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Welcome Remarks - Knowledge Partnership Forum: Innovation for Resilient and Smart Communities

19 May 2015
Central to Asian Development Bank (ADB's) mission is financial support for infrastructure in various sectors. The outcome of the Knowledge Partnership Week, in terms of new ideas and approaches and new commitments to collaboration, could very well become a new form of "ADB currency"—one that goes…

Special Remarks - Knowledge Partnership Forum: Innovation for Resilient and Smart Communities

19 May 2015
Strategic knowledge partnerships are critical for providing effective solutions to development problems; hence Asian Development Bank (ADB) recognizes the need to expand its knowledge base to better respond to clients’ diverse demands. The private sector, as technology and solution providers, can…

Remote Sensing for Improved Irrigation in Central Asia

19 May 2015
One of the challenges in irrigation management is difficulty in assessing irrigation performance due to the lack of cost-effective evaluation methods. The use of satellite remote sensing, particularly evapotranspiration and crop cover maps, is seen as a potential solution.

MYA: Institutional Strengthening and Capacity Development for the Ministry of Construction Final Report

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…

INO: Strengthening Capacity of Indonesia’s AMDAL System — COMPILATION OF WORKSHOP MATERIAL AND GUIDELINES

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…

NEP: Preparation of Pollution Control Strategy and Action Plan

31 January 2015
This present publication “Compendium of Environment Statistics Nepal 2015” is the third in series of the publication of the Environmental Compendium. It is not only the updated version of the previous work but an enhanced effort to present available data and textual description and analysis on…

PAK: Gilgit-Baltistan Environmental Protection 2014

1 January 2015
. Short title, extent and commencement.- (1) This Act may be called the Gilgit - Baltistan Environmental Protection Act, 2014. (2) It shall extend to the whole of Gilgit-Baltistan. (3) It shall come into force at once