What will the Water Sector Group look like under ADB’s new operating model? We asked our newly instated Senior Sector Director for the Water and Urban Development Sector Group, Norio Saito.
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The Administrative Staff College of India & ADB Institute is delighted to announce an online certification course on Leadership Development for City-Wide Inclusive Sanitation scheduled from 15 July to 23 September: cwis-asci.org.in
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💧🌏 Water is life. How we use it, how we share it, how we protect and conserve it—is in our hands.
Happy #WorldEnvironmentDay from ADB.
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Any gains toward eradicating Asia Pacific’s numerous development challenges are always under threat by climate change. A 5-step approach combines short-term actions w/ low potential for future regret w/long-term options for future climate conditions: tinyurl.com/h4pmsesm
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🔵 NEW RELEASE: This June, ADB Water will be implementing better ways to serve our clients. Read all about the bank's new operating model in this quarter's Water and Sanitation for All newsletter: mailchi.mp/adb/waterforal]
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ADB Water empaneled a pool of experts who can support ADB project officers and counterparts in various aspects of water security & resilience. Join the Hub now and use Jal's Ask The Expert feature to raise queries to our experts: hub4r.adb.org/experts
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ADB mourns the passing of dear colleague, friend, and water loss giant, Roland Liemberger. One of the founding fathers of the Water Loss Specialist Group, he dedicated his life to promoting awareness of water loss issues. We honor him by sharing his work:
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🎥 Watch this video about a pilot project in Nepal funded by ADB's High-Level Technology Fund that used GeoViewer, a GIS-based asset management system developed by :
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Millions of women & girls around the world are still stigmatized, excluded, and discriminated against simply because they menstruate. Support Menstrual Hygiene Day on 28 May and learn more about menstrual health:
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What's new in water sector study, research, and methodology? Explore the Water Resilience Hub’s curated tools and resources from leading water sector experts like PUB Singapore, Deltares, Food and Agriculture Organization: hub4r.adb.org/learning-repos
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Addressing the complex and interconnected nature of climate-related problems requires a comprehensive approach to development planning: blogs.adb.org/blog/addressin
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The ADB and Foreign Enterprise Indorama Agro LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Indorama Corporation signed a $15 million loan to support the livelihoods of farmers in Uzbekistan, enhance their climate resilience, and support ongoing recovery from COVID-19:
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🔵 HAPPENING TODAY: Join the first session of the 2023 ADB e-Marketplace and learn how to make water innovation more accessible by building the region’s knowledge and capacity to engage, localize and adopt digital solutions: bit.ly/3IstWAU
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Targeting solution providers from ADB’s existing knowledge &funding partner countries in the water nexus, the ADB e-Marketplace 2023 will be conducted as 10-part, 90-minute webinar series via the Hub, featuring rapid-fire pitches from technology companies: hub4r.adb.org/emarketplace/2
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#ThrowbackThursday: Were you there at the ADB e-Marketplace in 2021? ADB's exhibition of the latest water trends and solutions continues this year!
Sign up to join the launch and first session on 22 May, 12:00–1:30 p.m.(GMT+8): hub4r.adb.org/emarketplace/2
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Reliance on resource-intensive sectors like agriculture makes Central Asia highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Given the interconnectedness of water, agriculture and energy systems, regional cooperation is fundamental to climate resilience: bit.ly/4304niC
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“Innovative financing & private sector mobilization are essential for SDG6," says ADB's Aditi Bhattacharya at the recently concluded Global Water Summit. "To unlock meaningful & sustainable outcomes, financing must also be integrated w/ policy, governance & capacity development.”
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💧Find out more about the water challenges in developing Asia and how ADB is helping through financing and knowledge sharing: bit.ly/3W7c5Fs
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🗓 Join the ADB WASH in the Pacific Technical Assistance and the Pacific Water and Wastewater Association on 17 May for the next Pacific WASH Webinar on Groundwater Assessments for Planning and Resilience.
Register here: bit.ly/3VY5TiH
#WASH #Pacific #groundwater
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Access the World Water Assessment Program (WWAP) Toolkit on the Collection of Sex-Disaggregated Water Data on the Hub! This training by ADB and discusses how to integrate gender equality and inclusion in projects: bit.ly/3Mgk934
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Looking for practical tips and resources for conducting quality socioeconomic surveys for urban development and water projects?
➡️ Download this guidebook: bit.ly/3pi0NSc
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Correction: The session "The Future of SDG6 Finance" will be on 10 May at 11-12:30 p.m. (CET), not a.m.
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Catch ADB at the Global Water Summit this week!💧
➡️ More on ADB's work on water: bit.ly/41hRgrC
➡️ Download ADB's Strategy 2030 Water Sector Directional Guide:bit.ly/3NRwfRG
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Central and West Asia, and its neighboring countries, must work together to address increasingly severe impacts of climate change that could lead to water scarcity, food insecurity, and even conflict in the region.
Read more: bit.ly/44Ikgvs
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🚰 Find out how national water security has been improving across Asia and the Pacific: bit.ly/3LFuu7u
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🔵 LIVE at the 56th ADB Annual Meeting in Incheon, Korea: ADB and the Government of the Netherlands sign financing agreement for the new Water Resilience Trust Fund (WRTF). WRTF has received an initial contribution of $20M from the Netherlands: bit.ly/3pdttvO
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Watch the recording of the online training Good Enough Guide to On-Site Sanitation in the Pacific here: events.development.asia/learning-event
#WASH #Pacific #sanitation #onlinetraining
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Dhaka, the economic, cultural, and political center of Bangladesh, is set to have a sustainable water supply that could keep up with its rapidly growing urban population and industrialization:
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Major challenges are overwhelming Solomon Islands' water supply and sanitation services. ADB, along with the EU and World Bank, is leading a sector-wide water and sanitation project to expand and upgrade Solomon Islands' water and sewerage infrastructure: bit.ly/42h5Q3o
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Our partners at are hosting an All Systems Connect International Symposium on 2-4 May with over 250 global experts to improve actions toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030:
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Fact: Roughly 360 million people around the world could be at risk of annual flood events by 2100.
How can we manage the devastation caused by floods? Read it on our blog: bit.ly/40H2Oo6
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ADB has established a Water Resilience Trust Fund under the Water Financing Partnership Facility to support critical and transformational actions by government agencies, communities, and the private sector to strengthen water resilience in the region: bit.ly/3Ndz66Y
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FACT: 70% of the people that will be affected by rising sea levels are located in just eight Asian countries: PRC, Bangladesh, India, Viet Nam, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, and Japan.
Read about sea-level change in the Pacific Islands region: bit.ly/3V12hMx
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Want to know ADB's strategy for ensuring water security and resilience in the Asia Pacific region? Learn about the priorities and rationale that will guide ADB’s partnerships w/ developing member countries by downloading the new directional guide summary: bit.ly/41SMd1z
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ADB Senior Water and Climate Change Specialist Alessio Giardino will talk about exploring avenues for smart adaptation in managing water resources at the EU-ASEAN Expert Roundtable happening today.
For resources, visit the Water Resilience Hub: hub4r.adb.org
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ADB approved a $130M loan to increase agricultural productivity and promote agribusinesses to raise farmers’ income in Himachal Pradesh, India. The project will improve on-farm irrigation and water management in about 6,000 hectares of farmland: bit.ly/3Apsf2Z
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"The sheer scale of the climate crisis can make even the world’s biggest institutions feel helpless," writes ADB President Masatsugu Asakawa. "But if MDBs undertake a shift in mindset, they can do much more to combat global warming, and faster."
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