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19 April 2021
This two-hour interactive workshop was for senior and mid-level professionals who want to learn about opportunities for gender and social inclusion (GESI) in urban sanitation. The workshop increased knowledge of how to design and implement more inclusive urban sanitation projects.
Through small…
Organizer: Water and Urban Development Sector Office
15 April 2021
Many see the provision of sanitation services as a technical challenge calling for the skills of engineers to design, build, and operate facilities. However, the need for sanitation is about individual well-being and public health, which in turn has broad economic benefits. For those benefits to…
Organizer: Water and Urban Development Sector Office
13 April 2021
1:00–2:30 p.m. (Manila time, GMT +8)
Establishing a policy, institutional, and regulatory framework (also referred to as the “enabling environment”) that embraces citywide inclusive sanitation (CWIS) is a fundamental step in designing an effective urban sanitation program.
Governments are…
Organizer: Water and Urban Development Sector Office
13 April 2021
Citywide inclusive sanitation (CWIS) is a relatively new approach to delivering urban sanitation interventions in low- and middle-income countries. It is strikingly different from conventional approaches, which are predominantly sewer-focused and follow top-down planning. CWIS, on the other hand,…
Organizer: Water and Urban Development Sector Office
12 April to 22 May 2021
Background
As the 21st-century transitions into a new decade, 453 million people across Asia and the Pacific still defecate in the open. About 1.2 billion people have no access to basic sanitation services. Of these numbers, 72% live in rural areas.
The United Nations estimate that by current…
Organizer: Water and Urban Development Sector Office
12 April 2021
Lack of access to safe, adequate, and affordable water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) services has a devastating effect on the health, dignity, and prosperity of billions of people across Asia and the Pacific. More than 55% of the region’s population will live in cities by 2030. With higher…
Organizer: Water and Urban Development Sector Office
12 April 2021
Delivering universal access to sustainable and safely managed sanitation services remains a huge challenge. It is compounded by climate change and disaster risks and impacts such as the increasing variability in the water cycle, extreme weather events like storms and flooding, more frequent…
Organizer: Water and Urban Development Sector Office
12 to 19 April 2021
ADB conducted a comprehensive review and update of its Safeguard Policy Statement (SPS) approved in 2009, as part of its commitment to continue supporting the inclusive and sustainable development of Asia and the Pacific. The update seeks to modernize the policy, considering the changing…
Organizer: Office of Safeguards
12 April 2021
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) initiated an update of its 2009 Safeguard Policy Statement (SPS) in August 2020 following a corporate evaluation by ADB’s Independent Evaluation Department last May 2020. The ongoing update seeks to modernize the policy in consideration of the changing development…
Organizer: Office of Safeguards
23 to 24 November 2020
Air pollution is the 4th leading risk factor for early deaths worldwide in 2019 according to the State of Global Air (SOGA) report of 2020. Air pollution caused 6.67 million deaths worldwide in 2019. Atleast 68% of these deaths were in Asia. Of the top 15 countries with the highest number of…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department