The Asian Development Bank is heavily invested in the Pacific by promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy resources, expanding access to energy, and promoting energy sector reform, capacity building, and effective governance.
The Philippines today became the first recipient of financing support under ADB's Asia Pacific Vaccine Access Facility with approval of a $400 million loan that will help the country purchase safe and effective vaccines against COVID-19.
This report examines the implications of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic for the Sustainable Development Goals, and opportunities for recovery.
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In the Pacific island state of Tonga, an ADB project helped build the capacity to look after the elderly and children with disabilities.
Bond markets in emerging East Asia continued to grow, mobilizing funding for the region’s sustainable recovery from the pandemic.” -- ADB Chief Economist Yasuyuki Sawada
In Asia and the Pacific, 453 million people still defecate in the open, while 1.2 billion people have no access to basic sanitation services. To meet SDG 6.2 on sanitation for all, the region must flush away business as usual by applying the citywide inclusive sanitation (CWIS) approach. More
Sanitation for all may be enshrined in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 6.2), but achieving this target will require a change from business as usual approaches.
Change management, effective public–private partnership, and regulation are crucial to the success of citywide inclusive sanitation programs.
Investments in safe, adequate and affordable water, sanitation, and hygiene facilities must be sustained and result in improved services and a less polluted environment for everyone, particularly the poorest and most vulnerable in Asia and the Pacific.
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