The Water for Asian Cities programme focuses on the following main areas:

• Advocacy, Awareness Raising and Information Exchange to improve governance in the water and sanitation sector
• Mobilizing political will, media and public awareness to promote pro-poor investment in water and sanitation
• Enhancing human resources and institutional capacity to enhance capacity in the delivery of water and sanitation services
• Values Based Water Education in Schools and Community to promote a better understanding of water as a key social, economic and environmental resource, and
• Promoting pro-poor investments to scale up the flow of investments in water and sanitation services for the poor in Asian cities
• Gender Mainstreaming to encourage gender sensitive planning which requires that consideration be given to all gender differentiated factors so that both women and men are given possibilities to influence and participate in the benefits of development