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MobiCom: "E money" Customer and Regulatory Understanding

9 November 2017
This presentation shares brief information on e-money, customer-based infrastructure, and the convenience joint cards provides to users, in the context of Mobicom's experience. It also highlights how information sharing can help reduce risk.

Poverty and Social Analysis in Action: Ulaanbaatar Urban Services and Ger Area Development Investment Program

10 October 2017
Poverty and social analysis (PSA) enabled the Ulaanbaatar Urban Services and Ger Area Development Investment Program to become more responsive to the needs and context of its target beneficiaries. PSA guided program implementation by providing a thorough assessment of the social impacts of the…

The Food Stamp Program: A Secret History of the First Targeted Benefit in Mongolia

30 August 2017
Back in 2008, Mongolia suffered from the highest inflation rate in Asia, reaching up to 30%. This led to lower food quality, especially for women and limited funds for education and health needs. The government, through ADB assistance, established a food stamp program to help the poor buy critical…

Rural Water Supply and Sanitation in Cambodia: Results from ADB Financed Projects

29 June 2017
Access to water and sanitation is low in many rural areas across Asia. Cambodia, in partnership with ADB, continually exerts efforts to improve water and sanitation services especially in its rural areas, where 11,530,379 reside and about 50% of village people still practice open defecation. The…

Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project in Cambodia

29 June 2017
The lack of clean water has become a major problem for many rural people, especially in Cambodia, where rural households reach 2.5 million and total rural population number more than 11.5 million. More than half of the rural population practice open defecation and walk long distances to access…

Climate-smart Practices and Varieties for Intensive Rice-based Systems in Bangladesh and Cambodia

15 June 2017
Rice in Bangladesh and Cambodia is grown using smart, climate-friendly, water-saving technologies that yields better harvests for farmers. Through ADB's Investment Assessment and Applications of High-Level Technology for Food Security in Asia and the Pacific project, the International Rice…

Railway Project in Cambodia

5 May 2017
ADB supports several transportation projects in the region, including railroad projects in Cambodia. Issues were raised by concerned groups and civil society organizations. This presentation looks into the accountability mechanism of ADB, along with the effect to the communities as seen by civil…

#UbeSafe Road Safety Campaign

4 May 2017
Learn more about #UbeSafe, a project of the Global Shapers Ulaanbaatar Hub, that aims to promote road safety. Success indicators that can be replicated are outlined in the presentation.

The Case of Mongolia

16 February 2017
Since its independence, Mongolia has made considerable progress in reducing poverty. From 38.8% in 2010, poverty incidence in the country declined to 21.6% in 2014. However, meeting the social protection agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals would require Mongolia to pursue crucial measures.…

CAM: Comparative Analysis of Cambodia’s Legal Framework and ADB Safeguard Policy Statement: Indigenous Peoples

31 January 2017
The term Indigenous Peoples is used in a generic sense to refer to a distinct, vulnerable, social and cultural group possessing the following characteristics in varying degrees: (i) self-identification as members of a distinct indigenous cultural group and recognition of this identity by others; (…