Climate and Disaster Resilience at the Household Level Recording Read more about Climate and Disaster Resilience at the Household Level Recording Resilient households form the basis for ensuring resilient communities and cities. Without resilience at the household level, the urban poor cannot be protected from climate change and disaster-related risks. Building climate and disaster resilience involve multidimensional issues requiring various policy and financial investments on social protection, adequate and resilient housing, access to essential health services, and sustainable livelihoods.
Sheela Patel Keywords opening session keynote address resilience urban poor Urban Development climate change disaster risk reduction pro-poor policies and investments ADB Read more about Sheela Patel Sheela Patel is the founder Director of the Society for Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC), an NGO that supports community organizations of the urban poor to access secure housing and basic amenities and seek their right to the city. She is also a founder member and former Chair of the Board of Slum Dwellers International (SDI), an international network of urban poor federations in Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Jaya Singh Verma Keywords opening session resilience urban poor Urban Development climate change disaster risk reduction pro-poor policies and investments ADB Read more about Jaya Singh Verma Jaya Singh Verma is presently Policy Advisor with the Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office working with the Indo-Pacific Regional Team. She is the Senior Responsible Officer for the Managing Climate Risks for the Urban Poor (MCRUP) Programme. She has over 20 years of development experience including with DFID, international NGO and as an academic. She has led partnerships and managed multi-sectoral program and policy approaches in India, Asia regional, Africa, and established partnerships for innovations and lesson sharing as an acting head of Global Partnerships.
Opening Session Recording Read more about Opening Session Recording Rapid urbanization in Asia and the Pacific calls for increased actions in climate-resilient urban development given the inordinate demands that it places on cities for improved planning, increased investments in infrastructure, efficient delivery of services, and constant innovation to leverage evolving opportunities.
Winnie Lau Keywords circular economy ocean environment Urban Development Read more about Winnie Lau Winnie Lau has 15 years of experience integrating science, international policy, resource management, and development to conserve the oceans and people. She has a master’s degree and a PhD in Oceanography from the University of Washington.
[VIDEO] Women on the Move: Transforming Transport in Asia—GIZ Read more about [VIDEO] Women on the Move: Transforming Transport in Asia—GIZ Transport is largely still seen as a field for men, with only ~20% of the workforce being women despite knowledge that women make up half of the population and have different travel patterns and considerations. This underrepresentation inevitably leads to gaps in how mobility services are delivered – an issue we would like to tackle by ensuring that gender is mainstreamed in our work.
[VIDEO] Public Participation and Citizen Engagement for Urban Development—Maptionnaire Read more about [VIDEO] Public Participation and Citizen Engagement for Urban Development—Maptionnaire The possibilities of citizen participation in urban planning have increased tremendously through digitalization. While public participation and community engagement have become widely accepted approaches to enhance the democratic aims of community and urban development, challenges still remain.In this workshop, we discuss our experiences of online community engagement from the Nordic perspective, drawing from our decade-long journey as the female founders of Maptionnaire, one of the leading PPGIS application development platforms on the market.
Shiju Varghese Keywords business TATA Urban Development skills development Read more about Shiju Varghese Shiju Varghese is a transformational leader and gifted P&L owner seasoned in diverse Asia technology markets operating in a global paradigm. Passionate about creating and growing teams of performers who drive business results, he champions data-driven decision making, process excellence and innovation and gains real excitement in designing and taking to market compelling services and business propositions that generate revenue and build value.
Nengshi Zheng Keywords municipal engineering landscape open-space planning Urban Development urban planning water resilience Read more about Nengshi Zheng Nengshi Zheng is an independent consultant, a member of Hunan provincial sponge city professional committee and an expert in the municipal engineering expert pool of Changsha City, PRC. He graduated from Leibniz University Hannover, Germany, with a master’s degree in landscape and open-space planning. He has worked at the Atelier Dreiseitl (later as Ramboll Studio Dreiseitl) as water engineer and landscape architect on international interdisciplinary projects and later as branch manager of Wasser Hannover GmbH in China.