World Toilet Summit and Expo 2009
2-4 December 2009; Singapore
Background | Objectives | ADB Participation | Organizers | Participants
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The new paradigm and approach to the 2.5 billion people who are still living without proper access to sanitation is to change the mindset and to consider sanitation as an emerging market worth US$ 1 trillion dollars. The World Toilet Summit and Expo 2009 continues to explore the use of conventional marketing wisdom and creative approaches to tap into this sunrise market. Hence, the theme for this year’s summit is “Creating the Blueprint for a Sustainable Sanitation Marketplace.” The conference will focus on three key focus areas; demand creation, developing the appropriate design and technology, and exploring creative financial mechanisms to fund sanitation related projects.
The World Toilet Summit conference series was first launched in Singapore in 2001. Since then, it has travelled to various cities around the world, including Beijing, Belfast, India, Moscow, Seoul, Shanghai, Taiwan, and Macau. This year, the summit is coming back to Singapore. ADB is helping to organize this year’s summit as it did last year, and is taking the lead in a plenary session on Financing Sanitation in Asia on 4 December. Singapore Minister Lim Swee Say, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office, is invited as the summit’s Guest-of-Honour.
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The Summit advocates the establishment of effective partnerships between private, public and people sectors, working together towards achieving sustainable sanitation.
It will address both urban and rural sanitation, dealing with issues that impede sanitation improvement, policies and guidelines to government implementation and regulation, good practices that could be adopted and others. The summit will also showcase initiatives and developments in these areas and aims to create a sustainable model by employing different approaches to reach out to the people at the “bottom of the pyramid.”
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ADB Director General for Southeast Asia Arjun Thapan will address the plenary in a keynote speech during the Summit’s opening ceremony. ADB’s plenary session on Financing Sanitation in Asia on 4 December will feature:
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Speaker |
| 9:00 – 9:15 |
Meeting the financing gap |
Anand Chiplunkar
Principal Water Supply and Sanitation Specialist, Regional and Sustainable Development Department, ADB |
| 9:15 – 9:30 |
Expanding sanitation coverage through targeted subsidies
Case study: Nepal Small Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project |
Norio Saito
Urban Development Specialist,
South Asia Department, ADB |
| 9:30 – 9:45 |
Enhancing sanitation service delivery and financing mechanisms
Case study: Kyrgyz Issyk-Kul Sustainable Development Project |
Vijay Padmanabhan
Urban Development Specialist, Central and West Asia Department, ADB |
| 9:45 – 10:00 |
Creative Capitalism |
Meera Mehta
Professor Emeritus,
Faculty of Planning and Public Policy, CEPT University, India |
| 10:00 – 10:25 |
Panel Discussion |
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| 10:25 – 10:30 |
Summary and conclusion |
Dr. Anand Chiplunkar |
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The World Toilet Summit and Expo is being organized by the World Toilet Organization, in partnership with ADB and the Restroom Association of Singapore (RAS).
The summit is also strongly supported by EcoSanRes, International Code Council (ICC), Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA), Singapore Institute of Planners (SIP), Stockholm Environment Institute(SEI), Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (SuSanA) and the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council (WSSCC) and the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP).
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Sanitation experts from the Asia and Pacific region and from around the world are expected to attend. Government representatives and private sector partners are invited. Top
The Summit and Expo will be held at Suntec, Singapore.
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