An ADB-assisted project, completed in 2005, is helping restore livelihoods in areas of Bangladesh wrecked by waterlogging. Life is already returning to normal in about 100 water-logged villages in Jessore after 18 years. Read a news report from Bangladesh's Daily Star.

Read more about the Khulna Jessore Drainage Rehabilitation Project

Reports

Asian Development Outlook 2008 Update - ADB's Flagship Report [PDF]
Key Indicators 2008
ADB's Annual Report 2007 [PDF]

Bangladesh and ADB

Bangladesh joined the ADB in 1973 and, as of 31 December 2007, cumulative public sector lending amounted to about $9.27 billion for 186 loans, with $178.6 million for technical assistance (TA) grants for 324 projects. The country is one of the largest borrowers of concessionary Asian Development Fund resources.

Learn more about ADB's partnership with Bangladesh [ PDF ]

Achieving Results Together: 25 Years of the Bangladesh Resident Mission [ PDF ]

Country Operations Business Plan 2009-2011 August 2007

Partnership Framework Agreement on Dhaka-Chittagong Water Supply and Sanitation 2008–2010

What's New

Capacity Development for Madrasah Education (Bangladesh) (Technical Assistance Report ) [PDF]

Strengthening the Resilience of the Water Sector in Khulna to Climate Change (Financed by the Climate Change Fund) (Bangladesh) (Technical Assistance Report ) [PDF]

More what's new

Projects

Emergency Assistance for Food Security Project (Loan)

Strengthening the Government's Institutional Capacity for Improving Food Security (Technical Assistance)

View projects in Bangladesh

Publications

Achieving Results Together: 25 Years Bangladesh Resident Mission (Information Brochures and Other Publications)

Bangladesh Gas Sector - Issues, Options and the Way Forward (Books, Periodicals, Studies, and Reports)

See publications about Bangladesh

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