HI-AWARE Stakeholders Consultation Workshop in Rangpur, Bangladesh

Programmes

HI-AWARE

Venue

The Begum Rokeya Auditorium, RDRS Campus, Rangpur, Bangladesh

Date & Time

07 January 2016

The Bangladesh Centre for Advance Studies (BCAS) is organizing a HI-AWARE stakeholders consultation workshop in Rangpur, Bangladesh on January 07, 2016 under the “Himalayan Adaptation, Water and Resilience (HI-AWARE) Research on Glacier and Snowpack Dependent River Basins for Improving Livelihoods”.

The workshop is a part of HI-AWARE’s stakeholder engagement strategy to put ‘research into use’ (RiU) with a focus on the Teesta floodplains in Bangladesh.

The objectives of the workshop are:

To prioritize key issues as understood from scientific and policy perspectives in the climate change adaptation context;
To identify key actors and their interests and roles in each of the prioritized issues;
To identify key stakeholders who the HI-AWARE team could engage with to varying degrees to influence policy and practice.

The workshop will bring together around 40 local level participants, including representatives from government agencies, local governments, community organizations, local NGOs and academic organizations.

The workshop programme is as follows

Time	Activity
09.30 – 10.00	Registration
10.00 – 10.15	Opening address and overview of HI-AWARE Dr. Md Abu Syed, BCAS
10.15 – 10.30	About the workshop Dr. Arabinda Mishra, ICIMOD
10.30 – 10.45	Issues and challenges in the Teesta floodplains Dr. Dwijen Mallick, BCAS
10.45 – 11.00	Tea break
11.00 – 13.00	Breakaway groups to do stakeholder analysis issue-wise wherein the stakeholders will identify actors, interests and influencing roles, power relationships and goals (network mapping) towards addressing the identified issues and challenges
13.00 – 14.00	Lunch break
14.00 – 14.45	Presentations by groups at a plenary
14.45 – 15.15	Breakaway groups to identify key stakeholders who the HI-AWARE team could engage with to varying degrees to influence policy and practice
15.15 – 15.45	Presentations by groups at a plenary
15.45 – 16.00	Concluding remarks and a wrap-up followed by tea

Contact Person: Nabir Mamnun

HI-AWARE Stakeholders Consultation Workshop in Rangpur, Bangladesh

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