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Collaborative Programs
One of the strategic plans of the Institute is to undertake collaborative and linkage programs in the field of water and flood management. It is in the national interest that such cooperation between the Institute and various local and international organizations be grown. Since its establishment in 1974, the Institute has worked in collaboration with different local and international organizations.
Water Security in Peri-Urban South Asia: Adapting to Climate Change and Urbanization This Collaborative Action Research has been lunched through four research think-tank institutions of South Asia, South Asia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies (SaciWATERS), Hyderabad, India; Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh; Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon, India and Nepal Engineering College (nec), Kathmandu, Nepal. Formally this three years project has been commenced on 12th July, 2010 and the project is funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada. Regional Capacity Building in Water Sector in South Asia
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The Institute is participating in a five-year (2005 - 2009) program of regional capacity building in integrated water resource management and gender & water in South Asia. The program is coordinated by the South Asian Consortium for Interdisciplinary Water Resources Studies (SaciWATERs) based in Hyderabad, India. The program is funded by the Government of the Netherlands. Partner institutes are Bangladesh Center for Advanced Studies (BCAS), Wageningen University of Netherlands, Anna University and Institute for Rural Management of India, and Perideniya University of Sri Lanka. Institutes from Pakistan, Nepal and Bhutan will also join the program soon. The project is to provide ten fellowships in each year to postgraduate students of IWFM to pursue M.Sc. in Water Resources Development and five Ph.D. fellowships during the project duration. It would also include exchange of staff and students among partner institutions.
Effectiveness of Bandal-like Structures as Sustainable Solution to River Erosion in Bangladesh
River erosion is one of the big challenges in water management in Bangladesh where most of the rivers are alluvial. The Institute is conducting a research project on Effectiveness of Bandal-like Structures as Sustainable Solution to River Erosion in Bangladesh. The project is being sponsored by the Japan Asian Friendship Society (JAFS) of Japan. The duration of the project is six years from 2005 to 2011. The goal of the research project is to develop a sustainable method for river erosion protection where locally available material and expertise of local people and local researchers would be utilized and would be technically sound, economically viable, suitable for environmental preservation and acceptable to the local community.
Development of a 3D Hydro-morphological Model for Rivers
Collaboration between BUET and JAFS
High-resolution Regional Climate Change Information for Bangladesh to Inform Impacts Assessments, Vulnerability Indicators and Adaptation Policies T his is a joint proposal by the Met Office Hadley Centre (MOHC) and Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET). This proposal is for a follow-up project, following the recently completed Capacity Building in Climate Modelling in Bangladesh (CBCMBD) project funded by UKaid from DFID. The CBCMBD project delivered a fully functional computer lab at BUET and trained the Bangladesh climate researchers to understand and apply climate change models to generate regional climate change scenarios. While this project delivered one of the key requirements of enabling the in-country climate researchers to carry out their own climate change assessments using the Met Office regional climate model, there is a need for Upazila level high-resolution climate information, taking into account various uncertainties in climate projections for decision making. Predicting impacts of climate change at local level, for example at Upazila level, requires climate change information at about 25km spatial resolution. In order to make this climate change information user-relevant and policy oriented, this project proposes to provide climate projections using probabilistic approach based on the Met Office perturbed physics ensemble of climate model simulations.Increasing the Resilience of Agricultural and Aquaculture Systems in the coastal Areas of the Gangs Delta; G4: Assessment of Impact of Anticipated External Drivers on Water Resources of Coastal Zone Collaboration among BUET, IWM, IWMI and BWDB
Development of a Water Resources Model as a Decision Support Tool for National Water Management
The Institute is conducting a research study in collaboration with the Water Resources Planning Organization (WARPO) of the Ministry of Water Resources on the development of a system of grid-based water resources models, which includes a global model for the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) basins, a national model for the country, and a wetland-focused regional model for the Haor basin. Grid-based models can represent spatial variability in climate, physical characteristics and water use. The modeling system will serve as a decision support tool in the planning and management of water resources of Bangladesh, and will aid in updating of the National Water Management Plan (NWMP). The duration of the project is three years (2005-2008).
Risk-based Evaluation of Brahmaputra Water Development in Meeting Future Water Demand
The Institute is conducting a research study in collaboration with the Water Resources Planning Organization (WARPO) of the Ministry of Water Resources on the development of a stochastic model and risk-based performance indicators that would enable improved assessment of the options for development of the Brahmaputra river in meeting the long-term water demand in the country. This study is in line with the National Water Management Plan (NWMP) program on the long-term development of the main rivers for multi-purpose use, and will aid in updating of the NWMP. Other collaborating organizations in the study are Center for Environmental and Geographical Information Services (CEGIS) and Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC). The duration of the project is two years (2005-2007).
Impact of CLimate And Sea level change in part of the Indian sub-Continent (CLASIC)
The Institute collaborated with the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH), UK on investigation of the implications of climate change on water resources availability from Ganges, Brahmaputra and Meghna basins in the Indian subcontinent with particular reference to Bangladesh. Other collaborating organizations were Hadley Centre, UK; Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory (POL), UK and Center of Environmental and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS), Dhaka. The project was funded by the Department For International Development (DFID), UK. The project also examined the possible impacts of climate change upon cyclonic storm surges in the Bay of Bengal, which affect low-lying coastal regions particularly Bangladesh. The duration of the project was from 2003 to 2006.
Risk based planning: Development of Curriculum, Professional Training and Knowledge Transfer (RISKPLAN)
The RiskPlan project set out to develop a post graduate degree level curriculum in the Asian and EU partner countries with a view to transfer skills, expertise, knowledge and the best practices from EU in risk based planning in particular and decision making under uncertainty in general. The target groups comprised academic researchers, faculty members and research students, industrial practitioners and technical executives working in private and public sectors. The aim was to create educational modules that would be delivered through classroom settings, electronic media and online learning. The partnership was composed of IWFM of Bangladesh, Brunel University of UK, University of Vienna of Austria and Jadavpur University of India. The duration of the project was 2 years (2005 - 2006). The project was funded by EU under their Asia-Link program.
Several other collaborative programs were conducted by IWFM in the past with the following organizations.
Local Organizations
International Organizations
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