Philippines

This e-Newsletter provides current information on the ADB's work in helping achieve a Philippines free of poverty.

IN THIS ISSUE

Updates

• Manila Journalism Student Wins Key Indicators Cover Design Contest
• Assistance for disaster preparedness
• ADB School buildings project turnover in Southern Leyte
• Grant Signed for Project to Help Develop Microfinance in Philippines
• ADB-World Bank coordination meeting on the Philippines
• ADB Boosting Civil Society's Role in the Fight Against Corruption

  Updates

13 June
Manila Journalism Student Wins Key Indicators Cover Design Contest
MANILA, PHILIPPINES - A 21-year-old journalism student was today named winner of ADB's Key Indicators Cover Design Contest with a computer-generated entry, Economic Machinery. Read the news release.

6 June
Assistance for disaster preparedness

ADB and government representatives visited disaster-stricken areas in Southern Leyte and Oriental Mindoro as part of consultations to promote ADB-Philippine development partnership. Besides direct assistance to Southern Leyte, ADB is considering support for nationwide, longer-term disaster preparedness and management.

5 June
ADB School buildings project turnover in Southern Leyte

Alternate Executive Director Marita Magpili-Jimenez, representing Kazakhstan, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Mongolia, Pakistan, Philippines, and Timor-Leste to the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) Board of Directors, addresses town and school officials in Don Agustin F. Escaño National High School in Tomas Oppus, Southern Leyte at the 5 June turnover of school buildings constructed under the Department of Education's Secondary Education Improvement and Development project for which ADB provided a $53 million loan. The project will benefit over a million high school students in 14 poor provinces in which enrollment and completion rates are low, and student achievement levels are below average. The project aims to improve the quality of public secondary education as well as access to education. From left are Alternate Executive Director Magpili-Jimenez; Fiel Almendra, assistant district superintendent; Mayor Felicula Escaño; Violeta Alocilja, district superintendent; and Gen Murallos, Southern Leyte Provincial Administrator.

25 May
Grant Signed for Project to Help Develop Microfinance in Philippines

MANILA, PHILIPPINES – ADB and the Government of the Philippines today signed an agreement for a US$900,000 grant project to help develop a sustainable microfinance industry in the country. Read the news release.

16 May
ADB-World Bank coordination meeting on the Philippines

Following ADB's recent reorganization, the new Southeast Asia Department (SERD) management team, led by SERD Director General Rajat Nag, discussed with the World Bank Philippines how to coordinate more closely on the ADB-Philippines development partnership.

2 May
ADB Boosting Civil Society's Role in the Fight Against Corruption

MANILA, PHILIPPINES - ADB will help strengthen the role of civil society in the fight against corruption through a technical assistance (TA) grant of US$150,000. Read the news release.

  Publications

• Philippines: Performance Measurement at the Local Level (May 2006) [ PDF: 991kb | 189 pages ]
• ADB Review April-May issue: Moving Up Philippines
• A Fact Sheet: Philippines and ADB

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  Features

• Upgraded Davao City International Airport Is Ready for More Passengers and Bigger Aircraft
  WITH AIR transportation crucial to economic and social connectivity in the Philippine archipelago, the new $128 million state-of-the-art international airport in this city is a welcome development. It is now fully operational and is raring to take in more passengers and bigger aircraft.
  

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