RCE Greater Dhaka-2012

Submitted by RCEgreaterdhaka on Wed, 2012-08-01 00:00
1. Leadership, Vision and Objectives
1. Vision of your RCE: 
RCE Greater Dhaka facilitates collaboration to research, develop and promote Education for Sustainability and Global Citizenship, so that is central to the emergence of a sustainable Bangladesh. The vision of the RCE Greater Dhaka is to tackle the problems identified in the key ESD challenges in the region and contribute to the promotion of Education for Sustainable Development both locally, regionally and globally. The RCE’s ultimate vision is to engage all Bangladeshis in lifelong learning and effective change of sustainable ways of well-being, living, working and acting. It is envisioned that the RCE Greater Dhaka will serve as an example of good practice to other regions facing similar sustainability challenges and issues and contribute to the goals set by the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development.
2. Leadership structure
a. Administration: 
2
b. Transactional : 
5
c. Transformational : 
3
2. Social Network
3. Core partners: 
1. Center for Global Environmental Culture (CGEC), IUBAT—International University of Business Agriculture and Technology, Dhaka-1230 (Lead Institution)
2. Rotary District 3280 Bangladesh with Rotary Club of greater Dhaka
3. Institute of Forestry and Environmental Sciences, University of Science and Technology Chittagong (USTC), Chittagong
4. Department of Policies and Governance, Gono Vishwa Bidyalaya, Dhaka,
5. Environmental Engineering, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet,
6. Khulna University, Khulna
7. WWOOF Bangladesh
8. Nawab Habibullah Model College, Dhaka
9. Red Crescent Youth, Chittagong
10. FEPPCAR: Forestry Environment Plantation Crops and Permaculture Consultancy and Research
4. Cooperation and communication : 
Regular discussion with the partners through meeting and workshops, visit project site and through Tele and electronic communication.
5. Facilitating development
Connections / Partnership with
UN institutions
yes/no: 
Yes
If yes, give examples: 
UNESCO, UN Habitat, UNDP, UNEP
Other international organizations
yes/no: 
Yes
If yes, give examples: 
IGBP, IFOAM, WWOOF International, Caritas, IIED
Other RCEs
yes/no: 
Yes
If yes, give examples: 
RCE Penang, RCE Guwahati, RCE Tongyeong, RCE Cha-am
International experts
yes/no: 
Yes
If yes, give examples: 
Dr Sara Scherr, Dr Saleemul Huq, Dr Payyappalli, Prof Kojii Matshuka, Prof PL Younger, Professor Eric Frank
Expert organizations at national, regional and global levels
yes/no: 
Yes
If yes, give examples: 
Arannyak, UNESCO Dhaka, JICA, UNDP, DFID, West Concern
Others
If yes, give examples: 
Bangladesh Bank
6. Social network
a. Information network (exchanging information, e.g. building up a database for SD projects): 
3
b. Knowledge network (creating knowledge by collaboration, e.g. finding synergies between partners by experience exchange): 
4
c. Innovation network (creating innovation by co-creation and shared vision,e.g. investigating new solutions for challenges by f: 
3
3. Participation
8. Participation opportunities
a.Informational participation (people get informed about decisions and actions): 
2
b.Consultation participation (people are asked about their needs and opinions): 
4
c.Decision influencing participation (people are involved in decision making processes): 
4
4. Education & Learning
9. Educational activities : 
Educational activities especially for the youths and students and women are showing enthusiasm and practicing the ESD lessons and I consider these groups are more functional to realize our vision. Government and NGOs are showing interest but most of them are crazy for fund. However, our continuous formal and informal educations are gradually encouraging towards good governance and self motivation.
10. Competences and capabilities : 
A close relation has been built up among the partners; awareness and sustainable practices are being implemented in the educational institutes especially, energy saving and green energy (installation of urban solar panels in the urban high rise buildings), recycling, pollution control, tree plantation and biodiversity conservation, reducing carbon footprint by using computers and internets.
Connections / Partnership with
a. Access to quality basic education
yes/no: 
Yes
If yes, give examples: 
Environmental Science and management course has been introduced for all students
b. Training for different sectors of the society
yes/no: 
Yes
If yes, give examples: 
Regular training are conducting for the local communities, students and youths, women, slum dwellers.
c. Public awareness
yes/no: 
Yes
If yes, give examples: 
Environmental events, cultural programs, ecotourisn, environmental olympiads, immunization against communal diseases, media publication,
d. Reorientation of existing education
yes/no: 
No
12. Educational activities
a. Theory (communicating of ESD principles, strategies, examples): 
3
b. Discussion (knowledge exchange and mutual learning on ESD): 
3
c. Interactive & Multidimensional (Action oriented learning, e.g. workshops, intergenerational, interdisciplinary,…) : 
4
5. Research Integration
13. Research & Development (R&D): 
As a most densely populated regional RCE, R & D is the major component to solve huge crises finding new ways and searching the values of traditional knowledge. Many crises arise due to secondary activities like rural-urban migration with illiterate low-income people who do not aware of the fast urban lifestyle and used to create problems in transportation, slums, polluting and misusing water resource; refuse disposal and of course social crimes. Again unplanned construction, industrial wastes are polluting air, water and soil by the entrepreneurs; destruction of wet bodies by land filling and encroachment where political and other influential organizations are involved. These need extensive studies to overcome the problems.
14. Research partners : 
International University of Business Agriculture and Technology (IUBAT): Water, waste, pollution, Industrial Effluent treatment, Disaster management, Coastal zone management, Sustainable Agriculture, Health and Sanitation, Nutrition and Food Security, Climate Change, Biodiversity

Department of Environment (DoE): Water, waste, pollution, transportation etc.

Shahjalal University of Science and Technology: Disaster management, E Learning, Biodiversity

Khulna University: Coastal zone management, waste management, Biodiversity conservation of the Mangrove Forests, Sundarbans, Sustainable Fishery management, Water-logging and Arsenic contamination

Bangladesh Water Development Board: Water quality and water supply and water treatment, flood management
Ministry of Food and Disaster management: Food security and Disaster management

WWOOF Bangladesh: Organic Farming, Permaculture and Sustainable Agriculture, Traditional Knowledge, Sharing organic life

Caritas: Disaster management and human resource development (proposed)

Feppcar: Habit and habitat research, scientific approaches of traditional and ethnic cultural practices are deeply considered for sustainable agriculture and socio-economic development. Adaptation and soil and space utilization, Traditional knowledge and Ethnic culture.
15. Description of research
a. Disciplinary (focusing on one discipline of research, e.g. social aspects) : 
2
b. Interdisciplinary (taking interrelations between disciplines into account, e.g. economic effects on the environment and peopl: 
4
c. Transdisciplinary (involving affected people into your research activities, e.g. interviews with affected people): 
4
Tagging
Continent: 
Europe
Country: 
Austria
Region: 
Europe
Type: 
Project Reports