Asian Development Bank
at Stockholm World
Water Week 201925–29 August 2019 • Stockholm, Sweden

27 August, Tuesday

Program

Youth Participating in Water Security:
Examples from Asia and the Paciﬁc
1100–1200 • Room D10

11:00a.m.

Welcome and Introduction
Thomas Panella, Chief of Water
Sector Group, ADB

Co-convenor Stockholm International
Water Institute11:05a.m.

Youth participation in Water
Security – Examples from South
East Asia
Vijay Padmanabhan, Director,
Urban Development and Water
Division, Southeast Asia Regional
Department, ADB

This session is part of the Young Professionals
Booth, which is all about networking and inspiration
care of different organizations hosting various
activities. Together, they will showcase how they
engage youth and how youth can, and should, bepart of different processes. Both young and seniorprofessionals are welcome to network, learn more
about youth activities, get tips and support on how
to include young people in the water sector as wellas on how to contribute better as a young person.

Minh Nguyen, Youth Project
Designer, ADB Youth for Asia
11:15a.m.

For this speciﬁc activity, both ADB and GWP arepresenting case studies of youth involvement inwater projects.

www.linkedin.com/in/adb-water

Youth engagement strategy of
GWP – Case study in China
Julienne Roux, Senior Network
Specialist, GWP
Yunzhong Jiang, Secretary Generalof China Region, GWP

twitter.com/adbwater

11:25a.m.

Youth Participation in
Water Security
Moderator: Silvia Cardascia, Young
Professional, ADB

require new and forward-thinking approaches
to water research, planning, and management.
Water cycle management – the integrated andstrategic management of water resources and theirassociated ecosystems underpinned by integrated
research, analysis, and engagement of stakeholders
at all levels – offers a framework through which todevise and implement appropriate and evidencebased policies for long-term water security.

Panelists:
Thomas Panella, ADB
Teresa Kho, Deputy Director
General, East Asia Regional
Department, ADB

This session, part of the Asia Focus program led by
the Asia Paciﬁc Water Forum (APWF) and ADB,
brings together case studies that highlight water
cycle management across the region’s diverse
geographical and hydrological contexts and scales,
demonstrating water solutions based on evidence
and knowledge drawn from science as well as local
and indigenous knowledge systems, innovativetechnologies, and testing of business models, andbased on partnerships that span from communities
to practitioners to policymakers—all with theobjective of catalyzing systemic change with
impacts at scale.

Vijay Padmanabhan, Director,
Urban Development and Water
Division, Southeast Asia Regional
Department, ADB
Julienne Roux, GWP
Lyazzat Syrlybayeva, Regional
Network Coordinator for Central
Asia, Youth for Water Network
Shabana Abbas, President, Water
Youth Network
Minh Nguyen, Youth Project
Designer, ADB Youth for
Asia team
11:55a.m.

Program

Closing Remarks
Thomas Panella, ADB

See webpage here:
https://www.worldwaterweek.org/event/8840young-professionals-booth

2:00p.m.

Introduction
Yumiko Asayama, APWF
Secretariat c/o Manager, Japan
Water Forum

2:05p.m.

Presentations
Water Cycle Management for the
Sustainable Development Goals:
Strengthening the SDG6
Knowledge BaseHans Dencker Thulstrup, Senior
Programme Specialist, Water
and Environmental Sciences,
UNESCO Regional Science Bureau
for Asia and the Paciﬁc

Water Cycle Management: Towards Water
Security in Asia and Paciﬁc
14:00–15:30 • Room L9
Co-convenors APWF, Commonwealth Scientiﬁc
and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO),
International Centre of Excellence in Water
Resources Management (ICEWaRM), International
Water Management Institute (IWMI), Japan
Sanitation Consortium, Stockholm Environment
Institute (SEI) Asia, UNESCO Scientiﬁc Bureau of
Asia and the Paciﬁc

Shiga’s Efforts toward the
Restoration and Conservation of
Lake Biwa for a Sound Water Cycle
Nobuhiko Miwa, Senior Technical
Director, Department of Lake Biwa
and the Environment, Shiga
Prefectural Government, Japan

Attaining inclusive water security across Asia andthe Paciﬁc and fulﬁlling the targets under SDG62

Striving for the Improvement ofWastewater Management
to Achieve Good Water Cycle
Management: Introduction of‘Ho Chi Minh Water Environment
Improvement Project’ and ‘AWaP’

2:55p.m.

Q&A and Panel Discussion
Moderator: Dr. Hans Dencker
Thulstrup, UNESCO Regional
Science Bureau for Asia and the
Paciﬁc3:25p.m.

Yoshiharu Imajima, Deputy
Director, International Affairs
Office, Japan Sewage Works
Agency and Sewage Works Expert,
Japan Sanitation Consortium
Kazushi Hashimoto, Advisor, Japan
Sanitation Consortium

Summary

See webpage here:
https://www.worldwaterweek.org/event/8355water-cycle-management-towards-watersecurity-in-asia-and-paciﬁc

Water Solutions for Sustainable
Development: Mobilizing
Science, Systems Thinking, andEvidence-based Approaches
Sonali Senaratna Sellamuttu,
Country Representative Southeast Asia and Myanmar,
IWMI

Inclusive Asia-Paciﬁc Rural Water andSanitation: Pathways to the SDGs
16:00–17:30 • Room L9
Co-convenors APWF, Global Water Institute (GWI)– University of New South Wales (UNSW), Global
Water Partnership (GWP) Southeast Asia, Japan
Water Forum, and the United Nations Human
Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat)

Towards Inclusive Water
Management: Taking Action forSouth Asia
Neil Lazarow, Research Group
Leader, Basin Management
Outcomes, CSIRO

Securing water and sanitation underpins the SDGs,
particularly for the disproportionate number living
in remote areas in the Asia Paciﬁc region. Thissession aims to focus on the difficulties of reaching
the last mile, solutions that can be applied toovercome these difficulties, and the circumstances
which help or hinder different innovative
approaches to achieving the objective of‘including all’.

Natural-based Solutions for
Water Cycle Management in the
Greater Mekong Subregion
Countries
Thanapon Piman, Research Fellow,
SEI Asia

The role of local leadership, technology, andpathways of scaling up best practices will be
explored through case studies. Although thesession focuses on rural water and sanitation
security, the outcomes will show how the principles
and approaches discussed in the session can berelevant to other aspects of water management anddevelopment issues.

Transboundary Water
Management: Principles, Policies,
and Politics
Karlene Maywald, Managing
Director of Maywald Consultants
Pty Ltd, and Chair, ICEWaRM

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Program
4:00p.m.

4:03p.m.

Introduction
Yumiko Asayama, APWF
Secretariat c/o Manager, Japan
Water Forum

4:55p.mQ&A and Panel Discussion
Moderator: Sneha Latha, Regional
Coordinator, Freshwater Action
Network for South Asia

5:25p.m.

Summary

See webpage here:
https://www.worldwaterweek.org/event/8364inclusive-asia-paciﬁc-rural-water-and-sanitationpathways-to-the-sdgs

Presentations
Support to the Grassroots
Activities through Japan Water
Forum Fund
Sae Ishihara, Chief Manager, Japan
Water Forum

28 August, Wednesday

Enhancing the Climate andDisaster Resilience of Vulnerable
Rural Communities throughProvision of Water Supply andSanitation
Avi Sarkar, Regional Advisor Southeast Asia, Urban Basic
Services Branch, UN-Habitat

Strengthening Governance to Address Asia’s
Water Challenges
9:00–10:30 • Room M6
Co-convenors APWF, GWP, International Centre
for Water Hazard and Risk Management under
the auspices of UNESCO (ICHARM), StockholmInternational Water Institute (SIWI), UN-Habitat,
and Water Integrity Network (WIN)Rural Water Security throughSprings Rejuvenation: Progress
through Partnerships in India
Ravi Narayanan, Governing Council
Chair, APWF•

Development of a Communityowned Groundwater Treatment
Plant to Mitigate Risk Factors for
Chronic Kidney Disease of
Unknown Etiology (CKDu) in
Galwaduwagama Village,
Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka
Greg Leslie, Director, UNSW Global
Water Institute - UNSW Australia•

Precision Targeting in Delivering
Safe Water And Sanitation
Services: Water and Sanitation
Household-based E-survey In
Indonesia
Fany Wedahuditama, Regional
Coordinator, GWP Southeast Asia

4This session aims to set out the knowledge
connecting water sector performance withgovernance in Asia, drawing on experienceand analysis from some of the region’s
leading research centers, internationalorganizations, and country-based
experiences. The discussion is organizedaround the following subjects: Measuring
to motivate: sharing best practices toimprove urban water governance which canbeneﬁt informal settlements and collective
accountability-building actions.
Evidence on the impact of disaster risk
governance reforms in Asia and sharing
best practices to ensure protection andenhancing resilience of vulnerable groups
from river bank erosion and water-related
hazards in South and Southeast Asia throughresearch, technological innovation, andregional cooperation, such as International
Flood Initiative.

Thailand’s experience on water governance frommicro-watershed to river basin/province andnational levels, based on applied methodology
from ADB’s Asian Water Development Outlook(AWDO).

Water and Disaster Risk
Management: Perspectives
from Asia
Yumiko Yasuda, Senior Network
Specialist, GWP

ProgramCreating Partnerships at All Levels
for Water-Related Disaster Risk
Reduction by Involving All
Tetsuya Ikeda, Chief Researcher,
ICHARM

9:00a.m.

Introduction
Yumiko Asayama, APWF Secretariat
c/o Manager, Japan Water Forum

9:03a.m.

Presentations

9:55a.m.

Q&A and Panel Discussion
Moderator: Mr. Ravi Narayanan,
Governing Council Chair, APWFESCAP’s Tools for Water
Governance and Inclusive
Development
Aida Karazhanova, Economic
Officer, Sustainable Urban
Development Section, Environmentand Development Division, UN
Economic and Social Commission for
Asia and the Paciﬁc (ESCAP)
Applying Integrity Tools for Waterand Sanitation: Experiences from
Bangladesh

10:25a.m.

Summary

See webpage here:
https://www.worldwaterweek.org/event/8383asia-focus-strengthening-governance-to-addressasias-water-challenges
Inclusive Financing for Water
11:00–12:30 • Room M6

Binayak Das, Regional andProgramme Coordinator, South Asia,
Integrity tools, WIN

Co-convenors APWF, IWC and Waterpreneurs,
OECD, Manila Water, Water.org, WWF, and JICA

Enhancing Capacities of Water
Utilities in the Mekong Region

Although Asia is undergoing unparalleled economic
growth, its traditional means of water ﬁnancing andservice delivery have not kept pace with the SDG
targets. Meanwhile, substantial funds exist in theprivate sector and ﬁnancial markets, and yet these
are not being invested in the water sector.

Avi Sarkar, Regional Advisor Southeast Asia, Urban Basic Services
Branch, UN-Habitat
Linking Integrity Tools with
Capacity Development of Water
Utilities: Experiences from Lao
PDR, Cambodia, and Viet Nam

However, there are creative ﬁnancing mechanisms
being developed to bring in private sector capitaland entrepreneurs, and public sector service
providers are also expanding innovation andnetworks to ensure the poor are receiving services.

James Leten, Senior Manager, Water
Governance Department, SIWI
Multilevel Water Governance:
Lessons Learnt from Thailand
Piyatida Ruangrassamee,
Department of Water Resources
Engineering, Faculty of Engineering,
Chulalongkorn University

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Utility Creditworthiness andAlternative Lending Instruments:
The Southeast Asia Experience
Vijay Padmanabhan, Director,
Urban Development and Water
Division, Southeast Asia
Department, ADB

This session will highlight the following areas:
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ADB’s work on enhancing ﬁnancial capacityof water utilities and fostering policy
dialogue in Southeast Asia to reach the lastmile;
the Organization for Economic Cooperation
and Development’s (OECD) analysis topromote blended ﬁnance for water-related
investments;
the Japan International Cooperation Agency(JICA) case study application of blended
ﬁnance in the Philippines;
the International Water Center (IWC)and Entrepreneurs’ experience in waterand sanitation with a focus on innovative
market-based solutions, impact
investments, blended ﬁnance, and hybridbusiness models;
Water.org’s work on supporting householdoriented ﬁnance for the poor and building
municipal water utility capacity inIndonesia’s rural provinces; andthe World Wide Fund for Nature’s (WWF)experience in supporting bankable water
solutions and water stewardship in
Myanmar.

Rural and Small-Town Water andSanitation Financing in Indonesia
Rich Thorsten, Chief Impact
Officer, Water.org
Bankable Water Solutions for Foodand Beverage Companies in
MyanmarKeiron Brand, Bankable Initiative
Advisor, WWF
Innovate 4 Water Forums in Asiaand the Paciﬁc
Mark Pascoe, CEO, IWC
Brieux Michoud, Managing Partner
and Co-founder, Waterpreneurs
11:55a.m.

Moderator: Thomas Panella, Chiefof the Water Sector Group, ADB
12:25a.m.

11:05a.m.

Summary
Ravi Narayanan, Governing Council
Chair, APWF

Program
11:00a.m.

Panel Discussion

Introduction
Thomas Panella, Chief of the Water
Sector Group, ADB

See webpage here:

Presentations

https://www.worldwaterweek.org/event/8516-asiafocus-inclusive-ﬁnancing-for-water

Blended Finance for WaterRelated Investment
Kathleen Dominique and Wiebke
Barttz-Zuccala, Financing for Water
Initiative, OECD

Mobilizing Financial Resources forTransboundary Water Resources Management
and Cooperation
14:00–15:30 • Room L10

The Philippines’ Water Revolving
Fund
Miha Matsubayashi, Water
Resources Group, Global
Environment Department, JICA

Co-convenors African Development Bank, ADB,
European Investment Bank, Global Environment
Facility - International Waters: Learning

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Exchange and Resource Network, Governmentof Switzerland, Government of the Netherlands,
Organisation for Economic Cooperation andDevelopment, The World Bank Group, United
Nations Economic Commission for Europe(UNECE)

Building on this initial discussion, the event will
discuss the challenges and opportunities forﬁnancing transboundary basin development,
also considering how the private sector and large
funding institutions can be closer involved in theprocess.

Cooperation for managing transboundary basins,representing more than 60% of global freshwater
resources, is crucial for access to water, growthand sustainable development. However, there
is a considerable ﬁnancing gap for water-related
investments globally and securing funding fortransboundary basin poses additional challenges,
including increased real and perceived risks.

ProgramManaging shared waters effectively is key
to positively strengthening socioeconomic,
environmental, and political interdependencies.
Transboundary water cooperation is therefore
crucial for sustainable development, peace, andstability.

2:00p.m.

Welcome Remarks
Chris Severin, Global Environment
Facility

2:05p.m.

Introductory Keynote Speech
Henk Ovink, Special Envoy forInternational Water Affairs, The
Netherlands

2:15p.m.

Innovative Ways of Mobilizing
Funding for Transboundary Basins
Sustainable Financing ofTransboundary Water Cooperationin BasinsAnoulak Kittikhoun, Mekong River
Commission

However, the ﬁnancing of coordinated basin
development and transboundary water cooperationis challenging for many countries. Funders
and investors are often hesitant to engage intransboundary basins, as it is considered too risky.
As a result, an inability to access needed ﬁnancing
in basins suggests that the potential beneﬁts oftransboundary basin cooperation and development
are not being fully realized.

Innovative Financing to De-Risk
Investments in Transboundary
BasinsIsabella Pagotto, Swiss
Development Cooperation
Eileen Burke, World Bank (tbc)

International and non-governmental organizations,ﬁnancial institutions, and countries initiated a
discussion on the ﬁnancing of transboundary basin
development. Different initiatives are being set up
to de-risk investments, such as blended ﬁnanceused to crowd-in commercial ﬁnance. A highlevel workshop in October 2018 highlighted that
effective agreements and integrated basin plansdeveloped between riparian countries along withstrong joint institutions to support and implement
them are key to reduce risks and attract investment
funding in transboundary basins from public andprivate sources.

Private Sector Engagement inTransboundary Water Cooperation
Aaron Vermeulen, WWF (tbc)
2:40p.m.

Thematic Group
Discussion in Roundtables
Lenka Thamae, Executive
Secretary, Orange Senqu
Commission
Francis Daniel Bougaire, Chief
Water Policy and Strategy
Development Officer African
Water Facility, AfDB

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Thomas Panella, Chief of the Water
Sector Group, ADB

Good multilevel water governance is a prerequisite
for leaving no one behind. There is a link between
poverty and access to water services and to theanticipation and mitigation of water-related risks,
including for sanitation and productive water uses.
Enhanced access to water is one of the conditions
to eliminate poverty with deﬁned mechanismsof delivery to the poor. Pricing arrangements
are rarely equitable and ﬁnancing arrangements
often discourage service provision. Drawing on
experiences of good practices and failures, theseminar will focus on benchmarking and, hence,calls for the submission of water governance cases
from large and small, water abundant or scarcecountries.

Kathleen Dominique,Environmental Economist, OECD
Patricia Castellarnau, Senior watersector economist, EIB
3:20p.m.

Wrap-up and Closing
Sonja Koeppel, UNECE
Diane Guerrier, UNECE

See webpage here:
https://www.worldwaterweek.org/event/8418mobilizing-ﬁnancial-resources-for-transboundarywater-resources-management-and-cooperation

The ﬁrst session on law and accountability will focus
on the importance of both ‘informal’ rules or social
constructs and ‘formal’ policies and regulations
for water governance. Common challenges will be
explored with reference to theoretical and practical
approaches.

29 August, Thursday
Water Governance with and for All: Is it
Working?
Session 1: Water Governance 2.0: Law andAccountability
9:00–10:30 • Room L10

Program
9:00a.m.

Welcome and Introduction
Chair: Thomas Panella, Chief of theWater Sector Group, ADB

Co-convenors ADB, GWP, SIWI, UNDP-SIWI Water
Governance Facility, University of Pennsylvania

9:05a.m.

The seminar considers policy guidelines,
institutional arrangements and reform pathways
in countries at different stages of socioeconomic
development and with different forms ofgovernment within which water resources aremanaged.

Keynote – Water Governance in
Asia: The Importance to Project
Development and Sustainability
Thomas Panella, Chief of the Water
Sector Group, ADB

9:15a.m.

Social Accountability andWater Integrity
Birke Otto, WIN, European
University Viadrina

9:25a.m.

Improved Water Services
Cooperation through Clariﬁcationof Rules and Roles
Laura Inha, Tampere University,
Finland

Water governance refers to the political,
institutional, social, economic, and administrative
systems in place that inﬂuence water use andmanagement. The design and development ofwater governance arrangements is grounded in theconceptual understanding of cultural, economic,
moral, religious, and ethical dimensions ofallocations.

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9:35a.m.

Civil Society Involvement in Water
Infrastructure Decisions:
It Is Possible?
Julien Harou, University ofManchester, United Kingdom

9:45a.m.

Community-based Water Tenure:
The Missing Piece of Inclusive
Governance
Jessica Troell, Environmental Law
Institute, United States

9:55a.m.

10:05a.m.

and water-sharing practices. Participants will gaina deep understanding of the opportunities andchallenges faced in differing contexts and sharelessons learned.
ProgramHybrid Water Rights Systems for
Pro-Poor Water Governancein Africa
Barbara Schreiner, WIN

Welcome and Introduction
Chair: Monika Weber-Fahr, GWP

11:10a..mKeynote – Sharing Water: The Roleof Robust Water Sharing
Arrangements in IWRM
Mike Young, University of Adelaide

11:20a.m.

Water Governance and Inclusion:
The Case of the Lancang-Mekong
Basin
Zhong Yong, Secretary Generalof the Lancang-Mekong Water
Resources Cooperation Center

11:30a.m.

Roundtable Discussions
Facilitator: Danka Thalmeinerova

Q&A and Panel Discussion
Moderators: Thomas Panella, Chiefof the Water Sector Group, ADB
Vijay Padmanabhan, Director,
Urban Development and Water
Division, Southeast Asia
Department, ADB

10:25a.m.

11:00a.m.

Political Economy of Domestic
Water Scarcity in Eastern
Himalayan Towns
Rinan Shah, Ashoka Trust for
Research in Ecology and theEnvironment (India)

Closing Remarks
Amy Syvrud, YSPC member

See webpage here:

Social Capital Development: Rural
Water and Sanitation in Sri Lanka
Kamal Dahanayake, Senior Project
Officer (Water Supply-Sanitation),
ADB Sri Lanka Resident Mission

https://www.worldwaterweek.org/event/8578water-governance-with-and-for-all-is-it-working

Water Governance with and for All:
Is it Working?
Session 2: Can Changing the Rules Give More
Equal Access?
11:00–12:30 • Room L10

Water Users Associations in
Tanzania: Local Governancefor Who?
Nathalie Richards, King’s
College London

Co-convenors ADB, GWP, SIWI, UNDP-SIWI Water
Governance Facility, University of Pennsylvania

Cenagrap, a Public-Communal
Alliance: A Model for Water
Management in Ecuador
Katrien Van Hooydonk, Protos(Belgium)This second session will present a series of casestudies on water governance in South Asia,
South America, and Africa, to explore practicalexperiences concerning stakeholder engagement

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Governing Water (Re)allocation inSouth Africa: Insights from a Crisis
Jonathan Rawlins, OneWorld
Sustainable Investments (South
Africa)(KD1), Economic WS (KD2), Urban WS (KD3),
Environmental WS (KD4), and Resilience to Waterrelated Disasters (KD5). The 2020 edition will also
include two chapters on Governance and Finance– to be prepared by OECD – and country casestudies.

Social Connections Program for
Full Access in Tangiers, Morocco
Naoufal Salama, Amendis

In this showcase, ADB will reﬂect on the water
security issues, as well as the crosscutting
aspects of governance and ﬁnance in the region.
Chulalongkorn University will also present theirwork on water security undertaken in Thailand, witha lens on governance. AWDO methodology is being
applied at national, provincial, and river basin levels
under Thailand’s National Strategic Plan.

Experience from the 2016–2018
Water Crisis in Brazil’s Federal
District
Jorge Werneck Lima, Regulatory
Agency for Water, Energy andSanitation of the Federal District(Adasa)12:10p.m.

This showcase provides a unique opportunity for
the Stockholm water community to engage withinternational and regional sector experts in aninteractive manner. Inputs from the audience will
also be valuable for the ﬁnal publication and thelaunch of the study in 2020.

Lessons Learned
Each table presenter to provide key
message from the discussions
Comments from Zhong Yong

12:25p.m.

Closing Remarks
Amy Syvrud, YSPC member

ProgramSee webpage here:

12:00p.m.

https://www.worldwaterweek.org/event/8579water-governance-with-and-for-all-is-itworking-23

Welcome and Introduction
Thomas Panella, Chief of the Water
Sector Group, ADB

12:05p.m.

Showcase: Water Security for All: Asian Water
Development Outlook 2020
12:00p.m.–12:45p.m. • Room M6

The Five Key Dimensions of Water
Security: AWDO 2020
Silvia Cardascia, Water Sector
Group, ADB

12:10p.m.

Enabling Water Security: A Focus
on GovernanceHakan Tropp, Water GovernanceInitiative, OECD

12:15p.m.

Investing in Water Security: A
Focus on FinanceHannah Leckie, Financing for Water
Initiative, OECD

12:20p.m.

AWDO as a Policy Tool: Thailand
Case Study
Piyatida Ruangrassamee,
Department of Water Resources
Engineering, Faculty of Engineering,
Chulalongkorn University

Co-convenors ADB, APWF, Chulalongkorn
University of Thailand, and OECD
Asian Water Development Outlook (AWDO)
2020 will be the fourth edition of the ADB ﬂagshippublication series initiated in 2007. Adopting aholistic approach, AWDO is a tool that provides
rigorous quantitative analysis of the water security(WS) status of 49 countries in Asia and the Paciﬁc.
AWDO methodology distinguishes ﬁve Key
Dimensions (KDs) of WS: Rural Household WS

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12:25p.m.

Panel Discussion

12:35p.m.

Summary
Ravi Narayanan, Governing Council
Chair, APWF

Mariano Montero, Director, FEMSAFoundation
Anders Jacobson, CEO, Blue AB
Eleanor Allen, CEO, Water For
PeopleInnovation: Business as Unusual
Session 3: The Pitch: Accelerating Innovation
2:00p.m.–3:30p.m. • Room L12

Kit Krugman, President and Chair,
WIN: Women in Innovation
2:15p.m.

Co-convenors Inter-American Development Bank
(IDB), International Water Association, Microsoft,
SIWI, Water Foundryeach and 1 minute Q&A from judges)• Jochen Raimann, “Decentralized
Water Puriﬁcation Using
Membrane Filtration to Improve
Community Health”• Yolwin Jed Perales, “Innovationin Low-Cost Water Treatment
Using Conventional andNanotechnologies”• Christian Walder, “Providing
Sanitation to Off-grid Areas: A
Successful Story from Cambodia”• Leah Page Jean, “Building
Consumer-focused Household
Sanitation Solutions in Haiti”• Joseph D`Alba, “The Implicationsof a Sustainable Source ofPotable Water”• James Peterson, “UVC LEDDisinfection Demonstrates
Effectiveness against POU
Water Pathogens”• Odwa Ntsika Mtembu, “Water
Wide Web 3.1: Circulating Urban
Water System for Renewable”• Mary Roach, “VeriSan:
Accelerating Sanitation Scaling
through Mobile IT”

To achieve SDG6 it is urgent to upscale green,socially aware, and innovative water management
approaches. This session will be a dynamic andhighly interactive pitching session, complete witha board of knowledgeable judges to assess the
proposed solutions based on relevance, innovativevalue, and feasibility.
This seminar casts eight innovator or entrepreneursthat have already put their solutions into practice.
The focus here is recognizing that business as usual
will not enable us to achieve SDG 6. Conventional
solutions require long periods for design andconstruction and signiﬁcant amounts of resourcesthat are not available. The water sector has beensomewhat reluctant to embrace innovation, andthis seminar attempts to change that. The goal is toﬁnd more efficient, less costly, scalable, measurable
and integral solutions to attain the SDGs.
Program
2:00p.m.

Presentation of Pitches (5 minutes

Welcome and Introduction
Sergio Campos, Water andSanitation Division Chief, IDB

3:05p.m.

Audience Vote on Best Pitch
Awarding of Prizes and Closing
Remarks

2:05p.m.

Keynote Remarks
Scott Bryan, President,
ImagineH2O

3:20p.m.

2:10–14:15

Presentation of Judges
Moderator: Ronja Helleshøj
Sørensen, Young Scientiﬁc Program
Committee, SIWI

See webpage here:
https://www.worldwaterweek.org/event/8601innovation-business-as-unusual-the-pitchaccelerating-innovation

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Towards a Working Market for GreenInfrastructure
5:00p.m.–5:45p.m. • Room L9

Based on the challenges posed by the practitioners,scientists and NGOs will respond on how they
are giving response to these challenges. The
outcome will be an action and research agenda that
accelerates the creation of a market for the uptakeof nature-based solutions for water security andconsiders the use of blended ﬁnance strategies.

Co-convenors Deltares, Forest Trends, Governmentof the Netherlands, IDB, Nature Insurance
Value: Assessment and Demonstration Project
Consortium, University of Minnesota

Program

Climate change impacts show us that traditional
development models heavily relying on
infrastructure deployment will not suffice for asustainable and resilient future. Green and hybrid
infrastructure strategies may hold the key for awin-win between economic growth, environmental
quality, and social inclusion. The challenge is on
accelerating their uptake.
Diverse initiatives are advancing the evidence on
the effectiveness of green infrastructure to achieve
multiple SDGs and manage multiple risks (i.e.,water, health, and climate) on a cost-effective
manner. However, to speed up the mainstreaming
and upscaling of initiatives, it is key to bring all
available pieces of evidence together and facilitatea public-private dialogue that results in a sharedstrategy for the creation of a working market: asteady pipeline of high quality projects and jobs.

5:00p.m.

Welcome and Introduction

5:05p.m.

Green Infrastructure and its Role in
Water Security in LAC
Raul Muñoz, Climate Change
Adaptation Specialist, IDB

5:10p.m.

Financing for River EcologicalProtection and Green
Development: ADB Best Practices
in the People’s Republic of China
Teresa Kho, Deputy Director
General, East Asia Department,
ADB

5:15p.m.

Dialogue about Barriers andDrivers for Market Creation withWorldwide Leading Public andPrivate Actors
Panel speakers:

Inspired by pioneering experiences of the coconvenors in the Americas, Asia, and Europe, theobjective of this showcase is to kick-start a dialogue
with worldwide leading actors in the public andprivate side of the equation: public procurement
agencies, dredging and construction contractors,
real estate and infrastructure project developers,ﬁnanciers, and key beneﬁciaries such as water
utilities.

Maria Luisa Choque, Bolivian
Ministry of Environment and Water
Vijay Padmanabhan, Director,
Urban Development and Water
Division, Southeast Asia
Department, ADB

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Aarin Gross, Conservation
International, Lead Sustainable
Water Management Theme, GIIN
Navigating Impact Project
Kathleen Dominique, OECD, Lead
Water Financing Roundtable
Keiron Brand, WWF, Initiative Leadfor Bankable Water Solutions
Wenchi Yang, Lead Urban Designer
MLA+ “Cascading Semarang”,
Water as Leverage
5:30p.m.

Response from Scientiﬁc World on
their Contribution to Market
Creation
Pavel Misiga, Circular Economy andBio-based Systems Unit, European
Commission
Boris Ochoa, Imperial College
London – FT Natural Infrastructure
for Water Security, Perú
Kate Brauman, Global Water
Initiative, University of Minnesota
John Matthews, AGWA
Monica A. Altamirano, Program
Manager Finance for Adaptive
Planning, Deltares

17:40–17:45

Summary

See webpage here:
https://www.worldwaterweek.org/event/8702towards-a-working-market-for-greeninfrastructure