Reports

Kaum perempuan memiliki peran-peran utama dalam mengumpulkan, mengangkut, menggunakan dan mengelola air dan memajukan praktek-praktek saniter namun hampir tidak pernah dilibatkan dalam pembuatan keputusan dalam sektor ini.

Women have primary roles in the collection, transport, use, and management of water and the promotion of sanitary practices, and yet are hardly involved in decision making in the sector.

Water management goes far beyond just drinking water and sanitation: water is essential for improving the health and livelihoods of the poor, ensuring wider environmental sustainability, reducing urban squalor, and eradicating hunger.

The Cambodia Country Report discusses the gender equality results achieved for three projects in Cambodia - the Northwestern Rural Development Project (approved November 2001 for $27.2 million), the Health Sector Support Project (approved 21 November 2002 for $20 million), and the Commune Council Development Project (approved December 2002 for $10 million); summarizes factors that enhanced the quality of project design and implementation; and provides recommendations to maximize gender equity as a driver of change.

The Partnership for Sustainable Urban Transport in Asia has helped to raise the awareness on sustainable urban transport and encouraged cities and governments to intensify efforts to improve the sustainability of their transport systems.

This report assesses the region's prospects of reaching Target 10 of the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.

In 2001, the Asian Development Bank launched its Water for All Policy. It defines the priorities, commitments, and strategies for developing Asia’s water sector. Five years later, has it helped improve the region's water sector?

This publication outlines the GMS Economic Cooperation Program (GMS Program) which was initiated in 1992 with the support of ADB. It aims to promote economic cooperation among Cambodia, People's Republic of China (PRC), Lao People's Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), Myanmar, Thailand, and Viet Nam.

The GMS Program covers nine priority sectors: transportation, telecommunications, energy, environment, human resource development, trade, investment, tourism, and agriculture.

One of the prominent globalizers in Southeast Asia with a high ratio of trade to gross domestic product (GDP). Yet a weak performer in terms of economic growth compared with the other globalizing developing economies that grew annually at 5% per capita during the 1990s. "Boom and bust" cycles of economic growth. Low rate of gross capital formation compared with Asia's other globalizers. Practically stagnant labor productivity accompanied by a rapid growth of the labor force. These basically characterize the Philippine economy over the past two to three decades. Given these, it is therefore crucial to take stock of and systematically address all constraints that have blocked the building of a sound investment climate to pull out the country from such stagnation.

This report provides recommendations on how to improve the investment climate in Indonesia.