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Video Session 6 Alternative Financing Schemes and Business Models

12 April 2016
This video covers Session 6 of the conference entitled “Alternative Financing Schemes and Business Models.” It draws lessons from a solar home program implemented in Bangladesh that demonstrates how business models can address inclusive energy challenges. It also shows how private sector…

The Greening of a City Cheonggyecheon Restoration Project

31 March 2016
With the ultimate goal of making Seoul a great city, then-mayor Lee Myung-bak made Cheonggyecheon Restoration Project—the most expensive river restoration to be undertaken in the world—a centerpiece of his administration in 2002. Not only was the project extremely expensive, but the massive scope…

BAN Comparative Analysis of DMC Legal Framework and ADB Safeguard Policy Statement

29 February 2016
Involuntary Resettlement Safeguards Objectives: To avoid involuntary resettlement wherever possible; to minimize involuntary resettlement by exploring project and design alternatives; to enhance, or at least restore, the livelihoods of alldisplaced persons in real terms relative to pre-project…

Climate Finance and Technology Adaptation Koreas Case

17 December 2015
Waste treatment technologies, characterized as stepwise, were developed by the Korea Environmental Industry and Technology Institute, with the aim to build a resource recirculation society. Demand for Korea's model of landfill gas power plant is high among developing countries due to the economic…

Making Renewable Energy a Success in Bangladesh Getting the Business Model Right

1 December 2015
More than three quarters of Bangladeshis in rural areas have no electricity in their homes, forcing the villagers to complete their work during daylight. This paper analyzes the success of the solar home system program in Bangladesh, which today provides clean and reliable electricity to millions…

Bangladesh Skills for Employment Investment Program Opportunity to Transform the Skills Sector

1 December 2015
With unmet training needs owing to a large gap in training capacity, Bangladesh faces a shortage in skills supply resulting to low productivity and income. Introducing performance-based financing, the Skills for Employment Investment Project in Bangladesh involved industry associations in priority…

Possible Contribution to the Center of Excellence Strategy of University of Tokyos Center for Spatial Information Science

8 October 2015
This presentation features the collaboration between University of Tokyo’s Center for Spatial Information Science (CSIS) and Asian Development Bank. The technologies developed by CSIS for the energy sector, particularly geospatial information and technologies, are examined in detail.

eProcurement Experiences of the Republic of Korea

5 October 2015

BangladeshIndia Electrical Grid Interconnection Project South Asias First Interconnection of Two National Grids

1 October 2015
The People’s Republic of Bangladesh is grappling with energy deficiencies in the face of rapidly increasing demand for energy. To help bridge the energy gap in the country, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) assisted Bangladesh in securing energy supply from India through a cross-border grid…

Support for the Establishment of Wastetofuel Technology in the Transport Sector in Bangladesh

23 September 2015
The Dhaka case study is based on the joint consulting project of Asian Development Bank and the government of the Republic of Korea and The Export-Import Bank of Korea under a Knowledge Sharing Program. Similar to the Karachi case study, the Dhaka example is about the possibility of developing a…