Public Private Partnership (PPP) solutions for Maharashtra's urban water supply sector are being developed under the Mainstreaming PPPs in India Initiative. This toolkit is expected to assist the relevant public entities in the state of Maharashtra for developing PPP-based projects in the water supply and sanitation sector.

The urban transportation toolkit was initially conceived by the Asian Development Bank in conjunction with the Government of Maharashtra. The initial approach followed to prepare the
toolkit included a review of documentation available on PPPs in urban transportation.

Asian Sanitation Data Book 2008: Achieving Sanitation for All features raw data and analyses on the sanitation situation in 27 cities in the Asia and Pacific region and calls for actions to ensure improved access to sanitation in more rapid and efficient ways.

In 2008, four countries of South Asia (Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, and Nepal) held significant elections. The paper highlights various pertinent issues in the political economy of these four countries and maps out the broad contours of the reforms they need to embark on.

The Energy Outlook for Asia and the Pacific (Energy Outlook) aims to estimate, for each of the regional members of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the future demand for energy, supply options to 2030 for a business-as-usual scenario, investment requirements for meeting this demand, and the resulting CO2 emissions potential associated with increasing energy demand.

Sanitation is central to the larger development agenda. Without the huge health and economic benefits from improved sanitation

Poor sanitation is responsible for the spread of a number of communicable diseases, resulting in lost productivity, reduced quality of life, and improvishment. Sanitation is one of the most cost-effective ways to improve public health.

The report makes suggestions for the rethinking of the relationships between transport and climate change. Clean Air Initiative for Asian Cities Center team was engaged to identify the five "think-pieces" on how to address transport and climate change issues.

Building greater climate resilience into the agriculture sector in Asia and the Pacific must begin with an understanding of the likely added risks and vulnerabilities the sector will face from climate change.

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