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ADB Headquarters, Manila, Philippines: 8 September 2008

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08:30 - 09:30	Registration
09:30 - 10:00	Opening Ceremony Opening Remarks Juan Miranda, Director General, Central and West Asia Department, Asian Development Bank (ADB) Keynote Address Ursula Schaefer-Preuss, Vice President, Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development, ADB Background of the Forum and Urban Community of Practice (CoP) Hun Kim, Director, South Asia Urban Development Division (SAUD), ADB
10:00 - 10:15	Tea/Coffee Break
10:15 - 12:00	Managing Solid Waste Introduction Session Chair: Shakeel Khan, Senior Urban Dev’t Specialist, Central and West Asia Urban Services Division, ADB National and Local Initiatives on Solid Waste Mgt & Implementation of 3Rs in the Philippines [ PDF: 2,566kb | 44 pages ] Brief Notes [ PDF: 33kb | 5 pages ] Emelita C. Aguinaldo, Deputy Executive Director, National Solid Waste Management Commission, Philippines Low Cost Sustainable SWM Solutions with Public-Private Partnership [ PDF: 3,354kb | 32 pages ] Asef Farouque, Chairman, Waste Buster, Pakistan Discussion
12:00 - 13:15	Lunch Break
13:15 - 14:45	Facing the Climate Change Challenges Introduction Session Chair: Joseph Carmody, Senior Project Specialist (Clean Energy and Climate Change), ADB Climate Change and Cities [ PDF: 4,804kb | 67 pages ] Elisea Gillera-Gozun, former Environment Secretary, Philippines Cities in Asia: the Challenge of Climate Change [ PDF: 451kb | 18 pages ] Michael Lindfield, Principal Urban Development Specialist, Special Initiatives Group, ADB Discussion
14:45 - 15:00	Tea/Coffee Break
15:00 - 16:30	Developing City Clusters Introduction Session Chair: KyeongAe Choe, Principal Urban Development Specialist, SAUD, ADB Philippine Cities Competitiveness Ranking Project 2007 [ PDF: 2,938kb | 29 pages ] Ronald Cartagena, Program Manager, Asian Institute of Management, Philippines Enhancing Competitiveness in Business Clusters Through Cluster Development Approach [ PDF: 602kb | 39 pages ] Rajveer Singh, Managing Director, Apex Cluster Development Services, India Discussion
16:30 - 17:00	Closing Ceremony Urban Environmental Improvement Along Songhua River Sangay Penjor, Principal Financial Analysis Specialist, East Asia Social Sectors Division, ADB Launching of Urban CoP Knowledge Products, Wrap-Up Session, and Closing Remarks Hun Kim, Director, SAUD Cocktails