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Care Foundation: Changing Lives through Education

12 December 2017
Pakistan has the second largest population of out-of-school children in the world. As a pioneer of public and private school partnerships, CARE Foundation contributes to resolving Pakistan’s education crisis by endeavoring to provide quality marketable education to all through its Government School…

Telecom Infrastructure and DFS Initiatives in Pakistan

9 November 2017
Pakistan has a vibrant telecoms sector, with over 140 million cellular phone subscribers and over 48 million broadband subscribers. It also has various digital financial services, which has garnered about $2.4 billion mobile transactions through mobile banking in 2016 to 2017. This presentation…

Benazir Income Support Program - Pakistan

30 August 2017
About 29% of Pakistan's population live below the poverty line, and many of them urgently need social assistance. In 2010, the parliament created the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) as an autonomous social safety net authority that will help secure the social and economic well-being of the…

Citizen Satisfaction Index: Pakistan

7 August 2017
A survey that identifies areas and cities in Pakistan where services are deficient and fall short of citizens’ satisfaction was designed by the Ministry of Planning Development and Reform in collaboration with UNDP Pakistan. Named as Citizen Satisfaction Index, the initiative provides periodic…

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…

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; (…

Strengthening Women's Pathways to Become Economic and Social Agents of Change in Pakistan

18 October 2016
Challenges to gender equality and women's rights continue to thrive in many parts of the world. In this presentation, Roshen Zafar, founder of Kash Foundation, talks about her own experiences and struggles as she fulfills her personal goals. She shares insights on how women in Pakistan can be…