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23 October 2009, Friday

• Documents Produced Under TA
• Establishment of Regional Knowledge Hubs (Supplementary) (Regional)


• Initial Environmental Examination
• Urban Environment Improvement Project: Ratnanagar - Sanitation and Wastewater Management Subproject (Nepal) [ PDF ]
• Urban Environment Improvement Project: Road Uprading Subproject of Ratnanagar Municipality (Nepal) [ PDF ]


• Procurement Plans
• Emergency Food Assistance Project (Cambodia) [ PDF ]


• Program Administration Memoranda
• Integrated Citarum Water Resources Management Investment Program (Indonesia)


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Central Region Transport Networks Sector Project (Viet Nam) [ PDF ]
• Hunan Flood Management Sector Project (Liling City) (China, People's Republic of)
• Hunan Flood Management Sector Project (Shaoyang City) (China, People's Republic of)


• Social and Environmental Monitoring Reports
• Guangxi Nanning Urban Environmental Upgrading (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Consultants' Reports
• Expressway Network Development Plan (Viet Nam)


• Technical Assistance Reports
• Water Tariff Study II (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Translated Documents
• Hunan Flood Management Sector Project (Chinese)

22 October 2009, Thursday

• Annual Review of Evaluation Activities
• 2009 Annual Evaluation Review: Role and Direction of Self-Evaluation Practices [ PDF ]
• Annual Report on 2008 Portfolio Performance [ PDF ]


• Consultants' Reports
• Power Market Design (Viet Nam)


• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Initial Environmental Examination
• Urban Environment Improvement Project (Nepal)


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Public Expenditure Support Facility Program and Countercyclical Support Facility Support Program (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• CAREC Regional Road Project (Uzbekistan)
• Central Region Transport Networks Sector Project (Viet Nam) [ PDF ]


• Social and Environmental Monitoring Reports
• Nanjing Qinhuai River Environmental Improvement Project (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]
• Nanjing Qinhuai River Environmental Improvement Project (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]
• Tianjin Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle Power Plant Project (China, People's Republic of)


• Technical Assistance Reports
• Capacity Development for Income Restoration Programs (Cambodia)

21 October 2009, Wednesday

• Books, Periodicals, Studies, and Reports
• ADB Review October 2009


• Procurement Notices
• Proposed Bihar State Highways II Project (India)
• Upper Secondary and Professional Teacher Development Project (Viet Nam)


• Procurement Plans
• Lanzhou Sustainable Urban Transport Project (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Hunan Flood Management Sector Project (China, People's Republic of)


• Social and Environmental Monitoring Reports
• Guangxi Nanning Urban Environmental Upgrading (China, People's Republic of )

20 October 2009, Tuesday

• Board Minutes
• Board Minutes, 13 October 2009 (10:00 A.M) [ PDF ]


• Books, Periodicals, Studies, and Reports
• Asian Sanitation Data Book 2008: Achieving Sanitation for All


• Country Assistance Program Evaluation
• Country Assistance Program Evaluation for Bangladesh (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]


• Documents Produced Under TA
• Contribution to Java Reconstruction Trust Fund - June 2009 Progress Report (Indonesia) [ PDF ]


• Evaluation Knowledge Briefs
• Greenhouse Gas Implications of ADB's Energy Sector Operations (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Papers
• Making Sanitation Everybody’s Business


• Project Administration Memoranda
• South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Information Highway Project (Regional)


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Support for the Implementation of the Poverty Reduction Program V (Viet Nam) [ PDF ]


• Resettlement Planning Document
• GMS Rehabilitation of the Railway in Cambodia Project (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Speeches
• Opening Remarks by BRM Country Director Paul J. Heytens on Co-financing Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Projects through Carbon Revenue (19 October 2009, Sheraton Hotel, Dhaka)

19 October 2009, Monday

• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Information and Instructive Materials
• Distributing Leadership [ PDF ]
• Drawing Learning Charters [ PDF ]


• Loan Agreements
• Loan Agreement for Support for the Implementation of the Poverty Reduction Program V - Subprogram 2 between Socialist Republic of Viet Nam and Asian Development Bank (Viet Nam) [ PDF ]


• Project Completion Reports
• Punjab Road Development Sector Project (Pakistan) [ PDF ]


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Economic Recovery Support Program (Cook Islands) [ PDF ]


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Guangxi Nanning Urban Environmental Upgrading Project: Nanning Kelijiang River Envrionmental Upgrading Subproject (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]
• Guangxi Nanning Urban Environmental Upgrading Project: Nanning Xinxujiang River Comprehensive Environmental Upgrading Subproject (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Sector Assistance Program Evaluation
• Energy Sector in Bangladesh (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]

16 October 2009, Friday

• Awareness Raising (publications)
• Indonesia: Transforming Risk-Averse Banks into Microfinance Champions in a Post-Disaster and Post-Conflict Environment
• Partnering with Communities for Post-Disaster Reconstruction in Aceh and Nias Island, North Sumatra, Indonesia [ PDF ]


• Books, Periodicals, Studies, and Reports
• Southeast Asia Working Paper Series: The Contribution of ADB to the ASEAN Economic Community Blueprint (No. 3, October 2009) [ PDF ]


• Country Operations Business Plan
• Tuvalu: 2010-2012 [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Indigenous Peoples Development Framework
• Road Sector Institutional Development and Investment Program (Philippines)


• Loan Agreements
• Loan Agreement for Countercyclical Support Facility between People's Republic of Bangladesh and Asian Development Bank (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]
• Loan Agreement for Countercyclical Support between Republic of Indonesia and Asian Development Bank (Indonesia) [ PDF ]
• Loan Agreement for Economic Recovery Support Program - Subprogram 1 between Cook Islands and Asian Development Bank (Cook Islands) [ PDF ]
• Loan Agreement for Public Expenditure Support Facility Program between People's Republic of Bangladesh and Asian Development Bank (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]


• News Releases
• Central Asian Governments Endorse Plans to Boost Integration, Trade
• ADB Providing $3 Million for Indonesia Quake Victims


• Procurement Notices
• Dhaka Water Supply Sector Development Project (Bangladesh)
• Proposed Anhui Integrated Transport Sector Improvement Project (China, People's Republic of)


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Road Sector Institutional Development and Investment Program (Philippines)
• South Asia Tourism Infrastructure Development Project (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Consultant’s Report
• Transport Infrastructure Development and Maintenance Project (Financed by the Japan Special Fund) (Cambodia)


• Technical Assistance Report
• Improving Public Services through Information and Communication Technology (Regional) [ PDF ]

15 October 2009, Thursday

• Board Minutes
• Board Minutes, 28 September 2009 (10:00 A.M) [ PDF ]
• Board Minutes, 29 September 2009 (10:00 A.M) [ PDF ]
• Board Minutes, 30 September 2009 (10:00 A.M) [ PDF ]
• Board Minutes, 1 October 2009 (10:00 A.M) [ PDF ]
• Board Minutes, 7 October 2009 (10:00 A.M) [ PDF ]


• Consultants' Reports
• Preparing the Qinghai Rural Water Resources Management Project (China, People's Republic of)


• Country Operations Business Plan
• Indonesia: Country Operations Business Plan 2010-2012 (Indonesia) [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Procurement Notices
• Liaoning Environmental Improvement Project (China, People's Republic of)
• Proposed Jharkhand State Roads Project (India)
• Emergency Assistance Project (Solomon Islands)


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Facilitating Cross-Border Trade and Investment in the Greater Mekong Subregion (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Working Papers Series
• Financial Sector Development, Economic Growth, and Poverty Reduction: A Literature Review (No. 173) [ PDF ]
• Can trade with the People's Republic of China be an Engine of Growth for Developing Asia? (No. 172) [ PDF ]

14 October 2009, Wednesday

• Books, Periodicals, Studies, and Reports
• Energy is Life: Bringing Power to Afghanistan


• Design and Monitoring Frameworks
• Support to the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission Phase 2 (India) [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Extended Annual Review Reports
• BLCP Power Project: Loan and Complementary Financing Scheme (Thailand) [ PDF ]


• Initial Environmental Examination
• Civil Aviation Development Investment Program (Papua New Guinea)
• Preparing the Road Network Development Project (Timor-Leste)


• Management Speeches
• Statement by ADB Vice-President Xiaoyu Zhao at the Disaster Risk Reduction Symposium (14 October 2009, Kathmandu, Nepal)


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Countercyclical Support (Indonesia) [ PDF ]


• Summary Environmental Impact Assessment
• Heilongjiang Road Development II Project (Yichun--Nenjiang) (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Preparing the Regional Gas Transmission Improvement Project in the Central Asian Republics (Regional) [ PDF ]
• Strengthening Local Government Infrastructure Financing (Sri Lanka) [ PDF ]

13 October 2009, Tuesday

• Board Minutes
• Board Minutes, 21 September 2009 (10:00 A.M) [ PDF ]
• Board Minutes, 22 September 2009 (10:00 A.M) [ PDF ]


• Country Operations Business Plan
• Tonga: 2010-2012 [ Tonga ]


• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Environmental Assessment Review Frameworks
• Civil Aviation Development and Investment Program (Papua New Guinea) [ PDF ]


• Loan Agreements
• Loan Agreement for North-South Road Corridor Investment Program - Project 1 between Armenia and Asian Development Bank dated 12 October 2009 (Armenia) [ PDF ]


• Procurement Notices
• Power Transmission Enhancement Investment Program (Pakistan)


• Project Agreements
• Project Agreement for Eastern and North Central Provincial Road Project between Asian Development Bank and Eastern Provincial Council, North Central Provincial Council, North Central Provincial Roads Development Authority (Sri Lanka) [ PDF ]

12 October 2009, Monday

• Loan Agreements
• Loan Agreement for Eastern and North Central Provincial Road Project between Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and Asian Development Bank (Sri Lanka)


• Loan Major Changes in Scope
• Decentralized Irrigation Development and Management Sector Project (Lao People's Democratic Republic)


• Procurement Notices
• Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project (Armenia)


• Project Completion Reports
• Post-Conflict Emergency Rehabilitation Project (Solomon Islands) [ PDF ]


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• North Karnataka Urban Sector Investment Program (India)


• Technical Assistance Consultants' Reports
• Capacity Building for SME Development - Phase II (Cambodia)

10 October 2009, Saturday

• Speeches
• Keynote Speech PRCM Country Director by Robert Wihtol at the Second China Tendering and Bidding Forum 2009 on Developing a Sound Tendering and Bidding Environment in the PRC (10 October 2009, Beijing, China)

9 October 2009, Friday

• Design and Monitoring Frameworks
• Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee for the Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprise Development Project (India) [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Information and Instructive Materials
• Distributing Leadership [ PDF ]


• Loan Agreements
• Loan Agreement for Public Expenditure Support Facility Program between the Republic of Indonesia and Asian Development Bank dated 2 October 2009 (Indonesia) [ PDF ]


• Procurement Plans
• Guiyang Integrated Water Resources Management (Sector) Project (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Program Completion Reports
• Rural Finance Sector Development Program (Pakistan) [ PDF ]


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Guiyang Integrated Water Resources Management (Sector) Project (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Urban Development Sector Project (Mongolia) [ PDF ]
• Urban Development Sector Project (Mongolia) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Reports
• Developing Asia's Pension Systems: Overview and Reform Directions (Regional) [ PDF ]

8 October 2009, Thursday

• Country Assistance Program Evaluation
• Growth and Sector Reform (Cambodia) [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Grant Agreements
• Grant Agreement for Hairatan to Mazar-e-Sharif Railway Project between the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and Asian Development Bank Dated 30 September 2009 (Afghanistan) [ PDF ]
• Grant Agreement for Strengthening Higher Education Project between Lao People's Democratic Republic and Asian Development Bank (Lao PDR) [ PDF ]


• Grant Assistance Reports
• Formalizing Microfinance Institutions (Viet Nam) [ PDF ]


• Program Completion Reports
• Second Development Policy Support Program and Third Development Policy Support Program (Indonesia) [ PDF ]


• Sector Assistance Program Evaluation
• Agriculture and Rural Development Sector in Cambodia (Cambodia) [ PDF ]
• Transport Sector in Cambodia-Focusing on Results (Cambodia) [ PDF ]


• Special Evaluation Studies
• Asian Development Bank's Contribution to Inclusive Development through Assistance for Rural Road (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Summary Environmental Impact Assessment
• Janub 760 MW Combined-Cycle Power Plant Project (Azerbaijan) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Establishment of a Financial Services Authority (Indonesia) [ PDF ]
• Mainstreaming Environmental Considerations in Economic and Development Planning Processes in Selected Pacific Developing Member Countries (Regional) [ PDF ]
• Promoting Governance in Financial Transactions (Lao PDR) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Reports
• Developing Cross-Border Economic Zones between the People's Republic of China and Viet Nam (Regional) [ PDF ]

7 October 2009, Wednesday

• Board Minutes
• Board Minutes, 23 September 2009 (10:00 A.M) [ PDF ]


• Books, Periodicals, Studies, and Reports
• Integrated Crop and Resource Management in the Rice-Wheat System of South Asia


• Chair's Summaries
• Solomon Islands: Interim Country Partnership Strategy, 2009–2011 [ PDF ]
• Vanuatu: Country Partnership Strategy (2010–2014) [ PDF ]


• Design and Monitoring Frameworks
• Preparing the Priority Roads Project (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Framework Financing Agreements
• Framework Financing Agreement for North-South Road Corridor Investment Program between the Republic of Armenia and Asian Development Bank (Armenia) [ PDF ]
• Framework Financing Agreement for Road Corridor Investment Program between Georgia and Asian Development Bank dated 29 August 2009 (Georgia) [ PDF ]


• Initial Poverty and Social Assessment
• Preparing the Priority Roads Project (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]


• News Releases
• ADB Fiscal Stimulus Loan to Boost Indonesia's Economic Recovery
• ADB Urges New Approaches to Ease Traffic Congestion in Asia's Gridlocked Cities


• Procurement Plans
• Road Corridor Investment Program (Georgia) [ PDF ]
• Strengthening Higher Education Project (Lao People's Democratic Republic) [ PDF ]
• Water Resources Development Investment Program (Afghanistan) [ PDF ]


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Road Corridor Investment Program (Georgia) [ PDF ]
• Strengthening Higher Education Project (Lao People's Democratic Republic) [ PDF ]
• Water Resources Development Investment Program (Afghanistan) [ PDF ]


• Social and Environmental Monitoring Reports
• Kolkata Environmental Improvement Project (India) [ PDF ]
• Kolkata Environmental Improvement Project (India) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Consultants' Reports
• Transport Information System (Financed by the Technical Assistance Special Fund) (China, People's Republic of)


• Technical Assistance Reports
• Institutional Strengthening of Municipalities (Nepal) [ PDF ]

6 October 2009, Tuesday

• Country Partnerships Strategy
• Bangladesh Country Partnership Strategy Midterm Review 2006-2010 (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]


• Design and Monitoring Frameworks
• CAREC Transport Corridor I (Zhambyl Oblast Section) [Western Europe-Western People's Republic of China International Transit Corridor] Investment Program-Proposed Tranche 2 (Kazakhstan) [ PDF ]


• News Releases
• ADB, Japan Help Viet Nam Transform, Diversify Microfinance Services


• Project Completion Reports
• Small and Medium Enterprise Export Development Project (Indonesia) [ PDF ]


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Hairatan to Mazar-e-Sharif Railway Project (Afghanistan) [ PDF ]


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• CAREC Transport Corridor I (Zhambyl Oblast Section) [Western Europe–Western People's Republic of China International Transit Corridor] Investment Program-Tranche 2 (Kazakhstan) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• A Comparative Assessment of Economic Development in Central Asia (Regional) [ PDF ]
• Asian Development Outlook 2008 (Regional) [ PDF ]
• Reaching the Most Disadvantaged Groups in Mainstream Rural Development (Nepal) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Consultants' Reports
• Sector-wide Approach in Education Sector Development (Lao PDR)
• South Asia Forum on the Impact of Global Economic and Financial Crisis (Regional) [ PDF ]
• Strengthening Higher Education Project (Lao People's Democratic Republic)


• Technical Assistance Reports
• Central Asia Regional Economic Coooperation: Working with the Private Sector in Trade Facilitation (Regional) [ PDF ]
• Support to Local Governance and Community Development Program (Nepal) [ PDF ]

5 October 2009, Monday

• Financing Agreements
• Financing Agreement for Issyk-Kul Sustainable Development Project between Kyrgyz Republic and Asian Development Bank (Kyrgyz Republic) [ PDF ]


• Framework Financing Agreements
• Framework Financing Agreement for Energy Efficiency Investment Program between Pakistan and Asian Development Bank (Pakistan) [ PDF ]
• Framework Financing Agreement for Water Supply and Sanitation Investment Program between the Republic of Azerbaijan and Asian Development Bank (Azerbaijan) [ PDF ]


• News Releases
• Asia-Pacific Broadcasters Vow to Step Up Fight Against Climate Change
• ADB Provides $1 Million for Samoa Tsunami Victims


• Project Administration Memoranda
• Emergency Flood Damage Rehabilitation Project (Nepal) [ PDF ]


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Small and Medium Enterprise Trade Finance Development Facility (India) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Consultants' Reports
• Balochistan Economic Report (From Periphery to Core) (Pakistan)
• Strengthening Higher Education Project (Financed by the Japan Special Fund) (Lao People's Democratic Republic)

2 October 2009, Friday

• Framework Financing Agreements
• Framework Financing Agreement for Water Supply and Sanitation Services Investment Program between Uzbekistan and Asian Development Bank Dated 28 August 2009 (Uzbekistan) [ PDF ]


• Grant Agreements
• Grant Agreement for Second Small Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project between Nepal and Asian Development Bank (Nepal) [ PDF ]


• Procurement Notices
• Information and Communication Technology Development Project (Nepal)


• Project Agreements
• Project Agreement for Second Small Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project between Asian Development Bank and Town Development Fund (Nepal) [ PDF ]


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Private Sector and Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Program (Lao People's Democratic Republic) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Capacity Building for Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women (Nepal) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Consultants' Reports
• Sindh Basic Urban Services (Pakistan)
• Sustainable Food Fortification in Central Asia and Mongolia (Regional) [ PDF ]

1 October 2009, Thursday

• Economic Updates
• Nepal: Political and Economic Update [ PDF ]


• Initial Poverty and Social Assessment
• Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Women's Empowerment (India) [ PDF ]


• News Releases
• ADB President Expresses Sympathy, Offers Assistance to Samoa
• ADB to Support Further Private Sector Development in Lao PDR
• ADB Supports Project to Preserve World's Second Largest Saline Lake


• Procurement Plans
• Issyk-Kul Sustainable Development Project (Kyrgyz Republic) [ PDF ]
• North-South Road Corridor Investment Program (Armenia) [ PDF ]


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Issyk-Kul Sustainable Development Project (Kyrgyz Republic) [ PDF ]
• North-South Road Corridor Investment Program (Armenia) [ PDF ]

30 September 2009, Wednesday

• Books, Periodicals, Studies, and Reports
• Climate Change and Impacts on Agriculture in Asia and the Pacific [ PDF ]
• Climate Change and Migration in Asia and the Pacific [ PDF ]
• Improving Energy Security and Reducing Carbon Intensity in Asia and the Pacific [ PDF ]


• Environmental-related Documents
• Multitranche Financing Facility for the CAREC Transport Corridor 1 (Zhambyl Oblast Section) Investment Program-Tranche 2 (Kazakhstan) [ PDF ]


• Management Speeches
• Opening Remarks by ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda at the High-Level International Conference on the "Working Toward a New Financial Architecture" (30 September 2009, Seoul, Korea)
• Closing Remarks by ADB Vice-President Ursula Schaefer-Preuss at the High-Level Meeting on the Impact of the Global Economic Slowdown on Poverty and Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific (30 September 2009, Ha Noi, Viet Nam)


• News Releases
• Asia Must Promote Employment, Support Those Without Decent Jobs, ADB Says
• ADB President Urges Asia to Support Efforts to Reform Global Financial System
• ADB-Funded Railway to Help Afghanistan Improve Regional Links, Boost Growth
• ADB Extends $100 Million to India's Exim Bank to Boost SMEs, Expand Jobs, Trade
• Climate Change Threatens Asia's Food Prices, Energy Security, Population Balance: ADB
• ADB Pledges $3 Million for Philippines Flood Victims


• Others
• 2nd Financial Sector Program Cluster (Subprogram 3) (Cambodia) [ PDF ]


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]
• Water Supply and Sanitation Services Investment Program (Uzbekistan) [ PDF ]


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Local Government Infrastructure Improvement Project (Sri Lanka) [ PDF ]


• Supplementary Appendixes
• Urban Public and Environmental Health Sector Development Program (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]

29 September 2009, Tuesday

• Loan Agreements
• Loan Agreement for Urban Public and Environmental Health Sector Development Project between People's Republic of Bangladesh and Asian Development Bank (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]
• Loan Agreement for Urban Public and Environmental Health Sector Development Program between People's Republic of Bangladesh and Asian Development Bank (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]


• News Releases
• ADB to Extend $500 Million to Armenia to Upgrade Key Road Corridor
• ADB to Extend $500 Million to Georgia for Seven-Year Road Upgrade Program
• ADB to Extend $300 Million to Uzbekistan for Water, Sanitation Overhaul
• ADB $100M Loan to Improve Sri Lanka's Neglected Wastewater System
• Time for Asian Policymakers to Address Gender Inequalities, Spur Full Economic Recovery
• ADB President Offers Condolences and Assistance to Philippine Flood Victims


• Procurement Plans
• Greater Colombo Wastewater Management Project (Sri Lanka) [ PDF ]
• Urban Public and Environmental Health Sector Development Program (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]


• Program Agreements
• Program Agreement for Urban Public and Environmental Health Sector Development Program between Asian Development Bank and Barisal City Corporation, Chittagong City Corporation, Dhaka City Corporation, Khulna City Corporation, Rajshahi City Corporation, Sylhet City Corporation (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]


• Project Agreements
• Project Agreement for Urban Public and Environmental Health Sector Development Project between Asian Development Bank and Barisal City Corporation, Chittagong City Corporation, Dhaka City Corporation, Khulna City Corporation, Rajshahi City Corporation, Sylhet City Corporation (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Greater Colombo Wastewater Management Project (Sri Lanka) [ PDF ]
• Urban Public and Environmental Health Sector Development Program (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Consultants' Reports
• Promoting Universal Salt Iodization In Countries of Central Asia and Mongolia, 2001-2007 (Regional) [ PDF ]

28 September 2009, Monday

• Management Speeches
• Opening Remarks by ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda at the High-Level Meeting on The Impact Of The Global Economic Slowdown On Poverty And Sustainable Development In Asia And The Pacific (28 September 2009, Ha Noi)


• News Releases
• ADB Urges Developing Asia to Use Crisis to Spur Economy and Protect Poor
• ADB Funds to Improve Health and Environment Services in Bangladesh


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Energy Efficiency Investment Program (Pakistan) [ PDF ]
• Water Supply and Sanitation Investment Program (Azerbaijan) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Consultant's Reports
• Promoting Wheat Flour Fortification in Central Asia and Mongolia, 2001-2007) (Regional)


• Technical Assistance Reports
• Supporting an Initiative for Mainstreaming Public-Private Partnerships for Providing Urban Amenities in Rural Areas (India) [ PDF ]

25 September 2009, Friday

• Board Documents
• ADB'S Approach to Operations in Sri Lanka in the New Post-Conflict Environment [ PDF ]


• Environmental Assessment Review Frameworks
• Road Sector Institutional Development and Investment Program (Philippines) [ PDF ]


• Initial Poverty and Social Assessment
• Digicel Mobile Telecommunication Expansion Project (Papua New Guinea) [ PDF ]


• Loan Agreements
• Amendment to the Loan Agreement for Punjab Government Efficiency Improvement Program - Subprogram 1 between Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Asian Development Bank dated 18 September 2009 (Pakistan) [ PDF ]
• Loan Agreement for Countercyclical Support between Socialist Republic of Viet Nam and Asian Development Bank (Viet Nam) [ PDF ]
• Loan Agreement for Renewable Energy Development and Network Expansion and Rehabilitation for Remote Communes Sector Project between the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam and Asian Development Bank dated 17 September 2009 (Viet Nam) [ PDF ]
• Loan Agreement for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project between People's Republic of Bangladesh and Asian Development Bank (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]


• Management Speeches
• Statement by the ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda at the Friends of Democratic Pakistan Summit Meeting (24 September 2009, New York)


• News from Country Offices
• ADB Helps Viet Nam Develop Renewable Energy and Rural Electrification (Viet Nam)
• ADB Increased Viet Nam's 2009 Growth Projection but Noticed Growing Risks (Viet Nam)


• Procurement Notices
• Proposed Himachal Pradesh Clean Energy Development Program (HPCEDIP) - Project 3 (Bangladesh)


• Project Agreements
• Project Agreement for Renewable Energy Development and Network Expansion and Rehabilitation for Remote Communes Sector Project between Asian Development Bank, Power Company No. 1, Power Company No. 2 and Power Company No. 3 dated 17 September 2009 (Viet Nam) [ PDF ]
• Project Agreement for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project between Asian Development Bank and Bangladesh Bank (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Enhancing the Resettlement Legal Framework and Institutional Capacity (Cambodia) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Consultant's Reports
• Youth Enterprises Development (Financed by the Japan Special Fund) (Tonga)


• Translated Documents
• ADB Helps Viet Nam Develop Renewable Energy and Rural Electrification (Vietnamese) [ PDF ]
• ADB Increased Viet Nam's 2009 Growth Projection but Noticed Growing Risks (Vietnamese) [ PDF ]

24 September 2009, Thursday

• DEC Chair's Summary
• Summary of the Committee Discussion on 24 August 2009 [ PDF: 136.05kb ]


• Financing Agreements
• Financing Agreement for Education Sector Program Cluster - Subprogram III between Nepal and Asian Development Bank (Nepal) [ PDF ]


• Grant Implementation Manuals
• Energy Conservation and Emissions Reduction from Poor Households (Financed by the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction) (Mongolia) [ PDF ]


• Information and Instructive Materials
• Exercising Servant Leadership [ PDF ]


• Loan Agreements
• Technical Assistance Loan Agreement for Developing Public Resource Management in Mizoram Project between India and Asian Development Bank dated 17 September 2009 (India) [ PDF ]


• News Releases
• ADB President to Attend Hanoi Forum on Social Impacts of Economic Crisis


• Procurement Notices
• Sustainable Power Sector Development Project (Bangladesh)
• Himachal Pradesh Clean Energy Development Program (HPCEDIP) (India)
• GMS Kunming - Haiphong Transport Corridor: Yen Vien - Lao Cai Railway Upgrading Project (Viet Nam)


• Project Agreements
• Project Agreement for Developing Public Resource Management in Mizoram Project between Asian Development Bank and State of Mizoram dated 17 September 2009 (India) [ PDF ]

23 September 2009, Wednesday

• Board Minutes
• Board Minutes, 16 September 2009 (10:00 A.M) [ PDF ]
• Board Minutes, 15 September 2009 (10:00 A.M) [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Environmental Monitoring Reports
• Kolkata Environmental Improvement Project (India) [ PDF ]
• Urban Water Supply and Environmental Improvement in Madhya Pradesh Project (India) [ PDF ]


• Loan Agreements
• Amendment to the Loan Agreement for Multisector Project for Infrastructure Rehabilitation in Jammu and Kashmir between India and ADB (5 February 2009) (India) [ PDF ]
• Amendment to the Loan Agreement for Multisector Project for Infrastructure Rehabilitation in Jammu and Kashmir between India and ADB (31 August 2009) (India) [ PDF ]
• Loan Agreement (Ordinary Operations) for Punjab Government Efficiency Improvement Program - Subprogram 2 between Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Asian Development Bank dated 17 September 2009 (Pakistan) [ PDF ]
• Loan Agreement (Special Operations) for Punjab Government Efficiency Improvement Program - Subprogram 2 between Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Asian Development Bank dated 17 September 2009 (Pakistan) [ PDF ]


• Management Speeches
• Speech by ADB Managing Director General Rajat Nag at the Book Launch: National Strategies for Regional Integration: South and East Asian Case Studies and Pan-Asian Integration: Linking East and South Asia (22 September 2009, ADB Headquarters, Mandaluyong City)


• News Releases
• ADB to Extend $600 Million Urban Services Investment Program to Azerbaijan
• ADB President to Attend Friends of Democratic Pakistan Summit in New York
• ADB, UK $90M Grants to Help Afghanistan Revive War-Torn Irrigation


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


• Project Agreements
• Program Agreement for Punjab Government Efficiency Improvement Program - Subprogram 2 between Asian Development Bank and Province of the Punjab dated 17 September 2009 (Pakistan) [ PDF ]


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Education Sector Program (Nepal) [ PDF ]
• Second Small Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project (Nepal) [ PDF ]

22 September 2009, Tuesday

• Design and Monitoring Frameworks
• Project Preparation Technical Assistance for Punjab Cities Improvement Investment Program (Pakistan) [ PDF ]


• Information and Instructive Materials
• Learning in Strategic Alliances


• Loan Agreements
• Loan Agreement for Development Policy Support Program Cluster- Subprogram 3 between Republic of the Philippines and Asian Development Bank (Philippines) [ PDF ]


• News Releases
• Resilient Asia Poised to Lead Recovery from Global Slowdown, Says ADB
• Asia Needs Broader Openness for Economic Resilience, Says ADB
• PRC's Recovery Quickens as Investments, Lending Surge, Says ADB
• ADB Lifts Growth Forecasts for India in 2009 and 2010 to 6% and 7%
• ADB Sees Modest Economic Recovery for Philippines in 2009-2010
• ADB Revises Growth Prospects for Pacific
• ADB Extends $100M to Develop Small Cities, Towns in PRC's Liaoning Province
• ADB Provides $95M to Support Quality Education for All Nepalese Children
• ADB Helps Mongolia's School Children Cope with Global Economic Crisis


• Policies and Strategies
• ADB Action Plan on Managing for Development Results 2009-2011 [ PDF ]


• Procurement Notices
• Guangxi Wuzhou Urban Development Project (China, People's Republic of)
• Northern Power Transmission Expansion Sector Project (Viet Nam)


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


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• GMS Northern Power Transmission Project (Lao People's Democratic Republic)


• Technical Assistance Reports
• Capacity Development in Results-Based Monitoring and Evaluation for Countries under the Asian Development Bank's Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Program (Regional) [ PDF ]

21 September 2009, Monday

• Documents Produced Under TA
• Key Recommendations - Managing Environmental and Social Safeguards in Hydropower Projects (Regional)


• Facility Administration Memoranda
• Multitranche Financing Facility: Jammu and Kashmir Urban Sector Development Investment Program (India) [ PDF ]


• News Release
• ADB Extends $76 Million to Support SME-Led Growth in Bangladesh


• Procurement Notices
• Proposed Himachal Pradesh Clean Energy Development Program (HPCEDIP) - Project 2 (India)
• Power Distribution Enhancement Investment Program (Pakistan)


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Development Policy Support Program - Subprogram 3 (Philippines) [ PDF ]
• Education for the Poor-Financial Crisis Response Project (Mongolia) [ PDF ]


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Central Region Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project (Viet Nam)

18 September 2009, Friday

• Awareness Raising Materials
• Addressing Energy-efficiency with Virtual Power Plants (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Country Partnership Strategies
• Interim Country Partnership Strategy, 2009-2011 (Solomon Islands) [ PDF ]


• Documents Produced Under TA
• Key Recommendations- Managing Environmental and Social Safeguards in Hydropower Projects (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Environment-related Documents
• Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihoods Project (Nepal) [ PDF ]


• Grant Agreements
• Grant Agreement for Second Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project between Cambodia and Asian Development Bank dated 17 September 2009 (Cambodia) [ PDF ]


• Information and Instructive Materials
• Harnessing Creativity and Innovation in the Workplace [ PDF ]


• Loan Agreements
• Loan Agreement (Special Operations) for Participatory Small-Scale Water Resources Sector Project between People's Republic of Bangladesh and Asian Development Bank dated 10 September 2009 (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]


• Procurement Plans
• North Karnataka Urban Sector Investment Program (India) [ PDF ]


• Project Completion Reports
• Gansu Clean Energy Development Project (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Punjab Government Efficiency Improvement Program (Pakistan) [ PDF ]
• Second Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project (Cambodia) [ PDF ]


• Supplementary Appendixes
• Power Transmission Enhancement PFR1 (Pakistan)


• Technical Assistance Reports
• Higher Education in Dynamic Asia (Regional) [ PDF ]

17 September 2009, Thursday

• Country Partnership Strategies
• Vanuatu: 2010-2014 [ PDF ]


• Environment-related Documents
• Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Environment Improvement Project (Phase II) (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Loan Agreements
• Amendments to Rebate and Surcharge Provisions of Loan Agreement for Development Policy Support Program Cluster - Subprogram 1 between Republic of Indonesia and Asian Development Bank Dated 1 July 2007 (Indonesia) [ PDF ]
• Amendments to Rebate and Surcharge Provisions of Loan Agreement for Improving Access to Financial Services [Phase I] Program between Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Asian Development Bank dated 1 July 2007 (Pakistan) [ PDF ]
• Loan Agreement for Countercyclical Support between Republic of Kazakhstan and Asian Development Bank (Kazakhstan) [ PDF ]
• Loan Agreement for Multisector Project for Infrastructure Rehabilitation in Jammu and Kashmir between India and ADB (India) [ PDF ]
• Project Agreement for Multisector Project for Infrastructure Rehabilitation in Jammu and Kashmir between ADB and State of Jammu and Kashmir and Economic Reconstruction Agency (India) [ PDF ]


• News Releases
• ADB to Extend $780 Million to Pakistan for Energy Efficiency
• ADB Extends $150 Million to Pakistan's Punjab to Boost Growth, Social Services
• ADB Vice-President Signs Agreements Worth $37.3M with Cambodia
• ADB and Vanuatu Agree to Five-Year Strategic Development Partnership
• ADB and Solomon Islands Seal New Development Partnership


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Proposed Loan and Technical Assistance Grant Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka: Eastern and North Central Provincial Road Project (Sri Lanka) [ PDF ]


• Speeches
• Welcome Remarks by ADB Country Director Makoto Ojiro at the ADB's Accountability Mechanism Outreach Workshop (16 September 2009, Dushanbe, Tajikistan)


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Community Self-Reliance and Flood Risk Reduction (Cambodia) [ PDF ]
• Subregional Economic Cooperation in South and Central Asia (Phase II) (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Consultant's Reports
• Support for Reforms in Compulsory Education Financing (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]

16 September 2009, Wednesday

• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  


• Grant Implementation Manuals
• Demand-Driven Skills Training for Poverty Reduction in the Cuu Long (Mekong) River Delta (Viet Nam) [ PDF ]


• News Release
• ADB $70M Road Loan to Help Sri Lanka Revitalize War-Torn Provinces


• Procurement Notices
• Madhya Pradesh State Roads II Project (India)


• Technical Assistance Reports
• Deposit Insurance Establishment (Regional) [ PDF ]

15 September 2009, Tuesday

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


• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Environment-related Documents
• Fuzhou Environmental Improvement Project (China, People's Republic of)


• Loan Agreements
• Amendments to Rebate and Surcharge Provisions of Loan Agreement for Development Policy Support Program between Republic of Indonesia and Asian Development Bank Dated 1 July 2007 (Indonesia) [ PDF ]


• Management Speeches
• Keynote Address by ADB Vice-President Ursula Schaefer-Preuss at the Regional Conference on the Quality of Growth: Approaches to Inclusive Development in Asian Societies (15 September 2009, New Delhi, India)


• News Releases
• Asia's Corporate Bonds Drive Market Growth, ADB Report Says
• ADB Fiscal Stimulus Loan to Boost Viet Nam's Growth Momentum Amid Crisis
• ADB Loan to Help Philippines Improve Fiscal Strength, Investment Climate


• Procurement Notices
• Railway Sector Improvement Program: Bangladesh Railway Reform Project (Bangladesh)


• Project Completion Reports
• Agriculture Sector Development Program and Project (Mongolia) [ PDF ]

14 September 2009, Monday

• Chair's Summaries
• Safeguard Policy Statement [ PDF ]


• Design and Monitoring Frameworks
• Railway Energy Efficiency and Safety Enhancement Investment Program (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  


• Environment-related Documents
• Health Sector Development Program (Lao PDR)


• Grant Assistance Reports
• Demonstration Project for Improved Electricity Services to the Low-Income Communities in Rural Areas (Mongolia) [ PDF ]


• Initial Environmental Examination
• Rural Infrastructure Support to the PNPM Mandiri II Project (Indonesia) [ PDF ]


• Loan Agreements
• Amendments to Rebate and Surcharge Provisions of Loan Agreement for Local Government Finance and Governance Reform Sector Development Project between Republic of Indonesia and Asian Development Bank dated 1 July 2007 (Indonesia) [ PDF ]


• Procurement Notices
• Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project (Armenia)
• Liaoning Environmental Improvement Project (China, People's Republic of)


• Procurement Plans
• Integrated Rural Development Sector Project in Central Provinces (Viet Nam) [ PDF ]


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Health Sector Development Program (Lao PDR)

13 September 2009, Sunday

• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  


• Procurement Notices
• Proposed Bihar State Roads Investment Program (India)

11 September 2009, Friday

• Loan Agreements
• Amendments to Rebate and Surcharge Provisions of Loan Agreement for Infrastructure Reform Sector Development Program Cluster - Subprogram 1 between Republic of Indonesia and Asian Development Bank dated 25 June 2007 (Indonesia) [ PDF ]
• Amendments to Rebate and Surcharge Provisions of Loan Agreement for Road Maintenance and Upgrading (Sector) Project (Supplementary Loan) between the Independent State of Papua New Guinea and ADB dated 25 June 2007 (Papua New Guinea) [ PDF ]


• Management Speeches
• Speech by MDG Rajat M. Nag at The US-Asia Institute on "Two Faces of Asia-Bridging the Gap Between High Growth Economies and the Poor" (8 September 2009, Washington, D.C.)


• Procurement Notices
• Northern Power Transmission Sector Project (Viet Nam)


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Kazakhstan Countercyclical Support Loan (Kazakhstan) [ PDF ]


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Hairatan to Mazar-e-Sharif Railway Development Project (Afghanistan)


• Speeches
• Opening Remarks and Message by Director General Arjun Thapan at the Phnom Penh Plan for Development Management (PPP) Learning Resource Center Inauguration (9 September 2009, Lao PDR Resident Mission, Vientiane)


• Technical Assistance Consultant's Reports
• Small and Medium Enterprise Sector Development Program (Bangladesh)

10 September 2009, Thursday

• Board Minutes
• Board Minutes, 27 August 2009 (10:00 A.M) [ PDF ]
• Board Minutes, 24 August 2009 (10:00 A.M) [ PDF ]
• Board Minutes, 17 July 2009 (10:00 A.M) [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Environmental Assessment Review Frameworks
• North-South Road Corridor Investment Program (Cambodia) [ PDF ]


• Events
• Mid-Term Review Workshop "Evolution of Institutions for Regionalism in Asia and the Pacific" (ADB Headquarters, Manila, Philippines: 10-11 September 2009)


• Loan Agreements
• Amendments to Rebate and Surcharge Provisions of Loan Agreements (Azerbaijan) [ PDF ]
• Amendments to Rebate and Surcharge Provisions of Loan Agreements (Pakistan) [ PDF ]
• Loan Agreement (Special Operations) for Participatory Small-Scale Water Resources Sector Project between People's Republic of Bangladesh and Asian Development Bank (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]


• Management Speeches
• Welcome Remarks by ADB Vice-President Ursula Schaefer-Preuss at the Regional Seminar on Political Economy of Corruption on ADB/OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia and the Pacific (9 September 2009, ADB Headquarters, Mandaluyong City)


• News from Country Offices
• PRC TV Journalists Focus Attention on Climate Change


• News Releases
• ADB Approves $500 Million Fiscal Stimulus Loan to Kazakhstan
• ADB Hosts Meeting of Joint ADB/OECD Anti-Corruption Initiative


• Project Administration Memoranda
• Agriculture and Rural Development Project (Mongolia) [ PDF ]
• Dryland Sustainable Agriculture Project (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]

9 September 2009, Wednesday

• Cofinancing
• Regional Customs Modernization and Infrastructure Development Project (Cofinanced by the Government of the United States) (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Design and Monitoring Frameworks
• Rehabilitation of the Railway in Cambodia Project (Supplementary) (Cambodia) [ PDF ]


• Documents Produced Under TA
• Aceh-Nias Rehabilitation and Reconstruction (Indonesia) [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  


• Financing Agreements
• Financing Agreement for Sustainable Cotton Subsector Project between Republic of Tajikistan and Asian Development Bank dated 03 May 2007 (Tajikistan) [ PDF ]


• Loan Agreements
• Amendments to Rebate and Surcharge Provisions of Loan Agreement for National Highway Development Sector Investment Program - Project 1 between Islamic Republic of Pakistan and ADB dated 22 June 2007 (Pakistan) [ PDF ]
• Amendments to Rebate and Surcharge Provisions of Loan Agreement for Private Participation in Infrastructure Program between the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Asian Development Bank dated 22 June 2007 (Pakistan) [ PDF ]
• Amendments to Rebate and Surcharge Provisions of Loan Agreement for Rawalpindi Environmental Improvement Project between the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and ADB dated 22 June 2007 (Pakistan) [ PDF ]


• Procurement Notices
• Kashkadarya and Navoi Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project (Uzbekistan)


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Multitranche Financing Facility Power Transmission Enhancement Investment Program, Tranche 3 (Volume 2: Appendices) (Pakistan) [ PDF ]
• Multitranche Financing Facility Power Transmission Enhancement Investment Program, Tranche 3 (Volume 1: Main Report) (Pakistan) [ PDF ]
• North-South Road Corridor Investment Program (Armenia)


• Technical Assistance Consultant's Reports
• Assessment of the Rural Health Services System (China, People's Republic of)


• Translated Documents
• Administration of Cofinancing: Regional Customs Modernization and Infrastructure Development Project (Cofinanced by the Government of the United States) (Russian) [ PDF ]

8 September 2009, Tuesday

• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Facility Administration Memoranda
• Guangdong Energy Efficiency and Environment Improvement Investment Program, Tranche 1 (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Loan Agreements
• Loan Agreement for National Highway Development Sector Investment Program - Project 2 between the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Asian Development Bank dated 2 September 2009 (Pakistan) [ PDF ]


• Procurement Notices
• Northern Power Transmission Expansion Sector Project (Viet Nam)


• Procurement Plans
• Secondary Teacher Training and Professional Education Development Project (Viet Nam) [ PDF ]


• Project Agreements
• Project Agreement for National Highway Development Sector Investment Program-Project 2 between Asian Development Bank and National Highway Authority dated 2 September 2009 (Pakistan) [ PDF ]


• Special Evaluation Studies
• ADB Assistance for Public-Private Partnerships in Infrastructure Development-Potential for More Success (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Infrastructure Sectors Capacity Development (Timor-Leste) [ PDF ]
• Public Policy Training Program 2006 (Regional) [ PDF ]
• Strengthening Land Administration Services (Nepal) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Reports
• Procurement Capacity Development for Project Implementation and Administration for 2009–2011 (Regional) [ PDF ]

7 September 2009, Monday

• Country Operations Business Plan
• Thailand Country Operations Business Plan 2009-2011 (Thailand) [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Loan Major Changes in Scope
• Sustainable Cotton Subsector Project (Tajikistan) [ PDF ]


• Project Administration Memoranda
• Education Sector Reform Project (Mongolia) [ PDF ]

4 September 2009, Friday

• Country Partnership Strategy
• Nepal: 2010 - 2014 [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Grant Agreements
• Amendment Letter to the Grant Agreement for Tonle Sap Sustainable Livelihoods Project between Kingdom of Cambodia and ADB dated 15 June 2006 (Cambodia) [PDF]


• Initial Environmental Examination
• Preparing the Pilot Border Trade and Investment Development Project (Papua New Guinea)


• Procurement Notices
• Road Asset Management Project (Cambodia)
• Melamchi Water Supply Project, Kathmandu Valley Sub-Project - KUKL/DNI/03/05 (Nepal)
• Melamchi Water Supply Project, Kathmandu Valley Sub-Project - KUKL/DNI/03/18 (Nepal)


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• North Karnataka Urban Sector Investment Program (India) [ PDF ]


• Speeches
• Opening Address by ADB Country Director Robert Wihtol, Country Director at the International Workshop on Sanjiang Plain Watershed and Wetlands Protection (4 September 2009, Harbin, People's Republic of China)


• Technical Assistance Consultant's Reports
• Capacity Strengthening in Planning and Implementation of Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle Plant (China, People's Republic of)
• Strengthening Planning and Policy Dialogue for Education Sector (Tajikistan) [ PDF ]


• Working Paper Series
• Equity in Health and Health Care in the Philippines (No. 171) [ PDF ]

3 September 2009, Thursday

• Employment Opportunities
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Initial Poverty and Social Assessment
• Proposed Road Connectivity Project (Nepal) [ PDF ]


• News from Country Offices
• CAREC Institute Helps to Develop National Leaders


• Procurement Notices
• Power Distribution Enhancement Investment Program (Pakistan)


• Project Administration Memoranda
• Food and Nutrition Social Welfare Program and Project (Mongolia) [ PDF ]


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Lanzhou-Chongqing Railway Development Project (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]
• Power Transmission Enhancement Investment Program (Pakistan) [ PDF ]


• Shorlisted Firms - Technical Assistance
• Georgian Sustainable Urban Transport Project (TA No. 7296)


• Technical Assistance Consultant's Reports
• Land Use Planning of the Southern Highway Corridor from Kottawa to Godagama - Volume 3 (Sri Lanka) [ PDF ]
• Land Use Planning of the Southern Highway Corridor from Kottawa to Godagama - Volume 4 (Sri Lanka) [ PDF ]
• Land Use Planning of the Southern Highway Corridor from Kottawa to Godagama - Volume 5 (Sri Lanka) [ PDF ]
• Land Use Planning of the Southern Highway Corridor from Kottawa to Godagama - Volume 6 (Sri Lanka) [ PDF ]

2 September 2009, Wednesday

• Employment Opportunities
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Framework Financing Agreements
• Framework Financing Agreement for North Eastern Region Capital Cities Development Investment Program between India and Asian Development Bank (India) [ PDF ]


• Prequalified Contractors
• 2429-VIE: Song Bung 4 Hydropower Project - Package 1 (XL-01) and Package 2 (XL-02) (Viet Nam)


• Procurement Notices
• Melamchi Water Supply Project, Kathmandu Valley Sub-Project (Subproject 2) (Nepal)
• Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project (Armenia)


• Project Administration Memoranda
• Domestic Maritime Support (Sector) Project (Solomon Islands) [ PDF ]
• Guangxi Wuzhou Urban Development Project (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]
• Ningxia Integrated Ecosystem and Agricultural Development Project (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Speeches
• Opening Remarks ADB Country Director Ayumi Konishi at the Workshop on ADB Financial Products (27 August, Hanoi, Viet Nam)
• Opening Remarks ADB Country Director Ayumi Konishi at the Workshop on ADB Financial Products (25 August, Hanoi, Viet Nam)


• Supplementary Appendixes
• Power Transmission Enhancement PFR1 (Pakistan)


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Kabul Air Quality Management (Afghanistan) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Consultants' Reports
• Land Use Planning of the Southern Highway Corridor from Kottawa to Godagama - Volume 1 Southern Highway Corridor Profile (Sri Lanka) [ PDF ]
• Regional Development Strategy: Nepal's Choices in Fiscal Federalism (Nepal) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Reports
• Advanced Project Preparedness for Poverty Reduction (Financed by the Government of the United Kingdom) (India) [ PDF ]
• India Municipal Finance Study (Financed by the Republic of Korea e-Asia and Knowledge Partnership Fund (India) [ PDF ]

1 September 2009, Tuesday

• Documents Produced Under TA
• Central Asia South Asia Regional Electricity Market Project (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Environmental Monitoring Reports
• BLCP Power Project (Thailand)
• Dali-Lijiang Railway Project (China, People's Republic of)


• Loan Agreements
• Loan Agreement for Emergency Flood Recovery (Sector) Project between Republic of the Fiji Islands and Asian Development Bank (Fiji Islands) [ PDF ]


• Project Administration Memoranda
• North-West Frontier Province Road Development Sector and Subregional Connectivity (Pakistan) [ PDF ]


• Procurement Notices
• CAREC Transport Corridor 1 (Bishkek-Torugart Road) Project 2 (Kyrgyz Republic)


• Regional Cooperation Operations Business Plan
• South Asia 2010–2012 (Regional)


• Special Evaluation Study
• ADB Technical Assistance for Justice Reform in Developing Member Countries [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Company, Insolvency, and Secured Transactions Law Reform (Nepal) [ PDF ]
• International Conference 'Asia 2015: Ending Poverty?' (Regional) [ PDF ]
• WTO Membership and Foreign Trade Law Reform (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]

31 August 2009, Monday

• Design and Monitoring Frameworks
• Proposed Air Transport Capacity Enhancement Project (Nepal) [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Environment-related Documents
• Hairatan to Mazar-e-Sharif Railway Development Project (Afghanistan) [ PDF ]


• Grant Assistance Reports
• Early Childhood Education for Rural, Nomadic, and Migrant Children (Mongolia) [ PDF ]


• Procurement Notices
• Power Transmission Enhancement Investment Program (Pakistan)
• Power Transmission Enhancement Investment (Pakistan)


• Technical Assistance Consultant's Reports
• Capacity Building for Financial Management of Road Projects (Sri Lanka)


• Technical Assistance Reports
• Promoting Access to Renewable Energy in the Pacific (Regional) [ PDF ]

28 August 2009, Friday

• Advance Action on Procurement, Recruitment of Consultants
• Proposed Water Resources Development Investment Program (Afghanistan)


• Design and Monitoring Frameworks
• Tonle Sap Poverty Reduction and Smallholder Development Project (Cambodia) [ PDF ]


• Documents Produced Under Technical Assistance
• Reforming Pacific Contract Law (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Environmental Assessment Review Frameworks
• Tonle Sap Poverty Reduction and Smallholder Development Project (Cambodia) [ PDF ]


• Loan Agreements
• Loan Agreement for Mizoram Public Resource Management Program between India and Asian Development Bank (India) [ PDF ]
• Loan Agreement for Rural Roads Sector II Investment Program Project 4 between India and Asian Development Bank (India) [ PDF ]


• Project Agreements
• Program Agreement for Mizoram Public Resource Management Program between Asian Development Bank and State of Mizoram (India) [ PDF ]
• Project Agreement for Developing Public Resource Management in Mizoram Project between Asian Development Bank and State of Mizoram (India) [ PDF ]
• Project Agreement for Rural Roads Sector II Investment Program Project 4 between Asian Development Bank, Ministry of Rural Development and State of Assam (India) [ PDF ]
• Project Agreement for Rural Roads Sector II Investment Program Project 4 between Asian Development Bank, Ministry of Rural Development and State of Orissa (India) [ PDF ]
• Project Agreement for Rural Roads Sector II Investment Program Project 4 between Asian Development Bank, Ministry of Rural Development and State of West Bengal (India) [ PDF ]


• Report and Recommendation of the President
• Emergency Flood Recovery (Sector) Project (Fiji Islands) [ PDF ]


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Tonle Sap Poverty Reduction and Smallholder Development Project (Cambodia)


• Summary Poverty Reduction and Social Strategies
• Tonle Sap Poverty Reduction and Smallholder Development Project (Cambodia) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Renewable Energy Policy Formulation and Capacity Development of the Alternative Energy Development Board (Pakistan) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Loan Agreement
• Developing Public Resource Management in Mizoram Project between India and Asian Development Bank (India) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Reports
• Strengthening Capacity for Climate Change Adaptation (Sri Lanka) [ PDF ]

27 August 2009, Thursday

• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Environment-related Documents
• Community-Managed Irrigated Agricultural Sector Project (Nepal)
• Power Transmission Enhancement Investment Program (Pakistan)


• Procurement Notices
• Emergency Assistance Loan for Wenchuan Earthquake Reconstruction Project (China, People's Republic of)
• Jilin Urban Environmental Improvement Project (China, People's Republic of)
• Power Distribution Enhancement Investment Program (Pakistan)


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Hongling Road Network Project (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Preparing the PNG Gas Project (Papua New Guinea) [ PDF ]

26 August 2009, Wednesday

• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  


• Procurement Notices
• Clean Energy And Access Improvement Project (Sri Lanka)


• Publications
• Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2009  


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Countercyclical Support (Philippines) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Capacity Building for Gender Mainstreaming in Agriculture (Lao PDR) [ PDF ]
• Corporatization of the Dhaka Electric Supply Authority (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]
• Participatory Strategy Development and Implementation for Achieving the Millenium Development Goals (Azerbaijan) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Consultants' Reports
• Master Plan for Road Network Improvement Project (Afghanistan) [ PDF ]

25 August 2009, Tuesday

• Advance Action on Procurement, Recruitment of Consultants
• Proposed Water Resources Development Investment Program (Afghanistan)


• Country Strategy and Program
• Lao People's Democratic Republic: Country Strategy and Program Midterm Review (2007-2011) (Lao PDR) [ PDF ]


• Environmental Assessment Report
• Assam Power Sector Enhancement Investment Program (India) [ PDF ]


• Information and Instructive Materials
• From Strategy to Practice [ PDF ]
• Leading in the Workplace [ PDF ]


• Initial Poverty and Social Assessment
• Modernization and Improved Performance of the Amu Bukhara Irrigation System (Uzbekistan) [ PDF ]


• News from Country Offices
• Federated States of Micronesia Welcomes ADB Mission (Federated States of Micronesia)


• Documents Produced Under TA
• Public Sector Review and Improvements (Phrase 1) (Cook Islands) [ PDF ]
• Public Sector Review and Improvements (Phrase 2) (Cook Islands) [ PDF ]
• Songhua River Basin Water Pollution Control and Management Project (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Management Speeches
• Opening Address by ADB Vice-President Lawrence Greenwood at the Asia Pacific Procurement Forum - First Consultative Meeting (24 August 2009, ADB Headquarters, Mandaluyong City)


• Project Administration Manual
• Songhua River Basin Water Pollution Control and Management Project (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• GMS Rehabilitation of the Railway in Cambodia Project (Regional) [ PDF ]
• Ho Chi Minh City-Long Thanh-Dau Giay Expressway Construction Project (Vietnam)


• Supplementary Appendixes
• Khadi & Village Industries Development Program (India) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Rationalization of Public Enterprises Phase III (Tonga) [ PDF ]

24 August 2009, Monday

• Books, Periodicals, Studies, and Reports
• CAREC Transport and Trade Facilitation: Partnership for Prosperity


• Indigenous Peoples Development Plans
• Central Region Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project (Viet Nam)


• Procurement Notices
• Jilin Urban Environmental Improvement Project (China, People's Republic of)
• Power Transmission Improvement Sector Project (Indonesia)
• Lower Bari Doab Canal Improvement Project (Pakistan)


• Speeches
• Welcome Remarks by ADB Country Director Makoto Ojiro at the Signing Ceremony Co-financing Agreement between ADB and US Government – L2114-TAJ: Customs Modernization and Infrastructure Development Program (21 August 2009, Dushanbe, Tajikistan)

22 August 2009, Saturday

• Management Speeches
• Opening Remarks by ADB Vice-President Zhao Xiaoyu at the Book Launch on CAREC Transport and Trade Facilitation-Partnership for Prosperity (21 August 2009, ADB Headquaters, Mandaluyong City)

21 August 2009, Friday

• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies
• Local Staff Vacancies


• Environmental Monitoring Reports
• Uttarakhand State Road Investment Program (Subproject 1) (India)


• Initial Poverty and Social Assessment
• CASAREM - Talimarjan Power Generation and Transmission Project (Uzbekistan) [ PDF ]


• Procurement Plans
• Western Basins Water Resources Management Project (Afghanistan) [ PDF ]


• Project Administration Memoranda
• Agrarian Reform Communities Project II (Philippines) [ PDF ]


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Railway Sector Investment Program: Tongi-Bhairab Bazar Double Line Subproject (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]


• Social and Environmental Monitoring Reports
• Anhui Hefei Urban Environment Improvement Project (China, People's Republic of)
• Jilin Water Supply and Sewerage Development Project (China, People's Republic of)


• Summary Environmental Impact Assessment
• Himachal Pradesh Clean Energy Development Investment Program: Sainj Hydroelectric Project (100 MW) and Kashang Integrated Stage II and III Hydroelectric Project (India) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Strengthening Epidemiological Surveillance and Response for Communicable Diseases in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Philippines (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Consultants' Reports
• Financial Sector Governance (Kazakhstan) [ PDF ]

20 August 2009, Thursday

• Books, Periodicals, Studies, and Reports
• Intersections - Gender, HIV, and Infrastructure Operations: Lessons from Selected ADB–Financed Transport Projects


• Information and Instructive Materials
• Enhancing Knowledge Management Strategies


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Improving Aid Coordination and Portfolio Management (Tajikistan) [ PDF ]

19 August 2009, Wednesday

• Advance Action on Procurement and Recruitment of Consultants
• Proposed MFF for the North-South Road Corridor Development Program (Armenia)


• Country Assistance Program Evaluation
• Country Assistance Program Evaluation for the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam (Viet Nam) [ PDF ]


• Environmental Monitoring Reports
• BLCP Power Project Environmental Protection and Mitigation Measures Implementation Report During Construction and Operation Period of BLCP Power Plant and Operation Period of Coal Unloading Facilities Project (Thailand) [ PDF ]
• BLCP Power Project Environmental Protection and Mitigation Measures Implementation Report During Construction and Operation Period of BLCP Power Plant and Operation Period of Coal Unloading Facilities Project (Thailand) [ PDF ]
• BLCP Power Project Environmental Protection and Mitigation Measures Implementation Report During Construction and Operation Period of BLCP Power Plant and Operation Period of Coal Unloading Facilities Project (Thailand) [ PDF ]


• Procurement Notices
• Proposed Road Network Project II (Bhutan)
• Western Regional Road Corridor Development Project (Mongolia)
• Power Distribution Enhancement Investment Program - ADB-PESCO-08-2009 for Procurement of Static Energy Meter, LT,MDI Meter & 11KV Sectionalizers (Auto reclosures type) (Pakistan)
• Power Distribution Enhancement Investment Program - ADB-PESCO-07-2009 for Procurement of Line Hardware (Pakistan)
• Power Distribution Enhancement Investment Program - ADB/PESCO/04-2009 for Procurement Grid Station Equipment (Pakistan)
• Proposed Civil Aviation Development Investment Program (Papau New Guinea)
• Proposed Eastern and North Central Provincial Road Project (Sri Lanka)


• Procurement Plans
• Mizoram Public Resource Management Program (India) [ PDF ]


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Mizoram Public Resource Management Program (India) [ PDF ]


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Urban Development Sector Project (Mongolia) [ PDF ]


• Sector Assistance Program Evaluation
• Asian Development Bank Support for the Transport Sector in Viet Nam (Viet Nam) [ PDF ]
• Urban Services and Water Supply and Sanitation Sector (Viet Nam) [ PDF ]


• Social and Environmental Monitoring Reports
• Tangguh Liquefied Natural Gas Project (Indonesia) [ PDF ]


• Speeches
• Welcome Remarks by ADB Country Director Richard Vokes at the Sri Lanka National Expert Workshop for Regional Economics of Climate Change in South Asia: Part 1 - Technologies and Options (17 August 2009, Colombo, Sri Lanka)


• Working Paper Series
• Are Developing Asia’s Foreign Exchange Reserves Excessive? An Empirical Examination (No. 170) [ PDF ]

18 August 2009, Tuesday

• Advance Action on Procurement and Retroactive Financing
• Anhui Integrated Sector Improvement Project (China, People's Republic of)


• Books, Periodicals, Studies, and Reports
• Broken Lives: Trafficking in Human Beings in Lao People's Democratic Republic
• Damage, Loss and Needs Assessment: An introduction for staff of the Asian Development Bank
• The Significance of Referral Systems as a Response to Human Trafficking and Unsafe Migration


• Board Minutes
• Board Minutes, 20 July 2009 (10:00 A.M) [ PDF ]
• Board Minutes, 14 July 2009 (10:00 A.M) [ PDF ]


• Environmental Monitoring Reports
• BLCP Power Project: Environmental Protection and Mitigation Measures Implementation Report During Construction and Operation Period of BLCP Power Plant and Operation Period of Coal Unloading Facilities Project (January to December 2007) (Thailand) [ PDF ]


• Grant Assistance Reports
• Developing Model Healthy Villages in Northern Lao People's Democratic Republic (Financed by the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction) (Lao People's Democratic Republic) [ PDF ]


• Impact Evaluation Study
• Impact of Rural Water Supply and Sanitation in Punjab, Pakistan [ PDF ]


• Initial Poverty and Social Assessment
• Preparing for Kolkata Environmental Improvement Project II (India) [ PDF ]


• News Releases
• ADB Calls for New Solutions to Help Asia Meet Growing Water, Sanitation Needs
• ADB Provides $100 Million for Public Finance Reforms in Mizoram, India


• Procurement Notices
• Surkhandarya Water Supply and Sanitation Project (Uzbekistan)


• Social and Environmental Monitoring Reports
• North Luzon Expressway Rehabilitation and Expansion Project (Philippines) [ PDF ]
• Tangguh Liquefied Natural Gas Project Operator’s Social Report – Part One Land Acquisition and Resettlement Action Plan (LARAP) (Indonesia) [ PDF ]
• Tangguh Liquefied Natural Gas Project Operator’s Social Report – Part Two Integrated Social Programme (Indonesia) [ PDF ]
• Tangguh Liquefied Natural Gas Project Operator’s Environmental, Health and Safety Report (Indonesia) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Strengthening Financial Management Capacity (Timor-Leste) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Consultants' Reports
• Enhancing Financial Disclosure Standards in Transitional Economies (Regional)
• Improving Capacity of the Afghanistan Electricity Authority (Afghanistan)

17 August 2009, Monday

• Books, Periodicals, Studies, and Reports
• Water Rights and Water Allocation: Issues and Challenges for Asia


• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies
• Local Staff Vacancies


• News Release
• Concerted Action Needed Now to Help Stabilize Pacific Economies, Says ADB


• Newsletters
• Urban Services


• Policies and Strategies
• ADB's Response to the Global Economic Crisis: An Update [ PDF ]


• Procurement Notices
• Proposed Eastern and North Central Provincial Road Project [ PDF ]


• Project Completion Reports
• Postsecondary Education Development Project (Maldives) [ PDF ]


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Participatory Small-Scale Water Resources Sector Project (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Reports
• Recycling Waste Coal for Power Generation (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Working Paper Series
• Developing Asia's Sovereign Wealth Funds and Outward Foreign Direct Investment (No. 169) [ PDF ]

14 August 2009, Friday

• Books, Periodicals, Studies, and Reports
• Pacific Economic Monitor: Issue No.2 - August 2009


• Design and Monitoring Frameworks
• Road Network Project II (Bhutan) [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies
• Local Staff Vacancies


• Events
• Training Course on Regional Economic and Financial Monitoring (REFM) (ADB Headquarters, Manila, Philippines: 17 August to 11 September 2009)


• Information and Instructive Materials
• Building Trust in the Workplace


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Rural Income and Sustainable Development Project (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]

13 August 2009, Thursday

• Conference Papers and Proceedings
• Greater Mekong Subregion Economic Cooperation Program 15th Ministerial Conference (Thailand) [ PDF ]


• Documents Produced Under TA
• TA 4977-PAL Preparing the Babeldaob Water Supply Project (Palau) [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies
• Local Staff Vacancies


• Loan Agreements
• Loan Agreement for North Eastern Region Capital Cities Development Investment Program - Project 1 between Asian Development Bank and India [ PDF ]


• News Release
• ADB to Help Deliver Renewable Energy to the Pacific


• News from Country Offices
• ADB Disburses $40 Million Crisis Recovery Support Grant to Tajikistan (Tajikistan) [ PDF ]
• ADB and Tajikistan Sign $20 Million Grant to Improve Key Highway (Tajikistan) [ PDF ]


• Procurement Notices
• Railway Sector Improvement Program: Bangladesh Railway Reform Project (Bangladesh)
• Proposed Civil Aviation Development Investment Program (Papua New Guinea)
• Airport Security Fencing and Associated Works (Papua New Guinea)


• Project Agreements
• Project Agreement for North Eastern Region Capital Cities Development Investment Program - Project 1 between Asian Development Bank, Ministry of Urban Development and State of Meghalaya (India) [ PDF ]
• Project Agreement for North Eastern Region Capital Cities Development Investment Program - Project 1 between Asian Development Bank, Ministry of Urban Development and State of Mizoram (India) [ PDF ]
• Project Agreement for North Eastern Region Capital Cities Development Investment Program - Project 1 between Asian Development Bank, Ministry of Urban Development and State of Nagaland (India) [ PDF ]
• Project Agreement for North Eastern Region Capital Cities Development Investment Program - Project 1 between Asian Development Bank, Ministry of Urban Development and State of Sikkim (India) [ PDF ]
• Project Agreement for North Eastern Region Capital Cities Development Investment Program - Project 1 between Asian Development Bank, Ministry of Urban Development and State of Tripura (India) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Developing Agricultural Insurance (Viet Nam) [ PDF ]
• Road Safety Improvement (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Reports
• Karnataka State Highway Network Improvement Strategy (India) [ PDF ]


• Translated Documents
• ADB Disburses $40 Million Crisis Recovery Support Grant to Tajikistan (Russian) [ PDF ]
• ADB and Tajikistan Sign $20 Million Grant to Improve Key Highway (Russian) [ PDF ]

12 August 2009, Wednesday

• Management Speeches
• Introductory Remarks by ADB Vice-President Ursula Schaefer-Preuss at the 9th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific on Satellite Meeting: Data Sources, Data Uses - Identify Gaps in HIV Data for Decision Making in Asia and the Pacific Region (12 August 2009, Jakarta, Indonesia)


• Procurement Notices
• Domestic Apron Extension and Associated Works at Port Moresby International Airport (Papua New Guinea)
• Kashkadarya and Navoi Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project (Uzbekistan)


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Ho Chi Minh City-Long Thanh-Dau Giay Expressway Construction Project (Viet Nam)


• Speeches
• Welcome Remarks by ADB Country Director Robert Wihtol at the Gansu Heihe Hydropower Development (MFF) Showcase Workshop (Lanzhou, Gansu Province, 12 August 2009)


• Technical Assistance Consultants' Reports
• Strengthening Results Management in Support of Poverty Reduction in Tajikistan (Financed by the Cooperation Fund in Support of Managing for Development Results and the Government of Sweden) (Tajikistan)

11 August 2009, Tuesday

• Employment Opportunities
• Local Staff Vacancies


• Knowledge Solutions
• The Roots of an Emerging Discipline (No. 56 | August 2009) [ PDF ]
• Managing Virtual Teams (No. 55 | August 2009) [ PDF ]


• Management Speeches
• Introductory Remarks by ADB Vice-President Ursula Schaefer-Preuss at the 9th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific on Infrastructure Development: Mitigating HIV Risks beyond the Construction Phase (11 August 2009, Jakarta, Indonesia)
• Introductory Remarks by ADB Vice-President Ursula Schaefer-Preuss at the 9th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific on Data Sources, Data Uses - Identify Gaps in HIV Data for Decision Making in Asia and the Pacific Region (10 August 2009, Jakarta, Indonesia)


• News Release
• ADB Signs Trade Financing Agreements with Eight Nepali Banks


• Procurement Notices
• Sustainable Power Sector Development Project (Bangladesh)
• Jilin Urban Environmental Improvement Project (China, People's Republic of)
• Balochistan Road Development Sector Project (Pakistan)


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Revised and Updated Resettlement Action Plan for KVWSS Subproject 2 (Nepal) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Consultants' Reports
• Technical Assistance for Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Financed by the Gender and Development Cooperation Fund): Supporting At-Risk and Vulnerable to HIV/AIDS in the Philippines (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Corporatization of Dhaka Electric Supply Authority (DESA) (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]

10 August 2009, Monday

• Consultants' Reports
• Postsecondary Education Modernization Project (Sri Lanka)


• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies
• Local Staff Vacancies


• Environmental Impact Assessment
• Subregional Road Corridors Development Program (Georgia)


• News Release
• ADB and Partners Address HIV Risks in Infrastructure Projects


• Procurement Notices
• Integrated Ecosystem and Water Resources Management in the Baiyangdian Basin Project (China, People's Republic of)


• Technical Assistance Reports
• Postsecondary Education Modernization Project (Sri Lanka) [ PDF ]
• Supporting Capacity Development for Wastewater Management Services in Colombo (Cofinanced by the Multi-Donor Trust Fund under the Water Financing Partnership Facility) (Sri Lanka) [ PDF ]

8 August 2009, Saturday

• Speeches
• Remarks by ADB Country Director Makoto Ojiro at the Signing of the Grant Agreement for Dushanbe-Kyrgyz Border Rehabilitation Project, Phase II - Supplementary (07 August 2009, Dushanbe, Tajikistan)

7 August 2009, Friday

• Cofinancing
• Financing Partnerships [ PDF ]


• Consultants' Reports
• Facility for Economic Infrastructure Management (Palau)


• Documents Produced Under TA
• Strategic Framework and Action Plan for Human Resource Development in the GMS (Regional) [PDF]


• Employment Opportunities
• Local Staff Vacancies


• Loan Agreements
• Amendment to the Loan Agreement for the Financial Sector Development Project between Kingdom of Bhutan and ADB dated 25 May 2009 (Bhutan) [PDF]


• Others
• Profiles of Progress: Papua New Guinea


• Technical Assistance Consultant's Reports
• Railway Sector Investment Program (India)


• Technical Assistance Reports
• Rural Pension Reform and Development (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]

6 August 2009, Thursday

• Civil Society Briefs
• Afghanistan [ PDF ]
• India [ PDF ]
• Pakistan [ PDF ]


• Consultants' Reports
• Power Sector Reforms in Nepal (Nepal)
• Sustainable Replication and Scaling Up of Small Piped Water Networks (Regional)


• Design and Monitoring Frameworks
• Local Government Financing and Budget Reform Program (Subprogram 2) (Philippines) [ PDF ]


• Economic Assessment
• Country Partnership Strategy (2010-2014) (Vanuatu) [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• Local Staff Vacancies


• Initial Poverty and Social Assessment
• Songhua River Basin Water Pollution Control and Management Project Private Sector Facility (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Management Speeches
• Remarks by ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda on Steering a New Course at the 40th Pacific Islands Forum (05 August 2009, Cairns, Australia)


• Policies and Strategies
• An Operational Plan for Improving Health Access and Outcomes Under Strategy 2020


• Progress Reports on Tranche Releases
• Mong Duong 1 Thermal Power Project (Viet Nam) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Selected Evaluation Studies for 2004 (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Consultant's Reports
• Corporatization of the Dhaka Electric Supply Authority (Bangladesh)
• Preparing the Kerala Power Sector Development Program (India)
• Urban Public and Environmental Health Sector Development Program (Bangladesh)

5 August 2009, Wednesday

• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies
• Local Staff Vacancies


• Initial Poverty and Social Assessment
• Punjab Cities Improvement Investment Program (Pakistan) [ PDF ]


• Procurement Notices
• Gas Transmission and Development Project, Part A (Bangladesh)
• Southern Gansu Roads Development Project (China, People's Republic of)
• Uttarakhand State Roads Investment Programme Project-2 (India)


• Speeches
• Opening Remarks by Country Director Makoto Ojiro at the 2009 Mid-Year Press Conference (04 August 2009, Dushanbe, Tajikistan)


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Preparing the Microfinance for Rural Development Project (Philippines) [ PDF ]

4 August 2009, Tuesday

• Advance Contracting and Retroactive Financing
• Proposed Multitranche Financing Facility (MFF) for Water Supply and Sanitation Investment Program (Azerbaijan)


• Advance Action on Procurement, Recruitment of Consultants
• Fiji Flood Recovery Project (Fiji Islands)


• Design and Monitoring Frameworks
• Georgian Sustainable Urban Transport Project (Georgia) [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• Local Staff Vacancies


• Grant Agreements
• Dushanbe-Kyrgyz BordGeorgiaer Road Rehabilitation Project, Phase II - Supplementary between Republic of Tajikistan and ADB (Tajikistan, Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Initial Poverty and Social Assessment
• Georgian Sustainable Urban Transport Project (Georgia) [ PDF ]


• Loan Agreements
• Amendment to the Loan Agreement for Local Government Infrastructure Improvement Project between Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and ADB Dated 19 December 2007 (Sri Lanka) [ PDF ]
• Amendment to the Loan Agreement for Local Government Infrastructure Improvement Project between Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and ADB Dated 22 January 2008 (Sri Lanka) [ PDF ]
• Amendment to the Loan Agreement for Local Government Infrastructure Improvement Project between Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka and ADB Dated 25 March 2009 (Sri Lanka) [ PDF ]
• Municipal Services Development Project - Phase II between Georgia and ADB (Georgia) [ PDF ]


• Management Speeches
• Statement by ADB Vice-President Ursula Schaefer-Preuss on RETA 6364: Measurement and Policy Analysis for Poverty Reduction at the Seminar and Workshop on Panel Data Analysis and Small Area Estimation (3 August 2009, ADB Headquarters, Mandaluyong City)
• Opening Address by ADB Vice-President Dr. Bindu N. Lohani at the Second Regional Forum on Financial Asset and Liability and Risk Management on Asian Financial and Economic Crisis: Recovery and Regional Response (29-31 July 2009, Mariott Hotel, Singapore)


• Procurement and Other Notices
• Power Distribution Enhancement Investment Program (Pakistan)
• Southern Transport Development Project (Sri Lanka)


• Project Agreements
• Municipal Services Development Project - Phase II between ADB and Municipal Development Fund of Georgia (Georgia) [ PDF ]


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Land Acquisition and Resettlement Plan (Georgia) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Reports
• Regional Economic Integration in Central Asia: Stocktaking and Experience Sharing (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Preparing the Rural Microfinance Project (Indonesia) [ PDF ]

3 August 2009, Monday

• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies
• Local Staff Vacancies


• Environmental Monitoring Reports
• Karnataka Urban Development and Coastal Environmental Management Project (India) [ PDF ]
• Madhya Pradesh State Roads Sector Project II (India) [ PDF ]


• Management Speeches
• Commencement Speech by MDG Rajat M. Nag at the Asian Institute of Management - Master in Development Management Program Graduation Ceremony (31 July 2009, Makati City)


• Newsletters
• JRO E-Newsletter


• Procurement Notices
• Melamchi Water Supply Project, Kathmandu Valley Sub-Project (Subproject 2) (Nepal)
• Northern Power Transmission Expansion Sector Project (Viet Nam)


• Project Completion Reports
• Northwestern Rural Development Project (Cambodia) [ PDF ]
  


• Strategy and Program Assessments
• Environment Assessment (Vanuatu) [ PDF ]
• Gender Assessment (Vanuatu) [ PDF ]
• Governance Assessment (Vanuatu) [ PDF ]
• Power Sector Assessment (Vanuatu) [ PDF ]
• Transport Assessment (Vanuatu) [ PDF ]
• Urban Sector Assessment (Vanuatu) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Energy Conservation and Resource Management (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]
• Preparing the Kerala Power Sector Development Program (India) [ PDF ]
  

2 August 2009, Sunday

• Speeches
• Keynote Speech by ADB Phippine Country Director Neeraj Jain on Issues and Challenges in Asian Economies at the AIM Business Week (23 July 2009, Makati City)

31 July 2009, Friday

• Country Partnerships Strategy
• Papua New Guinea: Country Strategy and Program Midterm Review (2006-2010) [ PDF ]


• Grant Assistance Reports
• Protecting the Health Status of the Poor during the Financial Crisis (Financed by the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction) (Mongolia) [ PDF ]


• Loan Agreements
• Amendment Letter to the Grant Agreement for Greater Mekong Subregion: Regional Communicable Diseases Control Project (Viet Nam Component) between Socialist Republic of Viet Nam and ADB Dated 14 March 2007 (Viet Nam) [ PDF ]
• Amendment Letter to the Loan Agreement for Madhya Pradesh State Roads Sector Project II between India and ADB dated 9 October 2007 (India) [ PDF ]


• Project Completion Reports
• MWSS New Water Source Development Project (Philippines) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Corporatization of the Bangladesh Power Development Board (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]
• Strengthening the Anti-Money Laundering Regime (Phase II) (Philippines) [ PDF ]

30 July 2009, Thursday

• Advance Action on Procurement of Goods and Works
• Proposed MFF for Subregional Road Corridors Development Program (Georgia)


• Consultant’s Reports
• Technical Assistance for Promoting Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment (Regional)


• Design and Monitoring Frameworks
• Greater Colombo Wastewater Management Project (Sri Lanka) [ PDF ]
• Health Sector Development Program (Lao PDR) [ PDF ]
• Proposed Multitranche Financing Facility Assam Power Sector Enhancement Investment Program (India) [ PDF ]
• Road Network Development (Sector) Project (Timor-Leste) [ PDF ]
• Rural Infrastructure Support to the PNPM Mandiri Project II (Indonesia) [ PDF ]


• Environmental Assessment Review Frameworks
• Rural Infrastructure Support to the PNPM Mandiri Project II (Indonesia) [ PDF ]
• Water Supply and Sanitation Services (Uzbekistan) [ PDF ]


• Indigenous Peoples Development Framework
• Water Supply and Sanitation Services (Uzbekistan)


• Procurement Notices
• Madhya Pradesh Power Sector Investment Program - Project 5 (DISCOM-W) - Transmission Component Project (Project 3) (India)


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Dushanbe-Kyrgyz Border Road Rehabilitation Project, Phase II (Supplementary) (Tajikistan) [ PDF ]


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Local Government Infrastructure Improvement Project: Library and Health Centre Building Subproject of Kuruvita Pradeshiya Sabha (Sri Lanka) [ PDF ]
• Road Network Development (Sector) Project (Timor-Leste)
• Rural Infrastructure Support to the PNPM Mandiri Project II (Indonesia)
• Water Supply and Sanitation Services (Uzbekistan)


• Speeches
• Speech by Cheolsu Kim, Principal Financial Sector Specialist, Asian Development Bank, on the "GLOBAL SMEs SUMMIT: Business Partnership Meet - 2009" Valedictory Session on "SMEs: The Way Forward" at the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (29 July 2009, India)


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Employment Services for Migrant Workers (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]
• Enhancing the Business Environment of the Greater Mekong Subregion (Regional) [ PDF ]
• Facility for Policy Reform and Capacity Building III (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]
• Legal System Development up to 2010 and Capacity Building for Secured Transaction (Viet Nam) [ PDF ]
• Rural Finance Reforms and Development of Microfinance Institutions (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Reports
• Sustainable Fuel Partnership Study: Exploring an Innovative Market Scheme to Advance Sustainable Transport and Fuel Security (Cofinanced by the Government of Austria) (Regional) [ PDF ]

29 July 2009, Wednesday

• Consultants' Reports
• Establishment of an Information Center in the Ministry of Labour, Commerce and Industries (Tonga) [ PDF ]
• Support for Implementation of the Anti-Money Laundering Decree (Vietnam)


• Country Partnership Strategy
• Midterm Review 2006-2010 (Bhutan) [ PDF ]


• Environmental Assessment Review Frameworks
• Water Supply and Sanitation Investment Program (Azerbaijan) [ PDF ]


• Grant Major Changes in Scope
• Emergency Assistance Project (Solomon Islands) [ PDF ]


• Initial Poverty and Social Assessment
• North Karnataka Urban Sector Investment Program (Tranche II) (India) [ PDF ]


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Municipal Services Development Project - Phase 2 (Georgia) [ PDF ]


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Education Sector Program Cluster (Subprogram III) (Nepal)
• Kashkadarya and Navoi Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project: LARP for Yakkabag Subproject (Uzbekistan, Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Chittagong Port Efficiency Improvement (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]


• Working Paper Series
• Fiscal Decentralization, Fiscal Incentives, and Pro-Poor Outcomes: Evidence from Viet Nam (No. 168) [ PDF ]
• Public Goods Access and Juvenile Sex Ratios in Rural India: Evidence from the 1991 and 2001 Village Census Data (No. 167) [ PDF ]

28 July 2009, Tuesday

• Advance Action on Procurement and Retroactive Financing
• Education For The Poor - Financial Crisis Response Project
(Mongolia)


• Consultants' Reports
• Irrigation Systems Operation Efficiency Improvement Project (Philippines) [ PDF ]


• CPS Initiating Paper
• Nepal: 2010 - 2014 [ PDF ]


• Design and Monitoring Frameworks
• Proposed Multitranche Financing Facility for Water Supply and Sanitation Investment Program (Azerbaijan) [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Kashkadarya and Navoi Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project (Uzbekistan) [ PDF ]


• Strategy and Program Assessments
• Climate Change and Adaptation Road Map (Palau) [ PDF ]
• Gender Assessment (Palau) [ PDF ]
• Governance Assessment (Palau) [ PDF ]
• Infrastructure Road Map (Palau) [ PDF ]
• Private Sector Road Map (Palau) [ PDF ]
• Public Sector Reform Road Map (Palau) [ PDF ]
• Water and Sanitation Sector Road Map (Palau) [ PDF ]

27 July 2009, Monday

• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Procurement Notices
• Urban Infrastructure Development Project (Bhutan)

24 July 2009, Friday

• Economic Updates
• Nepal: Political and Economic Update (Nepal) [ PDF ]


• Management Speeches
• Statement by ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda at the Press Conference (23 July 2009, Hotel Pan Pacific Sonargaon, Dhaka, Bangladesh)


• Others
• Establishing the Carbon Capture and Storage Fund under the Clean Energy Financing Partnership Facility [ PDF ]


• Procurement Notices
• Jilin Urban Environmental Improvement Project (China, People's Republic of)
• Proposed Himachal Pradesh Clean Energy Development Program (HPCEDIP) - Project 2 (India)
• National Power Grid Development Investment Program (India)


• Special Evaluation Study
• ADB Support for Public Sector Reforms in the Pacific: Enhance Results through Ownership, Capacity, and Continuity (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Reports
• Improving Road Safety through the Application of Intelligent Transport Systems (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]

23 July 2009, Thursday

• Framework Financing Agreements
• Framework Financing Agreement for Power Transmission Enhancement Investment Program between Pakistan and Asian Development Bank (Pakistan) [ PDF ]


• Knowledge Showcases
• Knowledge Showcase: Rebuilding Low-Heritage Villages After Disasters [ PDF: 401kb | 2 pages ]
• Knowledge Showcase: Rebuilding Traditional Houses After Disasters [ PDF: 406kb | 2 pages ]


• Management Speeches
• Opening Remarks by ADB Vice-President Ursula Schaefer-Preuss at the Regional Forum on Social Assistance and Conditional Cash Transfer (23 July 2009, ADB Headquarters, Mandaluyong City)


• Procurement Notices
• Sustainable Power Sector Development Project (Bangladesh)


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Kashkadarya and Navoi Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project (Uzbekistan)


• Supplementary Appendixes
• India Infrastructure Project Financing Facility II (Supplementary Appendix E) (India) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Capacity Building for Municipal Service Delivery in Kerala (India) [ PDF ]

22 July 2009, Wednesday

• Chair's Summaries
• Energy Policy [ PDF ]
• Enhancing ADB's Response to the Global Economic Crisis - Establishing the Countercyclical Support Facility [ PDF ]


• Consultants' Reports
• Preparing the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Program - Subprogram II (Viet Nam) [ PDF ]


• Financing Agreements
• Financing Agreement for (CAREC Transport Corridor 1 [Bishkek-Torugart Road] Project 2) between Kyrgyz Republic and Asian Development Bank (Kyrgyz Republic) [ PDF ]


• Initial Poverty and Social Assessment
• Crop Diversification and Commercialization (Nepal) [ PDF ]


• Procurement Notices
• Taiyuan-Zhongwei Railway Project (China, People's Republic of)


• Program Administration Memoranda
• Power Sector Expansion Project (Samoa) [ PDF ]


• Project Completion Reports
• Xeset Hydropower Project (Lao PDR) [ PDF ]


• Report and Recommendation of the President
• CAREC Transport Corridor 1 (Bishkek-Torugart Road) Project 2 (Kyrgyz Republic) [ PDF ]
• Xeset Hydropower Project (Lao PDR) [ PDF ]
• Xeset Hydropower Project (Lao PDR) [ PDF ]


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Urban Development Sector Project (Mongolia)

21 July 2009, Tuesday

• Information Brochures and Other Publications
• Improving Results, Improving Lives: ADB's Water Financing Partnership Facility


• Design and Monitoring Frameworks
• Proposed Multitranche Financing Facility for the North-South Road Corridor Development Program (Facility Concept) (Armenia) [ PDF ]
• Proposed Multitranche Financing Facility for the North-South Road Corridor Development Program (Tranche 1) (Armenia) [ PDF ]
• Strengthening Higher Education Project (Lao PDR) [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Environmental Monitoring Reports
• Yichang-Wanzhou Railway Project (Interim Report in 2009) (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Greater Mekong Subregion Highway Expansion Project (Routes 12 and 359) (Thailand)
• Kashkadarya and Navoi Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project (Uzbekistan) [ PDF ]
• Road Network Project II (Bhutan)
• Water Resource Development Program (Afghanistan)


• Social Monitoring Report
• Guangxi Roads Development II Project (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• National Agriculture Sector Strategy (Pakistan) [ PDF ]

20 July 2009, Monday

• Design and Monitoring Frameworks
• Growth Diagnostic and Impact Evaluation (Kyrgyz Republic) [ PDF ]


• Policy Papers
• Safeguard Policy Statement [ PDF ]


• Procurement Notices
• Urban Infrastructure Development Project (Bhutan)


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Kashkadarya and Navoi Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project: Chirakchi Subproject (Uzbekistan, Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Capacity Building for Financial Regulation and Supervision (Regional) [ PDF ]
• Implementing the Regulatory and Supervisory Framework for Microfinance (Viet Nam) [ PDF ]

17 July 2009, Friday

• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  


• Loan Agreements
• Loan Agreement for Growth Recovery Support Program between Georgia and Asian Development Bank dated 6 July 2009 (Georgia) [ PDF ]


• Procurement Notices
• Proposed Heilongjiang Road Development II Project (Yichun-Nenjiang) (China, People's Republic of)


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Kashkadarya and Navoi Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project - Kanimekh Subproject (Uzbekistan) [ PDF ]


• Social and Environmental Monitoring Reports
• Guangxi Roads Development II Project (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Speeches
• Remarks by LRM Country Director Gil-Hong Kim at the Inception workshop of TA 7188: Building Lao PDR's Capacity to Develop Special Economic Zones (Vientiane, 16 July 2009)


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Operationalization of Managing for Development Results (Nepal) [ PDF ]

16 July 2009, Thursday

• Design and Monitoring Frameworks
• Anhui Integrated Transport Sector Improvement Project (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]
• Small and Medium Enterprise Development Project (India) [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Environmental Assessment Review Frameworks
• Energy Efficiency Investment Program (Pakistan) [ PDF ]


• Procurement Notices
• Madrasah Education Development Project (Uzbekistan)


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Power Transmission Enhancement Investment Program (Pakistan)
• Strengthening Higher Education Project (Lao People's Democratic Republic)


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Capacity Building for National Economic Policy Analysis and Development Management (Cambodia) [ PDF ]
• Developing the Social Security System (Viet Nam) [ PDF ]
• Planning for the Sustainable Development of Southern Thailand (Thailand) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Reports
• Policy Study on Government Public Expenditure in Agricultural Production (Cofinanced by the Climate Change Fund) (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]
• Regional Cooperation on Knowledge Management, Policy, and Institutional Support to the Coral Triangle Initiative (Cofinanced by the Regional Cooperation and Integration Fund under the Regional Cooperation and Integration Financing Partnership Facility and Global Environment Facility) (Regional) [ PDF ]

15 July 2009, Wednesday

• Chair's Summaries
• The Fifth General Capital Increase of the Asian Development Bank (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Board Minutes
• Board Minutes, 19 June 2009 (10:00 A.M) [ PDF ]
• Board Minutes, 25 June 2009 (10:00 A.M) [ PDF ]
• Board Minutes, 6 July 2009 (10:00 A.M) [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Evaluation Reports
• Country Assistance Program Evaluation for Nepal: Delivering Assistance in a Challenging Environment  


• Grant Agreements
• Grant Agreement for Crisis Recovery Support Program between Republic of Tajikistan and Asian Development Bank dated 7 July 2009 (Tajikistan) [ PDF ]


• Grant Assistance Reports
• Establishing Women and Children Service Centers (Nepal) [ PDF ]


• Initial Poverty and Social Assessment
• Preparing the Railway Development Program (Armenia) [ PDF ]


• Procurement Notices
• Kashkadarya and Navoi Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project (Uzbekistan)


• Procurement Plans
• Third Road Upgrading (Sector) Project (Fiji Islands, Republic of the) [ PDF ]


• Project Administration Memoranda
• Greater Mekong Subregion Southern Coastal Corridor Project (Viet Nam) [ PDF ]
• Ho Chi Minh City-Long Thanh-Dau Giay Expressway Construction Project (Viet Nam) [ PDF ]


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Anhui Integrated Transport Sector Improvement Project (China, People's Republic of)

14 July 2009, Tuesday

• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  


• Environmental Assessment Review Frameworks
• Islamic Infrastructure Fund (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Accelerating Economic Transformation Program - Subprogram 2 (Pakistan) [ PDF ]
• Islamic Infrastructure Fund (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Support Program Implementation and Coordination of SME Sector Development Program (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]
• Support to Implement the Anti-Money Laundering Decree (Viet Nam) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Consultant’s Reports
• Chittagong Port Efficiency Improvement Project (Bangladesh)

13 July 2009, Monday

• Chair's Summaries
• Crisis Response of Asian Development Fund-Allocation of Additional Liquidity (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Documents Produced Under TA
• Anticorruption Seminars, 2008-2009 (Financed by the Technical Assistance Special Fund) (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Policies and Strategies
• Crisis Response of Asian Development Fund-Allocation of Additional Liquidity (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Procurement Notices
• Power Distribution Enhancement Investment Program (Pakistan)


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Clean Energy Access Improvement Project (Nepal)
• Water Supply and Sanitation Investment Program (Azerbaijan)


• Technical Assistance Consultant’s Reports
• Cotton Sector Restructuring: Cotton Sector and Proposed Policy Reforms (Tajikistan) [ PDF ]

10 July 2009, Friday

• Design and Monitoring Frameworks
• Education Sector Program Cluster (Subprogram III) (Nepal) [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Loan Agreements
• Loan Agreement for Crisis Recovery Support Program between Republic of Armenia and Asian Development Bank (Armenia) [ PDF ]


• Procurement Notices
• Second Rural Infrastructure Improvement Project (RIIP-II) (Bangladesh)


• Project Completion Reports
• Alternative Livelihoods Development Project (Fiji Islands, Republic of the) [ PDF ]


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Crisis Recovery Support Program (Armenia) [ PDF ]
• National Highways Project (India) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Consultant's Reports
• National Highways Project (India) [ PDF ]
• Road Safety Improvement: Safer Road Design Guidelines Road Safety Audit (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]
• Road Safety Improvement: Road Accident Black Spot Guidelines Identification & Treatment (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Reports
• Capturing Economic Benefits from Ecosystem Services (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Translated Documents
• New Energy Policy Paper (Russian) [ PDF ]


• Working Paper Series
• Ageing Asia’s Looming Pension Crisis (No. 165) [ PDF ]

9 July 2009, Thursday

• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Procurement Notices
• Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Environment Improvement Project (China, People's Republic of)


• Social and Environmental Monitoring Reports
• Rajasthan Urban Sector Development Investment Program (India) [ PDF ]


• Speeches
• Welcome Remarks of Christopher T. Hnanguie, Country Economist, ADB Lao Resident Mission at the Consultation Workshop on the Policy Support and Incentives for Development of Small and Mini Hydropower projects in Lao PDR (8 July 2009, Lao Plaza Hotel, Vientiane)


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Improved Management of Shared Water Resources in Central Asia (Regional) [ PDF ]
• Preparing the Agricultural Land Improvement Project (Kyrgyz Republic) [ PDF ]

8 July 2009, Wednesday

• Advance Action on Procurement, Recruitment of Consultants
• Clean Energy Access Improvement Project (Nepal)


• Design and Monitoring Frameworks
• Proposed Multitranche Financing Facility for Subregional Road Corridors Development Program (Facility Concept) (Georgia) [ PDF ]
• Proposed Multitranche Financing Facility for Subregional Road Corridors Development Program (Tranche 1) (Georgia) [ PDF ]


• Procurement Notices
• National Power Grid Development Investment Program (India)
• Clean Energy Access Improvement Project (Nepal)
• Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project (EEAP) (Nepal)
• Lower Secondary Education for the Most Disadvantaged Regions Project (Viet Nam)


• Procurement Plans
• Proposed Supplementary Loan: National Highway Corridor (Sector) I Project (India) [ PDF ]


• Project Agreements
• Project Agreement for Dry Zone Urban Water and Sanitation Project between Asian Development Bank and National Water Supply and Drainage Board dated 29 June 2009 (Sri Lanka) [ PDF ]


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Growth Recovery Support Program (Georgia) [ PDF ]
• Proposed Supplementary Loan: National Highway Corridor (Sector) I Project (India) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Capacity Building for Customs and Trade Facilitation (Afghanistan) [ PDF ]
• Strategy for Sustainable Aquaculture Development for Poverty Reduction Project (Philippines) [ PDF ]

7 July 2009, Tuesday

• Consultants' Reports
• Preparing the South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Tourism Development Project (Regional)
• Strengthening Sound Environmental Management in the Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area (Supplementary) (Regional)


• Environmental Assessment Review Frameworks
• Proposed MFF for Subregional Road Corridors Development Program (Georgia) [ PDF ]


• Loan Agreements
• Loan Agreement for National Highway Corridor (Sector) I Project - Supplementary between India and Asian Development Bank (India) [ PDF ]


• Procurement Notices
• Southern Transport Development Project (Sri Lanka)


• Project Administration Memoranda
• Clean Energy and Access Improvement Project (Sri Lanka) [ PDF ]


• Project Agreements
• Project Agreement for National Highway Corridor (Sector) I Project - Supplementary between Asian Development Bank and National Highway Authority of India (India) [ PDF ]


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Crisis Recovery Support Program (Tajikistan) [ PDF ]


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Agriculture Sector Development Program (Cambodia)
• Visayas Base Load Power Development Project (Philippines)


• Sector Assistance Program Evaluation
• Urban Sector and Water Supply and Sanitation in Bangladesh (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]

6 July 2009, Monday

• Board Minutes
• Board Minutes, 23 June 2009 (10:00 A.M) [ PDF ]
• Board Minutes, 24 June 2009 (10:00 A.M) [ PDF ]


• Consultants' Reports
• Gansu Rural Clean Energy Development Project (China, People's Republic of)


• Grant Implementation Manual
• Vitamin A and Deworming for Improved Nutrition (formerly Salt & Flour Fortification for Improved Nutrition) (Viet Nam) [ PDF ]


• Policies and Strategies
• Enhancing ADB's Response to the Global Economic Crisis (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Project Administration Memoranda
• HIV/AIDS Prevention Among Youth (Viet Nam) [ PDF ]
• Northern Power Transmission Sector Project (Viet Nam) [ PDF ]


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• North Eastern Region Capital Cities Development Investment Program (India )


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Subregional Road Corridors Development Program (China, People's Republic of)


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Strengthening Asian Financial Markets (Regional) [ PDF ]

3 July 2009, Friday

• Design and Monitoring Frameworks
• Dushanbe-Kyrgyz Border Road Rehabilitation Project (Phase II) (Tajikistan) [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  


• Loan Agreements
• Loan Agreement for Xinjiang Urban Transport and Environmental Improvement Project between People's Republic of China and Asian Development Bank (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Procurement Notices
• Northern Power Transmission Expansion Sector Project (Viet Nam)


• Project Administration Memoranda
• Health Care in the Central Highlands (Viet Nam) [ PDF ]


• Project Agreements
• Project Agreement for Xinjiang Urban Transport and Environmental Improvement Project between Asian Development Bank and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Government (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Project Completion Reports
• Private Sector Infrastructure Facility at State Level Project (India) [ PDF ]


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Lanzhou Sustainable Urban Transport Project (China, People's Republic of)


• Summary Environmental Impact Assessment
• Anhui Integrated Transport Sector Improvement Project (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Capacity Building for Social Sector Reform (Thailand) [ PDF ]

2 July 2009, Thursday

• Chairman's Summaries
• Palau: Country Partnership Strategy (2009–2013) (Palau) [ PDF ]


• Concept Papers
• Establishment of a Market Place for Transfer of Low Carbon Technologies to Asia and Pacific (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Events
• 3rd Nonrevenue Water Management Training Course (6-9 July 2009; Hai Phong, Viet Nam)


• Environmental Assessment Review Frameworks
• Second Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project (Cambodia) [ PDF ]


• Indigenous Peoples Development Plans
• Assam Integrated Flood and Riverbank Erosion Risk Management Investment Program (India)


• Procurement Notices
• Mongolian Customs Modernization Project (Mongolia)
• Khatlon Province Flood Risk Management Project (Tajikistan)
• Power Transmission Enhancement Investment (Pakistan)


• Initial Environmental Examination
• Rural Roads Sector II Investment Program (Project 4) (India)


• Program Administration Memoranda
• Mekong Tourism Development Project (Viet Nam) [ PDF ]


• Project Completion Reports
• Education Sector Development Program (Cambodia) [ PDF ]


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Assam Integrated Flood and Riverbank Erosion Risk Management Investment Program (India)
• Second Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project (Cambodia)


• Social Monitoring Report
• Madhya Pradesh State Roads Sector Development Program (India) [ PDF ]


• Strategy and Program Assessments
• Private Sector Assessment for Mongolia [ PDF ]


• Summary Environmental Impact Assessment
• Road Network Project II (Bhutan) [ PDF ]


• Summary Initial Environmental Examination
• Second Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project (Cambodia) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Implementation and Monitoring of Policy Reforms in the Agriculture Sector (Uzbekistan) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Reports
• Tonle Sap Technology Demonstrations for Productivity Enhancement (Cambodia) [ PDF ]

1 July 2009, Wednesday

• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Environmental-related Documents
• Rural Roads Sector II Investment Program (India)


• Evaluation Information Briefs
• Lessons from the Asian Development Bank's Responses to Financial Crises (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Evaluation Study
• Agriculture and Natural Resources Sector (Nepal) [ PDF ]


• Evaluation Validation Reports
• Capacity Building on Corporate Governance and Insolvency Procedure (Kyrgyz Republic) [ PDF ]
• Energy Sector Restructuring Program (Pakistan) [ PDF ]
• Fisheries Resource Management Project (Philippines) [ PDF ]
• Metropolitan Medan Urban Development Project (Indonesia) [ PDF ]
• Ninth Power Project (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]


• Loan Agreements
• Loan Agreement for Accelerating Economic Transformation Program - Subprogram 2 between Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Asian Development Bank (Pakistan) [ PDF ]


• Major Change in Scope and Implementation Arrangements
• Anhui Hefei Urban Environment Improvement Project (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• News from Country Offices
• ADB Supports Quality and Safety of Agricultural Products and Promotes Biogas Development with $95 Million Loan (Viet Nam)


• Procurement Notices
• Road Maintenance and Upgrading (Sector) Project (Supplementary) - CSTB No. 1913A (Papua New Guinea)
• Road Maintenance and Upgrading (Sector) Project (Supplementary) (Papua New Guinea)


• Procurement Plans
• Xinjiang Urban Transport and Environmental Improvement Project (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Project Administration Memoranda
• Emergency Rehabilitation of Calamity Damage Project (Viet Nam) [ PDF ]


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Xinjiang Urban Transport and Environmental Improvement Project (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Speeches
• Opening Remarks by ADB Country Director Robert Wihtol at the Policy Forum on Sustainably Networking Government & Civil Society in HIV/AIDS Prevention (Beijing, 30 June 2009)


• Summary Environmental Impact Assessment
• MFF - Assam Integrated Flood and River Erosion Risk Management Investment Program (Subproject 1) (India) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Financial Sector Infrastructure Development (Uzbekistan) [ PDF ]
• Promoting Regional Cooperation in the Development of Insolvency Law Reforms (Regional) [ PDF ]
• Regional Financial Sector Development (Regional) [ PDF ]

30 June 2009, Tuesday

• Financing Agreements
• Financing Agreement for Social Sectors Support Program between Mongolia and Asian Development Bank (Mongolia) [ PDF ]


• Knowledge Solutions
• Learning Lessons with Knowledge Audits [ PDF ]


• Loan Agreements
• Loan Agreement for Accelerating Economic Transformation Program - Subprogram 2 between Islamic Republic of Pakistan and Asian Development Bank (Pakistan) [ PDF ]


• Procurement Notices
• Mongolian Customs Modernization Project (Mongolia)
• Proposed Himachal Pradesh Clean Energy Development Program (HPCEDIP) - Project 2 (India)
• Jilin Urban Environmental Improvement Project (China, People's Republic of)
• Jilin Urban Environmental Improvement Project (China, People's Republic of)
• Samoa Sanitation and Drainage Project (Samoa)
• Khatlon Province Flood Risk Management Project (Tajikistan)


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Greater Colombo Wastewater Management Project (Sri Lanka)


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Environmental Monitoring and Information Management System for Sustainable Land Use (Kazakhstan) [ PDF ]

29 June 2009, Monday

• Board Minutes
• Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Asian Development Bank, 15 June 2009 [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Events
• New Thinking on Water Governance: A Regional Consultation Workshop on Improving Water Governance (1-3 July 2009; Singapore)


• Others
• Cooperation with Australia: Additional Contribution to the Australian Grant Fund [ PDF ]
• Effectiveness of the Ninth Replenishment of the Asian Development Fund (ADF X) [ PDF ]


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


• Project Completion Report
• Smallholder Support Services Pilot Project (Papua New Guinea) [ PDF ]


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Multisector Project for Infrastructure Rehabilitation in Jammu and Kashmir (India)


• Working Paper Series
• Determinants of Structural Changes of Food Exports from Developing Countries (No. 166) [ PDF ]

26 June 2009, Friday

• Books, Periodicals, Studies, and Reports
• 2007 Development Effectiveness Review [ PDF ]
• Investing in Sustainable Infrastructure: Improving Lives in Asia and the Pacific


• Evaluation Information Brief
• Lessons from the Asian Development Bank's Responses to Financial Crises [ PDF ]


• Evaluation Validation Reports
• Capacity Building in Urban Infrastructure Management Project (Indonesia) [ PDF ]
• Participatory Development of Agricultural Technology Project (Indonesia) [ PDF ]
• Second Perennial Crops Development Project (Sri Lanka) [ PDF ]
• Support the Implementation of the Poverty Reduction Program II (Viet Nam) [ PDF ]
• Tea Development Project (Sri Lanka) [ PDF ]
• Urban and Environmental Infrastructure Facility Project (India) [ PDF ]


• Events
• Global Health Council's 36th Annual International Conference on Global Health New Horizons for Partnership: The Voice of Civil Society in Immunization (28 May 2009: Washington DC)


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Social Sectors Support Program (Mongolia) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Reports
• Selected Evaluation Studies for 2009-Phase 1 (Regional) [ PDF ]

25 June 2009, Thursday

• Events
• Fraud and Corruption Awareness Workshop (23-24 June 2009: Hanoi, Viet Nam)


• Initial Poverty and Social Assessment
• Visayas Base Load Power Project (Philippines) [ PDF ]


• Papers
• Explaining Inflation in Cambodia (Cambodia) [ PDF ]


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Multisector Project for Infrastructure Rehabilitation in Jammu and Kashmir: Town Roads Leh & Solar Colony Choglamsar Road (India) [ PDF ]


• Social and Environmental Monitoring Reports
• Kolkata Environmental Improvement Project: Quarterly Report: July - September 2008 (India) [ PDF ]


• Translated Documents
• Explaining Inflation in Cambodia (Khmer) [ PDF ]

24 June 2009, Wednesday

• Board Minutes
• Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Asian Development Bank, 18 June 2009 [ PDF ]
• Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Asian Development Bank, 16 June 2009 [ PDF ]
• Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Asian Development Bank, 4 June 2009 [ PDF ]
• Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Asian Development Bank, 3 June 2009 [ PDF ]
• Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Asian Development Bank, 15 May 2009 [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  


• Initial Poverty and Social Assessment
• Southeast Gobi Urban and Border Town Development Project (Mongolia) [ PDF ]


• Management Speeches
• Lecture by ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS)on "Asia's Recovery from the Global Financial Crisis-What It Takes and What Could ADB Do?" (22 June 2009, Raffles Hotel, Singapore)


• Procurement Notices
• Dushanbe - Kyrgyz Border Road Rehabilitation Project, Phase II (Tajikistan)
• Coal Mine Methane Development Project (China, People's Republic of)


• Program Administration Memoranda
• Bihar State Highways Project (India) [ PDF ]


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Sanjiang Plain Wetlands Protection Project: Naolihe Nature Reserve Resettlement Due Diligence Report (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Social and Environmental Monitoring Reports
• Kolkata Environmental Improvement Project: Quarterly Report: October - December 2008 (India) [ PDF ]


• Translated Documents
• Sanjiang Plain Wetlands Protection Project: Naolihe Nature Reserve Resettlement Due Diligence Report (Chinese) [ PDF ]

23 June 2009, Tuesday

• Country Assistance Program Evaluation
• Delivering Assistance in a Challenging Environment (Nepal) [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Management Speeches
• Welcome Remarks by ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda at the Singapore International Water Week (22 June 2009, Singapore)


• Procurement Notices
• Wuhan Wastewater and Stormwater Management Project (Contract No.: 0703-0920CIC5Y009) (China, People's Republic of)
• Wuhan Wastewater and Stormwater Management Project (China, People's Republic of)
• Uttarakhand Power Sector Investment Program- Project 4 (India)


• Program Performance Evaluation Report
• First Financial Sector Program Loan Cluster (Cambodia) [ PDF ]


• Sector Assistance Program Evaluation
• Agriculture and Natural Resources Sector in Nepal (Nepal) [ PDF ]

22 June 2009, Monday

• Advance Contracting and Retroactive Financing
• Second Small Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project (Nepal)


• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Grant Assistance Reports
• Capacity Building and Livelihood Enhancement of Poor Water Users (India) [ PDF ]


• Procurement Notices
• Sustainable Power Sector Development Project (Bangladesh)
• Sustainable Power Sector Development Project (Contract No. and Title: 241-NWPGCL/T-2/Siraj 150 MW / 2009) (Bangladesh)
• Power Distribution Enhancement Investment Program (Pakistan)
• Health Care in the Central Highlands Project (HICH Project) (Viet Nam)


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Tsunami Emergency Assistance (Sector) Project (India) [ PDF ]


• Supplementary Appendixes
• Xinjiang Urban Transport and Environmental Improvement (China, People's Republic of)


• Technical Assistance Consultants' Reports
• Agriculture and Rural Development Project (Mongolia)


• Translated Documents
• Mekong Nations to Expand Energy Cooperation Beyond Electric Power Sector (Japanese) [ PDF ]

19 June 2009, Friday

• Books, Periodicals, Studies, and Reports
• ADB Review June 2009


• Country Partnership Strategy
• Palau: 2009-2013 [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Events
• Transport Community of Practice Presentation: Road Project Delays and Costs - Top Ten Reasons and Possible Countermeasures (23 June 2009; ADB k-Hub)


• News from Country Offices
• Senior Officials Discuss Ways to Deepen Regional Cooperation in Central Asia (Tajiksitan)
• ADB Prepares New Strategy with Tajikistan (Tajiksitan)
• ADB, Tajikistan Discuss Supplementary Grant for Dushanbe-Kyrgyz Border Road Project (Tajiksitan)


• Procurement Notices
• Education for Knowledge Society Project (Pakistan)


• Project Administration Memoranda
• Rural Infrastructure Support to PNPM Mandiri Project (Indonesia) [ PDF ]


• Project Completion Reports
• Coastal Fisheries Management and Development Project (Papua New Guinea) [ PDF ]

18 June 2009, Thursday

• Design and Monitoring Frameworks
• Support for the Implementation of the Poverty Reduction Program V (Program Cluster) - Subprogram 2 (Viet Nam) [ PDF ]


• Documents Produced Under Loans
• Dushanbe-Kyrgyz Border Road Rehabilitation Project (Phase 2) (Pakistan) [ PDF ]


• Evaluation Validation Reports
• Education Sector Project (Samoa) [ PDF ]
• Lower Secondary Education Development Project (Viet Nam) [ PDF ]
• Sanitation, Public Health, and Environment Improvement Project (Kiribati) [ PDF ]
• Small and Medium Enterprise Development Project (Uzbekistan, Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Events
• 2nd NARBO Technical Advisory Committee Meeting (25 June 2009; Singapore)
• New Thinking on Water Governance: A Regional Consultation Workshop on Improving Water Governance (1-3 July 2009; Singapore)
• Singapore International Water Week (22-26 June 2009; Suntec, Singapore)
• Statistical Capacity Building (SCB) in the Asia and Pacific Region: Country Workshop Under RETA 6333 (22 June 2009; Maldives)


• Management Speeches
• Remarks on the Launch of the Energy for All Partnership by ADB Vice-President Ursula Schaefer-Preuss at the 4th Asia Clean Energy Forum 2009 (17 June 2009, ADB Headquarters, Mandaluyong City, Philippines)
• Welcome Remarks by ADB Vice-President Ursula Schaefer-Preuss at the ADB - Asia Clean Energy Forum 2009 (17 June 2009, ADB Headquarters, Mandaluyong City, Philippines)


• Policies and Strategies
• Energy Policy 2009 [ PDF ]


• Procurement and Other Notices
• Power Distribution Enhancement Investment Program (Pakistan)
• Power Distribution Enhancement Investment Program (Pakistan)
• Southern Transport Development Project (Nepal)


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• North Karnataka Urban Sector Investment Program (India) [ PDF ]
• North Karnataka Urban Sector Investment Program (India) [ PDF ]


• Working Paper Series
• The Impact of Exchange Rate on FDI and the Interdependence of FDI over Time (No. 164) [ PDF ]

17 June 2009, Wednesday

• Design and Monitoring Frameworks
• Punjab Government Efficiency Improvement Program (Subprogram 2) (Pakistan) [ PDF ]
• Urban Public and Environmental Health Sector Development Program (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Evaluation Validation Reports
• Secondary Education Modernization Project (Sri Lanka) [ PDF ]
• Technical Education Project (Malaysia) [ PDF ]


• Management Speeches
• Welcome Remarks by ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda at the High-Level Dialogue: Climate Change in the Asia and Pacific - A Development Challenge (16 June 2009, ADB Auditorium, Mandaluyong City)


• Procurement Notices
• Power Distribution Enhancement Investment Program (Contract No. : ADB-MEPCO-01-2009) (Pakistan)
• Power Distribution Enhancement Investment Program (Contract No. : ADB-MEPCO-02-2009) (Pakistan)
• Power Distribution Enhancement Investment Program (Contract No. : ADB-MEPCO-03-2009) (Pakistan)
• Power Distribution Enhancement Investment Program (Contract No. : ADB-MEPCO-04-2009) (Pakistan)
• Power Distribution Enhancement Investment Program (Contract No. : ADB-MEPCO-05-2009) (Pakistan)
• Power Distribution Enhancement Investment Program (Contract No. : ADB-MEPCO-06-2009) (Pakistan)
• Power Distribution Enhancement Investment Program (Contract No. : ADB-MEPCO-07-2009) (Pakistan)


• Progress Report on Tranche Release
• Agriculture Sector Development Program (Cambodia) [ PDF ]


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Urban Public and Environmental Health Sector Development Program (Bangladesh)


• Summary Poverty Reduction and Social Strategies
• Punjab Government Efficiency Improvement Program (Subprogram 2) (Pakistan) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Institutional Strengthening of Energy Regulatory Commission and Privatization of National Power Corporation (Philippines) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Consultants' Reports
• Preparing the Second Local Government Finance and Governance Reform Program (Financed by the Japan Special Fund) (Indonesia)


• Technical Assistance Report
• Road Database Development Using Geographic Information System (Mongolia) [ PDF ]

16 June 2009, Tuesday

• Books, Periodicals, Studies, and Reports
• Understanding and Responding to Climate Change in Developing Asia


• Procurement Notices
• Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project (Armenia)
• National Power Grid Development Investment Program - Tranche 2 (India)
• Samoa Power Sector Expansion Project  


• Project/Program Administration
• Post-Literacy and Continuing Education Project (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Municipal Waste to Energy Project (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Consultants' Reports
• Power Sector Development Plan (Papua New Guinea)

15 June 2009, Monday

• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Loan Agreements
• Loan Agreement for Madhya Pradesh Power Sector Investment Program - Project 5 between India and Asian Development Bank (India) [ PDF ]


• Management Speeches
• Speech by ADB Vice-President Xiaoyu Zhao at the 21st Plenary session of the Foreign Investors' Council (12 June 2009, Kostanai, Kazakhstan)


• Project Agreements
• Project Agreement for Madhya Pradesh Power Sector Investment Program - Project 5 between Asian Development Bank and State of Madhya Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh Poorv Kshetra Vidyut Vitaran Company Limited, Madhya Pradesh Madhya Kshetra Vidyut Vitaran Company Limited, and Madhya Pradesh Paschim Kshetra Vidyut Vitaran Company Limited (India) [ PDF ]


• Project Completion Reports
• Harbin Water Supply Project (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Southern Transport Corridor Road Rehabilitation Project (Kyrgyz Republic) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Consultants' Reports
• Preparing the Skills Enhancement Project (Financed by the Japan Special Fund) (Viet Nam, Socialist Republic of)

13 June 2009, Saturday

• Procurement Notices
• Power Distribution Enhancement Investment Program (Pakistan)

11 June 2009, Thursday

• Advance Action on Procurement
• Assam Power Sector Enhancement Investment Program (India)


• Conference Papers and Proceedings
• Economic Cooperation Program 15th Ministerial Conference (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Design and Monitoring Frameworks
• Proposed Preparatory Technical Assistance for Preparing the Railway Development Program (Armenia) [ PDF ]


• Procurement Notices
• Proposed Assam Power Sector Enhancement Investment Program (India)


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• National Highway Development Sector Investment Program: Sukkur – Jacobabad Road Project N-65 (Pakistan) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Preparing the Bangkok Mass Rapid Transit Integrated Ticketing Project (Thailand) [ PDF ]
• Supporting an Effective Institutional Framework for Fiscal Decentralization (Indonesia) [ PDF ]

10 June 2009, Wednesday

• Economic Updates
• Political and Economic Update (India) [ PDF ]


• Grant Agreements
• Grant Agreement for Capacity Building for Energy Efficiency Implementation between People's Republic of China and Asian Development Bank dated 27 May 2009 (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Procurement Notices
• Proposed Himachal Pradesh Clean Energy Development Program (HPCEDIP) - Project 2 (India)


• Project Agreements
• Project Agreement for Capacity Building for Energy Efficiency Implementation between Guangdong Provincial Government and Asian Development Bank dated 27 May 2009 (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Preparing the Energy Efficiency Enhancement Project in the Assam Power Sector (India) [ PDF ]


• Special Project Facilitator's Reports
• Multitranche Financing Facility for the National Highway Development Sector Investment Program (Pakistan) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Developing Deposit Services in Rural Cambodia (Cambodia) [ PDF ]
• Renewable Energy Development in Small Towns and Rural Areas (Mongolia) [ PDF ]


• Working Paper Series
• The Optimal Structure of Technology Adoption and Creation: Basic Research vs. Development in the Presence of Distance to Frontier (No. 163) [ PDF ]

9 June 2009, Tuesday

• Environment-related Documents
• Southern Transport Corridor Road Rehabilitation Project (Kyrgyz Republic)


• Initial Poverty and Social Assessment
• Urban Public and Environmental Health Sector Development Program (Bangladesh) [ PDF ]


• Loan Agreements
• Loan Agreement for Public Expenditure Support Facility Program between the Republic of Indonesia and Asian Development Bank (Indonesia) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Consultants' Reports
• Implementing Products and Services for the Domestic Debt Market (Cofinanced by the Government of Sweden) (Sri Lanka)


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Jiangsu Highway Build-Operate-Transfer Project (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]
• Strengthening and Collection of Purchasing Power Parity Data in Selected Developing Member Countries (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Reports
• Achieving Urban Water Security for South Asia (Financed by the Investment Climate Facilitation Fund under the Regional Cooperation and Integration Financing Partnership Facility) (Regional) [ PDF ]

8 June 2009, Monday

• Procurement Notices
• Conflict Affected Areas Rehabilitation Project (Sri Lanka)


• Technical Assistance Consultant's Reports
• Shanxi Integrated Agricultural Development Project (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]

5 June 2009, Friday

• Economic Updates
• Bangladesh Quarterly Economic Update (March 2009) [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Procurement Notices
• Proposed Balance Works and Four Lane Widening of South Section from Pinnaduwa to Matara Project (Sri Lanka)


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Greater Mekong Subregion: Northwestern Provincial Road Improvement Project (Cambodia)


• Technical Assistance Consultants' Reports
• Managing Railway Passenger Operations More Efficiently (China, People's Republic of)
• Road Safety Improvement (Cofinanced by the Global Road Safety Partnership) (China, People's Republic of)

4 June 2009, Thursday

• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Procurement Notices
• Rural Basic Education Project (Uzbekistan)


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Public Expenditure Support Facility Program (Indonesia) [ PDF ]


• Social and Environmental Monitoring Reports
• Private Sector Infrastructure Facility at State Level Project (India) [ PDF ]
• Western Guangxi Roads Development Project (China, People's Republic of)


• Strategy and Program Assessments
• Economic Report 2009: Accelerating Reform (Vanuatu) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Consultants' Reports
• Preparing the Strengthening Technical and Vocational Education and Training Project (Financed by the Japan Special Fund) (Cambodia)


• Technical Assistance Reports
• Preparation of the 2010 Asian Environment Outlook (Regional) [ PDF ]

3 June 2009, Wednesday

• Procurement Notices
• SOL Emergency Assistance Project (Solomon Island)
• Emergency Assistance Project (Solomon Island)


• Reports and Recommendations of the President
• Loan to Saigon Thuong Tin Bank (Sacombank) (Viet Nam) [ PDF ]


• Summary Environmental Impact Assessment
• Lanzhou Sustainable Urban Transport Project (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Capacity Building for Promoting Sustainable Development in the Greater Mekong Subregion (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Reports
• Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage Demonstration-Strategic Analysis and Capacity Strengthening (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]

2 June 2009, Tuesday

• Books, Periodicals, Studies, and Reports
• Pakistan Sindh Province: Public Financial Management and Accountability Assessment
• Pakistan Sindh Province: Baseline Indicators System, Baseline Procurement Performance Assessment Report


• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Management Speeches
• Opening Address by ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda at the East Asia Climate Forum on Asian Low Carbon Green Growth in the Global Context (29 May 2009, Seoul, Korea)


• Progress Reports on Tranche Releases
• Punjab Devolved Social Services Program (Pakistan)


• Project Administration Memoranda
• Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Project (Azerbaijan)


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Jharkhand State Roads Project (India)


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Sustainable Management System for Tree Crops Development Project (Indonesia) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Consultants' Reports
• Preparing the Improved Water Quality, Sanitation, and Service Delivery in Emerging Towns Sector Development Program (Nepal)


• Technical Assistance Reports
• Enhancing Economic Cooperation and Integration in Asia and the Pacific (Regional) [ PDF ]
• Infrastructure Services Delivery Improvement (Cook Islands) [ PDF ]

1 June 2009, Monday

• Employment Opportunities
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Environmental Assessment Review Frameworks
• Northeastern Region Capital Cities Development Investment Program (India) [ PDF ]


• Environmental-related Documents
• Northeastern Region Capital Cities Development Investment Program (India)


• Procurement Notices
• Lower Bari Doab Canal Improvement Project (Pakistan)


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• GMS Rehabilitation of the Railway in Cambodia (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Summary Environmental Impact Assessment
• Issyk-Kul Sustainable Development Project Summary Environmental Impact Assessment (Kyrgyz Republic)


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Building the Capacity of the Ministry of Commerce for Trade and Transit Facilitation (Afghanistan) [ PDF ]
• Poverty Reduction and Rural Renewable Energy Development (Afghanistan) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Consultants' Reports
• Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Transport Sector Strategy Study (Regional)


• Working Paper Series
• Saving in Asia: Issues for Rebalancing Growth (No. 162) [ PDF ]

29 May 2009, Friday

• Employment Opportunities
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Management Speeches
• Opening Remarks by ADB Vice-President Ursula Schaefer-Preuss at the ADB - ILO MOU Implementation Meeting ( 29 May 2009, ADB Headquarters, Mandaluyong City, Philippines)
• Keynote Speech by ADB President Haruhiko Kuroda on The Global Recession, ASEAN, and Aid for Trade: An Opportunity for Recovery at the Regional Meeting on Aid for Trade for Asia and the Pacific (28 May 2009, Siem Reap, Cambodia)


• Procurement Notices
• Power Transmission Enhancement Investment Program (Pakistan)
• Kashkadarya and Navoi Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project (Uzbekistan)


• Summary Environmental Impact Assessment
• Multitranche Financing Facility for the CAREC Transport Corridor 1 (Zhambyl Oblast Section) Investment Program-Tranche 2 (Kazakhstan) [ PDF ]
• Subregional Road Corridors Development Program (Georgia) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Consultant’s Report
• Enhancing the Business Environment of the Greater Mekong Subregion (Cofinanced by the Government of the People’s Republic of China) (Regional)

28 May 2009, Thursday

• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Initial Poverty and Social Assessment
• Kabul Distribution Network Rehabilitation Project (PFR 2 of MFF 0026) (Afghanistan) [ PDF ]
• Power Distribution Development Investment Program (Azerbaijan) [ PDF ]


• Loan Agreements
• Loan Agreement for Avatiu Port Development Project between Her Majesty the Queen in Right of the Government of the Cook Islands and Asian Development Bank dated 5 May 2009 (Cook Islands) [ PDF ]
• Loan Agreement for Avatiu Port Development Project between Her Majesty the Queen in Right of the Government of the Cook Islands and Asian Development Bank dated 5 May 2009 (Cook Islands) [ PDF ]


• Project Agreements
• Project Agreement for Avatiu Port Development Project between Asian Development Bank and The Cook Islands Ports Authority dated 5 May 2009 [2472/2473(SF)] (Cook Islands) [ PDF ]


• Procurement Notices
• Proposed Uttarakhand Power Sector Investment Program - Project 4 (India)
• The Preventive Health System Support Project (Viet Nam)


• Project Administration Memoranda
• Central Yunnan Roads Development Project (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Sanjiang Plain Wetlands Protection Project: Due Diligence Report of Farmland to Forest Conversion Component (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]

27 May 2009, Wednesday

• Books, Periodicals, Studies, and Reports
• ADB Review May 2009


• Country Performance Assessment Report
• Annual Report on the 2008 Country Performance Assessment Exercise [ PDF ]


• Documents Produced Under TA
• A Study on Results Based Planning in the Philippine Rural Development Sector (Background Paper for ADB TA 7190-PHI: Harmonization and Development Effectiveness) (Philippines) [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Events
• Regional Workshop on Transforming Business as Usual: Climate and Energy Security Solutions for Asia and the Pacific (ADB Headquarters Building, Manila: 15-19 June 2009)


• Management Speeches
• Keynote Remarks by ADB Vice-President Ursula Schäfer-Preuss on ADB Dialogue with Workers' Organizations (27 May 2009, Manila, Philippines)


• Procurement Notices
• Road Connectivity Sector I Project (Nepal)
• Woman and Child Health Development Project (Uzbekistan)


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Sanjiang Plain Wetlands Protection Project (China, People's Republic of)


• Social Monitoring Reports
• Hunan Flood Management Sector Project External Monitoring and Evaluation Report on Ethnic Minority Development No.2 (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]
• Hunan Flood Management Sector Project
  External Monitoring and Evaluation Report on Resettlement (Prepared by Changsha Xinghuan Water & Electricty Engineering Technology Development Co.) No.4 (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]
• Hunan Flood Management Sector Project
  External Monitoring and Evaluation Report on Resettlement (Prepared by Hunan Water and Electricity Consulting Corporation) No.2 (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Preparing the Nonformal Vocational Education and Training Project (PPTA) (Solomon Islands) [ PDF ]
• Pro-Poor Planning and Budgeting (Indonesia) [ PDF ]
• The Asia Recovery Information Center (Phase II) (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Reports
• Preparing the Small and Mini Hydroelectric Development Project (Lao People's Democratic Republic) [ PDF ]

26 May 2009, Tuesday

• Information Brochures and Other Publications
• Investing for the Future: Education for All in the People's Republic of China [ PDF ]


• Procurement Notices
• Multitranche Financing Facility for the Energy Sector Development Investment Program (Afghanistan)
• Conflict Affected Areas Rehabilitation Project, and Grant 0062 (Norway) - Component B: Power & Electrification (Sri Lanka)
• Rural Basic Education Project (Uzbekistan)


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Commercial Financing for Local Government Units (Thailand) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Consultants' Reports
• Support for Strengthening the Tsunami Development Assistance Database (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Translated Documents
• Investing for the Future: Education for All in the People's Republic of China (Chinese) [ PDF ]

25 May 2009, Monday

• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Information Brochures and Other Publications
• Investing for the Future: Education for All in the People's Republic of China [ PDF ]


• Translated Documents
• Investing for the Future: Education for All in the People's Republic of China (Chinese) [ PDF ]

22 May 2009, Friday

• Design and Monitoring Frameworks
• Jharkhand State Roads Project (India) [ PDF ]
• Small Towns Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project II (Nepal) [ PDF ]


• Environmental Assessment Review Frameworks
• Assam Power Sector Enhancement Investment Program (Subproject 1) (India) [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies  
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Indigenous Peoples Development Framework
• Preparing the Energy Efficiency Enhancement Project in the Assam Power Sector (India)


• Procurement Notices
• Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project (KSUDP) (India)
• Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project (KSUDP) (India)
• Kerala Sustainable Urban Development Project (KSUDP) (India)
• Melamchi Water Supply Project, Kathmandu Valley Subproject (Subproject 2) (Nepal)


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Preparing the Energy Efficiency Enhancement Project in the Assam Power Sector (India)


• Social Monitoring Reports
• Heilongjiang Road Network Development Project: Social Development Action Plan No. 2 (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Nongovernment Organization-Government Partnerships in Village-level Poverty Alleviation (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]
• Strengthening Commercial Agriculture Development (Fiji Islands) [ PDF ]
• Transition to Competitive Electricity Market (Philippines) [ PDF ]

20 May 2009, Wednesday

• Country Assistance Program Evaluations
• Greater Mekong Subregion: Maturing and Moving Forward (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Management Speeches
• Keynote Address by ADB Vice-President Ursula Schäfer-Preuss on Knowledge Sharing on Infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships in Asia Workshop (19 May 2009, Grand Hyatt Hotel, Seoul, Korea)


• News from Country Offices
• ADB Signs Financing Agreements with 8 Viet Nam Banks to Boost Trade (Viet Nam)


• Resettlement Planning Documents
• Proposed Road Connectivity Sector I Project: Short Resettlement Plan for Taplejung-Suketar Link Road (Nepal) [ PDF ]


• Sector Assistance Program Evaluation
• Evaluation of ADB's Assistance to the Energy Sector in the Greater Mekong Subregion (Regional)
• Evaluation on the Transport and Trade Facilitation in the Greater Mekong Subregion - Time to Shift Gears (Regional)


• Technical Assistance Consultants' Reports
• Technical and Vocational Education and Training Development: Study of the Development of Vocational Education in Guangdong (Final Report) (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Reports
• Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage Demonstration in Developing Countries—Analysis of Key Policy Issues and Barriers (Financed by the Climate Change Fund) (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Working Paper Series
• Is Pakistan’s Growth Rate Balance-of-Payments Constrained? Policies and Implications for Development and Growth (No. 160) [ PDF ]

19 May 2009, Tuesday

• Books, Periodicals, Studies, and Reports
• Kiribati’s Political Economy and Capacity Development
• Kiribati Social and Economic Report 2008


• Design and Monitoring Frameworks
• Social Sectors Support Program-Financial Crisis Response Project (Mongolia) [ PDF ]


• Events
• 9th Working Group on Human Resource Development (WGHRD-9) (China, People's Republic of; 20–21 May 2009)
• India's High Powered Expert Committee (HPEC) on Urban Infrastructure Visits the ADB (ADB Headquarters, Manila, Philippines: 29-30 April 2009)
• Knowledge Sharing on Infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships in Asia (Seoul, Korea; 19-21 May 2009)


• Extended Annual Review Reports
• Everbright Bank of China (EBBC) (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Procurement Notices
• Gas Transmission and Development Project, Part A (Bangladesh)
• Lower Bari Doab Canal Improvement Project (Pakistan)


• Program Administration Memoranda
• Second Financial Sector Program Cluster (Subprogram 2) (Cambodia) [ PDF ]


• Social and Environmental Monitoring Reports
• Tangguh Liquefied Natural Gas Project (Indonesia)


• Technical Assistance Consultants' Reports
• Philippines Basic Urban Services Sector Project (Philippines )
• Technical and Vocational Education and Training Development (China, People's Republic of)


• Working Paper Series
• Trade Structure and the Transmission of Economic Distress in the High-Income OECD Countries to Developing Asia (No. 161) [ PDF ]

18 May 2009, Monday

• Board Minutes
• Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Asian Development Bank, 6 April 2009 [ PDF ]
• Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Asian Development Bank, 14 April 2009 [ PDF ]
• Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Asian Development Bank, 21 April 2009 [ PDF ]
• Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Asian Development Bank, 28 April 2009 [ PDF ]


• Employment Opportunities
• Local Staff Vacancies  


• Procurement Notices
• Green Power Development Project (GPDP) (Bhutan)
• Gansu Baiyin Urban Development Project (China, People's Republic of)
• National Power Grid Development Investment Program (Tranche-1) (India)


• Program Administration Memoranda
• Tax Administration Reform and Modernization Project (Kyrgyz Republic) [ PDF ]

20 May 2009, Wednesday

• Events
• Knowledge Sharing on Infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships in Asia (19-21 May 2009; Seoul, Korea)
• Stakeholder Consultations on Draft Philippine National Sewerage and Septage Management Program (12 May 2009; Cebu City, Philippines, 19 May 2009; Davao City, Philippines, 2 June 2009; Manila, Philippines)
• World Water Week: Eye on Asia (18 August 2009; Stockholm, Sweden)
• Review Workshop on Climate Change and Migration (ADB Headquarters, Manila: 26–27 May 2009)
• Workshop on Developing Water and Climate Change Adaptation Guidelines (26-28 May 2009; Selangor, Malaysia)


• Initial Poverty and Social Assessment
• Risk Mitigation and Strengthening of Endangered Reservoirs in Shandong Province (China, People's Republic of) [ PDF ]


• Management Speeches
• Statement by ADB Vice-President C. Lawrence Greenwood, Jr. at the Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI) Leaders Summit (15 May 2009, Manado, Indonesia)


• Loan Agreements
• Amendment Letter to the Loan Agreement for Uttarakhand State-Road Investment Program - Project 2 between India and Asian Development Bank (22 April 2009) (India) [ PDF ]


• Procurement Notices
• Proposed Jharkhand State Roads Project (India)


• Publications
• Water for All E-Newsletter: Rough Road to River Recovery


• Social and Environmental Monitoring Reports
• Urban Water Supply and Environmental Improvement in Madhya Pradesh (India)


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Capacity Building for Smallholder Livestock Systems (Lao People's Democratic Republic) [ PDF ]
• Government-Owned and -Controlled Corporations Reform (Philippines) [ PDF ]


• Water Site: New Sections
• Article: Engineering River Recovery
• People’s Republic of China Water Action: Changing Mindsets to Clean Rivers
• People’s Republic of China Water Action: Downstream to Upstream Cleanup
• Philippines Water Action: Resuscitating the Pasig River
• Water Champion Maria Lourdes Fernando: Keeping Marikina River in the Pink of Health

14 May 2009, Thursday

• Employment Opportunities
• Local Staff Vacancies


• Events
• Understanding Global Financial Markets and Products (ADB Headquarters, Manila, Philippines; 9-11 June 2009)


• News from Country Offices
• ADB Helps Education Reforms and School Improvement in Rural Tajikistan (Tajikistan)
• ADB and Tajikistan Sign GEF Grant to Help Raise Rural Incomes and Production in Tajikistan (Tajikistan)


• Procurement Notices
• Water Supply and Sanitation Sector Project (Armenia)


• Working Paper Series
• Informal Employment in Bangladesh (No. 155) [ PDF ]

13 May 2009, Wednesday

• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies
• Local Staff Vacancies


• Procurement Notices
• Second Primary Education Development Program (PEDP-II) (Bangladesh)
• Integrated Ecosystem and Water Resources Management in the Baiyangdian Basin Project (China, People's Republic of)
• Madhya Pradesh State Roads II Project (India)


• Project Processing
• Summary Report on Processing Status of 2009 Loan, Grant, Equity, and Technical Assistance Projects (as of 31 March 2009) [ PDF ]


• SSTA Monthly Reports
• Quarterly Summary Report on Approved (A) Preparatory Technical Assistance Projects Not Exceeding $1,500,000 and (B) Technical Assistance Projects Not Exceeding $225,000 (January-March 2009) [ PDF ]

12 May 2009, Tuesday

• Framework Financing Agreements
• Framework Financing Agreement for India Infrastructure Project Financing Facility between India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited, India and Asian Development Bank dated 16 November 2007 (India) [ PDF ]


• Procurement Notices
• Earthquake Emergency Assistance Project (EEAP) (Pakistan)


• Technical Assistance Consultants' Report
• Final Report for Strengthening Land Administration Services (Nepal) [ PDF ]

11 May 2009, Monday

• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies
• Local Staff Vacancies


• Publications
• Water for All E-Newsletter: Rough Road to River Recovery (Issue 43, May 2009)


• Procurement Notices
• Power Transmission Enhancement Project (Azerbaijan)
• Geo-Information Technology for Hazard Risk Assessment (Viet Nam)


• Strategy and Program Assessments
• Climate Change Assessment (Nepal) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Integrated Coastal Management and Related Investment Development (India) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Consultants' Report
• Final Report for Preparing the Infrastructure Development Project (Cook Islands)


• Technical Assistance Reports
• Pacific Economic Management (Regional) [ PDF ]

8 May 2009, Friday

• Employment Opportunities
• International Staff Vacancies
• Local Staff Vacancies


• Loan Agreements
• Loan Agreement (Ordinary Operations) for Integrated Citarum Water Resources Management Investment Program - Project 1 between Republic of Indonesia and Asian Development Bank dated 22 April 2009 (Indonesia) [ PDF ]
• Loan Agreement (Special Operations) for Integrated Citarum Water Resources Management Investment Program - Project 1 between Republic of Indonesia and Asian Development Bank dated 22 April 2009 (Indonesia) [ PDF ]


• Procurement Notices
• Integrated Ecosystem and Water Resources Management in the Baiyangdian Basin Project (People's Republic of China)
• Power Transmission Enhancement Investment Program (Pakistan)
• Power Transmission Enhancement Investment (Pakistan)


• Social and Environmental Monitoring Reports
• Emergency Food Assistance (Cambodia)


• Technical Assistance Completion Reports
• Partnership on Persistent Organic Pollutants Pesticides Management for Agricultural Production in Central Asian Countries (Regional) [ PDF ]


• Technical Assistance Consultant's Reports
• Organization and Management of Government Legal Services (Cofinanced by the Governments of Japan and the Netherlands) (Regional)