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Securing Water for Future Generations: Bringing People to the Policy Making Process

7 August 2017
The Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) bridges science, policy, and practice to meet its vision of creating a water wise world. This presentation features SIWI’s programs in various countries and regions. Using the public service delivery accountability framework, it explains the…

Water Operators Partnerships

3 August 2017
The Water Operators Partnerships (WOPs) Program is a formula for capacity building that pairs two water operators to work on specific issues. Albeit a small-scale program, it has the potential to reach even greater heights over time. Facilitating utility partnerships since 2007, the WOPs program…

Presentation: RiceUp Mobile Application

1 August 2017
RiceUp is a mobile application that connects farmers with producers or suppliers, including produce profile and information.

Metro Manila’s Water Public-Private Partnership: Take-aways of a Regulator

11 July 2017
Joel Yu, chief regulator of the Philippines' Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System Regulatory Office (MWSS-RO) shared lessons gained from implementing public-private partnerships (PPP). He cited several issues and regulatory challenges the MWSS-RO encountered, as well as the ways the office…

Rural Water Supply and Sanitation in Cambodia: Results from ADB Financed Projects

29 June 2017
Access to water and sanitation is low in many rural areas across Asia. Cambodia, in partnership with ADB, continually exerts efforts to improve water and sanitation services especially in its rural areas, where 11,530,379 reside and about 50% of village people still practice open defecation. The…

Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project in Cambodia

29 June 2017
The lack of clean water has become a major problem for many rural people, especially in Cambodia, where rural households reach 2.5 million and total rural population number more than 11.5 million. More than half of the rural population practice open defecation and walk long distances to access…

External Sources of Financing for Sustainable Cities

29 June 2017
Presentation of Frederic Asseline on climate and innovative financing options.

Climate Finance in the Water Sector

28 June 2017
Many countries in the Asia Pacific region are in a water crisis, and ADB works to increase investments to achieve its vision of “Water for All”. Climate change worsens the conditions of some countries. This presentation puts spotlight on climate finance in the water sector.

Climate Finance Tracking: Joint Multilateral Development Bank Approach

27 June 2017
Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) recognize the need to work together to avert the danger of climate change by mobilizing public, private, bilateral, multilateral, and alternative finance sources. In 2012, MDBs worked together to develop methodologies for tracking their mitigation and…

Asian Development Bank Institute: A Quick Profile

27 June 2017
Overview by David Dole of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)