Center for Climate and Health GlObal Research on Disasters (CORD)
Research Collaborator: Lead: Tufts University, USA , Affiliate: IWFM, BUET
Duration: September 2023 - September 2026
Web-based Agricultural Information System for Bangladesh (WebAIS)
Research Collaborator: Lead: Technische Hochschule Koln-TH Koln, Germany, BD Lead: IWFM, BUET; Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), Affiliates: Tehnischen Universitat Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt); University of Bonn
Duration: June 2024 - August 2026
Improving Water Management in Micro Watersheds of Southwest Bangladesh through Physical Intervention and Community Participation
Research Collaborator: Lead: IWFM, BUET, Affiliate: Center of Resilience for Youth (CRY), Bangladesh
Duration: April 2024- December 2024
Implementation of geospatial technique in flood and drought monitoring for the safety of nuclear installations.
Research Collaborator: Lead: Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission (BAEC), Affiliate: IWFM, BUET
Duration: November, 2023 - June, 2027
Preparatory Survey on Chattogram – Cox’s Bazar Highway Improvement Project (Phase 2)
Research Collaborator: Unknown
Duration: September 2023 - November 2024
NIHR Global Health Research Centre on NCDs and Environmental Change
Research Collaborator: Lead: Imperial College London and The George Institute for Global Health, India International Centre for Diarrhoeal Research, University of Brawijaya, and Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education & Research
Duration: December 2024- December 2026
Anticipatory Action for Health in a Changing Climate
Duration: November 2024- April 2026
Application and Updating of the CCM for Cyclone Impact Prediction and the DFRM for the Risk-based Riverine Flood Warning in Bangladesh
Research Collaborator: Lead: FOREWARN , Collaborator :IWFM, BUET
Duration: April 2025- December 2025
Pilot and scale up Cyclone Classifier Model (CCM) and Dynamic Flood Risk Model (DFRM) for location-specific, impact-based cyclone, storm surge, and flood risk and impact assessment to support early action mechanism
Research Collaborator: Lead: Practical Action, Collaborator: IWFM, BUET
Duration: April 2025- December 2025
Assessing Sedimentation in Long-Term Morphological Time-Scale in GBM Delta
Research Collaborator: Lead: WARPO , Collaborator: IWFM, BUET
Duration: May 2025- April 2027
Improvement of Inundation Forecast to Develop Flood Resilient Society under Climate Change.
Research Collaborator: Lead: Kagawa University, Japan , Collaborator: University of Dhaka
Duration: May 2025- April 2030
UKRI GCRF Living Deltas Hub
Research Collaborator: Lead: Newcastle University, United Kingdom; Affiliate: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET
Duration: March, 2019 - December, 2024
Field Based Applied Research on “Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR)” technology for increasing cropping intensity of Bangladesh
Research Collaborator: Lead: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET; Affiliate: Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC)
Duration: December, 2020 - December, 2023
Sediment Discontinuity in Ganges River and its Impact on Flooding Patterns
Research Collaborator: Lead: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET
Duration: January 2022 - June 2025
Towards sustainable urban water management in Hindukush Himalayan (HKH) Region: a participatory approach to improving water security in mountain cities
Research Collaborator: Lead: Tribhuvan University, Nepal; Affiliates: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), India; and Chattogram University, Bangladesh
Duration: October 2021 - September 2023
Academic Alliance on Anticipatory Action
Research Collaborator: Lead: Tufts University, USA, Affiliate: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET
Duration: September, 2021 - September, 2023
Promoting Resilience of Vulnerable Through Access to Infrastructure, Improved Skills and Information (PROVATi³)
Research Collaborator: Lead: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET
Duration: September, 2019 - June, 2022
Research Project on Developing Flash Flood Early Warning System (FFEWS), Capacity Building and Knowledge Management for the Haor Region of Bangladesh
Research Collaborator: Lead: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET; Affiliates: Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC), Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB); Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD); Institute of Water Modeling (IWM)
ENHANCE-ENabling Humanitarian Attributes for Nurturing Community-based Engineering
Research Collaborator: Lead: The University of Warwick, The United Kingdom (UK); Affiliate: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET
Duration: November 15, 2018 - May 31, 2023
Understanding the Hydro-climatic Drivers of Cholera Outbreaks
Research Collaborator: Lead: University of Notre Dame, The United States of America (USA); Affiliate: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b); Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET
Duration: May, 2019 - March, 2023
Research on Water-related Disaster Mitigation and Environment Symbiosis Technology in Rural Bangladesh
Research Collaborator: Lead: Kyoto University, Affiliate: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET
Duration: October, 2019 - March, 2023
Assessing Health Impacts of Urban Flooding under Changing Climate: A Case Study in Dhaka City
Research Collaborator: Lead: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET
Duration: October 2021 - May 2022
Living Polders: Dynamic Polder Management for Sustainable Livelihoods, Applied to Bangladesh
Research Collaborator: Lead: Utrecht University; Affiliates: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET; Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, TNO Geological Survey, Netherlands
Duration: July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2021
CORE Bangladesh: COmmunity REsilience through Rapid Prototyping of Flood Proofing Technologies
Research Collaborator: Lead: UNESCO-IHE (IHE Delft Institute for Water Education); Affiliates: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET; Delft University of Technology, HKVLijn, Netherlands
Duration: July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2021
Oasis Platform for Climate and Catastrophe Risk Assessment – Asia
Research Collaborator: Lead: Oasis Loss Modeling Framework Ltd., The United Kingdom (UK); Affiliate: Department of Civil Engineering, BUET
Duration: January, 2019 - December, 2021
Research on Sediment Distribution and Management in South-West Region of Bangladesh
Research Collaborator: Lead: Water Resources Planning Organisation (WARPO); Affiliate: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET
Duration: July, 2019 - December, 2021
Early Prediction of Riverbank Erosion in Poorly Gauged River Using Free Satellite Data
Research Collaborator: Lead: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET
Environmental Sustainability through Enhancing Local Capacity in Textile Chemical and Waste Management
Research Collaborator: Lead: Department of Chemical Engineering, BUET
Duration: May, 2018 - April, 2021
Study on abstraction-induced recharge as an adaptation response to climate variation for shallow aquifer in Bangladesh
Research Collaborator: Lead: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET
Duration: October, 2018 - December, 2021
Impacts of Hydro-Limnological Changes on Breeding Performance of Major Carps in the River Halda
Research Collaborator: Lead: Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute (BFRI), Chandpur, Bangladesh; Affiliate: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET
Duration: December, 2018 - June, 2021
GWMap: Applying Machine Learning to map groundwater levels in Bangladesh
Research Collaborator: Lead: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BUET; Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET
Duration: July 2019 - December 2021
Development of IoT enabled data logger to monitor groundwater and analysis of the collected data
Research Collaborator: Lead: Institute of Water and Flood Management (IWFM), BUET; Affiliates: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, BUET, and Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB)
Duration: December 2019 - December 2021