Events

ADB at World Water Week 2019

25 August 2019 to 30 August 2019

Stockholm

Sweden

World Water Week (WWW) is the annual forum focused on transforming global water challenges. Organized by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) since 1991, it gathers over 3,300 people from more than 130 countries, representing influential, innovative, and dynamic organizations, leaders, and professionals working on policy, research, and other concrete solutions to water, environmental, and development challenges. The theme for each World Water Week often builds on the UN’s World Water Day theme. In 2019, the UN focused on “no-one left behind” as the theme for the 2019 World Water Day and World Water Development Report, in keeping with the fourth year of implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

For the 2019 World Water Week, the theme is “Water for Society: Including All” and addressed the basic objective of this agenda to secure inclusive and sustainable development for all people in all countries. Water security underlies human and environmental security; while access to and use of water in adequate quantity and quality are fundamental to survival and prosperity.

ADB, which has long envisioned “Water for All”, has continuously been an active participant of World Water Week. In 2008, ADB began organizing Asia Day (previously Eye on Asia). This year, together with the Asia-Pacific Water Forum and Japan Water Forum, ADB organized five sessions under the Asia Focus Program, in addition to participating in other sessions convened with other partners, such as the session on youth and water security.

Program and Learning Materials:

27 Aug 2019
28 Aug 2019
29 Aug 2019

Date	Session / Activity	Presentation Material	Speaker(s)
27 Aug 2019	Youth Participating in Water Security: Examples from Asia and the Pacific	Youth Participation in Water Security – Examples from South East Asia This presentation gave an overview of ADB's Youth for Asia, and discussed youth engagement in various ADB projects and activities.	Vijay Padmanabhan, Minh Nguyen
27 Aug 2019	Youth Participating in Water Security: Examples from Asia and the Pacific	Youth Engagement Strategy of GWP – Case Study from the Peoples's Republic of China This presentation discussed the Global Water Partnership (GWP's) youth engagement strategy to advance water security, a number of key approaches developed...	Julienne Roux, Yunzhong Jiang
27 Aug 2019	Water Cycle Management: Towards Water Security in Asia and Pacific	Introduction	Yumiko Asayama
27 Aug 2019	Water Cycle Management: Towards Water Security in Asia and Pacific	Water Cycle Management for the Sustainable Development Goals: Strengthening the SDG6 Knowledge Base	Hans Dencker Thulstrup
27 Aug 2019	Water Cycle Management: Towards Water Security in Asia and Pacific	Shiga’s Efforts toward the Restoration and Conservation of Lake Biwa for a Sound Water Cycle	Nobuhiko Miwa
27 Aug 2019	Water Cycle Management: Towards Water Security in Asia and Pacific	Striving for the Improvement of Wastewater Management to Achieve Good Water Cycle Management: Introduction of ‘Ho Chi Minh Water Environment Improvement Project’ and ‘AWaP’	Yoshiharu Imajima and Kazushi Hashimoto
27 Aug 2019	Water Cycle Management: Towards Water Security in Asia and Pacific	Water Solutions for Sustainable Development: Mobilizing Science, Systems Thinking, and Evidence-based Approaches	Sonali Senaratna Sellamuttu
27 Aug 2019	Water Cycle Management: Towards Water Security in Asia and Pacific	Towards Inclusive Water Management: Taking Action for South Asia This presentation discussed issues and lessons drawn from water management approaches in Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Nepal.	Neil Lazarow
27 Aug 2019	Water Cycle Management: Towards Water Security in Asia and Pacific	Nature-Based Solutions for Water Cycle Management in the Greater Mekong Sub-Region Countries This presentation gave an overview of RECONECT, which aims to contribute to European reference framework on Nature Based Solutions (NBS) for hydro-meteorological...	Thanapon Piman
27 Aug 2019	Water Cycle Management: Towards Water Security in Asia and Pacific	Transboundary Water Management: Principles, Policies, and Politics	Karlene Maywald
27 Aug 2019	Inclusive Asia-Pacific Rural Water and Sanitation: Pathways to the SDGs	Introduction	Yumiko Asayama
27 Aug 2019	Inclusive Asia-Pacific Rural Water and Sanitation: Pathways to the SDGs	Support to the Grassroots Activities through Japan Water Forum Fund	Sae Ishihara
27 Aug 2019	Inclusive Asia-Pacific Rural Water and Sanitation: Pathways to the SDGs	Enhancing the Climate and Disaster Resilience of Vulnerable Rural Communities through Provision of Water Supply and Sanitation	Avi Sarkar
27 Aug 2019	Inclusive Asia-Pacific Rural Water and Sanitation: Pathways to the SDGs	Rural Water Security through Springs Rejuvenation: Progress through Partnerships in India	Ravi Narayanan
27 Aug 2019	Inclusive Asia-Pacific Rural Water and Sanitation: Pathways to the SDGs	Development of a Community-owned Groundwater Treatment Plant to Mitigate Risk Factors for Chronic Kidney Disease of Unknown Etiology (CKDu) in Galwaduwagama Village, Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka	Greg Leslie
27 Aug 2019	Inclusive Asia-Pacific Rural Water and Sanitation: Pathways to the SDGs	Precision Targeting in Delivering Safe Water And Sanitation Services: Water and Sanitation Household-based E-survey In Indonesia	Fany Wedahuditama

Date	Session / Activity	Presentation Material	Speaker(s)
28 Aug 2019	Asia Focus: Strengthening Governance to Address Asia’s Water Challenges	Introduction	Yumiko Asayama
28 Aug 2019	Asia Focus: Strengthening Governance to Address Asia’s Water Challenges	ESCAP’s Tools for Water Governance and Inclusive Development	Aida Karazhanova
28 Aug 2019	Asia Focus: Strengthening Governance to Address Asia’s Water Challenges	Applying Integrity Tools for Water and Sanitation: Experiences from Bangladesh This presentation discussed some insights from two Water Integrity Network projects: the Application of Annotated Water Integrity Scan (AWIS) for assessing...	Binayak Das
28 Aug 2019	Asia Focus: Strengthening Governance to Address Asia’s Water Challenges	Enhancing Capacities of Water Utilities in the Mekong Region	Avi Sarkar
28 Aug 2019	Asia Focus: Strengthening Governance to Address Asia’s Water Challenges	Linking Integrity Tools with Capacity Development in Lao PDR, Cambodia, and Viet Nam This presentation discussed the scope of integrity management, the process involved with the integrity management toolbox, and the gaps and elements of...	James Leten
28 Aug 2019	Asia Focus: Strengthening Governance to Address Asia’s Water Challenges	Multilevel Water Governance: Lessons Learned from Thailand This presentation discussed Thailand's experience and lessons learned from mainstreaming water security strategy into the country's National Water Strategy...	Piyatida Ruangrassamee
28 Aug 2019	Asia Focus: Strengthening Governance to Address Asia’s Water Challenges	Water and Disaster Risk Management: Perspectives from Asia	Yumiko Yasuda
28 Aug 2019	Asia Focus: Strengthening Governance to Address Asia’s Water Challenges	Creating Partnerships at all Levels for Water-Related Disaster Risk Reduction by Involving all This presentation emphasized the importance of involving stakeholders in creating partnerships and developing networks at all levels (community, country...	Tetsuya Ikeda
28 Aug 2019	Asia Focus: Inclusive Financing for Water	Making Blended Finance Work for Water and Sanitation This presentation discussed the key findings from the Kathleen Dominique
28 Aug 2019	Asia Focus: Inclusive Financing for Water	A Case Study of the Philippine Water Revolving Fund (PWRF) This presentation discussed a JICA case study on the application of blended finance in the Philippines through the Philippine Water Revolving Fund (PWRF...	Miha Matsubayashi
28 Aug 2019	Asia Focus: Inclusive Financing for Water	Utility Creditworthiness and Alternative Lending Instruments: The Southeast Asian Experience This presentation discussed ADB's work on enhancing the financial capacity of water utilities and fostering policy dialogue in Southeast Asia to reach...	Vijay Padmanabhan
28 Aug 2019	Asia Focus: Inclusive Financing for Water	Financing Water Supply in Rural Indonesia This presentation discussed the work by Water.org on supporting household-oriented finance for the poor and building municipal water utility capacity ...	Rich Thorsten
28 Aug 2019	Asia Focus: Inclusive Financing for Water	Bankable Water Solutions for Food and Beverage Companies in Myanmar This presentation discussed WWF's experience in supporting bankable water solutions and water stewardship in Myanmar.	Keiron Brand
28 Aug 2019	Asia Focus: Inclusive Financing for Water	Innovate4Water in Asia Pacific This presentation discussed the International WaterCenter (IWC) and Waterpreneurs' experience in water and sanitation with a focus on innovative market...	Mark Pascoe, Brieux Michoud

Date	Session / Activity	Presentation Material	Speaker(s)
29 Aug 2019	Showcase - Water Security for All: Asian Water Development Outlook 2020	AWDO 2020: Approach and Progress This presentation gave an overview of the Asian Water Development Outlook (AWDO) and what to expect in the AWDO's 2020 edition.	Silvia Cardascia
29 Aug 2019	Showcase - Water Security for All: Asian Water Development Outlook 2020	Water Governance in Asia This presentation discussed the objectives and key principles of the Water Governance Survey carried out by OECD in support of the Asian Water Development...	Hakan Tropp
29 Aug 2019	Showcase - Water Security for All: Asian Water Development Outlook 2020	Investing in Water Security: A Focus on Finance for the AWDO 2020 This presentation discussed the economic case for water security, the drivers of water-related investment needs, and the respective role of revenues from...	Hannah Leckie
29 Aug 2019	Showcase - Water Security for All: Asian Water Development Outlook 2020	Implementing the AWDO Framework to Mainstreaming Water Security Strategy into a National Water Strategy This presentation discussed the work undertaken by Chulalongkorn University on water security in Thailand, and their experience from adapting the AWDO...	Piyatida Ruangrassamee