6th ADB Business Opportunities Fair

Water and Municipal Infrastructure

Pacific Region
Emma Veve, PARD
25 March 2015

Outline

Country Coverage
Development Goals
Focus Areas
Opportunities (2015-2016)

Coverage
Pacific Developing Member Countries

Total Pop
(million)

Urban Pop
(million)

% Urban

PNG

7.059

0.918

13

Solomon Islands

0.553

0.111

20

Samoa

0.184

0.039

21

Federated States of Micronesia

0.102

0.022

22

Vanuatu

0.252

0.060

23

Timor Leste

1.066

0.320

30

Tonga

0.104

0.034

34

Tuvalu

0.011

0.005

47

Kiribati

0.103

0.045

44

Fiji

0.851

0.434

51

Marshall Islands

0.055

0.036

65

Cook Islands

0.016

0.011

72

Palau

0.021

0.016

77

Nauru

0.010

0.010

100

TOTAL

10.387

2.064

19.8

Water and Municipal Infrastructure

Development Objectives
Reduce the rates of waterborne diseases
Social inclusion and equitable access to
urban services
Developing financially, technically, and
environmentally sustainable urban
services
Improving resilience to climate change
impacts
Fostering private sector development

Water and Municipal Infrastructure

Key Focus Areas

Urban spatial and services planning

Water and sanitation
Drainage and flood mitigation
Urban roads and traffic management
Servicing informal settlements
Mainstreaming gender
Mainstreaming climate change
adaptation

Water and Municipal Infrastructure

Opportunities - Overview
Business opportunities in:
Marshall Islands
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Timor-Leste
Vanuatu

Opportunities Marshall Islands

Ebeye Water Supply and Sanitation Project
Consultancy Contracts

Design, supervision, and capacity development

(est. $2 million)
Procurement commencing Q2 2015
Goods

SWRO
(est. $3 million)
Procurement commencing Q2 2015
Construction Contracts

Rehabilitation of the water supply and sewerage

(est. $8 million)
Procurement commencing Q4 2015

Opportunities - Palau
Koror-Airai Sanitation Project
Construction Contracts
Sewage treatment plants design, build, manage
(est. $11.6 million)
Procurement commencing Q4 2015

Rehabilitation of the Koror Sewer network

(est. $12.7 million)
Procurement commencing Q2 2016

Opportunities Timor-Leste
District Capitals Water Supply Project
Construction Contracts
Manatuto Water Supply - water supply system
operations and maintenance
(est. $0.2 million)
Procurement commencing Q4 2015

Pante Makassar Water Supply water supply

system operations and maintenance
(est. $0.2 million)
Procurement commencing Q1 2016

Opportunities - Vanuatu
Port Vila Urban Development Project
Construction Contracts
Drainage and road improvement
(est. $11.7 million)
Procurement commencing Q3 2015

Looking Ahead

Proposed Fiji Urban Water Supply and Sanitation

Upgrade Project ($100.0 million, for approval in Q4 2015)

Proposed Technical Assistance for PNG: Urban Water

Supply Institutional Strengthening ($0.7 million, for
approval in 2016)

Proposed Technical Assistance for TIM: Preparing the

Municipal Services Strengthening Project ($1.0 million,
for approval in 2016)

Proposed Technical Assistance for REG: Improving Urban

Services Regulation and Governance in the Pacific ($0.5
million, for approval in 2016)

Want More Information?

Contact
Emma Veve, Pacific Department
Email: eveve@adb.org
Tel: +63 2 683 1630