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Climate Finance: Getting the Numbers Right

17 March 2016
ADB’s plan to double its annual climate financing by 2020 is the focus of this presentation. Climate finance, defined by the Joint Report on Multilateral Development Banks' Climate Finance as the amount of financial resources that contributes to climate change mitigation and/or adaptation…

Climate Change

17 March 2016
This presentation discusses ADB’s approaches to climate finance mobilization.

Public Management and Finance (Southeast Asia)

16 March 2016
Learn more about ADB's Public Sector Management and Finance operations in Southeast Asia and the corresponding potential business opportunities.

An Assessment of the Implementation of Results-Based Management Frameworks in Selected Countries

4 February 2016
Failure of bureaucracies to identify appropriate output definitions and indicators, and a unifying outcomes classification framework has undermined the usefulness, integrity, and comprehensibility of agencies’ performance-based budget (PBB) and results-based budget management (RBBM) frameworks. PBB…

Delivering Results: Improved Irrigation Financing in Asia

21 January 2016
The struggle for more efficient irrigation financing remains a challenge both in the public and private sectors. Stakeholders need to work together to find sustainable solutions for long-term gains toward improved financing that will deliver the desired results.

Mobilizing and Allocating Resources and the Development of Public-Private Partnerships

1 December 2015
Private sector resources are essential to the growth and sustainability of quality technical and vocational education and training (TVET) systems in the Asia and Pacific region, and not simply about getting more money. Creating the right environment for sustainable financing will help achieve TVET…

Bangladesh Skills for Employment Investment Program: Opportunity to Transform the Skills Sector

1 December 2015
With unmet training needs owing to a large gap in training capacity, Bangladesh faces a shortage in skills supply resulting to low productivity and income. Introducing performance-based financing, the Skills for Employment Investment Project in Bangladesh involved industry associations in priority…

Promoting Inclusive Financial Services and Financial Education: The Case of Mongolia

17 November 2015
Providing access to financial services for the poor and vulnerable non-poor households is the aim of ADB's Promoting Inclusive Financial Services for the Poor project in Mongolia. To implement the project’s communication component, entertainment-educate was used as an approach to conduct financial…

Mainstreaming Anti-Corruption into Climate Finance

30 October 2015
Anti-corruption mainstreaming aims to reduce corruption to achieve certain goals, for instance, mitigating the impact of climate change. While mainstreaming anti-corruption into climate finance has its own set of challenges, the key is to adapt anti-corruption approaches to sector characteristics…

The Road to a More Efficient Procurement Assessment: The Philippine Context

6 October 2015