Pakistan: KP Cities Improvement Project (KPCIP) -Project Readiness Financing

In this knowledge sharing session initiated by SPD and SDCC, PAUW and CWUW will share experiences in designing the first PRFs. The Urban Climate Change Resilience Trust Fund (UCCRTF), administrated by SDCC, is cofinancing CWUW's first PRF for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Cities Improvement Project. This enabled the detailed engineering designs of the infrastructure, to be financed under the ensuing project, to integrate climate resilience technologies. PAUW will present ADB's first PRF in Solomon Islands, Preparing the Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Cities Improvement Project

In this knowledge sharing session initiated by SPD and SDCC, PAUW and CWUW will share experiences in designing the first PRFs. The Urban Climate Change Resilience Trust Fund (UCCRTF), administrated by SDCC, is cofinancing CWUW's first PRF for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Cities

Improvement Project. This enabled the detailed engineering designs of the infrastructure,

to be financed under the ensuing project, to integrate climate resilience technologies. PAUW will

present ADB's first PRF in Solomon Islands, Preparing the Urban Water Supply and Sanitation

Project Readiness Financing (PRF) to Support Climate-Resilient Engineering Design and High Project Implementation Readiness of Urban Sector Projects

In this knowledge sharing session initiated by SPD and SDCC, PAUW and CWUW will share experiences in designing the first PRFs. The Urban Climate Change Resilience Trust Fund (UCCRTF), administrated by SDCC, is cofinancing CWUW's first PRF for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Cities Improvement Project. This enabled the detailed engineering designs of the infrastructure, to be financed under the ensuing project, to integrate climate resilience technologies. PAUW will present ADB's first PRF in Solomon Islands, Preparing the Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project.

Satoshi Ishii

Satoshi Ishii is the Director, Strategy and Partnerships Team, Water and Urban Development Sectors Group at the Asian Development Bank (ADB). Previously, he served as ADB’s Viet Nam urban–water sector focal. He is an environmental engineer and urban sector expert with more than 18 years of experience, including 15 years with development finance institutions. He has designed and managed city water, sanitation, transport, energy, and infrastructure projects in Cambodia, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, People’s Republic of China, Thailand, and Viet Nam.

Tjitte Nauta

Mr. Nauta has 30+ years of specialist consultancy experience as Strategic Advisor at the applied research institute Deltares. His experience includes integrated flood risk management, master planning and IWRM studies for inland and coastal water systems in numerous countries worldwide. In 2013 Mr. Nauta has been appointed by the Netherlands government as a Dutch Risk Reduction Team Leader with the objective to assist countries in their efforts for recovery from or prevention against water-related hazards.

Bruce Taper

Bruce is a former Director of Sustainability and Metropolitan Planning for the NSW Government. Now as founder and a Director of Kinesis, a sustainability and data-driven urban advisory and technology firm, they are establishing relationships with cities and urban service providers globally. Their reason for existence is to give decision-makers the tools and information they need to make better cities.