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Online course Delta Planning and Management
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read moreWWA team will visit BD from 17-23 July, 2018
A team of World Water Academy (WWA), Netherlands, will visit Bangladesh from 17-23 July, 2018 on a mission to discuss possible business/operational models for a Delta Centre. Ms. Agnes Maenhout (Director, WWA) is going to lead the mission with a mission member, Mr....
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Capacity needs assessment for BDP 2100
Under the umbrella of Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 a raft of projects ranging from building heavy infrastructure, improving community resilience to building institutional capacities and planning of land use will be implemented. These projects require diverse...
read moreTraining workshop: Participatory planning tools for strategic delta planning and management
Aim : To bring together professionals the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, who play / or will play key roles in delta planning and make them aware of different types of planning approaches, identify feasible approaches and methods given the local contexts and...
read moreParticipatory Development of Information Services for Farmers in Peri-Urban Khulna, Bangladesh
Information services, such as weather forecasts or forecasts of water levels, can help farmers and other water users to manage water resources and take farm decisions. Smallholder farming communities in peri-urban Khulna are highly vulnerable to hydro-climatic...
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DeltaCAP Briefs the Vice-Chancellor of BUET
23-Apr-2018, Dhaka. Prof. Umme Kulsum Navera (DWRE, BUET) and Prof. Shah Alam Khan (IWFM, BUET), together with Associate Professor Assela Pathirana of IHE-Delft Institute of water education, met with the Vice-Chancellor of Bangladesh University of Engineering and...
read moreProf Navera visited the Netherlands
Prof Umme Kulsum Navera of the Department of Water Resources Engineering, BUET, Bangladesh, traveled to the Netherlands early April to participate as a member of the promotion committee of Rumana Hossain, who successfully defended her PhD thesis ‘Impacts of climate...
read moreVisit of Nuffic officials to Bangladesh to monitor DeltaCap Project activities
Ms. Birgitte Vos, Senior Programme Administrator, Capacity Building Department, Nuffic and Ms. Trix van Hoof, Senior Policy Officer, Global Development Department, Nuffic visited IWM office on March 12, 2018 at 9:00 am. The main purpose of this visit was to monitor...
read moreMeeting of institutional Focal Points Delta Centre
The second meeting of Deltacap Centre Focal points has been held on Wednesday 21 march, 2018 from 10:30am -12:45pm at the meeting room of Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET. The meeting was chaired by Dr. M. Shah Alam Khan, Professor, IWFM, BUET who...
read moreUWD Hydro-social Deltas project : Exchange workshop
Lessons for flood risk management from resilience framing in the Netherlands and Bangladesh Group work task description Anna Wesselink 1 Overall aim The aim of the group work is to find differences and similarities in resilience in the domain of water management in...
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