Roshan Shrestha

Deputy Director, Gates Foundation WSH Team, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

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Profile / Bio

Dr. Roshan Shrestha is the Deputy Director, Global Growth and Opportunity Division, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WSH) team of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He also led the Urban Sanitation Market Initiative of the WSH that deals with scaling City Wide Inclusive Sanitation and Non-sewered Sanitation globally through demonstration, capacity building, advocacy as well as mobilizing resources from development banks and development partners.

Dr. Shrestha spent seven years with UN-Habitat as a regional technical advisor (South Asia) for the water and sanitation program and Settlement Improvement Advisor for the slum upgrading program in Bangladesh before working at the Foundation.

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Materials

Title Date Learning Materials Topics
Gates Foundation Revealed: How We Work, and How We Partner with ADB Slides Water
Gates Foundation Revealed: How We Work, and How We Partner with ADB Slides Water
Sanitation Systems Change: Why We Need a Radical Rethink to Achieve SDG 6.2 Slides Urban Development, Water
Transformative Sanitation Technologies: A New Path to Safe Sanitation for All Slides Water
Fecal Sludge to Electricity Slides Environment, ICT, Social Development and Protection
Sanitation Financing Partnership Trust Fund: A Joint Initiative of ADB and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for Sustainable Sanitation Slides Environment, Finance
Building the Sanitation Market Slides Water