In Bangladesh, participation discourse has officially become part of the objectives of the government and international agencies for water management projects since the mid-1990s. At the same historical timeframe, originating from indigenous knowledges Tidal River Management (TRM) has been formalized as a less structural and more natural management intervention to prevent the severe water-logging in the South-west region in the Bangladesh delta. It theoretically constituted a form of participation in the delta management system involving local community groups with government and management authorities. However, multi-stakeholder participation is still very challenging in practices. Even community management approaches are not sustained in delta management practices in Bangladesh. In this research, a socio-technical transformation is defined through a participatory research in the south-west coastal area having both qualitative and quantitative evaluation of changes in the delta management system brought about by TRM practices. This article also analyses the current problems besetting organized community participation in existing management practices and suggests the ways of developing effective multi-stakeholder processes (MSPs) with respect to sustainable management goal in deltas.

在孟加拉国，自1990年代中期以来，参与讨论已正式成为政府和国际机构的水管理项目目标的一部分。在相同的历史时间框架内，源自潮汐河管理（TRM）的本地知识已被正规化，以减少结构性和更自然的管理干预，以防止孟加拉国三角洲西南地区的严重涝灾。从理论上讲，它是参与三角洲管理系统的一种形式，该系统涉及地方社区团体以及政府和管理部门。但是，在实践中，多方利益相关者的参与仍然非常具有挑战性。在孟加拉国，甚至社区管理方法在三角洲管理实践中也无法维持。在这项研究中 通过在西南沿海地区进行的一项参与式研究，对社会技术转型进行了定义，该研究对TRM做法带来的三角洲管理体系变化进行了定性和定量评估。本文还分析了困扰有组织的社区参与现有管理实践的当前问题，并就三角洲的可持续管理目标提出了发展有效的多利益相关方流程的方法。