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Turning from risk to resilience: How the IWMI's innovations and emerging solutions can help investors?

12 February 2021

Giriraj Amarnath discussed ways to build up resilience through tested water solutions, featuring perspectives from IWMI

Water at the center of climate risk

11 February 2021

Richard Betts highlighted that the future of water is uncertain, which poses a major challenge for adaptation. In one projection, he notes that many countries in Asia could be greatly affected by river flooding, due to projected rainfall and the sheer density of the population.

Centrality of water in adaptation: Early results from a meta-review

11 February 2021

Aditi Mukherji shared how they conducted a 6-month study of 1800+ peer-reviewed documents on adaptation (post-2014). Of these, about 82% are about water, and particularly water adaptation responses on agriculture. But, majority are mostly incremental and not transformational.

Presentations: Strategies for Supplying Water to Informal Areas and Handwashing in Public Places

3 February 2021

In this presentation, the speakers, share insights on handwashing and water supply in informal areas, the set-up of handwashing facilities, and how to integrate WASH in utility networks.

The Future of Financial Intelligence: Partnership, Partnership, Partnership

11 December 2020

What is the regional landscape concerning financial crimes, and what are the future drivers of change? This presentation gives an overview of these topics, increased use of big data, and the partnership model of AUSTRAC,the Australian Government agency responsible for detecting, deterring, and…

AML/CFT Utilities: The Possibilities, Perils, and Pitfalls—A Pacific Perspective

10 December 2020

Money laundering (ML) and terrorism financing (TF) are priority issues for banks in the Pacific, which shoulder the risks and high costs associated with ML and TF. This presentation gives an overview of the banks’ process in onboarding new customers and offers a different Know Your Customer (KYC)…

Trade STR Data Points and Feedback Loop

9 December 2020

The 2012 Asia/Pacific Group Report on Trade-Based Money Laundering (TBML) recommended policies to combat TBML. This presentation gives a status of the proposals, identifies the TBML data points that need to be added when reporting suspicious transactions, and outlines next steps, including testing…