{"id":2159,"date":"2018-02-19T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/?p=2159"},"modified":"2018-02-14T15:15:44","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T15:15:44","slug":"espa-deltas-holds-final-workshop-with-the-planning-commission-in-bangladesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/2018\/02\/19\/espa-deltas-holds-final-workshop-with-the-planning-commission-in-bangladesh\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPA Deltas holds final workshop with the Planning Commission in Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Saiful Alam<\/em><\/p>\n

DECCMA builds on a project under the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) programme – ESPA Deltas<\/a>. Following closure of ESPA Deltas in 2016 policy-makers in Bangladesh requested support in the use of tools developed within the project to assess the implications of government project proposals on ecosystem services and livelihoods in coastal Bangladesh. An additional year of funding was granted to ensure that the developed research could be translated into use to inform policy.<\/a><\/p>\n

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ESPA workshop (photo: Saiful Alam)<\/p><\/div>\n

The final workshop of this extension project took place last week at the Planning Commission in Dhaka. Chaired by Professor Shamsul Alam, Senior Secretary in the General Economic Division of the Planning Commission, the workshop provided the opportunity for researchers to present their evaluations of the effect of three interventions proposed under the Delta Plan 2100<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Research team members Professor Robert Nicholls<\/a> and Dr Alex Chapman (University of Southampton<\/a>) and Professors Md. Munsur Rahman, Mashfiqus Salehin and Anisul Haque (Institute of Water and Flood Management, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology<\/a>) outlined the implications of three structural interventions under the Delta Plan 2100: \u2018Green belt\u2019 along the\u00a0 coastal vulnerable area and sea walls along a selection of polders (sea-facing and a cluster in the south central part of the coast).<\/p>\n

Professor Alam\u00a0expressed his appreciation for the analysis and stated that it will allow more confidence about its application. DECCMA has furthered the evolving relationship with the Planning Commission. Professor Alam expressed his interest in DECCMA’s integrated assessment model to assess the impacts of cyclones on the coast, sediment management and water-logging.<\/p>\n

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by Saiful Alam DECCMA builds on a project under the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA) programme – ESPA Deltas. Following closure of ESPA Deltas in 2016 policy-makers in Bangladesh requested support in the use of tools developed within the project to assess the implications of government project proposals on ecosystem services and livelihoods in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2570,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,18],"tags":[60,62,58,78],"class_list":["post-2159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences-meetings","category-gbm-bangladesh","tag-bangladesh","tag-delta-plan","tag-ganges-brahmaputra-meghna","tag-integrated-assessment-model"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8jyTh-yP","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2130,"url":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/deccma\/2018\/01\/18\/deccma-special-session-on-science-policy-dialog-at-the-4th-gobeshona-conference\/","url_meta":{"origin":2159,"position":0},"title":"DECCMA Special Session on Science-Policy Dialogue at the 4th Gobeshona Conference","author":"Lucy Graves","date":"18th January 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"by Mashrekur Rahman The venue for this year\u2019s Gobeshona Annual Conference for Research on Climate Change in Bangladesh was the Independent University of Bangladesh (IUB). 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