Mainstreaming Water Resilience in Asia and the Pacific Guidance Note
This guidance note provides specific actions and tools for scaling up and mainstreaming water resilience in Asia and the Pacific through ADB’s operations.
Governance and Finance
Asian Water Development Outlook Series
AWDO is ADB's flagship water publication. This series provides a country-by-country snapshot of the region’s water security status, enabling policy makers, financing institutions, and planners to make more informed decisions on how to improve their performance in the water sector.
Asian Water Development Outlook (AWDO) Dashboard
AWDO is ADB's flagship water publication. The AWDO Dashboard is an interactive platfoemd for the visualization of five key dimensions to quantify water security in Asia and the Pacific.
Water Security Assessment Tool (WATSAT)
WATSAT is a city-level water security rating tool. It has a three-layered structure that culminates into a Water Security Index (WSI). The WSI is measured on a scale of 1 to 5, and provides the overall water security situation in the city. It helps identify the driving forces that have an impact on urban water security.
Guidelines on Sanitation and Health
WHO Guidelines on Sanitation and Health summarize the evidence on the effectiveness of a range of sanitation interventions and provide a framework for health-protecting sanitation, including policy and governance measures, implementation of sanitation technologies, systems and behavioral interventions, risk-based management, and monitoring approaches. The guidelines articulate the role of the health sector in maximizing the health impact of sanitation interventions.
Wastewater Management Expert (WaMEX) Tool
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the UNESCO-IHE teamed up to develop the wastewater management expert system that will provide decision-makers and planners with a tool to carry out “what-if” scenarios to effectively evaluate technologies and sewer networks.
City Service Delivery Assessment for Citywide Inclusive Sanitation - Tool and User Guide
The City Service Delivery Assessment (CSDA) complements the Shit Flow Diagrams to assess why the situation is as it is. It provides a process for working with stakeholders to assess the enabling environment for citywide inclusive sanitation and to present the results in a simple and accessible way. The CSDA User Guide explains how the CSDA tool works and provides recommendations on how to use it with stakeholders.
Community-Led Urban Environmental Sanitation Planning (CLUES)
The CLUES approach presents comprehensive guidelines for the planning and implementation of environmental sanitation infrastructure and services in disenfranchised urban and peri-urban communities.
City-Wide Inclusive Sanitation Services Assessment and Planning (CWIS SAP) Tool
The CWIS SAP tool helps decision-makers compare the outcomes of different sanitation interventions or investments. The tool analyzes and illustrates how each proposed intervention is likely to affect the equity, financial sustainability and safety of sanitation services in an urban area.
Sanitation 21
Sanitation 21 presents a planning framework for improving city-wide inclusive sanitation services based on international best practices. Initially developed in 2006, this updated version builds on recent experiences where good planning has formed an integral part of achieving improvements in urban sanitation.