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DAY 1 I 7 November 2023 I ADB HQ
Sustainable Urban Mobility: Achievements, Challenges, and Opportunities

[High-level discussion sessions] 


       TIME                                                                          AGENDA
08.30 - 09.00       
Welcoming and Registration of the Participants
Hosts: Sasank Vemuri, Head of Secretariat, MobiliseYourCity Secretariat, and 
Giuliana Ambrosino, MobiliseYourCity Secretariat
09.00 - 09.10
Welcome Remarks
James Leather, Director, Transport Sector Office, ADB
Jean-Pierre Marcelli, Southeast Asia Regional Director, AFD
09.10 - 09.45
Opening Session
Urban mobility for a just and low carbon transition
Moderator: Sasank Vemuri, Head of Secretariat, MobiliseYourCity Secretariat 

► The role of MobiliseYourCity as Partnership in reshaping urban mobility and
 fostering a just and low carbon transition (35 mins)

Kanzo Nakai, Director, Transport Sector Office, ADB
Benedicte Gazon, Philippines Office Country Director, AFD
Nicole Kranz, Head of Project Cluster: Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management, GIZ Philippines
Umar Arshad Khan, Secretary, Regional Transport Authority, Peshawar (Pakistan)
Kimtry Chou, Deputy Director, Department of Public Works and Transport, Phnom Penh (Cambodia)
Francis Mark Layog, Acting City Administrator, City Government of Davao (the Philippines)

09.45 - 10.15
AFD-ADB MobiliseYourCity Asia MoU Signing
Jamie Leather, Director, Transport Sector Office, ADB
Reda Souirgi, Head of Mobility and Digital Division, AFD

Tea Break and Group Photo
10.15 - 12.00
Session 1
MobiliseYourCity and challenges in achieving low-carbon transition in Asia and in the Pacific 
Moderator: Bertrand Goalou, Principal Transport Specialist, Transport Sector Office, ADB

► Trajectory of MobiliseYourCity Partnership – from 2015 to now (15 mins)
Sasank Vemuri, Head of MobiliseYourCity Secretariat
Giuliana Ambrosino, MobiliseYourCity Secretariat

► AFD involvement in the expansion of MobiliseYourCity Partnership at the global scale and
 regional scale (15 mins)
Reda Souirgi, Head of Mobility and Digital Division, AFD 
Anne-Laure Ullmann, Southeast Asia Transport task team leader, AFD

► MobiliseYourCity potential development in Asia and Pacific (15 mins)
Lloyd Wright, Senior Urban Development Specialist (Transport), Transport Sector Office, ADB

► Trajectory of urban mobility in Asia, climate change mitigation awareness (15 mins)
Sudhir Gota, Co-Team Lead, Asian Transport Outlook

► GIZ perspectives in challenges for achieving low-carbon transition mobility in Asia (15 mins)
Mathias Merforth, Project Manager, GIZ

► Moderated discussion and Q&A (30 mins)

12.00 - 13.30
Lunch
13.30 - 15.00
Session 2
MobiliseYourCity projects – How to develop meaningful Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans?
Moderator: Melissa Elsa P. Cruz, Senior Portfolio Development Manager - Philippines and Pacific Island Countries Office of the Country Director, GIZ

► Case study SUMP of Mebidangro (Indonesia) (25 mins)
Agustinus Panjaitan, Head of Transport Agency, DISHUB North Sumatra Province

► Case Study SUMPs of 3 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa cities – Peshawar, Mingora and Abbottabad (Pakistan)
(25 mins)
Harold Hurel, Independent Consultant

► Moderated discussion and Q&A (30 mins), discussants:
Anne-Laure Ullmann, Southeast Asia Transport task team leader, AFD
Syed Hussain Haider, Principal Transport Specialist, Transport Sector Office, ADB
Clément Musil, Program Manager MobiliseYourCity Asia

15.00 - 15.15
Tea break
15.15 - 16.45
Session 3
Financing urban mobility plans and projects: new instruments?
Moderator: Mathias Merforth, Project Manager, GIZ

► Financing projects after the implementation of a Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans (20 mins)  
Reda Souirgi, Head of Mobility and Digital Division, AFD

► Innovative financing tools: green bonds emission in the Caucasus Region (20 mins)
Parnaoz Tsinsadze, Senor Investment Officer, Infrastructure Finance Division 1,
Private Sector Operations Department, ADB

► Moderated discussion and Q&A (40 mins), discussants:
Alexandra Pamela Chiang, Senior Transport Specialist, Transport Sector Office, ADB
Bertrand Goalou, Principal Transport Specialist, Transport Sector Office, ADB
Sasank Vemuri, Head of Secretariat, MobiliseYourCity Secretariat

16.45 - 17.00
Wrap Up Day 1 
Preview Days 2 and 3
Bertrand Goalou, Principal Transport Specialist, Transport Sector Office, ADB
17.00 -18.30
Cocktail