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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

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

Celebrating Global Handwashing Day with Water Utilities in the Pacific

18 October 2023
Effective handwashing isn't possible without flowing water. While many water utilities do not consider being in the business of hand hygiene, they are uniquely placed to provide the infrastructure support and water services needed to practice good handwashing behaviors. On Global Handwashing Day…
Organizer: Pacific Department

Good Enough Guide to On-Site Sanitation in the Pacific

17 February 2023
This is a recording of the Good Enough Guide to On-Site Sanitation in the Pacific training delivered by the Asian Development Bank at the Water and WASH Futures Conference in Brisbane, Australia in February 2023. This training, targeted at WASH practitioners, explores the principles underpinning…
Organizer: Pacific Department

1st Asia-Pacific Housing Conference: Making Housing Affordable, Inclusive, and Resilient

8 to 9 November 2022
A city must provide housing to all its residents if it is to be called livable. Are cities in Asia and the Pacific livable from this perspective? Most cities in the lower- and middle-income countries in Asia and the Pacific face severe housing challenges. The urban poor and informal settlers…
Organizer: Water and Urban Development Sector Office, Finance Sector Office, Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office, Special Initiatives and Funds

Pacific Utilities Delivering WASH Services in Peri-Urban Areas

17 August 2022
As Pacific Island countries continue to urbanize, the provision of safely managed water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services becomes increasingly important. With urban growth rates now outstripping national population growth in many Pacific nations, towns and cities are seeing peri-urban…
Organizer: Pacific Department

Leveraging Insurance for Resilient Infrastructure

9 September 2021
Insurance can play an important role in influencing behavior, lowering the economic impact from disaster events, and unlocking private sector financing for sustainable infrastructure investments and more effective disaster response and reconstruction. This interactive session brought together…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster, Finance Sector Office

Making Urban Sanitation More Inclusive in Papua New Guinea

16 April 2020
Among ADB’s 14 DMCs in the Pacific, Papua New Guinea (PNG) ranks lowest in the water and sanitation access indicators. The Joint Monitoring Program 2017 Update reports a decline in access to improved sanitation facilities in PNG over the last 15 years, leaving 65% of the population still using…
Organizer: Pacific Department, Water and Urban Development Sector Office

Impactful Resilience Building in Communities

21 March 2019
Kate Landry, Build Change Philippines country director, and Daniel Stander, RMS global managing director, discussed risk models that allow estimate of lives lost and housing losses that would result from a large disaster, and which can quantify the lives saved and GDP saved that would result from…
Organizer: Water and Urban Development Sector Office, Finance Sector Office

New Approach for Farmers' Poverty Reduction Weather Index Insurance Using Satellite-Based Information

16 March 2018
Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Insurance's Ken Gohara and Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan's Tsugito Nagano presented how the Weather Index Insurance can pay out a contractually predetermined insurance amount when weather indices such as temperature, wind speed, and rainfall exceed specified…
Organizer: Agriculture, Food, Nature, and Rural Development Sector Office, Finance Sector Office, Water and Urban Development Sector Office

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