The Asian Development Bank has partnered with the Singapore government on a new educational initiative to help improve conditions for poorer residents of the region's cities.
"The project, called Asian Training and Research Initiative for Urban Management (ATRIUM), will share knowledge on good practices, as well as success and failures in urban planning in the region."
"In Asia, as much as 60 percent of the urban population lives in sprawling slums and squatter settlements. At least half the people in major cities live without adequate supplies of clean water or access to sewage connections," says the Asian Development Bank.
'The rate of urbanization that Asia is experiencing is a phenomenon that is unprecedented in human history,' said Shyam Bajpai, Deputy Director General of ADB's Regional and Sustainable Development Department. 'The challenge is to achieve more balanced and sustainable urban development in Asian countries.' "
"ADB will work with the Singapore government agency, International Enterprise Singapore, to cooperate on policy planning workshops, pilot projects and study visits to Singapore for urban sector policy makers from developing countries."
FULL STORY: ADB, Singapore eye Asia training research initiative for urban management and planning
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