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PNG National Power Sector Forum

3 April 2025
Government of PNG and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have agreed on the need of a National Power Sector Forum that will bring all key players in the sector and senior government decision makers in one place to discuss the sector issues, challenges, opportunities and way forward with actionable…
Organizer: Pacific 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

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

Water Tariffs in the Pacific: A Current Snapshot of Issues

28 February 2024
Water utilities provide services to most households in urban areas across the Pacific region (excluding Papua New Guinea). The regulation of water supply and sanitation services can take a variety of forms and the diversity of Pacific Island Country geographies, histories, cultures, and economies…
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

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

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

Seminar on State-Owned Enterprise and Public Sector Management Reforms

26 September 2016
Given the relevance of the Pacific state-owned enterprise (SOE) reform experience to other regions of Asia, this learning event was jointly organized by Asian Development Bank (ADB)’s Governance Thematic Group and Private Sector Development Initiative (PSDI) to discuss the findings from a decade of…
Organizer: Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office, Pacific Department