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Re-Defining Irrigation Modernization

20 January 2016
Irrigation modernization ought to focus on innovations that help produce more food with less water. It entails a continuous process of improving infrastructure, operations, and management to allow irrigation systems to operate at maximum capacity; and to enable farmers to optimize the productivity…

Can Irrigation Institutions Perform Better?

20 January 2016
Modernization addresses the need to constantly manage change with the environment, the systems, and the needs of water users. This presentation itemizes the key components of change, the constraints that prevent institutions from embracing change, and the tools needed to empower them.

Modernization Planning, Implementation, and Monitoring

20 January 2016
This presentation explains the challenges faced by modernization plans. It also discusses where to “plug the leaks" and the new management approaches that need to be undertaken in the areas of benchmarking, strategic planning, data collection, public sector involvement, and costs.

Perspectives on PRC's Water Reform Issue

10 January 2016
Many cities in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have grappled with physical and financial challenges in managing water supply and quality primarily because they offer water at highly subsidized rates. To help address this issue, an ADB initiative sought to make water tariffs in PRC market-…

Songhua River Basin Water Pollution Control and Management Project

1 January 2016
Life for about three million people in the People’s Republic of China is about to get better with the cleanup of the Songhua River. In 2005, toxic chemicals spilled into the Songhua River from a petrochemical plant in Jilin Province, which also affected the adjacent Heilongjiang province. The river…

Knowledge Partnership for Clean Energy: Highlights of the Workout on the Indonesia Center of Excellence

31 December 2015
This material contains the highlights of Asian Development Bank’s Knowledge Partnership for Clean Energy Workout on the Indonesia Center of Excellence. This report summarizes the highlights of the event, the first in a series of intensive workout sessions envisioned to help Indonesia and other…

MYA: Institutional Strengthening and Capacity Development for the Ministry of Construction Needs Assesment Final Report

31 December 2015
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…

MAL: Comparative Analysis of Malaysia Legal Framework and ADB Safeguard Policy Statement

31 December 2015
Policy Principle 1: Use a screening process for each proposed project, as early as possible, to determine the appropriate extent and type of environmental assessment so that appropriate studies are undertaken commensurate with the significance of potential impacts and risks.

Current Status and Policy Framework of Photovoltaics in China

17 December 2015
As China faces pressure in managing its energy supply and greenhouse gas emissions, it needs to completely transform its energy structure in the next few decades by turning to renewable energy use. Photovoltaics, in particular, will help China meet its energy transition target.

Realizing the Goal of “23% Renewables by 2025” via Technology Innovation and Bioenergy

17 December 2015
Biofuels, while seen as a favorable solution to the economic recession, are not all drought- and saline-resistant, and can also be expensive. A promising and cost-effective biofuel source is sweet sorghum, though there is no significant bioethanol production that currently exists for the crop.