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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?

Disaster Contingent Financing in the Pacific

26 September 2018
There is a strong demand for contingent financing in the Pacific. Gaps in quick-disbursing funds, acculumation of indirect costs over time, and rapid prioritzation of needs increase demand for this type of financing. This presentation shares Tonga's experience in the utilization of contingent…

National Disaster Risk Management Fund (NDRMF) – Pakistan

26 September 2018
The National Disaster Risk Management Fund (NDRMF) is a government-owned, not-for-profit, non-bank financial intermediary in Pakistan. It provides grants to subprojects that contribute to enhanced resilience to extreme weather and geophysical hazards (DRR) and strengthen the government’s ability…

Philippine City Disaster Insurance Pool

26 September 2018
This presentation shares details about the Philippine City Disaster Insurance Pool (PCDIP), a project which aims to provide seed capital to a pooled insurance company from which cities purchase parametric insurance. It was piloted in ten cities in the Philippines, one of the world's most disaster-…

The Role of Regulation and Supervision for Enhancing Innovative Insurance, Reinsurance and Capital Market Solutions

26 September 2018
Innovation can make disaster risk insurance more responsive and effective. The use of FinTech and artificial intelligence, for instance, has attracted investments in the People's Republic of China (PRC) and has made banks in Spain more efficient, respectively. Innovations such as FinTech enable…

Pilot Project on Weather Index Based Crop Insurance

26 September 2018
Bangladesh is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world. Its poor farmers are most vulnerable to calamities yet they are often excluded in risk-sharing mechanisms. Traditional credit mechanisms hardly reach them. This presentation shares how an ADB project increased the resilience of…