Kavita Sinha

Kavita Sinha leads grant-making strategies that enable corporates, utilities, civil society, financial institutions, and governments in Southeast and East Asia to transition to clean and low-carbon energy system. In her previous role, she worked with an American multinational firm that provides smart city, smart grid, and internet-of-things solutions, where she led strategic partnership, business development, and sales in key markets of Asia.

Public-Private Partnerships and Smart Technologies for Water Sector Development

The workshop provided an interactive introduction to issues and challenges in implementing PPP projects and ICT (smart) systems in the water sector. Around 80 participants from 8 ministries and 14 suvakovas (provincial water utilities) attended the workshop. On Day One of the workshop, international expert speakers were invited to share knowledge and lessons learned in successfully delivering PPP projects in the People’s Republic of China, the Republic of Korea, and Armenia. Day Two provided an introduction to smart systems in the water sector.

Improving Irrigation Systems through Smart Technology

Irrigation systems in Asia face various challenges, such as aging infrastructure, low water productivity, and high risk of failure, among others. Many irrigation systems also use outdated technology. This presentation shares valuable lessons drawn from Australia's experience in improving its own water systems. These lessons, along with the use of smart technology, can help improve irrigation in ADB's developing member countries.

Improving Irrigation Systems through Smart Technology

Australia's National Water Initiative, including recent water policies, technological innovations, and models to improve water productivity of irrigation systems yield many lessons that may be beneficial to other countries. This learning event shared some of these lessons and highlighted pathways and opportunities to overcome water data constraints using smart technology. It also discussed key policy measures that ADB's developing member countries may adopt to improve irrigation systems.