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Communicating Environmental Protection

7 September 2016
Rationalizing communication approaches to fit stakeholder needs, interests, and access is crucial for multi-stakeholder projects covering different national, district, and local levels. This report discusses in detail the key communication approaches used by the Coral Reef Rehabilitation and…

Review of Retail Electricity Tariffs

5 September 2016
Electricity subsidies are often paid out if government budgets exceed all spending on education, healthcare, and rural support. In order to subsidize low residential customer prices, governments impose higher prices on industrial customers, which discourages new investment and encourage…

Energizing Women’s Economic Empowerment

1 September 2016
This presentation features a case study from the Ampara district in Sri Lanka depicting how women’s economic empowerment can be energized. Interventions such as providing electricity access, awareness raising, and capacity building are discussed in detail.

Geospatial Planning for Universal Electricity Access in Indonesia

1 September 2016
This presentation analyzes the features of geospatial electrification planning in the context of Indonesia. It also discusses the salient aspects as well as the technical and social challenges of this planning approach.

Preventing Early Marriage in Bondowoso, East Java

28 April 2016
Maternal mortality and teenage pregnancy occur significantly more frequently in Indonesia than in neighboring Asia-Pacific countries. It is estimated that 48 of every 1,000 live births in Indonesia in 2015 was to a teenage mother. Teenage pregnancy is also one of the driving causes of maternal…

Sri Lanka Road Investments – Building and Maintaining Trust and Partnership

26 April 2016
A Multitranche Financing Facility (MFF) by ADB of $800 million to the road sector in Sri Lanka is the culmination of a development towards an approach where development partners align to the government policy framework. As an essential part of this development of a close and trustful partnership,…

Matching Skills and Labour Markets in Sri Lanka: Results-Based Lending as Reform Vehicle

26 April 2016
The technical and vocational education and training (TVET) sector in Sri Lanka is reforming at sector level because of strong early champions in the Ministry of Finance and Planning (MoFP) and, subsequently, change agents at sector level with strong network and knowledge both about the MoFP and the…

Indonesia: Incentives, Innovations and Replication – Local Governance Improvements for Better Services for All

26 April 2016
Indonesia introduced a dramatic decentralization in 2001 – but local governments (LGs) often lacked sufficient capacity to deliver. The USAID-supported Indonesia Local Governance Service Improvement (Kinerja) program focused on incentives, empowering citizens to demand better services; on…

Demand Side Management in Low Income Households: Lessons from Sri Lanka

11 April 2016
Demand side management, while it matters, often fail in low income households due to their intriguing cash flow. Given the low interest shown by women in energy savings, this presentation shares the results of a campaign to reduce energy demand aimed at closing the gender divide.

A Regional Gender Assessment of Energy Policies and Programmes in South Asia

10 April 2016
The Asian Development Bank implemented a project that aimed to increase rural poor women’s access to affordable, reliable, and clean renewable energy sources and technologies in its three developing member countries in South Asia: Bhutan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. This report presents the findings of…