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Designing a Communication Strategy for MultiStakeholder River Management

5 June 2018
This is a case study on how to raise awareness and build community ownership among diverse stakeholders for a project to save Nepal's Bagmati River.

Progress and Prospect of Ecological Compensation Mechanism in Dongjiang River Basin

24 November 2016
On 19 October 2016, the provinces of Jiangxi and Guangdong signed the “Horizontal Ecological Compensation Agreement of Dongjiang River Basin Upstream and Downstream” in Nanchang Province. The agreement stipulates that, based on the water-quality assessment of cross-provincial watershed area, the…

Dhaka Water Thinking of a SystemSide Solution

30 September 2016
Poverty is deep-rooted in economic, political, and social processes in Bangladesh. The uneven ownership of productive assets, lack of skills and knowledge, inadequate development of infrastructure, frequent natural disasters, low levels of urbanization are the main causes of poverty. Among the…

Perspectives on PRCs Water Reform Issue

10 January 2016
Many cities in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) have grappled with physical and financial challenges in managing water supply and quality primarily because they offer water at highly subsidized rates. To help address this issue, an ADB initiative sought to make water tariffs in PRC market-…

Integrated Approach to Sustainable Infrastructure Provision Financing

1 January 2016
Armenia, a small landlocked country in the Caucasus, requested its development partners for assistance in maintaining its extensive yet underfunded road and water network. The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is the only partner that responded to this call. The challenge was to institutionalize…

Punjab Community Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project

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…

Songhua River Basin Water Pollution Control and Management Project

1 January 2016
Life for about three million people in the People’s Republic of China is about to get better with the cleanup of the Songhua River. In 2005, toxic chemicals spilled into the Songhua River from a petrochemical plant in Jilin Province, which also affected the adjacent Heilongjiang province. The river…