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Indian Cities in Aspirational Times

25 August 2015
Alexandra Vogl, Urban Development Specialist at Asian Development Bank (ADB), enumerates the important factors that make a city inclusive. GIZ Senior Advisor Aparna Daz, in the second half of the video, shares the lessons from India’s Inclusive Cities Partnership Program, and specifies the project…

Building Spaces for Stakeholder Communication in Private Sector Projects

18 August 2015
Early, in-depth, and genuine consultations with stakeholders and project-affected people are crucial to project planning and delivery. Stakeholder communication strategies need to be regarded as integral component of project plans and signed off at the highest level of government.

PHI: Republic Act No. 10752: The Right-of-Way Act

27 July 2015
This document contains details of facilitating the acquisition of right-of-way site or location for National Government Infrastructure Projects. Disclaimer The legal instruments provided on this website are only those used as bases for the relevant equivalence assessments and are not guaranteed to…

The Role of Communication in Governance and Reform

30 June 2015
Major tax reforms were implemented in Maldives from 2010 to 2011. Anticipating public and private stakeholder resistance to paying new taxes, the Maldives Inland Revenue Authority implemented a communication and awareness raising campaign to educate and convince the public about the necessity of…

The Role of Communication in Governance and Reform

30 June 2015
Behavior change communication strategies used by ADB’s Enhancing Tax Administration Capacity project in Maldives produced a positive effect on the government’s tax and governance reforms. This report details the communication and awareness-raising campaign that was used to convince the public about…

Proof in: Poverty Can End. What are We Waiting for?

18 June 2015
Can we really end poverty? A model for eradicating extreme poverty developed by the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee offers proof. According to the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee’s graduation model, addressing poverty reduction entails looking beyond microfinance. Extreme poverty…

Enabling Communication in Times of Disaster

2 June 2015
FireChat is a free mobile phone application that functions as a communication tool for posting messages without the need for cellular service or connection to an internet network. It has been used in situations where there was congestion in cellular and internet signals due to the volume of users;…

New Communication Technologies: Linking Stakeholders in Difficult Communication Environments

2 June 2015
When emergencies or disasters strike, communication can be as vital as food and shelter but it is also among the infrastructure systems that are easily damaged or rendered unavailable. This report discusses the utility of Firechat, an off-grid communication technology, to Asian Development Bank-…

MYA: Gap-Equivalence Analysis on Environment Safeguards

31 May 2015
An assessment of the current environmental management system, based on approved laws and rules in Myanmar in terms of its equivalence to ADB SPS is presented in the table below. Provisions of the draft EIA Procedure are also included in the equivalence assessment. Findings are discussed below.

MYA: Gap Analysis on Indigenous Peoples between ADB Safeguards andGovernment of Myanmar

31 May 2015
This paper provides a gap-equivalence analysis of laws that may impinge on IPs safeguards.