30 June 2016

Report of the 5th Asia-Netherlands

Water Learning Week

One participant wrote:

Besides above knowledge learned, what impressed me most is the experts we met. I feel that they all are

proud of their jobs. So they love their jobs and devote their spirit and time to water governance. They

continuously update their knowledge to continuously find best solution to improve the water

governance, although the Netherlands' water governance is so advanced already. The attitude and the

method to the jobs of those experts are the most valued treasure I got in this week.

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Table of contents

The 5th Asia-Netherlands Water Learning Week ........................................................................... 5

The Theme of the Learning Week .................................................................................................. 7

General overview of the Learning Week Program ........................................................................ 11

Sunday's warming-up meeting .................................................................................................... 13

Day 1 AM - Introductory sessions ................................................................................................ 14

Welcome and Learning Week Objectives.......................................................................................... 14 Project Team presentations .............................................................................................................. 15

Day 1 PM - Dutch response to Climate Change ............................................................................ 16

Day 2 AM – Interactive Workshop: ARCADIA ............................................................................... 18

Day 2 PM – Rotterdam, Resilient Delta Cities .............................................................................. 19

Day 3 AM– Amsterdam and Waternet......................................................................................... 20

Day 3 PM – Amsterdam Resilient City ......................................................................................... 21

Day 4 AM – Nijmegen partnering the river .................................................................................. 22

Day 4 PM – Dordrecht as living Lab ............................................................................................. 23

Day 5 AM – Meeting the Dutch Water Sector .............................................................................. 24

Day 5 PM– Concluding Team Presentations ................................................................................. 26

General conclusion and recommendations for future Water Learning Weeks ............................... 29

Annex 1: DMC and ADB PARTICIPANTS ....................................................................................... 31

Annex 2: Participants evaluation................................................................................................. 35

1. Overall evaluation of the learning week ................................................................................... 35 2. Sharing and learning from participants' experience ................................................................. 35 3. Identifying new ideas and smart choices .................................................................................. 36

Annex 3: Organizing Team and Dutch experts ............................................................................. 37

Annex 4: Names and e-mail addresses of the Dutch experts involved in the learning week........... 38

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The 5th Asia-Netherlands Water Learning Week Spurred by agreement in Rio+20 on The Future We Want, government water leaders in Asia and the Netherlands are searching for innovative solutions to secure their countries’ water futures and green their economies. How to mainstream R&D to boost water productivity, conservation and reuse across sectors, reduce water footprints, clean up waterways, and create multifunctional and green infrastructure? How much space do rivers need? What makes communities more resilient, and water agencies more adaptive in the face of rapid changes? To answer these and more questions, the 5th Asia-Netherlands Water Learning Week brought water leaders together in dialogues and knowledge sharing on ´Building Capacities for Water Resilient Cities’ within the Asia Pacific region. Project teams from Bangladesh, Georgia, India, The People’s Republic of China, Sri Lanka, Tonga and Viet Nam attended this 5th Asia-Netherlands Water Learning Week. A total of 17 members of these teams contributed project case studies from Asia and learned together with Dutch water experts in an intensive program on how to leverage results from collaborative approaches in water projects related to making water resilient cities. In addition a total of 13 ADB staff participated in the program, both from ADB HQ as well as the Resident Missions. The program has built on the successful experience of the previous four Learning Week events (2012-2015) in which over 160 Asian and Pacific water leaders compared experiences with colleagues in the Netherlands in making smart choices for increasing water security and green growth. More information on the previous learning weeks available on our ADB-UNESCO-IHE Partnership website: http://adb-knowledge-partnership.unesco-ihe.org/projects. This learning week was organized under the water knowledge partnership between the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, supported by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs through ADB’s Water Financing Partnership Facility. Great support was given by the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, and the Netherlands Water Partnership. Moreover an even larger number of 66 Dutch water professionals and organizations contributed to the program as counterparts and host organizations. They displayed and explained best practices, and shared their knowledge with the participants. We would like to thank all participants for their active contributions and the Dutch organisations and experts that supported us by offering their kind hospitality and for sharing the best of their knowledge with us. You all made this week a great experience for us as well.

Gil-Hong Kim Michiel de Lijster Ivo van der Linden Jan Luijendijk Director ADB ADB Focal Point and Project Manager LW Coordinator ADB Mission Leader

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The Theme of the Learning Week Building Capacities for Water Resilient Cities in the Asia-Pacific Region “National governments may make agreements. But change has to take place locally, where more and more of us are living

our lives each day.” David Cadman, President 2006-2015, ICLEI –Local Governments for Sustainability

Challenges

Cities are undeniably the most successful organization of communities and economic activity as well as social

and cultural capital. However, cities also have a downside through environmental degradation, increased

vulnerability to natural hazards, economic disparity, traffic congestion and social instability. In the Asia-Pacific

region many of these problems are directly related to the lack of planning and control, and a short-term

development scope of the rapid expansion of urban areas.

The United Nations (2004) estimates that practically all the population growth in Asia will happen in cities,

resulting in 55% of Asians or 2.7 billion people living in urban areas by 2030. The International Water Ambition

of the Netherlands (2016) estimates that in 2050, 7 out of 10 people in the world will live in cities, and 75% of

these in urban deltas. UN Habitat (2007) estimates that in the developing world only 5% of urban development

is actually planned. Resources and amenities can barely cope with the increased demand driven by an

unprecedented rural-urban migration.

Since many of the world cities are located in river and coastal regions, the concentration of assets and people

makes them especially vulnerable to storm surges and river floods. Rapid urbanization has a significant effect

on microclimate, water cycle and subsidence of which the consequences of increased urban flooding are

among the most prominent. Underinvestment and lack of maintenance in the urban drainage structures as well

as lack of planning amplifies this problem. This especially holds for slum areas where salt water intrusion,

inadequate water supply, poor sanitation facilities, including lack of grey water disposal, and ineffective solid

waste management results in significant health impacts and drainage blockage as well as a further

amplification of the flood risk and extent and limit the inundation depth. Over the past decades, the impact of

flooding on cities has been considerable and is expected to intensify in the future.

Also climate change will have its direct impacts on cities. On the one hand cities will be confronted with shocks

and sudden impacts such as storms, typhoons, and heat waves, while on the other hand longer term sea level

rise, average temperature increase, and long-term changes in rainfall patterns with also longer dry spells will

gradually increase stressors or impacts in these areas. ADB reports estimate that the Asia-Pacific region

accounts for half of the world’s estimated economic cost of disasters over the past 20 years – roughly US$53.8

billion annually. In the Pacific the total climate change cost may reach 12.7% of annual GDP by 2100. It is

estimated that by 2100 -under a business as usual scenario- losses in

South Asia will be 9% of GDP. During the next 15 years US$6 trillion

per year has to be invested in urban, land use and energy systems

under a business-as-usual scenario.

While the bigger cities, including megacities and national capitals,

usually possess the critical mass of resources to attract the attention

of national policy, international dialogue, media as well as investors,

the importance of medium and small sized cities (with a population < 2

million inhabitants) in the global urban scene is often understated. The

reality, however, is that more than 70% of the urban population lives

in cities/towns with less than 2 million inhabitants. The challenge is to

promote/facilitate a “learning from each other” process among cities.

Figure: More than 70% of urban population

lives in cities smaller than 2 million inhabitants.

(Data from: http://www.citypopulation.de)

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While many larger Asian cities have developed their own programs and implementation strategies to become

more resilient and greener, small and medium sized cities are lagging behind in this process.

During the next fifteen years, nearly 40 percent of the global economic growth is predicted to come from

medium sized cities in growing economies. This anticipated growth poses many opportunities and challenges.

Rapid Economic Growth of these cities is putting severe strains on the environment. Furthermore, the service

sectors of small/medium sized cities often do not have the skills or financial capacity to attempt to address all

those challenges. Learning from the experience of other cities that have undergone/ are undergoing similar

transformations and teaming together with similar partner cities can greatly help this endeavour.

During the learning week the focus will be on these medium and small sized cities, while where relevant

lessons learned from mega cities will be included.

Urban Resilience

Urban resilience is often described as the capacity of cities to function, so that the people living and working in

cities—particularly the poor and vulnerable—survive and thrive no matter what stresses or shocks they

encounter.

A 2014 ADB publication on “URBAN CLIMATE CHANGE RESILIENCE, A Synopsis” describes what resilience

means related to climate change. It distinguishes three levels of resilience in cities:

1. the systems’ level of the city that survives shocks and stresses;

2. the people and organizations level that is able to accommodate these stresses into their day-to-day

decisions; and

3. the city’s institutional structures level that continues to support the capacity of people and

organizations to fulfil their aims.

It states that there is no single action that will make a city resilient to climate change. Resilience is instead

achieved through a number of actions, building upon each other over time. These actions would be enhanced

and progressed as peoples and institutions learn from past experiences and apply it to future decisions.

Capacities to build resilience

Experiences from recent projects have learned that the process of leapfrogging into a resilient future requires

three distinct capacities (see Figure):

Figure: Capacities to leapfrog into an Urban Climate Change Resilience future

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These capacities in turn support the observable qualities of resilient cities through its stakeholders and urban systems, like robustness, redundancy, reflectiveness, resourcefulness, integration and inclusiveness, which capture resilience and are increasingly being used to make urban resilience more tangible. Especially small and medium size cities do not have these capacities at a level required to support these resilience qualities and lack the means to further cultivate them. City capacity building through knowledge management, networking and monitoring will be required to effectively upgrade these three capacities in a coherent and well-balanced way.

In this respect this Asia-Netherlands Water Learning Week will largely

contribute to building up these capacities and in achieving a better knowledge and insight into the

characteristics of water resilient cities and the procedures and principles how to reach this resilience.

Guiding principles of Urban Resilience

The above-mentioned ADB publication provides a number of core guiding principles in support of achieving

urban resilience to be integrated into any effort to advance action, i.e., a process that should be iterative,

inclusive, and integrated. These guiding principles of urban resilience are:

Combining hard and soft measures. Capacities, networks, and behaviour (of individuals, communities,

and institutions) are as critical as physical systems during disruption. Soft measures include new

regulations, technology and information systems, and social networks.

Engaging diverse perspectives through multi-stakeholder processes.

The engagement of stakeholders at all levels and departments and from all sectors, public and private

(government, business, civil society, and academia), is key for success.

Enlist different geographic and governance scales: Beyond city boundaries.

It is important to understand how systems (economic, physical, ecological, political mechanisms)

within and beyond the city affect how it functions. There is also a need to understand how to best

enlist stakeholders at different scales.

Addressing today’s problems while embedding a long-term vision: The future is now. Planning

processes should begin by addressing the current needs. Building on existing issues and analyses is

one way to bring future scenarios into current decision making.

Tapping into local expertise.

Engaging local technical experts (e.g., researchers and academics) enables dialogues to be held on a

sustained basis. For example, external experts may be paired with local technical institutions to build

long-term adaptive planning capacity.

Building leadership and local action.

Efforts to build resilience can be accelerated and sustained through strong leadership, driving

commitment, and accountability with active community engagement to build awareness.

Focusing on vulnerable communities: Whose resilience?

The real test for a meaningful urban resilience approach is its relevance to the interests of poor or

vulnerable households. It is important to constantly ask ‘resilience for whom?’ to establish their value

and to ensure that equity concerns are kept at the heart of the agenda.

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The City Climate Resilience (CCR) Approach (From: ADB Literature, guidebook-climate-change-

resilience.pdf)

The CCR approach is used to develop the climate change

resilience of city’s urban water infrastructure and is

composed of the following steps:

Step 1: Identify and characterize potential climate change

impacts.

Step 2: Assess infrastructure vulnerability.

Step 3: Develop a city climate resilience strategy

Figure: The Climate Change Resilience Approach (Source ADB)

Working together

Worldwide more and more governments – in collaboration with their societal partners from business,

academic community and NGO’s have the ambition and take steps towards more resilient urban water

management, matching long term planning with short term investments. The comprehensive approach of

combining water management and urban planning is essential for this ambition, aligned with inclusive

processes of collaboration and innovation. Collaboration across counties, regions of expertise and stakeholder

groups is necessary to effectively address global risks, provide strategic guidance and advice on the

methodology of comprehensive water management and climate resilience into urban planning. There is a clear

demand for comprehensive urban strategies that integrate water management and climate resilience into

cities’ comprehensive urban planning. Inclusive processes for development and implementation must include

all stakeholders from the start to ensure capacity building, local buy in and awareness as well as investment

opportunities across all sectors. Partnerships based on strong global networks and ‘blue growth’ are key for

unlocking the potential of water assets in cities across the globe, and thus greatly contribute to real resilience.

Comprehensive water and urban strategies are key for cities to become resilient, turning challenges into

opportunities.

With the rapid changes occurring in cities nowadays it is important to develop new knowledge and to

accelerate learning processes. Accelerate learning goes beyond active learning (or ‘learning by doing’) as it also

involves ‘learning from each other’ or City to City (C2C) learning. Many initiatives have been taken to stimulate

cooperation among cities through developing networks and collaborative learning platforms, like the Resilient

Cities Acceleration Initiative (RCAI, 2015) with the objective to accelerate the design and implementation of

integrated strategies that strengthen the resilience of urban systems. The ambition of the RCAI is, among

others, to double the number of cities and partners committed to building resilience by the end of 2015, to

assist 500 local governments to develop resilience action plans by 2020, and to manage an online ‘marketplace’

and support platform to develop the required capacity and to enhance the resilience of communities and

community-based institutions in all city and urban- related initiatives and programmes.

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General overview of the Learning Week Program

DRAFT PRELIMINARY PROGRAM 5th ANWLW (5-10 June 2016) DAY THEME SUB-TOPICS Location

Sunday June 5

Introduction to Learning Week

Introductory program with welcome drinks and dinner

Delft Grand Café Verderop

Day 1 Monday June 6

Understanding urban water resilience

Challenges for cities to become water resilient

ADB Programs and projects in the Asia-Pacific region to increase resilience of cities

Effects of Climate change on the future water resilience of cities

Dutch water resilient policies and programs

Delft

UNESCO-IHE

The Hague Ministry I&M

Day 2 Tuesday June 7

Global and local initiatives for increasing capacities of water resilience of cities

Resilient Cities Acceleration Initiative (RCAI)

Arcadis Sustainable Cities Index

100 Resilient Cities network

Rotterdam Centre for Resilient Delta Cities (RDC)

Rotterdam Resilience Program

Rotterdam

Arcadis

Kuiper

Compagnons

De Urbanisten

Rotterdam Municipality

Day 3 Wednesday June 8

Regional cooperation for better water management strategies and practices

Amsterdam, City of Water: A Vision for Water,

Safety and Rain proofing

The Water Proof City of Amsterdam

One unique water cycle Company for the regional Public Water Authority and the City of Amsterdam

Three perspectives on ‘Amsterdam living with water’

Amsterdam

Waternet

Municipality of Amsterdam

RHDHV

VU Amsterdam University

Day 4 Thursday June 8

Examples of increasing resilience through spatial planning and adaptation

The “Room for the River” Program

The City of Nijmegen’s response to the national plan in designing and implementing flood alleviations works

Nijmegen partner in the EU-funded 'Flood Resilient City' project

Dordrecht partner in City2city learning

Making Cities Resilient

Historic Windmills

Nijmegen

Room for the River

Water Board Municipality of

Nijmegen

Dordrecht Municipality of

Dordrecht

Kinderdijk

Day 5 Friday June 10

Learning by collaboration among peers Building partnerships for a Water Resilient Future

Team Meetings with Dutch Water Sector

Experts on specific requested Team topics of interest

Preparing for team presentations

List of lessons learned

Take-home action plans

Interactions with Dutch experts

Delft

Meetings with the

Dutch water Sector

UNESCO-IHE

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Sunday's warming-up meeting

Sunday 5 June:

The learning week started with a first get-together on Sunday afternoon in the Grand Café next to UNESCO-IHE. Michiel de Lijster and Jan Luijendijk welcomed the participants and informed them in detail on the up-coming program of the week. Participants briefly introduced themselves and asked many practical questions related to the program and the organization of the week. The meeting was concluded with a buffet dinner with a mix of Dutch and oriental food. After that, the participants enjoyed the scenery of the city of Delft from the water side during the famous canal boat tour.

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Day 1 AM - Introductory sessions Welcome and Learning Week Objectives

Participants were welcomed by Mr. Johan A van Dijk, Business Director of UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education at the official opening of the 5th Asia-Netherlands Water Learning Week. He underlined the importance of this Learning week for both participants and the organizers ADB, NWP and also for the UNESCO-IHE staff

After the official opening, Mr. Jan Luijendijk unfolded the programme and learning objectives for this week. He stated that according to a Chinese proverb, learning should be seen as "A treasure that will follow its owner everywhere". His main message for the participants of the learning week was to learn as much as possible during this event. The programme has been tailored towards the specific needs and demands of the project teams in order to enable all project team members to learn as much as possible.

Mr. Michiel de Lijster, Senior Water Resources Specialist at ADB presented the broader picture of the theme of the week and the strategies and activities from the side of ADB. He shared with us the definition of Urban resilience, often described as “the capacity of cities to function, so that the people living and working in cities—particularly the poor and vulnerable—survive and thrive no matter what stresses or shocks they encounter”.

He distinguished three levels of resilience in cities: 1. the systems’ level of the city that survives shocks and stresses; 2. the people and organizations level that is able to address stresses into their day-to-day decisions; 3. the city’s institutional structures level that support people and organizations to fulfil their aims. A keynote lecture was presented by Prof. Chris Zevenbergen, professor of Flood Resilience of Urban Systems at UNESCO-IHE. His main message was that with almost 1 million cities in 200 countries real shifts are needed:

from stand alone to embedded/integrated solutions

from (climate) risk reduction to resilience upgrading

from top down to bottom up

from additional to mainstream But how to get there? His advice was:

Facilitate ‘accelerate’ learning through:

an active learning culture: experiments, living labs, etc.

Towards trusted relationships with similar cities (It empowers local governments)

City-to-City learning: best & next practices

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Prof. Dr. Rosh Ranasinghe, professor of Climate Change Impacts and Coastal Risk at UNESCO-IHE, gave an introduction to Climate Change and stated that the consequences due to coastal hazards are already high. Even under the most optimistic mitigation scenarios the effects of climate change will be felt beyond the 21st century. In the heavily developed and populated coastal zones of the world, appropriate adaptation

measures have to be developed and implemented urgently. He concluded that: • Even under the most optimistic mitigation scenarios the

effects of climate change will be felt beyond the 21st century.

• In the heavily developed and populated coastal cities of the world, appropriate adaptation

measures have to be developed and implemented urgently

• Risk informed decision making is essential to balance rewards and losses due to climate change,

especially in high value land zones (coasts, estuary margins, ports)

After the coffee break Mr. Jan Luijendijk gave an historic overview

of water-related activities in The Netherlands during the last

millennium. He explained that the Dutch have learned from the

many mistakes in the past and their centuries of hard battles

against water. But, that they have learned more and more that the

better strategy now is to "Build with Nature", rather than to fight it.

His main message is: don’t make the mistakes that we have made!

Project Team presentations After these introductory presentations the floor was offered to the delegations from the 7 participating countries to present their own project and team. A series of 6 presentations (Participant

from Bangladesh was not yet present) were given by Project Team delegations from:

Georgia

India

China

Sri Lanka

Tonga

Vietnam

All presentations were offered to all participants via Dropbox at the same day.

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Day 1 PM - Dutch response to Climate Change The afternoon program was hosted by the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment with presentations on the Dutch response to Climate Change, Water Governance, Building with Nature and Appropriate Finance. The program had been coordinated by Mr. Martien Beek, Deputy Program Manager for International Water Affairs. We were welcomed on behalf of the Ministry by Mr. Henk Snoeken, Deputy director of the Department of Environment and International Affairs of the Ministry, who explained that the Netherlands is preparing itself in various ways and at various locations to cope with the impacts of climate change. For

this reason a Delta commissioner has been nominated to ensure that decisions are taken at the right time so that our country is and will remain protected from high water, in the long term as well, and that there is a sufficient supply of fresh water during dry periods. The Delta Commissioner falls under the political responsibility of the Minister of Infrastructure and the Environment.

Mr. Martien Beek, Strategic advisor to the Delta Commissioner and deputy

program manager of International Water Affairs of the Ministry presented

“The Dutch response to Climate Change”. The specially established Delta

Commission concluded in 2008 that: “The threat is not acute, but measures to

improve flood risk management and fresh water supply should be prepared

urgently!”. Also a special Delta Fund was created with a budget of 1.0 billon

Euro/year, all laid down in the Delta Act, that is “to anchor” the Delta-

commissioner, the program and the fund.

With an uncertain future we have to think about “Adaptive

strategies and Scenario’s” that should be:

Clear in objectives,

Flexible in the “way to go”

Linking short term agenda’s with long term water challenges

At the same time implementation in uncertain future should focus on:

Taking flexible measures (“speed up/slow down” and Building with Nature)

Making spatial reservations

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Mr. Maarten Hofstra and Mr. Herman Havekes explained the “Building blocks of Water Governance for a sustainable approach”, on behalf of the Dutch Water Authorities.

Their message was to keep things simple and therefore introduced the “The three layer model of water governance” as a way to make clear what relevant elements of water governance can be distinguished and how they are interrelated:

The 6 Building blocks they distinguish are:

A powerful administrative organization

A legally embedded system of water

management

A planning system

Adequate financing

A participatory approach

Cooperation

Mr. Jan van Schoonhoven, Senior Advisor on Innovative Finance and PPP of the Ministry shared with us his opinion that Climate Change will be the main challenge for the future. He gave the Asian and Pacific delegates the following suggestions related to use of PPP:

For Climate Change Mitigation: “Green Production” = most effective and attractive for PPP:

For Climate Adaptation: focus on the next generation and “Use Less”, realize investments in cities and renovate existing Infrastructure so that it matches new projects and develop PPP Financing Structures of existing infra.

The last speaker of the day was Mr. Jaap van Thiel de Vries of Ecoshape with a presentation on “Building with Nature”. He stated that in order to cope with future challenges there is need for a paradigm shift: From: Building in Nature, Via: Building of Nature, To: Building with Nature

His advice was to develop infrastructure and at the same time use and create opportunities for nature. He gave several examples of “Building with Nature” projects, both in the Netherlands and abroad.

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Day 2 AM – Interactive Workshop: ARCADIA Upon request of the organizers ARCADIS developed a half-day workshop. This was an experiment to stimulate group learning and to enable participants to interact with each other. The workshop started with a general presentation by Prof. Piet Dircke, Global Leader Water Management with Arcadis, an Engineering and Consulting Company. Arcadis has 4 business lines in Infrastructure, Water, Environment and Buildings with a turnover of € 3,2 billion and 28.000 employees all over the world. He then explained the Sustainable City Water Index for which 50 global cities have been assessed on resiliency, efficiency and quality to harness water on the long term. European cities lead the way on the overall sustainability of their water systems and management with seven of the top ten places.

Top three: Rotterdam, Copenhagen and Amsterdam. Asian cities trail their western counterparts by some distance overall. Singapore (22nd), Seoul (23rd), Tokyo (26th) and Hong Kong (30th) are the highest ranked in the middle order of the Index. Main insufficiencies in Asia: Poor sanitation and insufficient treatment of wastewater in for example New Delhi (50th), Mumbai (49th) and Manila (48th). After that he presented concepts and best practices for a safe and attractive waterproof city.

Then Arcadis moderators Ms. Floor Boerwinkel and Ms. Iris Bijlsma presented their Case model city “Arcadia” as a case for the interactive workshop. Participants were asked to join the multi-national groups to discuss among themselves in three rounds the following topics of the case city Arcadia:

Physical solutions

Stakeholder identification, stakeholder involvement and value creation

Capacity building program

After each round representatives of the three groups presented their feedback. The workshop appeared to be very successful and well appreciated as it forced participants to interact with each other, while the essence of “How to develop a water resilient city” was deeply discussed.

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Day 2 PM – Rotterdam, Resilient Delta Cities

After lunch on the venue of this day, former cruise ship SS Rotterdam, Mr. Florian Boer of ‘De Urbanisten’ gave a presentation on Water Sensitive Urbanism. The portfolio of his company has a strong focus on water sensitive urbanism and landscape architecture. He sketched the various development stages towards a water sensitive city and gave many examples of innovative solutions, like the idea

of making a water square. The concept is simple: Investing money in expanding storm water storage = Investing money in quality of public space. Crucial is that the design is the result of an active participation process with the neighbouring communities.

Mr. Arnoud Molenaar, Chief Resilience Officer/Manager of the city of Rotterdam explained the climate proof adaptation strategy of Rotterdam in his presentation on: “Rotterdam Resilient Delta City”. He stated that Rotterdam, like so many other cities in the world, is experiencing the challenges related to climate change.

Since 2001 Rotterdam is active with a transition process towards becoming a resilient delta city. He mentioned examples of innovative solutions to store rainwater as close as possible near the source. The last speaker of the day was Mr. Gijs van den Boomen of KuiperCompagnons. His presentation was on: “Living on the edge; Learning to balance; Resilient Delta Metropolis Development in a rapidly changing world”. He gave several examples of creative solutions from water resilient cities from all over the world, like Poznan (Poland), Jakarta (Indonesia), and Shenzhen, Shantou, Shanghai and Zhongshan, (all in China).

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Day 3 AM– Amsterdam and Waternet Integrated water management, governance, urban resilience, drinking water, sanitation

The meeting with Waternet Amsterdam started with a presentation by Ms. Paulien Hartog, strategic advisor of Waternet, on “Water Resilient city Amsterdam”. She mentioned that Amsterdam is also suffering from regular flooding inside the city, like

after the cloudburst in July 2014. In response a new initiative has been taken up to make: Amsterdam Rainproof. The approach was to form a dedicated team that should connecting and facilitate the large number all stakeholders involved through a network approach with the aim to develop a dedicated

programme aimed on mainstreaming rainproof measures in the urban network.

Mr. Paul Bonné, regional director of Waternet Amsterdam, presented Waternet as a “Water cyclus organisation”. He stated that the Integration of the water cycle is a starting point for sustainable solutions. In the Netherlands the municipalities are responsible for sewerage systems, groundwater and in some cases drinking

water. The water Boards are responsible for waste water treatment and water management. Amsterdam believed that all these elements should be dealt with in relation to each other and that

all these tasks should be integrated within one organisation. With that idea Waternet was born and is now performing all tasks for the city of Amsterdam and the Water Board AGV. This means water can be managed in an integrated way, without these organisations losing their legal responsibility. Waternet is managed through annual and multi annual management plans and budgets.

Mr. Lex Lelijveld, logistics and resources coordinator, then presented how to get “Energy and Resources from Waste”. Wastewater is full of resources that could be re-used. Energy is one important resource, but there are many more. With Phosphates becoming are scarce resources it is becoming very attractive to extract this from the wastewater as well. But also tons of cellulose can be recovered from the waste water plants in The Netherlands.

Finally Ms. Alice Fermont presented “Challenges and solutions for water shortage” situations. She explained that Amsterdam is using its dunes to treat Rhine river water to get drinking water through artificial recharge. To disinfect the river water it has to stay minimum 60 days in the dunes. Due to the huge storage this system is also

important to overcome periods of bad Rhine water quality.

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Day 3 PM – Amsterdam Resilient City A new perspective on water resilience and water risk in other cities and regions in the world

After lunch Mr. Nanco Dolman of RHDHV presented “A new perspective on water resilience”. His presentation consisted of two parts: Part 1: Urban historical perspective on the city of Amsterdam as a Dutch water city and its relationship with water. Part 2: A new perspective on water resilience in urban areas, the Water Sensitive City framework and some pilot and demonstration projects in Amsterdam. He explained that untill the 1950’s urbanization followed the infrastructural network. After that water became a co-organizing factor in the urban network.

To cope with the main challenges in Amsterdam he presented the three pillars of the Water Sensitive City: 1. Building flexibility and adaptability in its water sources: “Cities as

Water Supply Catchments” 2. Green infrastructure: “Cities providing Ecosystem Services” 3. Building social and institutional capital: “A sophisticated city

attuned to an Ecologically Sustainable lifestyle”

Mr. Philip Ward, of the Institute for Environmental Studies of the VU University of Amsterdam, (IVM) “Water resilience/ water risk in other cities and regions”, presented The Aqueduct Global Flood Analyzer, a new online tool that quantifies and visualizes the reality of global flood risk. The World Resources Institute (WRI) co-developed the tool with four Dutch research organizations, including IVM. The Analyzer estimates current and future potential exposed GDP, affected population and urban damage from floods for every state, country and major river basin in the world. They ranked 164 countries by the number of people affected by river flooding. They found that the top 15 countries account for nearly 80 percent of the total population affected every year. These

countries are all considered least developed or developing.

The visit was concluded with boat tour on the canals showing Amsterdam as a city living with water.

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Day 4 AM – Nijmegen partnering the river Water management in Nijmegen and the Room for the River program

After a welcome on behalf of the city of Nijmegen by Mr. Bert Velthuis, alderman of the city of Nijmegen, Mr. Maarten van Ginkel, advisor water management municipality of Nijmegen, gave a presentation on “Water management in Nijmegen Noord”. He explained the principles of an autonomous Water System, the re-use of rainwater, how to deal with climate change in practice, and the relation with the Room for the River (RvR) program. He

has learned to reduce the discharge from rain to the river through a separated sewer system. Moreover they have integrated the water system in a multi-functional way in the public space. Important was to collaborate with partners/stakeholders.

Mr. Rick Kuggeleijn of the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment /Rijkswaterstaat (in the middle of the picture) introduced the “Room for the River (RvR) program”. The project at Nijmegen is one out of the 37 projects implemented under this program. After two near floodings on the rivers Rhine and Meuse in 1993 and 1995 the government of The Netherlands made a paradigm shift to increase the safety of the people. As a consequence the river was to be expanded in more than 30

places along the rivers, while at the same time spatial quality had to be added, when and where possible. A total of 9 different options for increasing the discharge of the rivers were presented. At Nijmegen option 7 was applied by creating a by-pass channel of the branch of the river Rhine (Waal). The complete program took in total 16 years and will be completed by 2017. The costs are approximately 2.6 billion Euro's.

The lessons learned of the RvR program are:

Integrated design in collaboration with local demands

Water safe, ecological and economically sound

From stakeholders to shareholders

Leadership on all levels

See the river system as a whole

Mr. Mathieu Schouten (person standing at the right on the photo), urban landscape architect of the Nijmegen municipality presented the Nijmegen approach to “Partner the river”. His opening statement was that within integral models everything technical and creative is possible: a program for water safety became a river park for people. By integrating flood

management and urban quality a waterfront was created that included elements of culture, recreation, water safety, urban development and nature.

Finally Mr Thijs Trompetter (left on photo) of the regional water authority explained the different responsibilities of participating partners: Dike: Regional Water Authority /Water board Urban Area: Municipality River(bed): Ministry for I&E/ Rijkswaterstaat

DesignBudget

Room for the river program

(Rijkswaterstaat)

Municipality of Nijmegen

ContracterTender

Technical design

Realised objects

The managing institutions(water board, municipality and

Rijkswaterstaat)

Start of realisation

Realisation of the project

End of the project

Role of the water board during the project: As future managing institution: reviewing the designs throughout all phases of the

project !! (dike and watersystem) As water authority: ensure that watersafety during the project is OK (=responsibility of

the contracter)

Mandate

Design

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Day 4 PM – Dordrecht as living Lab Water management in Nijmegen and the Room for the River program

Mr. Eric Kuindersma, of the Regional Water Authority of Rivierenland presented the “Role and tasks

of the Dutch Regional Water Authorities”.

Ms. Ellen Kelder, Programme Manager Water of the municipality of Dordrecht and Mr. Berry Gersonius, Advisor on flood risk of the City of Dordrecht, and senior lecturer flood resilience at Unesco-IHE presented their city of Dordrecht as a “Living Lab” for innovations in flood risk management and climate adaptation. The city is a pilot study of the Dutch Delta Programme on resilient flood risk governance, with a specific focus on ‘smart combinations’ of measures. The concept of a smart combination was introduced in the Delta Decision on Flood Risk Management to provide for the possibility, in specific cases, to replace flood protection measures with measures involving prevention and preparedness. Prevention is realised through spatial planning and adaptation of buildings, while preparedness is improved by developing emergency plans. For spatial adaptation 3 clear steps are proposed: Understanding – Visioning – Implementing. The main lessons learned in Dordrecht are:

There is a need to reconnect spatial planning and storm water management

Combine blue-green storm water infrastructure with design for exceedance (urban planning)

Interventions can deliver multiple societal benefits (liveability, biodiversity, flood protection)

Social innovation is needed to help capture benefits, e.g. by citizens adopting a scheme

After closing words by Mr. Rik van der Linden, alderman of the City of

Dordrecht, the program was concluded with an Urban Flood Management

Walking Tour, guided by Mr. Berry Gersonius.

Kinderdijk

The field visit day was concluded by a short visit to famous windmills

at Kinderdijk. The 19 windmills were built around 1740 and are on the

UNESCO World Heritage list since 1997.

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Day 5 AM – Meeting the Dutch Water Sector The meeting with experts from the Dutch water sector was this year arranged on the morning of the last day of the learning week. The advantage was that delegation members could focus on items that were not covered during the plenary parts of the week program. All the preparatory work done by Mr. Ivo van der Linden of NWP paid off very well and resulted in dedicated Dutch mirror teams with 3-5 experts per country delegation. The Dutch experts were selected on basis of their knowledge and experience of the specific learning objectives, countries and questions that the teams had formulated in their applications and/or of the water sector of the country involved. Each country session started with a short round the table and a kick off presentation by the delegation, followed by discussions.

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After the parallel sessions all experts joined a short plenary session where the experts from both sides gave their feedback on the usefulness of these kind of meetings. In general people were quite enthusiastic about the arrangement. Some found it the best session of the whole learning week, while one participant gave the lowest score as he/she found that the meeting was too much dominated by the agenda of some of the Dutch experts. The overall score was very positive as can be concluded by the rating that participants gave in their questionnaires:

Most delegations included the recommendations of this session in their concluding afternoon presentations.

71%

17%

8% 4%

Q17a. Day 5: Meeting the Dutch Water Sector

Excellent

Very good

Good

Satisfactory

Not good

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Day 5 PM– Concluding Team Presentations Before the official closing meeting started Dr. Fritz Holzwarth, Rector of UNESCO-IHE, addressed the meeting with both a welcome and a farewell. He gave a short presentation on what UNESCO-IHE is contributing to the water sector by building human and institutional capacities through water education and research.

Then it was time for the delegations to share their feedback on the learning week. All 7 delegations presented their reports, structured by sheets on: 1: What is your project about? 2: Your main challenges and learning objectives 3: Key Lessons Learned during the learning week 4: Follow-up actions Hereafter a summary of the sheets on "Key lessons learned" and "Follow-up actions" are presented: Bangladesh: Georgia:

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India: China:

Sri Lanka:

What did we learn? 1

Presentation Chinese delegation:

• Sincere appreciation to Michiel, Jan and their supporting team for their nice arrangement during the learning week. Also thanks Kristina for providing us this great opportunity to be here telling the people from the Asian-Pacific area and the Netherlands and we really feel now we are connecting to a world-wide network.

• After listening to the presentation from all the experts and the field visit in many cities, we are really impressed by the way of water management in the Netherlands. With the nice arrangement by ADB, and UNESCO-IHE, during the short week learning, we really got inspired by the advanced idea and technique in the Netherlands.

What did we learn? 3• However, even the challenge we are facing is totally different,

the ideas are linked. The way of implementing a project in the Netherlands really enlightened us. On the one hand, we learnt a lot from how the Netherlands starts a project and how they get every stakeholders involved and let them on board finally acting like a shareholder. On the other hands, we realised that it is not possible to just copy the things we learnt here directly to the situation in China, the things we need to do is to find a proper way of doing the projects that also meets our national conditions, our cultures, which cannot be achieved quickly. All the innovations take time, but once it comes true, our generation, or the next generations would all be benefit from it. We would like to dedicate ourselves in this process, broad our visions for the sake of a sustainable development of the Aksu city, or even the world.

What did we learn? 4

• Availability of diverse tools (modelling, GIS)

• Political consensus for policy continuity

• Support for R&D

• Multi-stakeholder coordination

• Integrated approach of development for sustainability.

What did we learn? 2

• The situation in our region: the city of Aksu, is quite different with the Netherlands. Instead of building up the capacity for the urban flood risk in cities in the Netherlands, Aksu is facing the challenge of the sand from the dessert, our priority is solving the drought problem and the conservation of the wetland in the area.

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Tonga: Vietnam: After the presentations a panel consisting of:

Ir. Willem Mak, Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment,

Dr. Marco Schouten, Director Vitens Evides International

Prof. Guy Alaerts, UNESCO-IHE

Prof. Chris Zevenbergen, UNESCO-IHE facilitated by Prof. Michael McClain reflected on the presentations. Michael McClain summarized the lessons that the panelist shared with the audience and selected the almost poetic words of them:

Willem Mak: “Transferring contact into local context”; and: The attitude should NOT be: “Who is to blame”, BUT: “what can we gain”

Marco Schouten: his lesson was to always try to “Unlock the expertise”.

Guy Alaerts: “Always make the reality check, beyond the city”; Is your idea “bankable”?

Chris Zevenbergen: “Leadership is something that is within us”!

Michiel de Lijster and Jan Luijendijk closed the learning week with words of thanks to the participants for their great support and collaborative attitude during the week and thanked the representatives of the Dutch water sector organizations for their hospitality and willingness to share their knowledge and experience with the participants.

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General conclusion and recommendations for future Water Learning Weeks

In general the participants found the learning week very valuable and educative for their personal development and performance in their projects (see Figure 3). Almost everyone was very satisfied with the program and the organization of the learning week. The participants appreciated the good combination of lectures and field visits, although the latter were always most appreciated. Having noticed the advancement of activities in the cities they visited, participants felt it difficult where to start with introducing the lessons learned as those might not be their highest priority at the moment. Several suggestions were made to continue the interaction among participants, to encourage each other and to get advice. This could be done through the formation of an “Alumni” e-Group. Quite a number of participants were motivated to adapt the ideas gained into their country specific water strategies and practices, and keen to continue interacting with the Dutch experts they met. Participants highlighted that their key learning experience during the week was in getting a better understanding of the value of collaboration and coordination among and between the different governance levels and agencies, people, private sector and institutes in the design, planning and implementation of large infrastructural works. The most appreciated learning topics were: "Room for the River", "Building with Nature", Need for Collaboration/water governance: “From Stakeholders to Shareholders”, Artificial Groundwater Recharge, Importance of leadership, and Public awareness. These topics could be considered as more or less "compulsory" components of every future learning week event. What participants missed was information and visits to both drinking water supply companies and waste water treatment plants. Recommendations for Future Learning Weeks The following recommendations for future learning weeks were selected from various sources (mainly from Survey):

Themes and topics (in addition to the ones mentioned above)

Water Governance

Drinking water supply and sanitation systems

Artificial Groundwater Recharge

Community participation in practice Timing and Duration

June proved to be excellent for various reasons

Consider extending by a few days to allow more time for discussion/interaction Program Structure

Keep the current program structure and balance between presentations/lectures and visits

The experiment of organizing an interactive workshop appeared to be a great success and should be repeated in future learning weeks.

Starting on the Sunday afternoon with an informal get-to-gather was highly appreciated

The exchange with Dutch experts the last day were highly valued and should be repeated Logistics

Preparations should start at least 4-5 months before the event

An even more active role from staff of the Resident missions to get nominations approved.

The applied rules and regulations for travelling, accommodation, per diems, travel allowances, etc. were fully accepted by all participants

Accommodating all participants in the same hotel (Hampshire) had many advantages.

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Annex 1: DMC and ADB PARTICIPANTS

Name Function Organisation/Project Country

Bangladesh 1 Mr Md. Hamidul Hoque

(arrived on 8 June) Deputy Project Director City Region Development Project

Local Government Engineering Department

Bangladesh

Georgia

2 Mr Ilia Darchiashvili First Deputy Minister Ministry of Regional Development & Infrastruct.

Georgia

3 Mr Giorgi Koberidze (left on 8 June)

Deputy Director United Water Supply Company of Georgia

Georgia

4 Mr Grigol Mandaria Director of Water Supply Department

Georgia National Energy & Water Supply Regulatory Com

Georgia

India 5 Mr O.P. Shrivastava Deputy Secretary Madhya Pradesh Urban

Environment and Development Department

India

6 Mr Prabhakant Katare Engineer-in-Chief Madhya Pradesh Urban Development Company Ltd.

India

PRC (Xinjiang Akesu) 7 Mr YANG Ping Director Akesu Municipal Government PRC

8 Mr ZHANG Shaoai Director Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous

Regional Government

PRC

9 Ms XIA Shuhui Deputy Director Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous

Regional Government

PRC

Sri Lanka 10 Mr H T Kamal

Pathmasiri Secretary Ministry of Provincial Council

and Local Government Sri Lanka

11 Ms Kumudinie Samarasinghe

Project Director Greater Colombo Wastewater Management Project

Sri Lanka

12 Ms U L Preethika Engineer Drainage District 4 Office, Colombo Municipal Council

Sri Lanka

Tonga 13 Mr Viliami Tupou Senior Urban Planner National Spatial Planning

Authority Office Tonga

14 Mr Quddus Fielea Manager Engineer Tonga Water Board Tonga

Vietnam 15 Mr Truong D. V. Phuc Director General Vinh Long Provincial Dept. of

Planning and Investment Viet Nam

16 Mr Tran Hai Deputy Director Vinh Phuc Provincial Dept. of Planning and Investment

Viet Nam

17 Mr Nguyen H. Phuong Expert Ministry of Planning and Investment

Viet Nam

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ADB STAFF PARTICIPANTS

Name Function Department HQ/Resident Mission

18 Ms Alexandra Conroy aconroy@adb.org

Young Professional PARD/PAUS

19 Mr Mingyuan Fan mfan@adb.org

Senior Urban Development Specialist SARD/SAUW

20 Mr Javed Hossain jhossain@adb.org

Project Analyst SARD/BANGLADESH RM

21 Mr N. Donald Sinclair ndsinclair@adb.org

Associate Project Officer SARD/SRI LANKA RM

22 Ms Kristina Katich kkatich@adb.org

Urban Development Specialist EARD/EASS

23 Mr Baochang Zheng bzheng@adb.org

Senior Project Officer (Water Supply

and Sanitation)

EARD/PRC RM

24 Mr Sanjay Divakar Joshi sjoshi@adb.org

Senior Urban Development Specialist CWRD/CWUW

25 Ms Michelle Tan mhtan@adb.org

Operations Analyst CWRD/CWUW

26 Ms Claire A.F. Odsinada cfodsinada@adb.org

Associate Project Analyst SARD/SAUW

27 Mr Ashok Srivastava asrivastava@adb.org

Senior Project Officer (Urban) SARD/INDIA RM

28 Mr Nguyen My Binh nguyenbinh@adb.org

Senior Portfolio Management Officer SERD/VIET NAM RM

29 Ms Fatima Bautista fmbautista@adb.org

Associate Operations Analyst SDCC/SDAS

30 Mr Michiel de Lijster mdelijster@adb.org

Senior Water Resources Specialist/

ADB Mission Leader

SDCC/SDAS

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Participants of the 5th Asia-Netherlands Water Learning Week

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Annex 2: Participants evaluation A total of 26 participants responded to the post event survey of the 5th Asia Netherlands Water Learning Week. Overall the participants rated the learning week positively.

1. Overall evaluation of the learning week Overall participants valued the learning week as valuable and interesting.

2. Sharing and learning from participants' experience The objectives of the learning week in terms of sharing and learning from participants' experience on water resilient cities and identifying innovative solutions were largely achieved with only 1 participant rating it as slightly achieved.

88%

12%

Overall rating of the Learning Week

Valuable

Interesting

Disappointing

42%

54%

4%

Q2. Sharing and learning from participants’ experience

Fully achieved

Almost achieved

Moderately achieved

Slightly achieved

Not achieved

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3. Identifying new ideas and smart choices The figure below shows that the objective of Identifying Smart Choices was rated highly, 39% and 42% of the participants rated this category as fully achieved and almost achieved, respectively. Only 1 participant (out of the 26) found this objective only slightly achieved. Many of the participants coming from the developing member countries were very impressed with the Dutch projects and programs. However, participants see some of the innovative solutions implemented in Dutch projects and activities as expensive and consider it as quite difficult for developing countries to implement as yet in their own situation.

A full report of the outcomes of the questionnaire survey is given in a separate document that is available on request to all participants and participating organizations and experts.

39%

42%

15%

4%

Q3. Identifying new ideas and smart choices

Fully achieved

Almost achieved

Moderately achieved

Slightly achieved

Not achieved

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Annex 3: Organizing Team and Dutch experts Asian Development Bank (ADB) - Mr. Michiel de Lijster -Senior Water Resources Specialist (LW Focal Point and ADB Mission Leader),

- Ms. Yasmin Siddiqi -Principal Water Resources Specialist

- Ms. Ellen Pascua -Water Fund Manager

- Ms. Fatima Bautista -Associate Operations Analyst

UNESCO-IHE - Mr. Jan Luijendijk

- Mr. Erik de Ruyter

- Mr. Ewout Heeringa

NWP - Mr. Ivo van der Linden

Partners - Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment (Ministry of I&M)

- Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Inclusive Green Growth Department (Ministry of FA)

- Netherlands Water Partnership (NWP)

- Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) – (Ms. Sipora Suropatty joined on Monday and Friday)

Chinese Interpreters: Ms. Annie Yi and Ms. Sida Liu

Netherlands Experts: - Ms. Elaine Alwayn, Ministry of I&M - Mr. Martien Beek, Ministry of I&M, - Mr. Jan van Schoonhoven, Ministry I&M - Mr. Willem Mak, Ministry of I&M - Mr. Jaap van Thiel de Vries, Ecoshape - Prof. Dr. Fritz Holzwarth, Rector UNESCO-IHE - Mr. Johan A. van Dijk, UNESCO-IHE - Prof. Chris Zevenbergen, UNESCO-IHE - Prof. Rosh Ranasinghe, UNESCO-IHE - Prof. Guy Alaerts, UNESCO-IHE - Prof. Michael McClain, UNESCO-IHE - Mr. Marco Schouten, Vitens Evides International - Mr. Arnoud Molenaar, Rotterdam Municipality - Mr. Herman Havekes, Dutch Water Authorities - Mr. Marcel de Ruijter, Dutch Water Authorities - Mr. Maarten Hofstra, Min. I&M, UNESCO-IHE - Mr. Florian Boer, De Urbanisten - Mr. Gijs van den Boomen, KuiperCompagnons - Prof. Piet Dircke, Arcadis - Ms. Iris Bijlsma, Arcadis

- Mr. Bert Smolders, Arcadis - Ms. Floor Boerwinkel, Arcadis - Mr. Johan Verlinde, Rotterdam Municipality - Mr. Paul Bonné, Waternet Amsterdam - Mr. Lex Lelyveld, Waternet Amsterdam - Ms. Paulien Hartog, Waternet Amsterdam - Mr. Toine van Goethem, Amsterdam Municipality - Mr. Nanco Dolman, RHDHV - Mr. Christiaan Elings, Royal HaskoningDHV - Mr. Philip Ward, Free University, Amsterdam - Mr. Bert Velthuis, Alderman City of Nijmegen - Mr. Cor Beekmans, Min. of I&M, Rijkswaterstaat - Mr. Rick Kuggeleijn, Min. of I&M, Rijkswaterstaat - Mr. Mathieu Schouten, Nijmegen municipality - Mr. Maarten van Ginkel, Nijmegen municipality - Mr. Thijs Trompetter, Water Board Rivierenland - Mr. Eric Kuindersma, Water Board Rivierenland - Mr. Rik van der Linden, Alderman City of Dordrecht - Mr. Berry Gersonius, Dordrecht Municipality - Ms. Ellen Kelder, Dordrecht Municipality

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Annex 4: Names and e-mail addresses of the

Dutch experts involved in the learning week Country Delegation

Name Expert Company Email

Tonga Mr. Jan Willem Overbeek

Independent Consultant jw.overbeek@gmail.com

Mr. Eric Huijskens LievenseCSO ehuijskes@lievensecso.com

Mr. Roelf Bollen LievenseCSO rbollen@lievensecso.com

Mr. Koos Wieriks Ministry of Infrastructure and The Environment

koos.wieriks@minienm.nl

Vietnam Mr. Enrico Moens Sweco Nederland enrico.moens@sweco.nl

Ms. Marjan Kreijns TU Delft m.s.kreijns@tudelft.nl

Mr. Assela Pathirana Unesco-IHE a.pathirana@unesco-ihe.org

Mr. Robbert Moree Ministry of Infrastructure and The Environment

robbert.moree@minenm.nl

India Mr. Kees Bons Deltares kees.bons@deltares.nl

Ms. Ingeborg Krukkert IRC Wash krukkert@ircwash.org

Mr. Valentin Post Waste vpost@waste.nl

Ms. Mansi Jasuja IHS, Erasmus University Rotterdam

info@mansijasuja.com

China Mr. Marc Niesten Kuiper Compagnons mniesten@kuiper.nl

Ms. Winnie Huang Royal Eijkelkamp w.huang@eijkelkamp.com

Mr. Floris Boogaard Tauw floris.boogaard@tauw.com

Sri Lanka Mr. Nico Boonstra Ballast Nedam n.boonstra@ballast-nedam.nl

Prof. Rosh Ranasinghe Unesco-IHE r.ranasinghe@unesco-ihe.org

Ms. Tineke Hooijmans Unesco-IHE t.hooijmans@unesco-ihe.org

Bangladesh Mr. William Oliemans Deltares william.oliemans@deltares.nl

Mr. Michel Verlaan Dutch Water Partners m.verlaan@dutchwaterpartners.nl

Ms. Ingeborg Krukkert IRC Wash krukkert@ircwash.org

Ms. Joke Lepoole Max Foundation joke@maxfoundation.nl

Mr. Ben Lamoree Netherlands Water Partnership

b.lamoree@nwp.nl

Georgia Mr. Bert Satijn Independent Consultant bertsatijn@casema.nl

Prof. Sybe Schaap Senate s.schaap@tip.nl

Mr. Wim Verheugt Euroconsult Mott Macdonald wim.verheught@mottmac.com

Mr. Wouter Slotema Royal Haskoning DHV wouter.slotema@rhdhv.com

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General Program

Ms. Elaine Alwayn/ Ministry of I&M elaine.alwayn@minienm.nl

Mr. Martien Beek Ministry of I&M martien.beek@minienm.nl

Mr. Jan van Schoonhoven

Ministry of I&M jan.van.schoonhoven@minienm.nl

Mr. Willem Mak Ministry of I&M willem.mak@minienm.nl

Ms. Karin Roelofs Ministry of Foreign Affairs karin.roelofs@minbuza.nl

Mr. Jaap van Thiel de Vries

Ecoshape j.v.thiel.de.vries@boskalis.com

Prof. Dr. Fritz Holzwarth

Rector UNESCO-IHE f.holzwarth@unesco-ihe.org

Mr. Johan A. van Dijk UNESCO-IHE j.vandijk@unesco-ihe.org

Prof. Chris Zevenbergen

UNESCO-IHE c.zevenbergen@unesco-ihe.org

Prof. Rosh Ranasinghe UNESCO-IHE R.Ranasinghe@unesco-ihe.org

Prof. Guy Alaerts UNESCO-IHE G.Alaerts@unesco-ihe.org

Prof. Michael McClain UNESCO-IHE m.mcclain@unesco-ihe.org

Mr. Marco Schouten Vitens Evides International marco.schouten@vitens.nl

Mr. Arnoud Molenaar Rotterdam Municipality a.molenaar@Rotterdam.nl

Mr. Herman Havekes Dutch Water Authorities hhavekes@uvw.nl

Mr. Marcel de Ruijter Dutch Water Authorities mruijter@uvw.nl

Mr. Maarten Hofstra Min. I&M/UNESCO-IHE maarten.hofstra@rws.nl

Mr. Florian Boer De Urbanisten florianboer@urbanisten.nl

Mr. Gijs van den Boomen

KuiperCompagnons gvandenboomen@kuiper.nl

Prof. Piet Dircke Arcadis piet.dircke@arcadis.com

Ms. Iris Bijlsma Arcadis iris.bijlsma@arcadis.com

Mr. Bert Smolders Arcadis bert.smolders@arcadis.com

Ms. Floor Boerwinkel Arcadis floor.boerwinkel@arcadis.com

Mr. Johan Verlinde Rotterdam Municipality j.verlinde@rotterdam.nl

Mr. Paul Bonné Waternet Amsterdam Paul.Bonne@waternet.nl

Mr. Lex Lelijveld Waternet Amsterdam lex.lelijveld@waternet.nl

Ms. Paulien Hartog Waternet Amsterdam paulien.hartog@waternet.nl

Mr. Nanco Dolman Royal HaskoningDHV nanco.dolman@rhdhv.com

Mr. Christiaan Elings Royal HaskoningDHV christiaan.elings@rhdhv.com

Mr. Philip Ward Free University Amsterdam philip.ward@vu.nl

Mr. Bert Velthuis Alderman City of Nijmegen a.voskens@nijmegen.nl

Mr. Cor Beekmans Min. of I&M, Rijkswaterstaat cor.beekmans@rws.nl

Mr. Rick Kuggeleijn Min. of I&M, Rijkswaterstaat rick.kuggeleijn@rws.nl

Mr. Mathieu Schouten Nijmegen municipality m.schouten@nijmegen.nl

Maarten van Ginkel Nijmegen municipality m.van.ginkel@nijmegen.nl

Mr. Thijs Trompetter Water Board Rivierenland t.trompetter@wsrl.nl

Mr. Eric Kuindersma Water Board Rivierenland E.Kuindersma@wsrl.nl

Mr. Rik van der Linden Alderman City of Dordrecht K.Noeverman@dordrecht.nl

Ms. Ellen Kelder Dordrecht Municipality etg.kelder@dordrecht.nl

Mr. Berry Gersonius Dordrecht Municipality/UNESCO-IHE

B.Gersonius@unesco-ihe.org

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