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Nakhchivan's Urban Water Overhaul

2 October 2018
Nakhchivan's population reaches about 400,000, and many of them live in the city with only two hours of water supply and no sewerage network. Most households use pit latrines while some have septic tanks that usually overflowed. This presentation shares how the government, through a joint venture,…

Real-time Water Dashboard: Intersecting Science and Digital Platforms to Deliver Big Data for Flood Management

2 October 2018
The Real-time Water Dashboard offers features that are not only useful, but lifesaving, too. These include hydrological, hydrodynamic modeling and flood forecasting, early warning against floods, and river basin management. The dashboard provides data that can help us look at vulnerability under…

Data Clearing House for IWRM

2 October 2018
Recent improvements in GIS and remote sensing technology has made spatial data widely available. These data are huge, complex, and wide spread. A centralized library or a common platform can help manage and analyze these data to see their patterns, trends and associations.

Mahaweli System Daily Water Balance Model Using RiverWare in Sri Lanka

2 October 2018
This model aims to ensure the adequacy of water for planned inter and trans basin transfers without affecting existing water users. It aims to enhance water management and provide more precise control of water flows throughout the system.

Basics of Image Classification and Geographical Information Systems

26 September 2018
The webinar answers the questions: How can I generate information from satellite imagery? What is GIS? How can it be used?

Nereda: An Alternative and Natural Way of Treating Wastewater

21 September 2018
This learning event discusses the Nereda, an advanced biological wastewater treatment technology. It purifies water using aerobic granular biomass that results in a chemical-free operation. Compared to conventional processes, Nereda requires less mechanical equipment and footprint, resulting in a…

Climate Change: The Politics of Action and Finance

20 September 2018
Tracking and reporting financial flows is needed to help measure the effectiveness of climate actions. This also helps in building trust and accountability and to monitor trends and progress. In this presentation, Pretty Bhandari, ADB’s Director for Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management,…

Climate Finance Tracking: Joint MDB Approach

20 September 2018
Multilateral development banks (MDBs) in 2012 worked together to develop methodologies for tracking their climate finance flows. This helps ensure that mitigation and adaptation finance flows are consistent, comparable, and transparent. This presentation provides a snapshot of how the MDBs joint…

Counting Mitigation Finance-MDB Approach

20 September 2018
For an activity to be considered under climate mitigation, it should help promote the reduction of green house gases (GHG) emission or enhance GHG sequestration. This presentation gives a closer look at the approach used by multilateral development banks (MDBs) in mitigation finance tracking.

Adaptation Finance

20 September 2018
Climate adaptation finance is the cost of activities undertaken to lower the current and expected risks to or vulnerabilities of the project, or community, economy or the environment posed by climate change. This presentation tackles the adaptation finance’s key elements and adaptation finance…