This study on innovative sanitation financing recognizes the challenge facing the region, to halve the proportion of the population without access to sanitation by 2015. The study proposes a “paradigm shift” to outcome models, recognizing that sanitation not only remains a focus of international development targets but is also linked to many other development issues such as health, environment, education, gender, disability, tourism and economic growth. This study proposes the inclusion of the private sector in a value proposition, with everyone in society benefiting from improved sanitation, and generating the willingness to pay for these services. ESCAP published this discussion paper, targeted for discussions at the Second Asia-Pacific Water Forum (2APWS), in Chiang Mai, May 2013, to provide background materials for the discussions at both the Technical workshops and the Focus Area Sessions.
This assessment report presents an overview of the energy access situation in the Asia-Pacific region, including prevalent policies and programmes to address them, with the view to identify common challenges that could be addressed through regional cooperation.
More than 90% of impacts of climate change are related to water issues. These impacts are not only on water supply for household, industries and agriculture, but also on disasters and hazards during heavy rainfall, with flooded areas and landslides. During droughts, forest fires and haze have become the norm. The spread of poor quality water during floods and concentration of toxic water during drier months are an added health hazards. as such water security has become a truly global challenge.
Statistical Perspectives is a compilation of original graphs and charts covering the energy context and 7 areas of focus for realizing enhanced energy security as envisaged in the Asian and Pacific Energy Forum (APEF): energy access, energy efficiency, renewable energy, energy and environment, energy economics, energy trade and investment, energy connectivity. Various methods of data visualization are used to present statistics in a dynamic way, with no text, only the graphs and charts. While produced specifically to support negotiations in APEF, the subject matter addresses energy's role in multiple contexts, environmental, economic and social, across the member States of ESCAP in the Asia-Pacific region.