Infrastructure Sustainability: A Shift of Priorities Towards Lifecycle Cost and Maintenance

In this presentation, Mr. Leather cites inadequate financing support to develop high-quality, high-capacity transport infrastructure and services as a key contributing factor to the current infrastructure gap in Asia and the Pacific. He also emphasized the importance of rehabilitation, improved management, and maintenance in improving the region's railroad system standards and operations, as well as the changing areas for ADB assistance in the railway sector.​

Moving Targets: Irrigation Management Modernization in East Asia and the Pacific

The structural role and challenges of irrigation in East Asia are often not factored into macroeconomic accounts of regional development. The Asian Development Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and the World Bank have expressed interest in taking a regional view of modernization to anticipate lending and technical assistance for irrigation in East Asia and the Pacific.

Moving Targets: Irrigation Management Modernization in East Asia and the Pacific

The structural role and challenges of irrigation in East Asia are often not factored into macroeconomic accounts of regional development. The Asian Development Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, and the World Bank have expressed interest in taking a regional view of modernization to anticipate lending and technical assistance for irrigation in East Asia and the Pacific.

Filling the Financial Gaps

There is a large gap in financing discussions: costs of services that people want and are willing to pay for, costs of asset management regulation, and public finance towards a long term vision beyond latrines. Looking at financing in the long-term is seen as a crucial move to fill in existing gaps.