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South East Asian Water Utilities Network
ADB’s Support to SEAWUN

ADB has focused on helping SEAWUN build its administrative, financial and operational capacities, expand its membership, and develop technical capacities and institutionalize performance benchmarking among its members.

  
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OBJECTIVES
  • build SEAWUN's administrative and operational capabilities
  • build SEAWUN's membership base and financial self-sufficiency
  • help SEAWUN members improve their service levels through performance benchmarking

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COMPONENTS

Organizational Strengthening
In 2004-2005, ADB’s support contributed to the training of Secretariat staff on specific SEAWUN services, and conduct of Executive and Board meetings to decide on policy and program concerns

Promotion and Awareness
This component focuses on promotional and awareness activities in member countries designed to recruit members, and build broad-based support for SEAWUN.

Visit the SEAWUN website to find out more about their networking activities.

Knowledge Management and Capacity Building
This component focuses on developing a water utilities database and conducting regional, topic driven, “by utilities for utilities" events.

SEAWUN’s inaugural Convention on Water and Wastewater was held on 7-9 June 2005 in Viet Nam. The 2nd convention is scheduled on 14-16 May 2007 in Malaysia.

Performance Benchmarking and Improvement
This focused on strengthening utility performance by engaging them in a regional performance benchmarking program focusing on Southeast Asia.

The results of the first benchmarking program were published as the SEAWUN Databook on Water Utilities.

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ACTIVITIES, DESCRIPTIONS AND RESULTS
[ 2006-2007 | 2004-2005 ]

Components

Activities

Results

Promotion and Awareness Website maintenance Updating of SEAWUN website
Production water publications  
Missions to SEA countries to promote SEAWUN  
Knowledge Management and Capacity Building 2007 Annual SEAWUN Convention (14-16 May 2007 in Malaysia)
Twinning Arrangement between PPWSA and BIWASE [PDF]		  
Performance Benchmarking (Phase 2) Systems design Review and enhancement of Phase 1 Benchmarking design
Pilot testing of instrument Improvement of Phase 1 Benchmarking questionnaire
Data analysis Expansion of participating utilities to 80-100
Pilot testing of process benchmarking Peer review process and instruments to first be developed

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CONTACTS

Paul van Klaveren
Water Supply and Sanitation Specialist, ADB
E-mail: pvanklaveren@adb.org

Vu Kim Quyen
Executive Director, SEAWUN
E-mail: vkquyen@hn.vnn.vn