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2024 Pacific Virtual Business Opportunities Seminar - Water and Urban Development Sector

29 October 2024
This virtual Business Opportunities Seminar (BOS) with the Pacific countries aims to promote interest in and improve the ability of eligible suppliers to locate business opportunities in ADB's water and urban development sectors.
Organizer: Procurement, Portfolio, and Financial Management Department, Water and Urban Development Sector Office

Nature and Climate Nexus: Nature-Based Solutions for Urban and Rural Landscapes

17 to 19 September 2024
Development projects in urban and rural communities focused on traditional gray infrastructure, such as seawalls, dams, and water treatment plants, especially in Asia and the Pacific, with limited consideration of biodiversity and climate impacts. Nature-based solutions (NBS) improved…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster, Agriculture, Food, Nature, and Rural Development Sector Office, Water and Urban Development Sector Office

e-Procurement Education Program in Asia and Pacific Region

26 August 2024 to 2 May 2025
This annual training program aims to enhance the capacity of DMCs within the Asia-Pacific region in implementing and successfully rolling out e-procurement at both policy and practice levels, based on the best practices of the Republic of Korea, and to create an international collaborative…
Organizer: Procurement, Portfolio, and Financial Management Department

Pacific WASH Webinar: Building Successful Utility-Landowner Partnerships for Reliable WASH Services

26 June 2024
Providing safe and reliable water services to the public requires water utilities and natural resource management agencies to secure long-term access to land for water resources and water assets. The ADB Pacific WASH Technical Assistance and Pacific Water and Wastewater Association hosted the…
Organizer: Pacific Department

Integrity Learning Series: Bangladesh Climate and Disaster Resilient Small-Scale Water Resources Management Project

6 June 2024
ADB OAI's integrity learning session for representatives of the Climate and Disaster Resilient Small-Scale Water Resources Management Project in Bangladesh. OAI provides training tailored for participants exercising oversight functions and project responsibility under RETA 9703's Integrity Learning…
Organizer: Office of Anticorruption and Integrity

Operationalizing Water Tariffs to Ensure Equity and Affordability in the Pacific

17 April 2024
Water utilities were tasked with the challenge of collecting sufficient income to deliver an agreed or expected level of service to their customers while meeting the public good requirement to provide affordable water to all. This was increasingly difficult as peri-urban and informal settlements…
Organizer: Pacific Department

Online Report Launch: Bringing Culture into the Conversation on Water Resources Management Policy

17 April 2024
The new report, Sociocultural Dimensions in Water Resources Management: Policies, Practices, and Challenges, aims to promote the importance of incorporating sociocultural dimensions in water resources management, an underexplored aspect for achieving water security and climate resilience. The…
Organizer: ADBI

Asia Netherlands Water Learning Week (ANWLW) 2024

15 to 19 April 2024
ADB and the Netherlands Water Partnership (NWP) hosted the Asia Netherlands Water Learning Week (ANWLW) in The Hague, The Netherlands, on 15-19 April. The ANWLW was a week-long intensive program that brought together project teams from across the Asian Development Bank (ADB)’s developing member…
Organizer: Water and Urban Development Sector Office

ADB Sri Lanka Country Partnership Strategy 2024-2028

3 April 2024
The “Serendipity Knowledge Program” (SKOP) is ADB’s knowledge program dedicated to Sri Lanka, designed to respond effectively to the country’s needs in line with the vision of ADB as a knowledge solutions bank. SKOP seeks to share knowledge on issues relevant to Sri Lanka and facilitate…
Organizer: South Asia Department

Operation and Maintenance Sustainability of Water Resources Infrastructure in the Case of Irrigation and Drainage in Tajikistan

27 March 2024
Asset management was recognized as a fundamental tool for the sustainable management of infrastructure. Asset management planning identified asset stock, condition, and performance, enabling agencies to prioritize schemes in modernization programs. In Central Asian countries, the sustainability…
Organizer: Water and Urban Development Sector Office