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25 November 2016
Ye Chengli, deputy director of the Economic Cooperation Division of the Chongqing Municipal Development and Reform Commission, briefly presented the relevant work on ecological compensation in Chongqing Municipality. Chongqing implemented the development strategy of establishing five functional…
24 November 2016
Poverty in South Africa is seen as one of the major challenges facing the young democracy. This is compounded by the high and continually increasing unemployment figures, with the youth and women being the most vulnerable groups. Such problems forced the population to overutilize the country’s…
24 November 2016
The Philippines’ remaining forest cover accounts for only 23% of the country’s land area. This compelled then President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III to issue Executive Order (EO) No. 23, immediately banning logging in natural forests and intensified forest protection. On 24 February 2011, EO No. 26…
24 November 2016
National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Deputy Director General Xiao Weiming and ADB East Asia Department Director General Ayumi Konishi opened the event and also launched the publication, Toward a National Eco-compensation Regulation in the PRC.…
2 November 2016
Information and communication technology (ICT) for people can help end poverty and hunger, ensure healthy lives and quality education, achieve gender equality, and provide water and sanitation for all.
Sustainable Development Goals 1–6 see to people: they mean to end poverty and hunger, ensure…
1 January 2016
Are drinking water and better toilets finally available in Punjab? Learn how ADB has been working on bringing these services to one of Pakistan's poorest provinces.
Large-scale development projects, particularly infrastructure, have long life cycles from conceptualization to design and development…
1 October 2015
Many rural villages in India are energy poor, with 289 million people lacking access to electricity while 80 million remain underserved. To quickly fill the access gap, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) initiated an equity investment that allowed customers to buy energy credits in “small packages”.…
26 February 2015
Having identified communications as an essential project element, a behavior change communication and marketing (BCCM) strategy involving all stakeholders was developed by ADB’s Second Urban Primary Health Care Project in Bangladesh. The project’s experience has shown that using BCCM is critical in…