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Mandalay City Goes Green

24 November 2016
ADB's Eri Honda and ADB consultant Ian Hamilton shares stories on how the restoration of Thingazar Creek is paving the way for the transformation of Mandalay into a prosperous, green urban center. The Mandalay Urban Services Improvement Project is the first urban development project since ADB's re-…

Mandalay City Goes Green

24 November 2016
ADB's Eri Honda and ADB consultant Ian Hamilton share stories on how the restoration of Thingazar Creek is paving the way for the transformation of Mandalay into a prosperous, green urban center. The Mandalay Urban Services Improvement Project is the first urban development project since ADB's re-…

Timor-Leste Nature-Based Tourism

24 November 2016
Discover the beauty of Timor-Leste, one of the six member countries of the Coral Triangle Initiative on Coral Reefs, Fisheries, and Food Security, working to promote sustainable and responsible nature-based tourism to preserve one of the world’s most unique ecosystems and areas while providing…

Policy and Regulatory Reform Paper: Mandalay

1 November 2016
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) implemented a regional technical assistance, TA 8566: Mainstreaming Integrated Solid Waste Management in Asia, to conduct an assessment of solid waste management practices in five case study cities in Asia and to provide recommendations and best practices that can…

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…

Presentation on Mid-Level Skills Training Project in Timor-Leste

7 June 2016
Conducting market research is a critical component of technical and vocational education and training (TVET) promotion to determine and segment the audience. Market research results direct how communication approaches can be positioned and which channels to use to effectively reach different…

Myanmar: Working with Incentives and Identifying Common Ground to Produce a Collaborative, Inclusive Fisheries Law

26 April 2016
The Rakhine Fisheries Law is a new benchmark for Myanmar both in terms of delivering equitable resource sharing and, crucially, as a replicable model for consultation and public participation in policy-making. This case demonstrates that despite decades of repressive state machinery, with the right…

The Case of Timor Leste

16 February 2016
Timor Leste's economy has grown rapidly in recent years. Oil and gas revenues have contributed to the increase of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from US$731 million 2002 to US$ 4,818 million in 2012. However, much still needs to be done to promote social protection and address urgent development…

Nationwide Telecommunications Project in Myanmar: Bridging the Digital Gender Divide

9 December 2015
Political and economic reforms have promoted recent development of the telecommunication infrastructure in Myanmar. ADB viewed the Nationwide Telecommunications project as an opportunity to mainstream gender equity in private sector operations, and developed a Gender Action Plan (GAP) with Ooredoo…

Nationwide Telecommunications Project: Bridging the Digital and Gender Divides in Myanmar

9 December 2015
ICT projects that recognize the digital and gender divides can help provide women with equal access to communication tools to increase their voice and representation. This report explains in detail the communication and gender context of ADB’s Nationwide Telecommunications project in Myanmar,…