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3 March 2016
The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves explicitly prioritizes women’s empowerment in its mission statement. It implements a robust gender capacity building program to ensure cooking sector enterprises prioritize and understand how to integrate gender throughout their business models.
29 February 2016
The objective of this analysis is to prepare anoverview comparingthe legal framework for Sri Lanka’s Country Safeguard System (CSS) for land acquisition (LA) and involuntary resettlement (IR) withthe Policy Principles of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Safeguard Policy Statement (SPS) for IR as…
11 February 2016
Many developing member countries of Asian Development Bank (ADB) persistently score low in Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index. With weak governance and public sector institutions, there are risks to development effectiveness of ADB's investments. This presentation provides…
22 January 2016
This material contains the final report of ADB's Knowledge Partnership Week 2015.
This report summarizes the highlights of the week, which aimed to promote innovation in the Bank’s operations by strengthening knowledge partnerships with crucial stakeholders. The event allowed ADB to promote…
31 December 2015
This material contains the highlights of Asian Development Bank’s Knowledge Partnership for Clean Energy Workout on the Indonesia Center of Excellence.
This report summarizes the highlights of the event, the first in a series of intensive workout sessions envisioned to help Indonesia and other…
SRI: Comparative Analysis of Sri Lanka Legal Framework and ADB Safeguard Policy StatementENVIRONMENT
31 December 2015
This document is to 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.
17 December 2015
Indonesia’s transitional path to clean energy will require a considerable amount of resources—human, technological, and financial, among others. The Asian Institute of Technology, with its core competency and extensive research work in the field of energy, aims to participate in and contribute to…
16 December 2015
Accelerating the development of new and renewable energy (NRE) in Indonesia is necessary given the vast availability of these national resources. Complementary to this endeavor is the establishment of a Center of Excellence on Clean Energy that aims to combine various efforts in the development and…
16 December 2015
There is potential in turning the step by step development of a geo-enabled decision support system into reality as discussed in this presentation. The conceptual framework for energy mapping and mix is also examined. A guide on how to build a logical framework to conduct geospatial analysis for…
16 December 2015
This knowledge workout to support the establishment and operationalization of the Indonesia Center of Excellence for Clean Energy served as the first pilot test case of ADB’s “knowledge department” in applying the integrated knowledge partnership building strategy on operational needs that will…