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A Guide to Sanitation Safety Planning in the Philippines
Step-By-Step Risk Management for Safe Reuse and Disposal of Wastewater, Greywater, and Excreta
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Sanitation safety planning is a preventive risk management approach that identifies potential risks that may arise during the operation of a sanitation system, including waste collection, transportation and conveyance, treatment, disposal, and reuse. After the highest priority risks have been identified,...
Practice Guidelines for Harmonizing HIV Prevention Initiatives in the Infrastructure Sector
Greater Mekong Subregion
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Development partners have recognized the obligation to mitigate HIV risks associated with infrastructure development as an opportunity to contribute to the fight against HIV/AIDS and poverty in the Greater Mekong Subregion. Development partners agreed to strengthen inter-agency cooperation and harmonization...
Guidance Note
Electricity Sector Risk Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
The electricity sector is vulnerable to a broad range of risks that can threaten development effectiveness. Risks can spring from the magnitude of the sector's capital investments, opportunities for discretionary decision making and rent seeking by stakeholders, weak policy and regulatory frameworks,...
The Enabling Environment for Disaster Risk Financing in Sri Lanka
Country Diagnostics Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
This country diagnostic assessment seeks to strengthen financial preparedness for disasters in Sri Lanka, focusing on insurance and other risk transfer instruments. It explores the current application of disaster risk financing solutions by the government, businesses, and individual households; related...
The Enabling Environment for Disaster Risk Financing in Fiji
Country Diagnostics Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
This country diagnostic assessment seeks to strengthen financial preparedness for disasters in Fiji, focusing on insurance and other risk transfer instruments. It explores the current application of disaster risk financing solutions by the government, businesses, and individual households; related...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
The burden of poor maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH) remains unacceptably high in many developing member countries (DMCs). To understand the barriers facing households in accessing MNCH care, the ADB technical assistance project RETA-6515 analyzed data from routine national household expenditure...
Public-Private Partnership Infrastructure: Case Studies from the Republic of Korea Projects Volume 2
Public-Private Partnership Infrastructure: Case Studies from the Republic of Korea Projects Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
The Republic of Korea has rich experience in implementing PPP projects for almost a decade. This experience provides valuable lessons for most DMCs and that merits wider dissemination. The two-volume report prepared by the Korea Development Institute (KDI) presents an in-depth assessment of the different...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Policy makers in the People’s Republic of China have been experimenting with new approaches to environmental management, resulting in a wide array of policy and program innovations under the broad heading of eco-compensation. Many of these are market-based instruments, particularly payments for ecological...
The New Silk Road
Ten Years of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Program
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
This commemorative book celebrates 10 years of productive collaboration under the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program. Under CAREC, its member countries have made significant gains in regional transport, energy infrastructure, and trade facilitation and policy, which have increased...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Asian cities are central to economic development but are perceived to be wealthy yet chaotic places. Burdened by congestion, inequality, and fragmented interventions, these urban systems remain relatively weak. However, their rapid growth and wealth provide an opportunity to usher in inclusive and...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
ADB’s Pacific Climate Change Program will address climate change–related technical and financing needs and support the planning and implementation of the climate responsive national development plans of Pacific developing member countries. Using innovative financing mechanisms, the program will build...
by Asian Development Bank
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Investing in Resilience: Ensuring a Disaster-Resistant Future focuses on the steps required to ensure that investment in disaster resilience happens and that it occurs as an integral, systematic part of development. At-risk communities in Asia and the Pacific can apply a wide range of policy, capacity,...
Vanuatu Economic Report 2009
Accelerating Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Over the last several years, Vanuatu has become one of the fastest growing economies in the Pacific region driven primarily by tourism, construction, and aid inflows. The achievement of strong economic growth has also occurred on the back of improved economic policy, effective fiscal management, and...
Toward Sustainable and Balanced Development
Strategy and Action Plan for the Greater Mekong Subregion North-South Economic Corridor
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2010
The North-South Economic Corridor (NSEC), one of the priority economic corridors under the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Economic Cooperation Program, was designated as a GMS flagship initiative in 2002. Efforts have been taken since then to develop NSEC but these were pursued mainly on a project-by-project...