Resources - ACCCRN Learning Forum 2016 Presentations and Resources - ACCCRN Network
Profile:
Sasank Vemuri is Urban Resilience Specialist currently working as a
staff consultant for the Urban Climate Change Resilience Trust Fund
(UCCRTF) at the Asian Development Bank (ADB). He is a climate
change specialist with extensive experience across the Asia-Pacific
Region in preparing policies, implementing projects and developing
local capacities that support communities in building resilience to the
impacts of climate change. His professional expertise lies at the nexus
of community-oriented climate change project formulation and finance.
Prior to joining ADB, Sasank worked for 8 years at the GIZ.
In addition to having lived and worked in the US and Germany, Sasank
has experience working in Bangladesh, India, Kyrgyz Republic,
Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. He has designed and
conducted courses on Cities and Climate Change and Financing Urban
Infrastructure with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Singapore and
CITYNET in Seoul. Sasank has been an invited as an expert panelist to
speak at various organizations and universities on urban resilience in
Asia including the OECD in Paris, the UN in New York and the Nanyang
Technological University in Singapore. Sasank is also a Rockefeller
Foundation Global Fellow for Social Innovation.
Sasank Vemuri
Urban Resilience Specialist
Sector Advisory Service Division
Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department
Phone: +63 929 670 6922 | Email: svemuri.consultant@adb.org
OUTLINE
20/20 Hindsight: Gaps, Blind spots and Things We Wish We’d
Have Known Sooner in Financing large Scale Urban Resilience
Investments
Key message: There are widely diverse options for urban resilience
planning, but many of them are not leading to large scale
investments.
Example cases: M-BRACE (USAID and ACCCCRN) from Hue,
Vietnam; Pautukali, Bangladesh (ADB);
Challenges:
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Most “bottom-up” plans do have enough information to
facilitate decisions on investments
City finances are rarely assessed
Resilience is still a challenging concept to communicate and
design for
Because investments happen at the project level, the line
between “climate-proofing” and resilience building blurs
The right people are not always around the table, particularly
investors
Giving people a seat at the table is not the same as giving
them a voice
Opportunities:
•·
Diversity is a good thing, but we need to start learning what
works
•·
Broaden stakeholder base
•·
Strengthen capacity of "planners" on finances and investors on
resilience
•·
Partnerships!
•·
Pay attention to cultures and interests
•·
Lots of space for the medium-scale investors
Sasank Vemuri is Urban Resilience Specialist currently working as a
staff consultant for the Urban Climate Change Resilience Trust Fund
(UCCRTF) at the Asian Development Bank (ADB). He is a climate
change specialist with extensive experience across the Asia-Pacific
Region in preparing policies, implementing projects and developing
local capacities that support communities in building resilience to the
impacts of climate change. His professional expertise lies at the nexus
of community-oriented climate change project formulation and finance.
Prior to joining ADB, Sasank worked for 8 years at the GIZ.
In addition to having lived and worked in the US and Germany, Sasank
has experience working in Bangladesh, India, Kyrgyz Republic,
Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. He has designed and
conducted courses on Cities and Climate Change and Financing Urban
Infrastructure with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Singapore and
CITYNET in Seoul. Sasank has been an invited as an expert panelist to
speak at various organizations and universities on urban resilience in
Asia including the OECD in Paris, the UN in New York and the Nanyang
Technological University in Singapore. Sasank is also a Rockefeller
Foundation Global Fellow for Social Innovation.
Sasank Vemuri
Urban Resilience Specialist
Sector Advisory Service Division
Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department
Phone: +63 929 670 6922 | Email: svemuri.consultant@adb.org
OUTLINE
20/20 Hindsight: Gaps, Blind spots and Things We Wish We’d
Have Known Sooner in Financing large Scale Urban Resilience
Investments
Key message: There are widely diverse options for urban resilience
planning, but many of them are not leading to large scale
investments.
Example cases: M-BRACE (USAID and ACCCCRN) from Hue,
Vietnam; Pautukali, Bangladesh (ADB);
Challenges:
•·
•·
•·
•·
•·
•·
Most “bottom-up” plans do have enough information to
facilitate decisions on investments
City finances are rarely assessed
Resilience is still a challenging concept to communicate and
design for
Because investments happen at the project level, the line
between “climate-proofing” and resilience building blurs
The right people are not always around the table, particularly
investors
Giving people a seat at the table is not the same as giving
them a voice
Opportunities:
•·
Diversity is a good thing, but we need to start learning what
works
•·
Broaden stakeholder base
•·
Strengthen capacity of "planners" on finances and investors on
resilience
•·
Partnerships!
•·
Pay attention to cultures and interests
•·
Lots of space for the medium-scale investors