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Social Analysis for Regional Country Partnership Strategy

Through its Regional Cooperation and Integration Strategy (2006), ADB aims to promote poverty reduction and more equitable sharing of the benefits of regional integration within and across the subregions of Asia and the Pacific. ADB supports regional cooperation and integration in four areas:

• cross-border infrastructure development
• trade and investment cooperation and integration
• monetary and financial cooperation and integration
• regional public goods (and ‘bads’)

The fourth pillar of regional public goods/bads recognizes that regional economic integration brings both social benefits and costs. Some of the negative social costs associated with increased regional connectivity may include greater risks of HIV/AIDS, SARS and avian flu, and the facilitation of trafficking in human beings and drugs. There are also opportunities for reducing such social risks such as awareness campaigns and other preventive activities, regional cooperation framework development to address these issues, customs official training, etc.

ADB supports a range of subregional cooperation initiatives in Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area, Central Asia, the Greater Mekong Subregion, South Asia, and the Pacific. For each subregion, a regional country partnership strategy (RCPS) is developed and updated periodically. Social analysis should be conducted for RCPS, although format for the RCPS preparation is flexible and evolving. Similar principles of the social analysis for CPS apply to RCPS.

Learn more [ PDF: 77kb | 10 pages ] on how to conduct social analysis for RCPSs and regional cooperation projects.

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