The <keyword id="50190" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Asian-Development-Bank" source="Orion">Asian Development Bank</keyword> (<keyword id="6355976" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="adb" source="Orion">ADB</keyword>) has joined with partners at <keyword id="12515304" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="COP27" source="Orion">COP27</keyword> to announce the ambition to mobilize more than USD 200 million from 2021 to 2025 to build water and sanitation resilience and security in <keyword id="21718" type="General" weightage="80" keywordseo="asia" source="Orion">Asia</keyword> and the Pacific region.<br /><br /> The Asia and the Pacific Water Resilience Initiative, also known as RUWR: Are you water resilient?, is a wide-ranging program aiming to build capacity and resources for innovative solutions to mainstream resilience by addressing gaps, needs, and opportunities at the local level, ADB said in a statement on Tuesday.<br /><br /> This fund mobilization is part of ADB's commitment to scale up financing for climate change adaptation.<br /><br /> Building on the mobilization of more than USD 80 million in 2021-2022, ADB now welcomed new support to take effect in 2023.<br /><br /> "The Government of the Netherlands is supporting the initiative with a USD 20 million contribution to the newly established Water Resilience Trust Fund, which falls under the banner of RUWR and will focus on adaptation, innovation, and inclusivity to accelerate water resilience," the statement said.<br /><br /> "The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is providing USD 10 million to the Sanitation Financing Partnership Trust Fund under the initiative, which will help expand inclusive urban sanitation services; pilot and upscale sanitation technology and innovations; and support policies and capacities to deliver inclusive, resilient, and sustainable sanitation systems." <br /><br /> ADB plans to allocate more than USD 120 million in grants from 2023 to 2025 toward water and sanitation security and resilience to support the initiative.<br /><br /> It has also established a technical assistance cluster of USD 8 million, called Mainstreaming Water Resilience in Asia and the Pacific, which will manage the initiative.<br /><br /> The contributions from the Netherlands and the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation will add to the USD 115.9 million grant financing received from partners under the Water Financing Partnership Facility (<keyword id="15468143" type="General" weightage="50" keywordseo="wfpf" source="Orion">WFPF</keyword>), which has supported 113 ADB investment projects in 20 countries since 2006, it added. Other funding partners of WFPF are the governments of Spain and Austria.<br /><br /> "Water is one of the world's most critical natural resources and one increasingly threatened by the impacts of climate change in Asia and the Pacific. It is the primary medium through which we will feel the effects of climate change," said ADB's Chief of Water Sector Group Neeta Pokhrel.<br /><br />  "Small transformational steps toward water and sanitation resilience today will mean we can make great strides in climate adaptation at the local level," Pokhrel added in the statement.<br /><br /><b>SEE ALSO:</b><br /><br /> <b><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/business/auto/news/best-festive-auto-sales-in-the-last-4-years-but-sales-may-decline-says-fada-report/articleshow/95354054.cms">Best festive auto sales in the last 4 years, but sales may decline says FADA report</a></b><br /><br /> <b><a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/apps/news/whatsapp-introduces-communities-with-up-to-5000-members/articleshow/95275053.cms">WhatsApp introduces Communities with support for up to 5,000 members – here’s how to use it</a></b><br />

COP27: ADB pledges $200 million funds for water-related infra in Asia, Pacific

<p class="p1"></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/561c74d0dd089560578b4567-1094-547/screen%20shot%202015-10-12%20at%2010.46.36%20pm.png" alt="nicki minaj ellen degeneres show" data-mce-source="YouTube"><p class="source"><span>YouTube</span></p><p class="caption">Nicki Minaj appearing on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show" last year.</p></img></div><p></p></div></div><p class="p1">"The Ellen Degeneres Show"&#xa0;took a break from scaring celebrities and creating viral moments to show&#xa0;a sketch on Monday that mocked&#xa0;<a href="http://variety.com/2015/tv/news/nicki-minaj-comedy-series-abc-family-1201604971/%20">Nicki Minaj's new TV show</a>, as&#xa0;<a href="http://morningafter.gawker.com/someone-at-ellen-thought-this-nicki-minaj-parody-was-a-1736146097?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_twitter&amp;utm_source=gawker_twitter&amp;utm_medium=socialflow">first spotted by Gawker</a>.</p><p class="p1">"It was just announced that Nicki Minaj is producing a sitcom of her childhood growing up in Queens, New York," DeGeneres started the segment, showing a clip of Minaj posing in the background. "It's not on the air yet, but I called in a favor and I was able to get us a very exclusive sneak peek. This is totally real, not something we put together as a joke."</p><p class="p1">What followed was a short parody of&#xa0;the typical classic sitcom,&#xa0;with a young Nicki Minaj playfully lying to her parents about childhood chores, complete with a laugh track. The main joke was that all the actors, from the young Minaj to her mother, father, and even their dog, all had big butts that were getting in the way and knocking things over.</p><p class="p1"></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><img src="https://static-ssl.businessinsider.com/image/561c74d0dd089560578b4568-906-453/screen%20shot%202015-10-12%20at%2010.37.18%20pm.png" alt="ellen show nicki minaj" data-mce-source="The Ellen Show"><p class="source"><span>The Ellen Show</span></p><p class="caption">A still from the sketch where the young Nicki Minaj character bent over to expose her padded butt.</p></img></div><p></p></div></div><p class="p1">The sketch is not on the <a href="http://www.ellentv.com/tags/NickiMinaj/">website</a> or <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp0hYYBW6IMayGgR-WeoCvQ">YouTube</a> page of "The&#xa0;Ellen Show," but you can watch the <a href="http://morningafter.gawker.com/someone-at-ellen-thought-this-nicki-minaj-parody-was-a-1736146097?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_twitter&amp;utm_source=gawker_twitter&amp;utm_medium=socialflow">full clip at Gawker</a>.</p><p class="p1">"They have big butts, that's the joke,"&#xa0;<span>DeGeneres</span> said after the sketch.</p><p class="p3"><span class="s1"><a href="http://morningafter.gawker.com/someone-at-ellen-thought-this-nicki-minaj-parody-was-a-1736146097?utm_campaign=socialflow_gawker_twitter&amp;utm_source=gawker_twitter&amp;utm_medium=socialflow">Gawker's Rich Juzwiak called it</a> "a </span><span class="s2">satirical sketch that amounted to a little over of a minute of modern minstrelsy" adding that the joke really seemed to be that women's bodies, particularly black women's bodies, were absurd.</span></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2">Some people on Twitter who had seen the sketch agreed.</span></p><p class="p3"><span class="s2"><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>So that Nicki Minaj sitcom Ellen sneak peaked ??who else saw it? Lol nah</p>- VickyD  (@VickydLuvzChzs) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/653665376098779136">October 12, 2015</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></span></p><p class="embed-spacer"><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Why is <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ellen?src=hash">#Ellen</a> slandering <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NickiMinaj?src=hash">#NickiMinaj</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/NICKIMINAJ">@NickiMinaj</a> ? I kinda feel some sort of way about that clip...</p>- IG: DJCONARTIST75  (@djconartist75) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/653665364858044416">October 12, 2015</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></p><p class="embed-spacer"><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>that Nicki parody on Ellen wasn't funny. it was actually offensive; which, saddens me because I love Ellen. ??</p>- chelsey.  (@__xoxoAri) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/653724348667183105">October 13, 2015</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></p><p class="embed-spacer"><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>this is SHOCKINGLY unfunny <a href="http://t.co/IrJTaeow9i">http://t.co/IrJTaeow9i</a></p>- LW  (@lindseyweber) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/653716489950785536">October 12, 2015</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></p><p class="embed-spacer"><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>This smacks of minstrels to me... <a href="https://twitter.com/TheEllenShow">@TheEllenShow</a>, y'all should know better. <a href="http://t.co/xEBQh1WfPf">http://t.co/xEBQh1WfPf</a></p>- jere p  (@jerepaolini) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/653730974228959232">October 13, 2015</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">Others made the argument that her figure is&#xa0;the asset that&#xa0;Minaj is most famous for and didn't see an&#xa0;issue with the sketch. </span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1"><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/Gawker">@Gawker</a> if she's allowed to write a song devoted to her giant ass, we are allowed to laugh at it</p>- stephanie  (@nicepompoms) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/653716653503610881">October 12, 2015</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></span></p><p class="embed-spacer"><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/Gawker">@Gawker</a> lol, nicki minaj reduced herself to an ass.</p>- jonathan  (@h1ghtimes) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/653716711112314880">October 12, 2015</a></blockquote><script async="" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">It's not the first time that DeGeneres has made a big deal of&#xa0;Minaj's body. When her music video for "Anaconda" blew up in the summer of 2014, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyJ8rulYHpU">DeGeneres donned a butt pad and gold hoops</a> to try and dance to the music video. And a few months later in December of last year, she <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03voLKdGULY">repeatedly asked Minaj what she did to achieve her body</a>.</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">"What do I do to look more like you?"&#xa0;<span>DeGeneres</span> asked the star, who looked uncomfortable with the question. "I'm working out, I'm doing everything I can," she continued, referencing squats.</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">"I don't know, if I told you, then I'd have to kill you," Minaj joked back.</span></p><p class="p1"><span class="s1">Perhaps Ellen's writers need new material.</span></p>    <div class="margin-top">        <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/50-cent-files-bankruptcy-lawsuit-rise-fall-2015-7">This is how rapper 50 Cent made millions and then lost it</a></h3>        <div>            <div>    <script src="http://player.ooyala.com/v3/6e12e8b3387a44daacfb73afba25a76e"></script>    <div class="ooyala-video-player" data-video-autoplay="false" data-video-id="VlbnI2djrZXIh9tIkLc68cC984sL8GSb" data-player-variable="ooyalapopvideo" id="ooyalaplayer_popvideo" style="width:1280px;height:720px"></div>    <script>    if (typeof RunFunctions === 'undefined') { var RunFunctions = []; }     RunFunctions.push(function()    {         var ooyalapopvideo = OO.Player.create('ooyalaplayer_popvideo', 'VlbnI2djrZXIh9tIkLc68cC984sL8GSb',{ autoplay: 'false' });     });    </script>    <noscript><div>Please enable Javascript to watch this video</div></noscript></div>        </div>        <script>(function() { function createPlayer() { OO.ready(function() { RunFunctions.forEach(function(ooyalaFunction) { ooyalaFunction(); }); RunFunctions = [];}); } createPlayer(); }()); </script>    </div>

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