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20 November 2009, Friday

• Books, Periodicals, Studies, and Reports
• Inclusive Growth, Full Employment, and Structural Change


• Consultants' Reports
• Support to the Implementation of the Strategic Development Plan 2006/07 - 2008/09 (Tonga) [ PDF ]


• Documents Produced Under TA
• Support for the Formulation and Implementation of the Strategy for the Development of Samoa (Samoa) [ PDF ]


• Grant Agreements
• Grant Agreement for Second Road Improvement (Sector) Project between Solomon Islands and Asian Development Bank (Solomon Islands) [ PDF ]


• Project Administration Memoranda
• Credit for Better Health Care Project (Philippines) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Knowledge Management and Capacity Building (India) [ PDF ]
• Participation of the Urban Poor in Municipal Governance (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]
• Promoting Economic Use of Customary Land (Samoa) [ PDF ]
• Rural Financial Services Project (Vanuatu) [ PDF ]
• Youth Microenterprise Development (Tonga) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Reports
• Asian Development Outlook 2010 (Regional) [ PDF ]

19 November 2009, Thursday

• Development Effectiveness Committee
• Chair's Summary of the Committee Discussion on 2 October 2009 [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Framework Financing Agreements
• Framework Financing Agreement for Assam Power Sector Enhancement Investment Program (Facility Concept) between India acting by its President and Asian Development Bank dated 15 September 2009 (India) [ PDF ]
• Framework Financing Agreement for Assam Power Sector Enhancement Investment Program (Subproject 1) between India acting by its President and Asian Development Bank dated 15 September 2009 (India) [ PDF ]


• Initial Poverty and Social Assessment
• Cambodia, Lao PDR, Viet Nam: GMS Biodiversity Conservation Corridor Project (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Procurement Notices
• Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Environment Improvement Project (China, People's Republic of)
• Energy Access and Efficiency Improvement Project (Nepal)


• Procurement Plans
• Assam Power Sector Enhancement Investment Program (Facility Concept) (India) [ PDF ]
• Assam Power Sector Enhancement Investment Program (Subproject 1) (India) [ PDF ]
• Road Network Project II (Bhutan) [ PDF ]


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Assam Power Sector Enhancement Investment Program (Facility Concept) (India) [ PDF ]
• Assam Power Sector Enhancement Investment Program (Subproject 1) (India) [ PDF ]
• Road Network Project II (Bhutan) [ PDF ]


• Social and Environmental Monitoring Reports
• Darby Asia Mezzanine Fund II (Regional)


• Strategy and Program Assessments
• Governance Risk Assessment Report prepared for the Nepal Country Partnership Strategy (2010-2012) (Nepal) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Promoting Effective Water Management Policies and Practices-Phase 4 (Regional) [ PDF ]

18 November 2009, Wednesday

• Books, Periodicals, Studies, and Reports
• An Overview and Strategic Framework for Biofuel Development


• Documents Produced Under TA
• Community-Based Rural Roads Maintenance Project (Tajikistan) [ PDF ]


• Evaluation Validation Reports
• Rural Access Roads Project (Lao People's Democratic Republic) [ PDF ]
• Third Road Rehabilitation Project (Kyrgyz Republic) [ PDF ]


• Framework Financing Agreements
• Second India Infrastructure Project Financing Facility (India) [ PDF ]


• Grant Agreement
• Grant Agreement for Strengthening Technical and Vocational Education and Training Project between Kingdom of Cambodia and Asian Development Bank (Cambodia) [ PDF ]


• Management Speeches
• Opening Remarks by Managing Director Rajat M. Nag at Harnessing Business Opportunities for South Asian Economic Integration (17 November 2009, FICCI, New Delhi)


• Procurement Notices
• Sustainable Power Sector Development Project (Bangladesh)
• Second Power Transmission and Distribution Project (SPTDP) (Cambodia)
• Lae Port Development Project (Papua New Guinea)


• Procurement Plans
• South Asia Tourism Infrastructure Development Project (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Project Administration Memoranda
• Rajasthan Urban Sector Development Investment Program - Project 2 (India) [ PDF ]


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Capital Market Development Program Cluster (Subprogram 2) (Indonesia) [ PDF ]
• Second India Infrastructure Project Financing Facility (India) [ PDF ]
• South Asia Tourism Infrastructure Development Project (Regional) [ PDF ]
• Strengthening Technical and Vocational Education and Training Project (Cambodia) [ PDF ]


• Working Papers
• Productivity Growth in Different Firm Sizes in the Malaysian Manufacturing Sector: An Empirical Investigation (No. 176) [ PDF ]

17 November 2009, Tuesday

• Board Minutes
• Board Minutes, 12 November 2009 (10:00 A.M) [ PDF ]


• Conference Papers and Proceedings
• Eighth Ministerial Conference on Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (Mongolia) [ PDF ]


• Design and Monitoring Frameworks
• SOE Reform and Corporate Governance Facilitation Program (Viet Nam) [ PDF ]


• Management Speeches
• Presentation by ADB Vice-President Ursula Schaefer-Preuss at the High-level Intergovernmental Meeting to Review Regional Implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and its Regional and Global Outcomes (17 november 2009, Bangkok, Thailand)


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Road Development II Project (Yichun-Nenjiang) (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]

16 November 2009, Monday

• Board Minutes
• Board Minutes, 10 November 2009 (10:00 A.M) [ PDF ]


• Loan Agreements
• Amendment to the Loan Agreement for Multisector Project for Infrastructure Rehabilitation in Jammu and Kashmir between India and ADB (4 November 2009) (India) [ PDF ]


• Procurement Plans
• Greater Mekong Subregion: Cambodia Northwest Provincial Road Improvement Project (Cambodia) [ PDF ]


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Greater Mekong Subregion: Cambodia Northwest Provincial Road Improvement Project (Cambodia) [ PDF ]

13 November 2009, Friday

• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  


• Management Speeches
• Lecture by ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda at the 2009 Global Public Policy Network Student Conference on "Crisis as Opportunity: Think Globally, Coordinate Regionally, Act Nationally" (13 November 2009, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Singapore)


• Procurement Plans
• Rural Infrastructure Support to the PNPM Mandiri Project II (Indonesia) [ PDF ]


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Rural Infrastructure Support to the PNPM Mandiri Project II (Indonesia) [ PDF ]


• Speeches
• Opening Remarks by Country Director Makoto Ojiro at the Renewable Energy in Central Asia: Creating Economic Sustainability to Solve Socioeconomic Challenges (10 November 2009, Dushanbe, Tajikistan)

12 November 2009, Thursday

• Project Completion Reports
• Rehabilitation of the Maritime Navigation Aids System Project (Papua New Guinea) [ PDF ]

11 November 2009, Wednesday

• Books, Periodicals, Studies, and Reports
• Study on Intraregional Trade and Investment in South Asia
• South Asia Occasional Paper Series 3: Countries in Transition-A Brief Review of the Emerging Political Economy of Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, and Nepal
• South Asia Occasional Paper Series 2: Sanitation in India - Progress, Differences, Correlates, and Challenges


• Grant Agreements
• Program Grant Agreement for Health Sector Development Program between Lao People's Democratic Republic and Asian Development Bank (Lao People's Democratic Republic) [ PDF ]
• Project Grant Agreement for Health Sector Development Program between Lao People's Democratic Republic and Asian Development Bank (Lao People's Democratic Republic) [ PDF ]


• Management Speeches
• Welcome and Introductory Remarks by ADB Vice-President Ursula Schaefer-Preuss at the South Asia Regional Department Book Launch (11 November 2009, ADB Headquarters, Mandaluyong City)


• Procurement Plans
• Health Sector Development Program (Lao People's Democratic Republic) [ PDF ]
• Hebei Small Cities and Towns Development Demonstration Sector Project (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Project Administration Memoranda
• National Power Grid Development Investment Program (India)


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Health Sector Development Program (Lao People's Democratic Republic) [ PDF ]
• Hebei Small Cities and Towns Development Demonstration Sector Project (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Heilongjiang Road Development II Project (Yichun-Nenjiang) (China, People's Republic of)


• Social and Environmental Monitoring Reports
• Southern Transport Development Project: JICA Funded Section Package 01 (Sri Lanka) [ PDF ]
• Southern Transport Development Project: JICA Funded Section Package 02 (Sri Lanka) [ PDF ]

10 November 2009, Tuesday

• Board Minutes
• Board Minutes, 15 October 2009 (10:00 A.M) [ PDF ]
• Board Minutes, 20 October 2009 (10:00 A.M) [ PDF ]


• Grant Implementation Manuals
• Community Participatory Flood Management (Financed by the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction) (Tajikistan) [ PDF ]


• Information and Instructive Materials
• Understanding Complexity [ PDF ]


• Policies and Strategies
• Better and Faster Loan Delivery (Report of the Loan Delivery Working Group) [ PDF ]
• Responding to the New Aid Architecture (Report of the Country Partnership Strategy Working Group) [ PDF ]
• Review of the Asian Development Bank's Service Charges for the Administration of Grant Cofinancing from External Sources [ PDF ]


• Procurement Notices
• Samoa Power Sector Expansion Project (Samoa)

9 November 2009, Monday

• Books, Periodicals, Studies, and Reports
• Pacific Economic Monitor (November 2009)


• Information and Instructive Materials
• When Size Matters: Improving Microfinance Outreach in Aceh Through a Revitalized Provincial Rural Bank Network


• Institutional Procurement Notices
• Documents Conversion and Microfilming Services (RP No. 09-11413)


• Management Speeches
• Speech by ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda at the Inter-American Development Bank 50th Anniversary Special Event on Strengthening the Economic and Cooperation Linkages between Latin America & the Caribbean and Asia (9 November 2009, Tokyo, Japan)


• News from Country Offices
• Tajikistan's Road Transport System - Focus of International Seminar (Tajikistan)


• Procurement Notices
• Regional Development Project, Phase II - Environmental Infrastructure and Management (Maldives)


• Speeches
• Speech by ADB Country Director Lan Wu at the Signing Ceremony of the Sustainable Development of Issyk-Kul Lake Project (5 November 2009, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic)
• Welcome Remarks by ADB Country Director Makoto Ojiro at the International Seminar on Road Sector Development in Tajikistan on "Towards Efficient Road Transport" (4 November 2009, Dushanbe, Tajikistan)


• Technical Assistance Consultants' Reports
• Public Sector Review and Improvements: Phase 3 (Cook Islands) [ PDF ]

6 November 2009, Friday

• Concept Papers
• Crop Diversification and Commercialization Project (Nepal) [ PDF ]


• Project Completion Reports
• Emergency Infrastructure Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Project (Afghanistan) [ PDF ]


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Central Region Transport Networks Improvement Sector Project (Viet Nam)


• Translated Documents
• ADB Announces Asia-Pacific Climate Change Video Contest (Chinese) [ PDF ]
• ADB to Help PRC Combat Water Shortages in the Western Region (Chinese) [ PDF ]
• East Asia Department Knowledge Management Initiatives in 2008 (Chinese) [ PDF ]
• Sustainable Urbanization Key to Sustainable Growth, Says ADB (Chinese) [ PDF ]

5 November 2009, Thursday

• BOD Chair's Summaries
• Review of the Asian Development Bank's Exposure Limits on Nonsovereign Operations [ PDF ]


• Implementation Completion Memoranda
• Rural Livelihood Development Project (Financed by the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction) (Kyrgyz Republic) [ PDF ]


• Loan Agreements
• Loan Agreement for Public Expenditure Support Facility Program between People's Republic of Bangladesh and Asian Development Bank dated 26 October 2009 (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]
• Loan Agreement for Countercyclical Support Facility between People's Republic of Bangladesh and Asian Development Bank dated 26 October 2009 (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]
• Loan Agreement for Public Expenditure Support Facility Program between People's Republic of Bangladesh and Asian Development Bank dated 26 October 2009 (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]


• Progress Reports on Tranche Releases
• Governance Support Program (Nepal) [ PDF ]


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Local Government Infrastructure Improvement Project: Library and Health Centre Building Subproject in Galgamuwa Pradeshiya Sabha (Sri Lanka) [ PDF ]


• Social and Environmental Monitoring Reports
• Actis China Fund 2, L.P. (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]
• AIF Capital Asia III (Regional) [ PDF ]
• JS Private Equity Fund I (Pakistan) [ PDF ]
• Municipal Natural Gas Infrastructure Development Project: Annual Environmental and Social Monitoring Report for Period April 2008 to March 2009 (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Speeches
• Statement by Country Director Gil-Hong Kim at the 2009 Round Table Implementation Meeting (RTIM) (3 November 2009, Vientiane, Lao PDR)