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VAN: Strengthening Implementation Capacity for EIA — Operations Manual

30 November 2015
This manual also provides an overview for other agencies and project proponents should they wish to explore the environmental permitting process under the Environmental Protection and Conservation Act (EPC Act) in detail. Guidelines have been specifically developed for applicants and others to…

VAN: Strengthening Implementation Capacity for EIA — Operations Manual

30 November 2015
This manual also provides an overview for other agencies and project proponents should they wish to explore the environmental permitting process under the Environmental Protection and Conservation Act (EPC Act) in detail. Guidelines have been specifically developed for applicants and others to…

Promoting Inclusive Financial Services and Financial Education: The Case of Mongolia

17 November 2015
Providing access to financial services for the poor and vulnerable non-poor households is the aim of ADB's Promoting Inclusive Financial Services for the Poor project in Mongolia. To implement the project’s communication component, entertainment-educate was used as an approach to conduct financial…

Soap Operas in the Desert: The Power of Stories to Change Behavior

17 November 2015
ADB’s Promoting Inclusive Financial Services for the Poor project in Mongolia has shown why it is important to strike a balance between changing behavior about financial planning and saving with existing financial services, and choosing a communication approach and medium that could carry…

Session Video - Urban Development and Regional Cooperation and Integration: Where is the Interface?

9 November 2015
Asian Development Bank (ADB)’s Pradeep Srivastava, in this presentation, provides a brief overview of regional cooperation and integration (RCI). He highlights the importance of recognizing space in regional cooperation, which produces a different type of RCI. The applications that have become the…

INO: Strengthening Capacity of Indonesia’s AMDAL System — Final Report

31 October 2015
The Environmental Impact Analysis (EIA) is an analysis toward significant impact of an activity plan designed for environment as required in decision making process for the implementation of the mentioned plan in Indonesia,which has established on 1982. In three (3) recent decades, this EIA system…

Mainstreaming Anti-Corruption into Climate Finance

30 October 2015
Anti-corruption mainstreaming aims to reduce corruption to achieve certain goals, for instance, mitigating the impact of climate change. While mainstreaming anti-corruption into climate finance has its own set of challenges, the key is to adapt anti-corruption approaches to sector characteristics…

Possible Contribution to the Center of Excellence Strategy of University of Tokyo's Center for Spatial Information Science

8 October 2015
This presentation features the collaboration between University of Tokyo’s Center for Spatial Information Science (CSIS) and Asian Development Bank. The technologies developed by CSIS for the energy sector, particularly geospatial information and technologies, are examined in detail.

The Road to a More Efficient Procurement Assessment: The Philippine Context

6 October 2015

Introduction to the GPA and The WTO e-GPA: A Transparency Enhancing Market Access Information Tool

6 October 2015