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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,…

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…

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…

Papua New Guinea Nature-Based Tourism

24 November 2016
Discover the beauty of Papua New Guinea, one of the six member countries of the Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries, and Food Security, working to promote sustainable and responsible nature-based tourism to preserve one of the world’s most unique ecosystems and areas while providing…

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…