Bapon Shm Fakhruddin, PhD

Provides leadership and oversight of the portfolio of investments in water resources for addressing climate change.

Leads the development of strategy, policy, technical documents, and tools focused on water development and investment and assessment that are aligned towards adaptation, mitigation, and overall country/sectoral programming strategies.

Oversees sectoral pipeline and portfolio performance to ensure investment targets are met.

Advocates with DMA colleagues and… Show more

Provides leadership and oversight of the portfolio of investments in water resources for addressing climate change.

Leads the development of strategy, policy, technical documents, and tools focused on water development and investment and assessment that are aligned towards adaptation, mitigation, and overall country/sectoral programming strategies.

Oversees sectoral pipeline and portfolio performance to ensure investment targets are met.

Advocates with DMA colleagues and GCF Program Leadership on water resource planning, management and development approaches, relevant methodologies, and country needs

Negotiates with external stakeholders as they access the Fund’s investment resources (including scalable catalytic facilities) and provide technical advice on water resources-related activities in line with GCF objectives.

In my current role:
Designed several co-investment platforms and global projects on water, education and early warning systems for more than 20 countries covering all continents and mobilised more than $6 billion USD.

Contributed to the replenishment and resource mobilisation for GCF-2, external relationships and NAP contributions for UNFCCC together with DEA and OGA colleagues.

Successfully audited over 30 projects, ensuring that GCF’s activities remain above reproach and aligned with global best practices.

Continues to lead development of strategy, policy, technical documents and tools focused on water development and investment and assessment aligned towards adaptation, mitigation and overall country/sectoral programming strategies. Show less

Assist with Asia Pacific disaster response fund of ADB.

Develop national climate change risk assessment framework (the framework) that enables a broad range of risks to be systematically compared. The aim of the Expert Panel is to develop the framework, which will then be used to complete the first Risk Assessment. The Risk Assessment will inform New Zealand’s National Adaptation Plan. The framework should also be of use to local government, iwi/hapū and other organisations.

Supervised Master and PhD students on disaster risk reduction and climate change research projects. Project covers - sand storm early warning system in Saudi Arab, infrastructures risk assessment for Fiji, disaster risk reduction practice for Volcano hazard in Indonesia, digital games in disaster preparedness education, disaster risk assessment for tourism sector in Philippines, etc.

Seconded from T+T to DPMC- MCDEM to develop national disaster loss database. MCDEM is the New Zealand focal point for the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. MCDEM is coordinating the development of a central data repository or National Loss Database for New Zealand. This database enable risk analysis tracking and support decision-making by central government, local government (CDEM Groups) and others participating stakeholders. We set up Desinventar Sendai server software (an… Show more

Seconded from T+T to DPMC- MCDEM to develop national disaster loss database. MCDEM is the New Zealand focal point for the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. MCDEM is coordinating the development of a central data repository or National Loss Database for New Zealand. This database enable risk analysis tracking and support decision-making by central government, local government (CDEM Groups) and others participating stakeholders. We set up Desinventar Sendai server software (an open-source and is free of charge) to report back to UN. Show less

Tonga’s capital, Nuku’alofa, is a growing city on the island of Tongatapu and is home to some 24,500 people. Its extreme vulnerability to the effects of climate change and a range of natural hazards demands greatly improved resilience to disaster and climate risk. ADB’s Strategy for 2020 identifies disaster and emergency assistance as one of its key areas of operation in the Pacific.

I have conducted an integrated disaster and climate risk reduction assessment to identify major gaps in… Show more

Tonga’s capital, Nuku’alofa, is a growing city on the island of Tongatapu and is home to some 24,500 people. Its extreme vulnerability to the effects of climate change and a range of natural hazards demands greatly improved resilience to disaster and climate risk. ADB’s Strategy for 2020 identifies disaster and emergency assistance as one of its key areas of operation in the Pacific.

I have conducted an integrated disaster and climate risk reduction assessment to identify major gaps in risk awareness and community-based disaster risk management practices, based on extensive literature research, secondary information and consultation with stakeholders. Show less

(i) updating the hydro-meteorological data projections based on latest climate change scenarios, and undertaking statistical downscaling to project local conditions (precipitation, temperature, and evaporation time series and statistics including extreme value analysis) for the short-, medium-, and long-term horizons using Arc SWAT model.
(ii) reviewing all available background information on climate change and climate change modeling for water resources, agriculture, and hydropower in… Show more

(i) updating the hydro-meteorological data projections based on latest climate change scenarios, and undertaking statistical downscaling to project local conditions (precipitation, temperature, and evaporation time series and statistics including extreme value analysis) for the short-, medium-, and long-term horizons using Arc SWAT model.
(ii) reviewing all available background information on climate change and climate change modeling for water resources, agriculture, and hydropower in Bhutan;
(iii) reviewing results of global (General Circulation Model) and regional climate modeling conducted under the "Fifth Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project" (CMIP5) of the World Climate Research Program supporting the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report; and providing a synthesis of this work and its implications for Bhutan with emphasis on water resources and irrigated agriculture;
(iv) reviewing existing, ongoing, and planned projects and activities involving the downscaling of outputs of the CMIP5 global projections (both dynamically via regional climate models and statistically), including the South Asia Coordinated Regional Climate Downscaling Experiment, and provide a synthesis of this work and its implications for Bhutan with emphasis on water resources; Show less

Mr. Fakhruddin primarily responsible for mainstreaming DRR initiatives in the IWRM framework. Given the disaster prone nature of the proposed intervention area, the success of IWRM initiatives will hinge on recognising the direct impact of non-water policies, especially those related to disaster risks, on water use and management; and thus requires a thorough examina-tion of disaster risks confronted by the region and identification of measures to mitigate them. This will be followed by… Show more

Mr. Fakhruddin primarily responsible for mainstreaming DRR initiatives in the IWRM framework. Given the disaster prone nature of the proposed intervention area, the success of IWRM initiatives will hinge on recognising the direct impact of non-water policies, especially those related to disaster risks, on water use and management; and thus requires a thorough examina-tion of disaster risks confronted by the region and identification of measures to mitigate them. This will be followed by mainstreaming DRR initiatives in the policy and IWRM framework of UPs and Pauroshavas. Show less

System designed and guidance for developing coastal inundation forecasting model.
Develop inundation scheme for the coastal inundation model by integrating cyclone, storm surge, wave and hydrodynamic modules in Bangladesh.
Develop JMA MRI Model and LISflood plug-in for FEWS platform.
Training and capacity building of Bangladesh Metrological Department (BMD) on coastal inundation model.
Develop decision support system to interpret and translate the science based information on… Show more

System designed and guidance for developing coastal inundation forecasting model.
Develop inundation scheme for the coastal inundation model by integrating cyclone, storm surge, wave and hydrodynamic modules in Bangladesh.
Develop JMA MRI Model and LISflood plug-in for FEWS platform.
Training and capacity building of Bangladesh Metrological Department (BMD) on coastal inundation model.
Develop decision support system to interpret and translate the science based information on ensembles forecasts.
Work as a PSG member for the CIFDP global program (i.e. Fiji, Dominic Republic, Indonesia, China, etc)
Shared development of CIF to tropical cyclone and Typhoon Committee in the region. Show less

# Hydrological modeling (HEC-series, MIKE-11, RRL, TOPKAPI, IFAS, and other lumped and Distributed models) for Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal for flood forecasting and other water related hazard analysis

# Flood risk management and community level applications of long lead flood forecasts. Developed DSS for multi-hazard risk management.

# Hydrological (Catchment, distributed, WB, discharge prediction) and climate (CLASIC) model processing and development. Analysis of ECMWF… Show more

# Hydrological modeling (HEC-series, MIKE-11, RRL, TOPKAPI, IFAS, and other lumped and Distributed models) for Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal for flood forecasting and other water related hazard analysis

# Flood risk management and community level applications of long lead flood forecasts. Developed DSS for multi-hazard risk management.

# Hydrological (Catchment, distributed, WB, discharge prediction) and climate (CLASIC) model processing and development. Analysis of ECMWF forecasts data to generate climate forecasts applications

# Storm surge modeling and generate inundation based on cyclone forecasts

# Climate Change adaptation strategy development and climate impact analysis for Asia. Capacity building modules on climate risk management.

# Environmental/planning related projects for the water sector and developing climate change/sea level rise scenarios based on IPCC recommendations for water and land use planning.

# Experienced in environmental issues, land and water resource problems, flood risk management, and integrated water resources management (IWRM). Developed analytical framework for planning for IWRM.

# Acquiring and processing data for hazard detection (i.e. sea level data for tsunami, river flow, and precipitation for flood risk management). Worked with NOAA as a resource person and coordinator for Deep Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis (DART) Tsunameter training, Concept of Operation for development of tsunami warning center’s operation guide, Radio and internet protocols for emergency communication

# Subject matter Expert on Incident Command System for Disaster Response.

# Design siren protocols, communication pathway for warning dissemination from national to local level in Indonesia

# Gender mainstreaming in integrated water resources management. Show less

Conducted vulnerability assessment for road infrastructure and designed community based early warning and emergency communication system for the road safety and communities in the pilot areas. The project supported by Asian Development Bank (ADB) for development major infrastructures for community resilience to future climate change. Fakhruddin designed an end to end early warning system, EOC and training to the the Government of Cambodia and Red Cross volunteers.

Designed UNDP GEF project on "Economy-wide integration of climate change adaptation and DRM/DRR to reduce vulnerability in Samoan communities" by assessing the vulnerability of key infrastructure in inland and coastal pilot sites to climate change induced hazards and proposing measures to strengthen their resilience against likely impacts over the coming decades.

Developed interventions, identify and validate through stakeholder consultations and technical feasibility assessments… Show more

Designed UNDP GEF project on "Economy-wide integration of climate change adaptation and DRM/DRR to reduce vulnerability in Samoan communities" by assessing the vulnerability of key infrastructure in inland and coastal pilot sites to climate change induced hazards and proposing measures to strengthen their resilience against likely impacts over the coming decades.

Developed interventions, identify and validate through stakeholder consultations and technical feasibility assessments including that consideration of their costs and benefits. The cost effectiveness of the proposed measure pertaining to infrastructure should also be ascertained.

Developed adaptation measures for the water infrastructure of Samoa for future climate change.

Designed flood forecasting and coastal inundation modeling for Samoa Show less

USAID funded 'African and Latin American Resilience to Change (ARCC) Program'- Conducting an assessment for opportunities to improve the efficiency and sustainability of groundwater and climate change in West Africa.

Mr. Fakhruddin working on the following projects:

USAID funded " SHOUHARDO-I/II" program of CARE Bangladesh- Developed medium and long range ensembles probabilistic flood forecasting technology for community level applications. May 2008- to May 2013.

Fakhruddin developed a flood forecasting model for the Wangchhu river basin in Bhutan. The Hydro Met Services Division under the Department of Energy is implementing the project “Support to Enhancing Adaptive Capacity to Climate… Show more

Mr. Fakhruddin working on the following projects:

USAID funded " SHOUHARDO-I/II" program of CARE Bangladesh- Developed medium and long range ensembles probabilistic flood forecasting technology for community level applications. May 2008- to May 2013.

Fakhruddin developed a flood forecasting model for the Wangchhu river basin in Bhutan. The Hydro Met Services Division under the Department of Energy is implementing the project “Support to Enhancing Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change”, funded by Danida, under the Danida Climate and Development Action Programme

Fakhruddin is developing a decision support system that will be linked with the multi models outputs to assist in preparing preferred interventions for subsequent decision making for differential hazards for Vietnam, China, Bangladesh, and Maldives under Norway Government support program.

Fakhruddin developed a SOP for disaster risk management for the BRAC Bangladesh under the BRAC USA contract

Regional Training on End-to-End Early Warning System

Fakhruddin designed the regional training module for end to end early warning system based on his long experience on early warning system in the region.

Regional Training on Climate Risk Management

Regional Training Integrated Water Resources Management Show less

development of a seasonal flood outlook for Asia using global seasonal forecasts (CCSM3) with bias correction and hydrological analysis.

Enhanced cyclone risk management in Bangladesh USAID funded " Nobo Jiban" program. The largest food security program.

Developed cyclone and severe weather early warning system and capacity building of local community and volunteers on interpretation and response of early warning system.

Established volunteers for local level rainfall observation, developed storm surge model for coastal inundations forecasting.

Development of standard operation procedures for the BRAC (the largest NGO) in Bangladesh and micro-finance organization.
Develop and capacity building of BRAC Uganda, Sierra Leon, Pakistan and Tanzania on emergency response management, early warning system. Develop SOP and contingency plan for these countries.

Identify lessons learned for the USAID OFDA funded disaster risk management project in the Asia. Conduct assessment and interview with partners organizations and implementing agencies. The objective of the project is to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and constraints in DRR activities in order to strategize about DRR program development in the face of uncertain hydro-meteorological future; provide recommendations to the DRR community along with statements about the potential… Show more

Identify lessons learned for the USAID OFDA funded disaster risk management project in the Asia. Conduct assessment and interview with partners organizations and implementing agencies. The objective of the project is to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and constraints in DRR activities in order to strategize about DRR program development in the face of uncertain hydro-meteorological future; provide recommendations to the DRR community along with statements about the potential impacts of not implementing those recommendations; use lessons identified from implementing disaster risk reduction programs to inform and enhance climate-related decision making processes at various levels of society and share lessons-related knowledge and experience for resilient adaptation activities for climate change at community, national, regional and river basin levels. Show less

Evaluation of Community Based Early Warning System Project
Evaluation of National Disaster Management Project

Fakhruddin worked in ADPC in the following projects:

Government of Norway supported project on Capacity Building of National Focal Points for Effective Dissemination of Natural Hazard Early Warning System, Bangladesh, China and Vietnam

USAID supported Climate Forecast Application in Bangladesh together with National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR),

Government of Pakistan and SDC funded program on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction… Show more

Fakhruddin worked in ADPC in the following projects:

Government of Norway supported project on Capacity Building of National Focal Points for Effective Dissemination of Natural Hazard Early Warning System, Bangladesh, China and Vietnam

USAID supported Climate Forecast Application in Bangladesh together with National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR),

Government of Pakistan and SDC funded program on Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction, Pakistan

Fakhruddin involved in analyzing rainfall information (0.5 x 0.5 degree) using Indian and Bangladesh observed data (1978-2007) as well as satellite information and estimate climatic parameters using the simulation of suitable GCM models and one downscale scenario for three projections for 2020- 2050, 2050-2080 and 2080-2100 with GCM output for Bangladesh and overlay with hydrological information.

UNESCAPE supported Concept of Operation for End-to-end Early Warning System, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Myanmar

Enhance Early Warning Dissemination System for Maldives, Myanmar and Sri Lanka

Incident Command System for Disaster Management, Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, Iran, Maldives, Myanmar, Thailand, Indonesia

Policy and Institutional Assessment for Disaster Management, Thailand, Indonesia and Sri Lanka

UNDP supported Design End-to-End Early Warning System for Seychelles


ITU supported Emergency Telecommunication System for Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Maldives Show less

To build the capacity of national emergency institutes as well as media (IRIB) on disaster risk reduction and climate change, roles of media in disaster risk reduction

Worked as a Regional Water and Sanitation Specialist for the WATSAN program of Eco-Asia of USAID/RDMA Bangkok. The programs cover eight countries of Asia ( i.e. Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam) to support water supply and sanitation facilities to meet support Paul Simon Water for the Poor Act of 2005 and UN Millennium Development Goals.

Work as a resource person to conduct climate change adaptation for South Asian countries

Work as an Instructor for the Incident Command Training for the SAARC member states and IOTWS program

Work as coordinator and program design for ICS for emergency response.

Provide training to Government of Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka on ICS. Conduct training in USA for different Government officials.

Worked with United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service (USFS) as a lead trainer and technical specialist to implement Incident Command System (ICS) for the disaster response management in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Thailand
Worked with National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and USFS as a emergency communication specialist to develop the tsunami alert rapid notification system to enhance early warning dissemination network, development of protocols… Show more

Worked with United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service (USFS) as a lead trainer and technical specialist to implement Incident Command System (ICS) for the disaster response management in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Thailand
Worked with National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and USFS as a emergency communication specialist to develop the tsunami alert rapid notification system to enhance early warning dissemination network, development of protocols, procedures for Thailand and Indonesia
Worked with US Geological Survey (USGS) as resource person and coordinator for conducting seismic and tsunami warning system training, tsunami travel time modeling, seismic modeling
Conducted on policy and institutional assessment for early warning to support NDMO;s in Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Indonesia
Worked with NOAA as a resource person and coordinator for Deep Deep-ocean Assessment and Reporting of Tsunamis (DART) Tsunameter training, Concept of Operation for development of tsunami warning center’s operation guide, Radio and internet protocols for emergency communication
Worked on community based disaster risk management program in the south of Thailand with AIT and University of Hawaii, USA for training on community based early warning system
Developed Siren protocols, communication pathway for warning dissemination from national to local level in Indonesia Show less

Developed assessment report for emergency telecommunication system for disaster management in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Maldives. Published under ITU

•Worked as an environmental / natural resources management analyst for development of model for sea level rise impact on land use for the districts: Shatkhira, Khulna and Bagerhat in Bangladesh.
•Worked with WARPO (Water Resources Planning Organization) to prepare National Adaptation Program for Action (NAPA) document for Water, coastal, natural disaster and health sector for future climate changes.
•Worked with Riverside Technology, Inc., (RTi), from USA as a hydrologist in development… Show more

•Worked as an environmental / natural resources management analyst for development of model for sea level rise impact on land use for the districts: Shatkhira, Khulna and Bagerhat in Bangladesh.
•Worked with WARPO (Water Resources Planning Organization) to prepare National Adaptation Program for Action (NAPA) document for Water, coastal, natural disaster and health sector for future climate changes.
•Worked with Riverside Technology, Inc., (RTi), from USA as a hydrologist in development of community based flood information system (CFIS) model in Daulatpur and Nagarpur Upazilas, Bangladesh for risk reduction by providing advance information on flood to the community.
•Worked with CARE Bangladesh as project coordinator to implement the cyclone shelter management system for high-risk area in the coastal zone of Bangladesh. This include status survey of shelters, building user friendly GIS based database and a Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS) for resource allocation to implement new shelters and maintenance programme.
•Worked as scientist in development of CLASIC (CLimate And Sea Level Change in part of the Indian Sub-Continent) project funded by DFID. The study was examining the implication of changes in climate and sea level rise on water resources availability and coastal flooding with particular reference to Bangladesh.
•Worked with Delft Hydraulics, Netherland as a analyst to implement computational framework for IWRM for the Ministry of Water Resources of Bangladesh. Under this program, sectoral water demand, availability, constraints, land and water resource allocation rules will be computed for the national level water resource planning. Several models were introduce and developed ( SOBEK, RIBSIM, PCRASTER, etc)
•Participate in producing report on need assessment for flood and erosion information at national and local level under Environmental Monitoring Information Network (EMIN) project funded CIDA. Show less

Preparing vulnerability maps for arsenic contamination in the project area. Provided training on Arc View GIS to office staff of AAN.

Provide technical Assistant to Managing Director for preparing project planning, revenue earning, corporate management and demand management
Working with safe water supply and sanitation for urban risk management and wastewater management.

Developed a case study on Gender Mainstreaming in Water Resources Management. Published under UN, New York, USA

Assist in development flood forecasting models. Technical support on annual report and technical report writing. Data Analysis on hydrology.