Gates Foundation Revealed: How We Work, and How We Partner with ADB

Dr. Roshan Shrestha revealed how Gates Foundation has been working with ADB on transformative technologies like the citywide inclusive sanitation (CWIS) approaches in achieving sustainable changes in sanitation management. He also presented the CWIS framework like public service approach promotion and the different building blocks for CWIS at scale.

Luna Bharati

Dr. Luna Bharati is IWMI’s principal researcher for hydrology and water resources in Nepal. She has more than 14 years of post-PhD experience as a scientist and research program manager. The key areas of her interests and expertise are in integrated and sustainable water resources management. She has also worked extensively in assessing climate change risks and impacts as well as planning adaptation strategies from large river basins to small mountain watersheds.

Ravi Narayanan

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Ravi Narayanan Is also International Mentor to the Japan Water Forum and Chair of the Water Integrity Network, Berlin. He was a member of the World Panel on Financing Water Infrastructure (the Camdessus Panel) and the UN Millennium Task Force on Water and Sanitation. He has degrees in Physics from Delhi University and Engineering from Cambridge University.

ADB WASH and health webinar: WaterAid’s health systems strengthening approach for WASH in healthcare facilities

This presentation discussed a health systems-strengthening approach to improve WASH in health care facilities; hand and environmental hygiene behavior change in health care facilities; and how WASH links to health security and antimicrobial resistance. It also highlighted the progression of WASH interventions at the global level, particularly noting the milestone of the 2019 approval of the WASH in health care facilities resolution at the World Health Assembly.

Vanita Suneja

Vanita has over 25 years of experience in the development sector. She has been working on a wide range of issues including water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH), small holder agriculture, forest governance, rural livelihoods, women’s land rights, renewable energy, climate change, extractives and mining. She is currently leading the policy and advocacy work with WaterAid at the South Asia regional level. Prior to WaterAid, Vanita worked with Oxfam India and the Society for Promotion of Wastelands Development in New Delhi.