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Strengthening One ADB: Tale of Azerbaijan’s Country Diagnostic Study and State-Owned Enterprise Sector Review

7 November 2018
Learn about the key needs, challenges, success stories, and opportunities of knowledge creation and sharing practices in ADB’s Azerbaijan Resident Mission (AZRM). This presentation provides a country diagnostic study and state-owned enterprise sector review of Azerbaijan.

Nakhchivan's Urban Water Overhaul

2 October 2018
Nakhchivan's population reaches about 400,000, and many of them live in the city with only two hours of water supply and no sewerage network. Most households use pit latrines while some have septic tanks that usually overflowed. This presentation shares how the government, through a joint venture,…

Armenia e-Procurement System

20 September 2018

Women in Business in Armenia

24 April 2018
The presentation contains an overview of GIZ programs that are focused on meeting the needs of women entrepreneurs in Armenia.

Meeting needs of women entrepreneurs in Azerbaijan

24 April 2018
The presentation includes: (i) an introduction of the Azerbaijan Microfinance Association and its work towards advancing the microfinance community; (ii) an overview of the impact of microfinance on income and savings of women vis-a-vis men; (iii) interventions to bridge the gender gap in…

Developing women’s SMEs in cities

24 April 2018
The presentation includes an overview of the women-focused targeted approach to promoting SME development of SME DNC. This includes a review of identified obstacles to women's entrepreneurship in Armenia; specific opportunities for women's entrepreneurship development in urban areas; gaps…

Safety and Public Transportation

24 April 2018
The presentation is a two-city analysis (Baku and Tbilisi) of the incidence and impacts of sexual harassment in public transport. It also presents the case for the importance of infrastructure design changes, technological innovations, and targeted awareness raising in changing behaviors, with the…

Review of Retail Electricity Tariffs

5 September 2016
Electricity subsidies are often paid out if government budgets exceed all spending on education, healthcare, and rural support. In order to subsidize low residential customer prices, governments impose higher prices on industrial customers, which discourages new investment and encourage…

State Registry Agency of Armenia: Improving Business Registration and Information Services

1 August 2016
Starting a business in Armenia in the late 2000s was a complicated process. Businessmen needed to go through a seven- to nine-step process that would take about 14 to 19 days to finish. It was no surprise that in terms of ease of doing business, Armenia ranked 82nd out of 125 countries in the…

Integrated Approach to Sustainable Infrastructure Provision/ Financing

1 January 2016
Armenia, a small landlocked country in the Caucasus, requested its development partners for assistance in maintaining its extensive yet underfunded road and water network. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is the only partner that responded to this call. The challenge was to institutionalize…