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How to Diagnose and Improve Water and Wastewater Utilities Operations Performance

24 February 2017
SUEZ, an international company specializing in water and wastewater urban services, demonstrated WIKTI--its diagnostics tool for utilities. Representatives from SUEZ discussed how water companies can elevate services to world class levels using the tool to analyze business processes and utility…
Organizer: Water and Urban Development Sector Office

Future Cities: Reenergizing the Way We Do Development

23 February 2017
ADB Senior Urban Development Specialist Andrew McIntyre leads the Future Cities Program, a new approach that pilots how ADB can better engage with cities, broaden the operational pipeline, and have more effective results. In this Insight Thursday session, he shared lessons learned from establishing…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

4th International Fecal Sludge Management Conference

20 to 22 February 2017
Learning from others' experiences is important in sustaining projects, including those on fecal sludge management. Asian Development Bank (ADB) officers and developing member countries (DMC) representatives improved their capacity to plan, design, implement, and sustain fecal sludge management (…
Organizer: Water and Urban Development Sector Office

ADB and ADBI Learning Program: Financing Social Protection for the Sustainable Development Goals

15 to 16 February 2017
To assist its developing member countries (DMCs) in pursuing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ADB's Social Development Thematic Group initiated research on economic methods to estimate the fiscal implications of meeting the SDGs and pilot applications of the methods. The methods focused on…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department, Human and Social Development Sector Office

ADB-Australia Water Learning Week

14 February 2017
The first ADB-Australia Water Learning Week was held in December 2016 as part of the Water Sector Group's continuous learning and development program. The week-long program brought together project teams -- ADB sector staff and DMC counterparts -- to gain knowledge and experience from each other…
Organizer: Water and Urban Development Sector Office

Land Governance: A Prerequisite for Sustainable Urban Development

10 February 2017
Land governance is a prerequisite for sustainable development, poverty eradication, and fulfillment of human rights. The Global Land Tool Network (GLTN) Programme, facilitated by UN-HABITAT, was established with this context in mind. In a sharing session, Danilo Antonio overall lead of UN-HABITAT'…
Organizer: Water and Urban Development Sector Office

Running at the Top of the World: The Journey Toward Leadership and Success

9 February 2017
In 2016, William Thomas completed The Marathon Grand Slam, consisting of a marathon on all 7 continents and at the North Pole. In this Insight Thursday session he shared the lessons he learned from his multi-year journey, and described the impact that personal experiences can have on innovation,…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Using Pre-feasibility Studies to Conceptualize the Bangladesh City Region Development Project II

8 February 2017
Urban Studio, a knowledge-sharing initiative of the ADB Urban Sector Group, kicked off with the presentation of pre-feasibility studies on a city development project in Bangladesh. The session featured Cities Development Initiative for Asia's Senior Urban Environmental Engineer Neil Chadder and…
Organizer: Water and Urban Development Sector Office

Five Decades of ADB and Its Future

31 January 2017
ADB President Takehiko Nakao began the 2017 Insight Thursday knowledge sharing series with a presentation on ADB's 50-year history and a look at where the organization is headed.
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Use of ICT in Pedestrian Safety

19 January 2017
With mobile phone application as the main tool, youth-led urban safety audits were held in Metro Manila in the Philippines. ADB Youth for Asia designed and executed a pilot study on pedestrian safety using the mobile application called Safetipin. A tool kit will also be produced out of this pilot…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department