BANCAT is a voluntary professional association of Soil and Water Conservation Specialists and Natural Resource Managers of Bangladesh who have wide range of experience of Natural Resource Management in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT).

The Association was formed in March 2004 during the First National Training Workshop on Tools and Methodologies of Documenting Conservation Approaches and Technologies that was held at Khagrachari and Rangamati during 09 -17th March, 2004 organized jointly by the Chittagong Hill Tracts Development Board (CHTDB), Rangamati, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), Katmandu, Nepal, ISRIC-The World Soil Information, Wageningen, Netherlands and the World Overview of Conservation Approaches and Technologies(WOCAT) at the Centre for Environment and Development (CDE) of the University of Bern, Switzerland. BANCAT is a national focal point and the Bangladesh Chapter for WOCAT.