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19 May 2015
This video features a twinning program between an experienced mentor utility—in this case Maynilad (Philippines)—with a recipient utility, Khulna WASA (Bangladesh). The exercise is part of a knowledge sharing initiative called Water Operators Partnerships in Asia and the Pacific, established by…
19 May 2015
This video shows one of the training sessions under a water utility partnership between Yangon City Development Committee (Myanmar) and Hunter Water, a leading water and wastewater utility in Australia. The twinning is being facilitated by Asian Development Bank through its Water Operators…
19 May 2015
Many water and wastewater utilities in Asia and the Pacific need help to deliver better services to their customers. Asian Development Bank (ADB), to this end, has created the Water Operators Partnerships program. ADB invites utilities to become mentors to help improve the operational efficiency of…
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…
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.
31 March 2015
This book contents a compilation of materials from meetings and workshops with various stakeholders for the ADB TA-7566REG: Strengthening and Use of Country Safeguards System: Strengthening Capacity of Indonesia’s Environmental Impact Assessment (AMDAL) System. The materials are as directive and…
26 March 2015
Stakeholders in Cambodia, Nepal, and Samoa who have been adversely affected by ADB-assisted projects mentioned communications or the lack of it as the main factor for their grievances. In these cases, simply providing information about the project was not enough. Communication processes needed to…
26 March 2015
Investing in communications by creatively allocating or leveraging funds for project communication activities results to conflict prevention. This report examines ADB’s Accountability Mechanism and discusses the role of communications in conflicts featuring ADB-assisted projects in Cambodia, Nepal…
2 March 2015
This report presents the results of the electronic polling activity at the Asia Leadership Program 2015, where the objectives were to understand the diversity of sectors and factors that must be addressed in the development of a sustainable society.
26 February 2015
From the outset, ADB’s Second Urban Primary Health Care Project in Bangladesh integrated development communication as one of the outputs to ensure that the project would not just achieve but also sustain its outcomes. The project’s successful implementation of its behavior change communication…