ADB helps BD to improve sanitation system
Friday, 14 March 2014
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are bringing together the governments of Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka to create a South Asia Urban Knowledge Hub to help improve urban services, such as sanitation, in the region. The hub, one of three initiatives funded by the Sanitation Financing Partnership Trust Fund established by ADB and the Gates Foundation in late 2013, is designed to bring managers, policy makers, and public and private sector experts together to discuss issues and solutions, said a press release. ADB and the Gates Foundation have also set aside $2 million from the trust fund to top-up ADB’s Facility for Pilot and Demonstration Activities that provides $50,000 grants to test innovative non-networked sanitation and septage management policies, technologies, and business models that can be scaled-up across the Asia-Pacific region, according to UNB.