With rapid urbanization underway, urban infrastructure plays an increasingly important role in ensuring urban resilience and livability through the provision of local services. Urban infrastructure investment needs are projected at $4.5 to $5.4 trillion annually through 2030.
To ensure improved access to sustainable urban infrastructure and to receive adequate local service delivery such as transportation, water supply, sanitation, and waste management, operation and maintenance of urban infrastructure is essential to maintain the quality level of local services and to ensure enhanced resilience to climate risks throughout the whole life of the infrastructure asset.
On June 17 2025, in collaboration with Quality Infrastructure Investment Partnership (QII) and The Global Infrastructure Facility (GIF), the World Bank Tokyo Development Learning Center (TDLC) is organizing a round table discussion on Urban infrastructure asset management. During the event, national and local government, academia, private sector will share and discuss how Japan has been addressing the issues and challenges of public asset management on urban infrastructure and to extract the key lessons how to apply the explicit and tacit knowledge from Japanese experience to the developing countries context.
About the event
"Innovative Approach to Urban Infrastructure Management – Japan’s experience and Global applications –"
Thursday June 17, 2025, 13:30-17:00
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Agenda and speakers
13:30 Opening Remarks: Takahiro Tsuda (Ministry of Finance, Government of Japan) Jane Jamieson (World Bank)
13:45 Framing presentation: Jane Jamieson (World Bank)
14:00 “Infrastructure longevity plan and its action plan focusing on sewage system”: Masashi Iwai (Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT), Government of Japan)
14:15 “Multi-stakeholders' engagement in Operation and Maintenance of Urban infrastructures”: Tomonori Nagayama (Department of civil engineering, University of Tokyo)
14:50 – 15:05 Photo session & Coffee break
15:05 “Operation and Maintenance initiatives at the local government - cases from Japan”
1. Asset management of sewerage infrastructure in Fukuoka city by Teiji Sugaya (Fukuoka City)
2. Japanese experience in Public-Private Partnership in the Sanitation Sector by Yukinori Kawashima (Nihon Suido Consultants Co., Ltd)
3. Waste-to-energy in Indonesia – GIF case study by Makoto Ogawa (MAXEED LLC)
16:05 Panel Discussion
Panel: Jane Jamieson (World Bank), Masashi Iwai (MLIT), Tomonori Nagayama (University of Tokyo), Teiji Sugaya (Fukuoka City), Yukinori Kawashima(Nihon Suido Consultant Co., LTD), Makoto Ozawa (MAXEED LLC)
Moderator: Angelica Nunez (World Bank)