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Welcome Remarks Knowledge Partnership Forum Innovation for Resilient and Smart Communities

19 May 2015
Central to Asian Development Bank (ADB's) mission is financial support for infrastructure in various sectors. The outcome of the Knowledge Partnership Week, in terms of new ideas and approaches and new commitments to collaboration, could very well become a new form of "ADB currency"—one that goes…

Welcome Remarks Knowledge Partnership Forum Innovation for Resilient and Smart Communities

19 May 2015
Asian Development Bank's Executive Director for Japan Kazuhiko Koguchi commended the Bank's initiative on a knowledge matching exercise for resilient and smart city development with private sector firms that offer innovative solutions and technologies. He expressed hoped that the forum will help…

Special Remarks Knowledge Partnership Forum Innovation for Resilient and Smart Communities

19 May 2015
Strategic knowledge partnerships are critical for providing effective solutions to development problems; hence Asian Development Bank (ADB) recognizes the need to expand its knowledge base to better respond to clients’ diverse demands. The private sector, as technology and solution providers, can…

SRI The Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka

15 May 2015
This document contains details of the Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.

TON Tonga Strategic Development Framework 20152025 A more progressive Tonga Enhancing Our Inheritance

1 May 2015
The Tongan Strategic Development Framework 2015-2025: A more progressive Tonga: Enhancing Our Inheritance, presents the Kingdom’s new development framework. The framework consists of the national impact we seek, 7+1 National Outcomes and twenty-nine Organisational Outcomes, which, working together…

BAN Comparative Analysis of BangladeshLegal Framework and ADB Safeguard Policy Statement ENVIRONMENT

30 April 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.

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

30 April 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…

NEP Summary of Land Acquisition Resettlement and Rehabilitation Policy for Infrastructure Development Project

21 April 2015
Improve the social and economic status of project-affected families by providing fair and adequate compensation, appropriate resettlement, and rehabilitation assistance/allowances while acquiring land for infrastructure development projects and projects of public interest.

Gender Fact Sheet 2015

8 April 2015
This material provides an overview of the Global Alliance For Clean Cookstoves' specific gender strategy for increasing the role of women in the clean cookstoves and fuels sector and for addressing gender issues to scale adoption.

INO Comparison between Requirements of DonorLenders and Indonesia Regulations for Screening

31 March 2015
ADB screens the project category based on environmental, involountary resettlement and Indigenous People considerations.