Informing and Involving the Flood Exposed Community in Fulcharri Upazila at Ghaibandha District Bangladesh on Flood Risks and Mitigation

Involving citizens, and a broad range of stakeholders and beneficiaries from the government, private and non-profit sectors, more regularly and directly is one of the key components in project design, development, decision-making and implementation process. Traditional top-down approach to project implementation have increasingly lost public participation and support and been replaced with more deliberative, inclusive and communicative with the local people. This article is discussing the effective engagement of the stakeholders and beneficiaries through the project workshop, a key part of the component 1, 'Flood Disaster Risk Assessment and Mitigation' under the project Disaster Prevention/Mitigation Measures against Floods and Storm Surges in Bangladesh. Gaibandha one of the highly river flood prone districts in Bangladesh is considered as a case study under this project. This article presenting the active community participation, collecting their response and sharing knowledge to empower the participants and to improve the project on flood risks assessment and mitigation process to minimise the flash flood impacts and to ensure sustainability