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ADB Urban Data Collection, Management, and Utilization - Status Quo and the Way Forward

1 March 2017
What's the most effective way to collect, manage, and utilize urban data? In this interactive Urban Studio session, ADB Urban Sector Consultant Renard Teipelke gave an overview of data platforms used by ADB and international development organizations, allowing participants to rethink their current…
Organizer: Water and Urban Development Sector Office

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

Congestion, Mobility, and Accessibility in Emerging Cities

22 February 2017
Gilles Duranton, professor and chair of Wharton School's Real Estate Department, spoke on urban congestion in emerging cities. He proposed an integrated framework to think about accessibility, mobility, and congestion consistently, and showed that progress can be made by combining economics with…
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department, Transport Sector Office

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

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

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

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

Mandalay City Goes Green

24 November 2016
ADB's Eri Honda and the Team Leader of ADB's Future Cities Program Ian Hamilton shared stories on how the restoration of Thingazar Creek is paving the way for the transformation of Mandalay into a prosperous, green urban center. The Mandalay Urban Services Improvement Project is the first urban…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Ernst & Young India's Infrastructure and Urban Development Experience

17 November 2016
Representatives from Ernst & Young shared their experience in infrastructure and urban development. The speakers were Abhaya Agarwal, Transaction Advisory Services partner, and Gaurav Taneja, Government and Public Sector practice head, both from Ernst & Young India; and Hermant Nandanpawar…
Organizer: Water and Urban Development Sector Office