Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh

Total Consultancy Contract Value: 7.3 million USD

Date of start and Completion: Dec 2018 – May 2022

Partners: The Joint Venture of Protek Yapi Engineering Co., NKY Architectural and Engineering Co., and Sheltech (Pvt.) Limited

Sub Consultant: VESTA ECC

Risk Sensitive Zoning: 1528 km²

Action Plans: 450

Boreholes and CPT and SPT Tests: 2400

Clients: World Bank, Rajdhani Unnayan Katripakkha (RAJUK), Bangladesh Ministry of Housing and Public Works

Project Description:

The project was defined to fulfill the following tasks:

• Stage 1: Project Organization, Data Collection, and Situation Analysis
• Stage 2: Development of the internal guidelines and processes for RSLUP to upgrade/reform the current planning system
• Stage 3: Training and Capacity Building for risk-sensitive planning

The project can be summarized into these two main objectives:

• To review, enrich, and strengthen the current planning regulation, process, and methods of
• RAJUK, to ensure that DAPs (detailed area plans) are risk-sensitive.
• To improve ownership for consultation, learning, and consensus building within RAJUK and other agencies involved in the land-use planning process of Dhaka.

It covered the whole of Greater Dhaka (covering around 1528 km²).

Provided Services:

• Policy and Institutional Development

An essential component of the studies in this project was related to:

1. 1. Creation of operational procedures of infrastructure resiliency development plans funded under the World Bank for DMDP including executed infrastructure investments in the last 20 years coupled with designing Urban Resiliency Unit to support cities in preparing and implementing these projects;
   2. Development of data-driven strategic plans and enhancing the options to access infrastructure financing with a long-term investment plan objective;
   3. Providing policy advice to central ministries as well as technical support for RAJUK and local governments to catalyze the delivery of infrastructure in the sectors of transformative urban mobility and disaster risk reduction;
   4. Development of an awareness campaign and dissemination of key messages on specific urban development gaps and capacity building to inform national policymakers.

• Developing Resiliency Tool (RT)

In this project, a valuable and practical tool was developed to evaluate the amount of resiliency and sustainability across the DMDP area which is composed of 10 different but inter-related components including:

Effective Leadership, Management, And Planning, Strengthen Financial Capacity, Understanding Disaster Risk, Resilient Development, Infrastructure Resilience, Skills and Experience, Community Organization, Natural Environment and Ecosystem, Effective Disaster Response, and Recovery and Build Back Better.

• Flood Hazard and Risk Studies

The steps for preparing a flood risk map for DMDP are as follows:

Literature review, Data collection and assessment, Data check & Review and data gap analysis, Assessment and process of the collected data to determine the appropriate hydraulic model, Preparation data for hydrodynamics model including topographic (DEM, rivers’ plan, cross sections, alignment, bed resistant, etc., land-use and land-cover) information of the computational domain and hydrological information (This information will be used by the model to simulate flood scenarios), Model preparation, implementation, calibration, and validation, Scenario developments, Model simulation and results interpretation, Flood Vulnerability assessment (Damage of different flood scenarios in the study area), Development of Risk maps (Using flood vulnerability results).

• Microzonation Studies

The JV delivered the services for Microzonation and Multi-Hazard Assessment for the World Bank as part of the Development of Risk Sensitive Land Use Planning practice (RSLUP), DHAKA – Bangladesh

• Training Courses

As part of the contract, Protek-Yapi delivered its educational services regarding risk-sensitive Planning.

• Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Practice in DMDP

Under Stage 1 of the project, and in response to climate and metrological hazards, Protek-Yapi has addressed the effects of climate change including the change of land cover and contribution to irregular floods and storms in Bangladesh by focusing on both mitigation and adaptation activities. Adaptation to climate change involves adjustment to natural or human systems in response to actual or expected climatic stimuli or their effects, to moderate harm or exploit beneficial opportunities. To complement the mitigation efforts, we have also employed adaptive measures to ensure that the negative impacts of climate change is reduced, taking Dhaka one step closer to sustainability.