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Water Week
Water for All - Getting ADB's Water Policy to Work
ADB Auditorium Zones C - D
ADB Headquarters, Manila, Philippines
9 - 13 December 2002

ADB Water Prize

Pres. Chino hands over the award to Javed Iqbal Chaudhry, Project Director. Looking on is Jan van Heeeswijk, ADB Director General

The ADB Water Prize is presented to a project agency in an ADB-financed water project in recognition of sound practice in support of ADB's Water Policy 'Water for All'.

For the 2002 ADB Water Prize, rural water supply and sanitation practices were considered on the following criteria:

• degree of efforts exerted by the project agency in implementing the project
• extent of stakeholder participation as evidenced by their contribution
• role of NGOs and other partners
• degree of providing better service to the poor through the inclusion of sanitation, hygiene, livelihood and other components

From left: Ms. Gul Fareen Yaqoob, president of the Thathi Gujran Village Community Organization in Attock District of Punjab Province; Ms. Nadia Saeed, community motivator; Mr. Javed Iqbal Chaudhry, Project Director; Shakeel Khan, ADB Project Officer; Jan van Heeswijk, ADB Director General; Mr. Tadao Chino, ADB President; Hon. Iftikhar Hussain Kazmi, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Embassy of Islamic Republic of Pakistan; Mr. Akram Malik, ADB Executive Director for Pakistan.

ADB’s Water Sector Committee makes the recommendation for the award of the ADB Water Prize to ADB Management.

The Housing, Urban Development, and Public Health Engineering Department of Punjab Province, Pakistan was the recipient of the 2002 ADB Water Prize. It was recognized for successfully promoting stakeholder participation, hygiene education, and local community ownership in the ADB-financed Punjab Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project.