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MYA: Institutional Strengthening and Capacity Development for the Ministry of Construction — NEEDS ASSESSMENT FINAL REPORT

19 September 2022
Myanmar has a relatively modern environmental policy but lacks a social safeguards policy to address emerging social issues associated with development agenda that the country has set for future. As one of the initiatives to build capacity within the country, the ADB in July 2012 approved the TA…

COVID-19, Technology and Jobs: Impact on Labor Markets in Cambodia and the Philippine

9 November 2020
This presentation highlights key insights from employment and poverty impact assessment done for Cambodia and the Philippines. Labor markets in these countries are characterized by high informality, vulnerable, and irregular employment with limited social protection coverage. Significant impact has…

Social Development Issues in the Urban Sector

10 October 2018
Urban poverty has four major dimensions that reinforce each other. These are income and social poverty, environmental poverty, education poverty, and health poverty. These dimensions encompass issues such as employment insecurity, lack of access to opportunities and basic services, hazardous…

Overview: Fiscal Space in Indonesia, Myanmar, and Timor-Leste

18 May 2018
Fiscal space refers to the financial resources that a government can use to support a certain program without compromising its own financial position. This presentation shares the potential fiscal spaces in three countries: Indonesia, Myanmar, and Timor-Leste. These resources can be used to finance…

Mandalay Urban Services Improvement Project

10 October 2017
Poverty and social analysis (PSA) was key to the design and implementation of the Mandalay Urban Services Improvement Project. PSA enabled the project to contribute to the improved water supply system as well as wastewater and drainage management in Myanmar. This presentation details the role of…

Financing the Social Protection Agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals in Myanmar

16 February 2017
Regional disparities and low human development constrain Myanmar's efforts to meet the social development goals. The country's social protection system, in particular, covers only 3.2% of the country's population and its information system is based on manual operations. Myanmar needs to pursue…

Road Safety in Cambodia

14 September 2016
Ensuring rural road safety is one of the responsibilities of the Social and Environment Office (SEO) of Cambodia’s Ministry of Rural Development. This presentation provides a brief background of SEO. It also explains SEO’s involvement in rural road safety and how it undertakes capacity improvement…

Community-Based Rural Road Safety Output

14 September 2016
Learn about the Rural Roads Improvement Project in Cambodia supported by ADB. The project used a three-stream approach in the form of safe school zone, data collection analysis, and social enforcement.

CAM: Cambodia's Constitution of 1993 with Amendments through 2008

17 April 2016
This Constitutional Law aims, in accordance with the basic principles of a liberal multi-party democracy, to facilitate the efficient functioning of national institutions in unusual circumstances requiring urgent action.

Women are Ready for Roads

1 January 2016
After years of civil war, Cambodia was transforming into a vibrant market economy. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved funding to rehabilitate 500 kilometers of rural roads in seven provinces, one of the key pieces of infrastructure for Cambodia's mostly rural population to access much needed…