UCCRTF Snapshot Page Read more about UCCRTF Snapshot Page The Urban Climate Change Resilience Trust Fund (UCCRTF) is a $150 million multi-donor trust fund administered by ADB under the Urban Financing Partnership Facility. It aims to support fast-growing cities in Asia to reduce climate-related risks poor and vulnerable people face. The UCCRTF takes an urban systems-centered approach that supports climate change integration into city planning, project development and implementation, and knowledge-sharing and capacity-building.
Innovative Solutions and Financial Analysis for Green Affordable Housing Read more about Innovative Solutions and Financial Analysis for Green Affordable Housing
AASCTF Guided Learning Program (GLP) Final Report Read more about AASCTF Guided Learning Program (GLP) Final Report The ASEAN Australia Smart Cities Trust Fund (AASCTF) completed the Guided Learning Program (GLP), which aimed to assist cities in managing increasing amounts of data and enhancing urban planning and services.
AASCTF Guided Learning Program Home Exercise Module 3 Read more about AASCTF Guided Learning Program Home Exercise Module 3 This home exercise, which was part of the AASCTF Guided Learning Program course provided an introduction to data collection methods and key steps in case development to define data collection to improve urban living, as well as the barriers that cities face in collecting and storing urban data.
AASCTF Guided Learning Program Home Exercise Module 2 Read more about AASCTF Guided Learning Program Home Exercise Module 2 This home exercise, which was part of the AASCTF Guided Learning Program course provided an introduction to data governance in a city setting and how it can be applied in an organization, highlighting the challenges cities face in making accurate data available and maintaining it in a secure environment. It aimed at giving an understanding of the significance of data governance and security in smart cities; concepts and principles of data protection; and security and methods for meeting data protection and security requirements.
AASCTF Guided Learning Program Home Exercise Module 1 Read more about AASCTF Guided Learning Program Home Exercise Module 1 This home exercise, which was part of the AASCTF Guided Learning Program course focuses on data collection and storage and introduces collecting data methods. It also discussed key steps in case development to define data collection to improve urban living, as well as the common barriers that cities face in collecting and storing urban data.
ADBI Featured Speaker Webinar: University of Waikato’s John Gibson on Secondary Towns and Poverty Read more about ADBI Featured Speaker Webinar: University of Waikato’s John Gibson on Secondary Towns and Poverty This ADBI Featured Speaker webinar spotlighted University of Waikato development economist and Asian Development Review Editor-in-Chief John Gibson, who discussed growing evidence on the importance of secondary towns for poverty reduction.
Abhisek Rout Keywords Urban Development public and private sectors technology sustainable community water management Read more about Abhisek Rout Abhisek is a Civil Engineer cum Urban Manager with a B. Tech. in Civil Engineering and an MBA in Urban Management and Governance. He is a KPMG Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certified personnel and a multi-dextrous professional with multi-disciplinary core competencies in engineering and management domains having experience in Government, Public and Private Sectors.
Nanco Dolman Keywords Urban Development water management climate change Read more about Nanco Dolman Nanco Dolman is leading professional in Water Resilient Cities at Royal HaskoningDHV, with a MSc in Civil Engineering from Delft University of Technology (1998) and a BLA in landscape architecture from Amsterdam Academy of Architecture (2008). From 2011 to 2016 Nanco was part time lecturer Adaptive Urban Development at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences. He served as a Resilient Cities advocate for UNDRR (2015-2020), and is editor for IWA’s Journal of Water & Climate Change (2020 to date).
Upasana Yadav Keywords Urban Development impact bonds and blended finance mechanism water security performance assessment systems public finance business models WASH Read more about Upasana Yadav Upasana has been associated with CWAS since 2014. She has extensive experience in WASH and urban development sector. She leads CWAS’s work in implementation of city sanitation plans, WASH improvement planning tools and innovative financing mechanisms like development impact bonds and blended finance mechanism. She also has experience in water security, performance assessment systems, public finance and business models. She has a Masters in Planning (Housing) from CEPT University, Ahmedabad and a Bachelors in Civil Engineering from MS University, Vadodara.