Video: Closing Remarks By Woochong Um, Managing Director General, ADB

Take-away messages from the three-day forum and way forward. To synthesize the discussions, lessons learned from Days 1-3 are highlighted.

Facilitator:

• Rehan Kausar, Director, Portfolio Management Division (PFPM), PPFD

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This session discusses recovery and response to the pandemic and explores health and climate considerations when planning and implementing projects that contribute to sustainable development.

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This session presents case studies from countries that illustrate examples of innovative actions and decisions taken by project implementers to make projects more resilient during the pandemic. This session also looks at the challenges in climate change, fragile and conflict-affected situations, and small island developing states. The case studies provide the project context, issues, alternative courses of action, best option possible, and results.

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This session presents cases from countries that illustrate the actions and decisions taken by project implementers in embedding quality in project design and implementation. The cases provide the project context, issues, alternative courses of action, best options possible, and results.

Facilitator:

• Priyantha Cabral Wijayatunga, Chief of Energy Sector Group, Energy SG, SDSC (SDSC-ENE)

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Cambodia: National Solar Park Project

This session covers the key lessons and insights from project implementation for over a year into the pandemic. It includes a discussion of the policies, measures, and tools that project implementers used in designing and implementing projects to meet the highest standards of quality and increase the potential of achieving the intended outcome.

Facilitator:

• Rehan Kausar, Director, Portfolio Management Division (PFPM), PPFD

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This session covers novel ways of designing and implementing projects that can withstand and recover from external shocks of differing magnitude. The focus is on adopting a differentiated approach at project and DMC levels.

Facilitator:

Neeta Pokhrel, Chief of Water Sector Group, SDSC-WAT, SDCC

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Introductory Remarks by Rehan Kausar, Director, Portfolio Management Division, PPFD and Keynote Address by Bruce Gosper, Vice President, Administration and Corporate Management