Impact Stories

Rural roads are bridging the gulf between poor villages, markets, and healthcare facilities in Bangladesh - as well as providing opportunities for women in dire need of employment.

In Bangladesh's secondary towns, ordinary people are getting a say in government, and that is changing even how the bills are paid.

Sweeping business reforms assisted by ADB are making it easier to raise money and do business.

In rural Nepal, small changes go a long way in improving the lot of disadvantaged women.

An ADB-supported project in Cambodia has given some of the country's poorest women a chance to change their lives.

ADB responds to the HIV/AIDS prevention agenda through its Strategic Direction for 2011-2015, encouraging innovative and strategic partnerships that leverage domestic and international support.

ADB is working with countries of Asia and the Pacific to help them adapt to changing climate and move on to a low carbon growth path.

ADB joins over 2000 delegates from both developing and donor countries at the Fourth High Level Forum (HLF 4) on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, Republic of Korea, to review global progress in improving the impact of development aid and further enhance efforts to make aid more effective in reducing poverty and achieving MDGs.

An ADB project helps indigenous women in the Philippines' remote mountainous regions of Mindoro gain access to a culturally sensitive maternal and newborn care program.

CAREC countries are working together to move people, goods, and vehicles across borders faster, more efficiently, and at least cost.