Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Leadership Capacity Development on Non-Sewered Sanitation and Fecal Sludge Management
In partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), Capacity building and training (CBT) programs will create a platform for non-sewered sanitation and fecal sludge management to make cities more livable and to promote urban development.
More than 1.5 billion people in developing Asian countries lack access to improved sanitation, and around 80% of wastewater is discharged untreated. Without evidence-based information and adequate leadership capacity, national and local policy makers are unable to develop suitable sanitation and implement programs in urban and rural areas. CBT programs and the BMGF will support sustainable and innovative water and sanitation solutions in developing member countries (DMCs), using a variety of methodologies, including evidence-based case studies; effective teaching and learning methods; high-level policy dialogues; seminars; research; and field visits by DMC government officials, experts, and private sector professionals.
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ADBI-Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Webinar on Sanitation and Development: Sanitation and Household Behavior in Rural Bangladesh
This webinar will feature Raymond Guiteras of North Carolina State University who will present four studies on promoting sanitation investment, maintenance, and use in rural areas of Tanore, Bangladesh. -
ADBI-Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Webinar on Sanitation and Development: Unintended Consequences of Public Intervention in Sanitation in Peru and India
This webinar will discuss studies on sewerage expansion in Peru and community toilet maintenance in India, and how public intervention in sanitation infrastructure aimed at improving public health can lead to hazardous, unintended outcomes. -
ADBI-Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Roundtable on Sanitation and Development
ADBI-Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation roundtable, organized in collaboration with the Institute for Fiscal Studies, will assess the outlook for sanitation services delivery, financing, and its socioeconomic impacts in the region. -
ADBI-JICA Online Training Program on Wastewater Management and City-Wide Inclusive Sanitation
Online training program for policy makers and experts will examine wastewater management imperatives in developing Asia and the Pacific and ways to effectively plan, design, and implement city-wide inclusive sanitation to help advance them. -
ADBI-Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Virtual Workshop on City-Wide Inclusive Sanitation: Policy, Institutions, and Innovation for Delivering Sanitation Sustainably and Equitably
This workshop will be led by Tan Soo Jie Sheng of Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy who will present a case study-based evaluation of sanitation challenges and measures for advancing city-wide inclusive sanitation in developing Asia. -
ADBI-Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Virtual Session on City-Wide Inclusive Sanitation: Sustainably and Equitably Solving Urban Sanitation
This ADBI-BMGF virtual session on city-wide inclusive sanitation will feature Christoph Lüthi of the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science who will discuss ways to improve the delivery and sustainability of sanitation services. -
ADBI-Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Virtual Session on City-Wide Inclusive Sanitation: Industry Fragmentation and Wastewater Efficiency-A Case Study of Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
This ADBI-BMGF virtual session will feature Takuya Urakami of Kindai University in Osaka who will present a case study of Hyogo Prefecture that explains Japan’s complex sewage industry and regulatory reforms within the sector. -
Business Leaders’ Policy Dialogue on Accelerating Sanitation for All
ADBI and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are launching a policy dialogue with business leaders on accelerating sanitation growth. -
Leadership Capacity-Building Program for Public–Private Partnerships in Fecal Sludge Management
The three-day leadership capacity development program at Chennai will train government officials, students, and experts to serve as changemakers and pioneers for social innovation in fecal sludge management. -
Development Partner Roundtable and Policy Dialogue on Sustainable Sanitation in Asia
Three-day capacity development program in Tokyo to gather lessons on what works, what doesn’t work, and why in sustainable sanitation.
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Impacts of Sanitation on Child Mortality and School Enrollment: A Country-Level Analysis
Analysis of sanitation, health, and education using country-level data suggests that sanitation improves child health, increases enrollment,and leads to higher girls’ participation in schools. -
Institutional Frameworks for Onsite Sanitation Management Systems
In many countries, particularly developing ones, onsite wastewater systems remain an important measure for sanitation management. -
Decentralized Wastewater and Fecal Sludge Management: Case Studies from India
Smaller decentralized solutions are more effective and affordable for treating wastewater. -
Quantifying the Economic Spillover Effect for Citywide Fecal Sludge Management Programs
Developing countries throughout Asia have made impressive gains in sanitation improvement through efforts to reduce open defecation and improve toilet coverage, and hygienic citywide fecal sludge management programs have become critical. -
Achieving Sustainable Sanitation in Asia
Development finance has largely been directed towards centralized systems of wastewater management, which has resulted in large populations being excluded from proper wastewater collection and treatment services. -
Institutional Mechanisms for Sustainable Sanitation: Learning from Successful Case Studies
Policy makers should focus on improving access to safely managed wastewater management services.
Medical experts and institutions tell us that a critical but simple lifesaving action to reduce vulnerability to COVID-19 is literally in our own hands—regular handwashing with soap. Public awareness efforts underscore the need for greater behavioral compliance.
In both respects, sanitation is deeply embedded. Grids of sewer pipes have been fixed into the surface of cities in the developed world for more than a century, and it has become a strong and important part of most policy makers’ belief that this is how to provide sanitation.
National and local governments in Asia are facing significant challenges to effectively deliver access to sanitation, as well as to properly collect, transport, dispose of, and treat fecal sludge.
The National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) and, more importantly, the citizens of India have acknowledged that the country is undergoing the “worst water crisis” in its history—and they are making commendable efforts to address it.
Leh, a high-altitude cold desert in India, is a popular tourist destination hosting around 250,000 visitors annually. At present, the poorly designed septic tanks and soak pits installed by households, hotels, and guesthouses to contain fecal sludge are posing a serious threat to groundwater contamination.
The City Development Initiative for Asia, the Asian Development Bank, other multilateral agencies, and national governments are funding sewerage systems for medium and large cities throughout Asia.
In 2014, when I first moved to the Republic of Korea from India, I was impressed and awestruck by the country’s infrastructure and ease of mobility. Being an architect, the aspect I found most endearing of the city-wide master planning was the access and provision of toilets almost everywhere, be it at metro train stations, bus terminals, shopping plazas, parks, or even on mountain hikes.
An overview of ADBI and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s new three-year partnership agreement to support further enhancements in urban sanitation and human waste management in Asia and the Pacific.
Developing countries in Asia face great challenges in fecal sludge management (FSM). Yet, governments hesitate to invest in it because user charges are not enough to recover costs. This video shows the benefits of improving city-wide FSM in Dumaguete, Philippines.
Webinar to acquaint viewers with scalable solutions to implement Non-Sewered Sanitation and Fecal Sludge Management.
The novel coronavirus continues to test health systems and economies worldwide. In this podcast, ADBI’s KE Seetha Ram discusses barriers to a simple life saving action to reduce exposure to COVID-19 – handwashing – and how efforts to further strengthen sanitation management can help communities in developing Asia and the Pacific thrive again.
Providing total and improved sanitation services is a challenge across Asia, as population growth—up 5.7% on average in the past two decades—overwhelms existing infrastructure and outpaces planning.