Conference Proceedings

Volume one of a three-volume series, the book looks at issues concerning what has become the critical natural resource for many Asian and Pacific countries, and recommends principles and strategies for developing an effective water policy. It summarizes the results of the Regional Consultation Workshop on Water Policy organized by ADB.

This volume presents the keynote papers presented at the Regional Consultation Workshop - an important milestone in the consultative process. The papers focus on the four Workshop themes: the country institutional context, the basin management context, the urbanization context, and the economic and financial context.

Also included are the comments of the regional experts on the keynote presentations, and a summary of the seminars where ADB staff focused on the four themes.

This book highlights a number of important issues facing ADB and its developing member countries regarding the use of postevaluation findings to improve project quality, optimize public investments, and enforce accountability in public sector management.

This document contains the proceedings from the high-level forum, Building Resilience to Fragility in Asia and the Pacific, that was held by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) in Manila in June 2013. The forum aimed to foster stronger partnerships, support new thinking and innovative engagement, and enhance development efforts to better assist countries with fragile and conflict-affected situations (FCAS) . By giving participating countries a lead role, the forum intended to build on the outcomes of the recent Dili Consensus from the International Conference on the Post-2015 Development Agenda and the International Dialogue's Washington Communiqué on Peacebuilding and Statebuilding, and reinforce the New Deal.