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Research Project on Disaster Prevention/Mitigation Measures against Floods and Storm Surges in Bangladesh

Disaster Prevention and Mitigation

People's Republic of Bangladesh

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Research Project on Disaster Prevention/Mitigation Measures against Floods and Storm Surges in Bangladesh

Consider Action on Floods and Storm Surges to Break the Disaster-poverty Spiral in Bangladesh

  • SDGs11
  • SDGs06
  • SDGs13

Principal Investigator

    • Prof./ Director
      NAKAGAWA Hajime

      Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University
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    • Prof./ Director
      Md. Munsur Rahman

      Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)

ODA Recipient Country

People's Republic of Bangladesh

Research Institutions in Japan

Kyoto University / The University of Tokyo / Kochi University

Research Institutions in Counterpart Country

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), etc.

Adoption fiscal year

FY 2013

Research Period

5 Years

Overview of the Research Project

Investigate measures using Japanese science and technology to prevent or mitigate flood and storm surge damage
Bangladesh suffers significant damage due to flooding and storm surges, and this exacerbates poverty, further reducing the ability to counter such damage and generating a downward spiral. Preventing and mitigating damage is an urgent task. This project is attempting to produce flood and storm surge hazard maps, to propose measures to reduce damage from riverbank erosion and levee collapse, to develop warning and evacuation systems, and to work on predicting and taking action against flood-driven dispersal of harmful substances. The aim is to construct resilient local communities.

Learn resilience and disaster prevention to escape from the spiral of disaster and poverty
Progress in this project will enable the authorities to incorporate scientifically grounded recommendations into their measures and plans. It is hoped that enhancing local ability to survey, analyze, and predict flood and storm surge damage will result in communities with local disaster prevention capabilities that are resilient to disasters. That would make it possible to break the disaster-poverty spiral.

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Surveys using interviews in a Hindu community (Arpangsia in Khulna District)

Surveys using interviews in a Hindu community (Arpangsia in Khulna District)

Poor polder drainage and sedimentation resulted in inundation up to the levels of discoloration on the buildings (Kapotakho in Khulna District)

Poor polder drainage and sedimentation resulted in inundation up to the levels of discoloration on the buildings (Kapotakho in Khulna District)

Levees are eroded and farmland is lost as the Jamuna River changes its course (Break in the Chondonbaisha levee at Sariakandi)

Levees are eroded and farmland is lost as the Jamuna River changes its course (Break in the Chondonbaisha levee at Sariakandi)

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