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Pilot and Demonstration Activities
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ADB’s pilot and demonstration activities (PDAs), introduced in 2002, provide opportunities for testing innovative ideas, technology, and methodologies to improve water services delivery and water resources management on a smaller scale. |
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PDAs are short-term activities designed to test and validate new and innovative approaches, methodologies and strategies for improved water resources management and water services delivery, as well as sector policy development and sector reform.
Since 2002, PDAs have been financed under ADB’s Cooperation Fund for the Water Sector (CFWS), a multi-agency facility that promotes effective water management policies and practices in Asia and the Pacific. The CFWS is scheduled to be closed by December 2009.
ADB’s Water Financing Partnership Facility (WFPF) has also been supporting PDAs since its establishment in 2006. The WFPF mobilizes additional financial and knowledge resources from financing partners to support the implementation of ADB’s Water Financing Program 2006-2010 , which aims to deliver substantial investment, reform, and capacity development in rural and urban water services, and basin water management.
PDAs are meant to be fast-moving, quick disbursing activities. Thus, a project should be completed no later than 12 months after start-up. The PDA program provides up to $50,000 funding assistance per project.
Assistance for PDAs are based on two key principles:
Ellen Pascua
Water Fund Manager
E-mail: epascua@adb.org
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