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ADB Safeguard Policy Review and Update: Gender and Safeguards

24 May 2022

People's Republic of China Executing and Implementing Agencies, and Project Management Units

20 May 2022

People’s Republic of China: Consulting and Contracting Firms, Trade Associations, and Advisory Firms

28 April 2022

People’s Republic of China: Consulting and Contracting Firms, Trade Associations, and Advisory Firms

28 April 2022

Design – India: NH-37 East West Highway, Kaziranga NP, Assam

27 April 2022
India is host to a rich wildlife with an estimated 2,413 rhinoceros in Kaziranga alone. Faced with increasing loss of wildlife due to habitat loss and fragmentation and roadside accidents, the government of Assam is currently working on a wildlife-friendly development project specifically on…

Cumulative Impact Assessments and Case Studies

27 April 2022
Infrastructure development including upgraded highway systems act as trigger for induced development and land use change. Impacts are not just immediate or within a single lifetime but accumulate both in temporal and spatial scopes. Therefore, it is critical that infrastructure development always…

Monitoring and Performance Evaluation: Case Study on the Bhutan Road Network Project-II

27 April 2022
Improvements and innovation in design of linear infrastructure such as roads and bridges are observed to be beneficial to wildlife crossings. This is among the findings of a 2-phased monitoring study in Bhutan particularly in a 183-kilometer highway and feeder road constructed under RNP II with the…

Economics of Transportation Infrastructure: Balancing Needs of Biodiversity Conservation and Costs

27 April 2022
Economic analysis tools are important instruments that support decision making for infrastructure development including rural roads. The use of these tools such as economic valuation, cost-benefit analysis and multi-criteria analysis help identify potential impacts and their costs, which could be…

Current Practices and Design for Mitigating Road Impacts on Wildlife Populations

26 April 2022
Mitigating road impacts on wildlife populations require innovative design and practices. Crossing structures have been observed to be more effective than other systems. For example, more than 50 studies revealed thatthe combination of fencing and crossing structures led to an 83% reduction in road-…

Impacts of Transportation Infrastructure on Biodiversity in Asia

26 April 2022
The world is a highly paved planet. By 2050, there will be about 5 million kilometers of new road lanes and 300,000 kilometers of new railway tracks. To address potential negative environmental impacts of these massive infrastructures, USAID has developed the project, Linear Infrastructure…