Dr. Nishat, Professor Emeritus of BRAC University presented on Managing Water Resources as of Bangladesh Delta Plan (BDP) 2100. Participants from multiple backgrounds took part in inciting discussion sessions, as well as one-to-one conversations during recess.
A workshop titled "Science-Policy Interaction in Adaptive Delta Planning" was held at the Council Bhaban, BUET on 30th and 31st October 2016. Professor Dr. Saiful Islam, Vice Chancellor, BUET led the workshop, and Dr. Shamsul Alam, Member (Senior Secretary), General Economics Division (GED), Planning Commission graced the workshop as chief guest. The workshop was mutually sorted out by General Economic Division of Planning Commission and Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET, this workshop united specialists from various areas of Bangladesh to connect in different parts of the Bangladesh Delta Plan 2100 being detailed under GED's authority and the ESPA Deltas Project actualized by a consortium of research establishments in UK, Bangladesh and India (with IWFM-BUET as the Lead Institution in Bangladesh), and how the discoveries and yields of the ESPA Deltas Project can adequately add to the Bangladesh Delta Plan.
In acknowledgment of the requirement for an integrated way to deal with future land and water management in connection to water well being and sustenance security, the BDP 2100 has been planned with a long haul vision without bounds of Bangladesh Delta, expecting to offer a long haul, all encompassing and coordinated arrangement. The method is required to permit wanting to be versatile and dynamic by always considering vulnerabilities in future advancements in environmental change, financial improvement, populace development and local collaboration. In the workshop, experts and knowledgeable people from scientific communities, had a chance to deliberate upon various topics (‘managing water resources’, ‘agriculture, food security, livelihood’, ‘urban water management’, ‘inland water transport’, and ‘investment plan financing and governance’) of the Delta Plan.