects and programs? Do we know the water situation when considering future development of the country as well as climate change into account? How to engage multiple stakeholders? Do we have information services in place to inform people from local to national level while they are making their own plans and implementing them?
read moreOnline course on Climate Information Services ready for testing
Soon the first lessons of the Online Couse ‘Climate Information Services for The BDP2100’ will be launched for a testing round. This online course targets students and professionals in water management and spatial planning and introduces the climate information...
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Workshop on Design and Execution of a ToT
For implementation of the Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100, capacity development is required for Bangladeshi professionals working on delta management. They need to be aware of and conversant with new concepts like delta planning, adaptive delta management, longer term...
read moreReport on the training workshop held in Khulna
The Training Workshop on “PARTICIPATORY PLANNING TOOLS FOR STRATEGIC DELTA PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT” consisted of four participatory planning tools: MOTA, DENVIS, design charrettes, and participatory scenario development. These tools were excersized by participants on...
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