Manasa Tusulu

Manasa Tusulu is the Manager of the Strategic Planning Unit and also the Executive Officer in the Institutional Reform Unit. He joined the Water Authority of Fiji in 2012 and has over 9 years of experience working in the water sector. He is today leading a team of in-house business analysts and also working with 11 specialists from SMEC towards enhancing and building capacity within WAF in various key areas such as NRW, Liquid Tradewaste, Demand Management, Catchment Management, etc. 

ADBI-Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Webinar on Sanitation and Development: Sanitation and Household Behavior in Rural Bangladesh

This ADBI-Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation webinar, organized in collaboration with the Institute for Fiscal Studies, featured Raymond Guiteras of North Carolina State University who presented four studies on promoting sanitation investment, maintenance, and use in rural areas of Tanore, Bangladesh.

WEF Nexus, Water Productivity, and Water Accounting

3:30–5:00 p.m. (GMT +8), Tuesday, Zoom

The water-food-energy (WEF) nexus and water accounting approaches are considered as two powerful tools that can maximize production derived from water use across sectors. This webinar showed the practical promise of implementing the nexus while also explaining how nexus benefits can be (i) better understood through water accounting, and (ii) realized through integrated basin approaches based on multi-stakeholder platforms.