Innovation for Water Infrastructure Development in the Mekong Region was prepared by the Asia Desk of the OECD Development Centre, in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) and Mekong Institute. The team was led by Kensuke Tanaka, Head of Asia Desk and Prasiwi Ibrahim, Deputy Head of Asia Desk, OECD Development Centre, in co-operation with Naoyuki Yoshino, Dean of ADBI (at the time of preparing the report) and Watcharas Leelawath, Executive Director of the Mekong Institute. Valuable guidance was provided by Mario Pezzini, Director of the OECD Development Centre and Special Advisor to the OECD Secretary-General on Development.
This publication was prepared by a core team composed of Kensuke Tanaka, Prasiwi Ibrahim, Ryan Jacildo and Rahmalia Devita at the OECD Development Centre (Chapters 2, 4 and 5); Naoyuki Yoshino at the ADBI, Masaki Nakahigashi, and Umid Abidhadjaev (Chapter 3); as well as Watcharas Leelawath and Ratna Devi Nadarajan at the Mekong Institute (Chapter 1). Alexander Hume, Raluca Maran, Isa Mulder, Asia Desk of the OECD Development Centre provided useful inputs and comments. Dasom Kim and Saumya Bhavsar contributed to collection of relevant information. Sonja Marki provided administrative support for this project. Delphine Grandrieux, Elizabeth Nash and Aida Buendia turned the manuscript into a publication.
The publication also benefitted from co-operation and discussions with experts in the region and other international organisations. The intermediate results of this report was presented at the Mekong Forum, in Khon Kaen, Thailand, in July 2019. The authors are grateful to Akhmad Bayhaqi, APEC Policy Support Unit (PSU) and Kettivit Sittisoontornwong, Thai International Freight Forwarders Association (TIFFA) for the valuable inputs.
Support from OECD Delegation, in particular, Yoshifumi Fukunaga, Yuji Nakayama, Toshiki Okabayashi, Masaya Sugimoto, and Nao Takada, is gratefully acknowledged.
Last but not least, the OECD Development Centre is most grateful for the financial support received from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Japan.