Elodie Vitalis

Ms. Elodie VITALIS is a graduate of Sciences Po Bordeaux and holds a Master's degree in Public Affairs (2006). She is currently the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) Group Representative to Fiji (AFD/Expertise France). She joined AFD headquarters in Paris in 2013 as a policy officer for agriculture and biodiversity, then for AFD's operational activities related to climate finance and financial systems.

Harnessing Digital Technologies To Improve Water Utility Performance

Digital technology is revolutionizing how we manage water, offering opportunities to improve water security and resilience for water utilities worldwide. Harnessing digital innovations and solutions has the potential to streamline operations, reduce operational costs, enhance system efficiencies, and ensure the sustainable management of water for all.

Peer Learning Session 1: Innovations in Pacific Disaster Risk Knowledge

This session was the first of three technical sessions to explore risk knowledge in the Pacific in more detail. Government departments and regional experts summarized the current availability of risk information in the Pacific. They presented examples of how risk insights have been generated via risk assessments and what skills are needed and highlighted ongoing/near-future projects expected to add to current knowledge.

Peer Learning Session 2: Applying Risk Insights in Resilient Development and Adaptation Planning

This session highlighted previous event knowledge of what risk information is available in the region, and look at how those insights are applied in practice – in planning upstream development and related multi-sectoral budgeting, adaptation planning, recovery planning, and investment in resilient infrastructure and systems.

Peer Learning Session 3: Collaborating to Develop Risk Information Including Community Perspectives

This session discussed a better-shared understanding of the value of collaborating to develop risk information to improve the relevance of insights being developed by learning from local expert perspectives. This understanding covered the importance of in-country experts engaging and inclusion of perspectives from local communities and civil society groups, on hazards, assets, and vulnerability in risk assessment projects to improve the relevance and impact of risk information for decision-making.

Hussain Haider

Hussain has over 20 years of working experience out of which he spent 8 years working in Pacific developing member countries of ADB. As a member of Pacific Transport Sector team, his responsibilities are to lead policies and strategies and design, and manage projects to support sustainable transportation in Pacific. Hussain is an engineer by profession with keen interest in sustainable and environment friendly transport solutions. He is a keen golfer and living in Manila with his wife and two sons.