Latest Country Strategies and Business Plans

The Pacific Approach, 2021–2025 serves as ADB’s operational framework in the region and as its partnership strategy for the 12 small Pacific island countries.

This document provides an overview of ADB’s ongoing and completed initiatives in the Pacific energy sector as of 2020, including work to scale up operations and finance new sources of renewable power.

This country operations business plan (COBP) is the first COBP of the country partnership strategy (CPS), 2021–2025 of ADB with the Government of Papua New Guinea (PNG). The CPS features three strategic pathways. The first pathway serves to enable diversified economic growth through improvements to infrastructure, including in transport and energy, and to bolster the private sector—such as micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises—through a more competitive yet transparent business environment, and more ADB-supported private sector transactions.

This Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) defines ADB's strategic approach in Papua New Guinea for 2021-2025.

This document provides an overview of ADB’s active and proposed urban programs, projects, and technical assistance initiatives in the Pacific region as of December 2019.

This document highlights how ADB technical assistance and energy sector projects are helping to build resilient, low-carbon economies, while increasing access to clean, reliable power in the Pacific.

The country operations business plan (COBP), 2020–2022 of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) for Papua New Guinea is consistent with ADB’s country partnership strategy (CPS), 2016–2020 and the Government of Papua New Guinea’s national development plans. The COBP is also consistent with the priorities set out in ADB’s Strategy 2030. This COBP focuses on the five priority areas of the CPS: (i) transport, (ii) energy, (iii) health, (iv) water and other urban infrastructure and services, and (v) public sector management. This COBP also includes education and finance.  

The country operations and business plan (COBP), 2019–2021 of ADB for Papua New Guinea is consistent with ADB’s country partnership strategy, (CPS) 2016–2020 and the Government of Papua New Guinea’s national development plans. This COBP focuses on the five priority areas of the CPS: (i) transport, (ii) energy, (iii) health, (iv) water and other urban infrastructure and services, and (v) public sector management. 

ADB continues to help build resilient, low-carbon countries in the Pacific region, while increasing access to clean, reliable power.

This paper describes a Pacific Partnership Facility designed to support ADB’s operations in the Pacific.