27 Mr Sanjay Divakar Joshi CWRD-CWUW 28 Ms Michelle Tan CWRD-CWUW 29 Ms Claire A.F. Odsinada SARD-SAUW 30 Mr Ashok Srivastava SARD-SAUW/INDIA RM 31 Mr Nguyen My Binh SERD-VIET NAM RM 32 Ms Fatima Bautista SDCC/SDAS 33 Mr Michiel de Lijster SDCC/SDAS GENERAL OVERVIEW OF THE PROGRAM PRELIMINARY PROGRAM 5th ANWLW (6-10 June 2016) DAY SUB-TOPICS Location Sunday Introduction to Learning Week Introductory program with welcome drinks and dinner Grand Café Verderop Day 1 Understanding urban water resilience Challenges for cities to become water resilient ADB Programs and projects in the Asia-Pacific region to increase resilience of cities Effects of Climate change on the future water resilience of cities Dutch water resilient policies and programs Delft UNESCO-IHE The Hague Ministry I&M Day 2 Global and local initiatives for increasing capacities of water resilience of cities Resilient Cities Acceleration Initiative (RCAI) Arcadis Sustainable Cities Index 100 Resilient Cities network Rotterdam Centre for Resilient Delta Cities (RDC) Rotterdam Resilience Program Rotterdam Arcadis Kuiper Compagnons Urbanisten Rotterdam Municipal Day 3 Regional cooperation for better management strategies and practices Amsterdam, City of Water: A Vision for Water, Safety and Rain proofing The Water Proof City of Amsterdam One unique water cycle Company for the regional and the Three perspectives on ‘Amsterdam living with water’ Amsterdam Waternet Municipality of Amsterdam RHDHV Free University Day 4 The “Room for the River” Program Nijmegen
Challenges Objectives Themes Proposed experts Tonga Delegation Tonga Planning and Urban Management Agency (PUMA) Tonga Waterboard (TWB) Communities not complying with urban planning requirements; Enacting of the National Spatial Planning and Management Bill; Sustaining community commitment to tariff increases for water and solid waste services Gain insight into international best practices for urban and water project design implementation, and to tailor lessons learned to the context of Tonga, to be applied to current and pipeline urban development projects. Also to be made aware of potential opportunities for collaboration with international agencies in urban development projects. Climate resilience/ drainage, (water resources for) water supply/ salination, institutional arrangements Koos Wieriks Ministry of I&M(pending), Jan Willem Overbeek (independent consultant), Eric Huijskens, LievenseCSO (pending,)
to ensure sustainability and environmental protection. For this purpose, developing capacity of the executing and implementing agency is of great importance, and the MFF addresses this issue with proposed systematic capacity building initiatives as under: Sustainable Operations Environmental Protection Institutional and financial sustainability Enabling legal and regulatory framework Knowledge acquired at the Learning Week can be applied to the implementation of the on-going 6 tranches of the MFF, including capacity development component. ADB is assisting GoG in development of infrastructure in integrated and sustainable manner under future cities development program. The GoG members will be able to appreciate the water resilient cities in the Netherlands and will adopt certain innovative techniques on water conservation in the future programing. The team composition of a senior decision maker from the Ministry, water utility, and a regulator is ideal from this perspective. Water supply, sanitation, operations and maintenance, utilities Bert Satijn (Independent consultant), Sybe Schaap (House of Representatives), Wim Verheugt (Euroconsult Mottmacdonald, pending) Bangladesh Delegation Government Engineering Department (LGED); Local Government Division;
To gain knowledge/information on how to work out optimal blending of infrastructure and climate change needs; To get abreast of international best practices of water resources management, especially best practices relating to prudent climate change adaptation and mitigation; To how different countries are striving to cope with the threats and impact of climate change and how the lessons learnt from such countries could relate to the context of Bangladesh; To be more informed about ways and means to build and develop resilient cities. planning, management en strategy, water supply, sanitation William Oliemans (Deltares), Michel Verlaan (Dutch Water Partners), Ingeborg Krukkert (IRC Wash), Joke Lepoole (Max Foundation), Ben Lamoree (NWP) Sri Delegation Colombo Waste Water Management Project, Colombo Municipal Council
limited capacity to implement multilateral environment agreements (MEAs) given current fragmentation across ministries and agencies, need to update and harmonize policies, regulatory and institutional frameworks in view of threats, gaps and weaknesses in skills and technical capacity, data/information management, secure equipment and financial resources needed for implementation, weak enforcement of law in relevant sectors, need for integrated land and water management framework to halt degradation of natural resources, reduce the ‘ecological footprint’, and to support ecosystem-based approaches to climate resilient urban planning and development, threats to and ecosystems health from outdated infrastructure and escalating pollution from point and non-point sources, combined with sedimentation in river basins, waterways, wetlands and coastal areas in Greater Colombo and adjacent areas, limited awareness of policy makers, businesses, service providers and society of the long term consequences of unsustainable use of natural resources, and of how various tools and methods can be applied to assess trade-offs and options in the context of economic growth. to apply the newly acquired skills and experience in the current GEF funded project and to further develop their skills through continued sharing of experience among the participants. Waste water management, inlc. Social and environmental aspects, water resources management (inst. Capacity building) Nico Boonstra (Ballast-Nedam), Rudolf Muitjens (RHDHV, pending), Martin van der Schans (KWR Water, pending), Rosh Ranasinghe (UNESCO-IHE), Tineke Hooimans (UNESCO-IHE, pending)