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Participatory 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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UWD Hydro-social Deltas project Exchange workshop
“Lessons for flood risk management from resilience framing in the Netherlands and Bangladesh” was an innovative workweek workshop conducted in the Netherlands under a WOTRO funded project from February 10-18, 2018. Nine young professionals from Bangladesh (junior...
read moreDeveloping capacity to manage floods in Bangladesh
The recent monsoon-driven floods in south Asia severely impact food security of Bangladesh. Early arrival of this year's flash floods in the northeast and monsoon floods in the northwest destroyed the harvest of the majority of the rice-paddy fields of the country,...
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Workshop on Information Services for Farmers in Peri-Urban Khulna
The ‘Workshop on Information Services for Participatory Water Management’ in Peri-Urban Khulna was jointly organized by the DeltaCAP (www.deltacapproject.net) and WaterApps (www.waterapps.net) projects from 27-29th November, 2017. The venue of the workshop was CSS AVA...
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Information Services for Sustainable Delta Management – Participants speak!
Knowledge Portal will be useful for making plan for different project in my organization if it is free to access for future use. Exercise session is the most useful to me because through this stage i can understand easily what i learned from lecture. This training is...
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