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Urban Development

ADB supports cities in Asia and the Pacific to become more livable.

Cities in the region face challenges to provide adequate infrastructure and gender-responsive services to the growing population and, at the same time, can become the engines for economic growth.
Cities’ need enhanced capacities of urban planning, municipal finance, technologies, and governance and private sector engagement to provide integrated solutions cutting across sectors and themes.
Cities need to build resilience to address the risks associated with disasters, climate change, environmental issues, and shocks and stresses like COVID-19.
Urban development

ADB’s Strategy 2030 identifies "Making Cities More Livable" as one of its seven operational priorities for achieving its vision of a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific.

By cutting across sectors and themes, ADB helps cities in the region to become more livable. ADB supports cities by improving urban infrastructure and services, and fostering inclusive, participatory and integrated planning. This approach spans the spatial, transport, economic, and natural capital sectors. ADB also promotes regional value chains and global production networks, along with strengthening municipal finance, governance, and citizen engagement. ADB supports cities to become resilient to not only disasters and climate change, but also to shocks and stresses such as pandemics.

Our Impact

Results delivered in 2021 from ADB projects.

0 million

People benefiting
from improved services in urban areas

0

Urban infrastructure assets
established or improved

0

Urban service providers with improved performance

Source:
2021 Development Effectiveness Review

What's New

Experts

ADB’s Urban Sector Work is overseen by the Urban Sector Group Committee composed of the respective management staff from the urban development divisions of ADB’s regional departments, as well as private sector operations.

Urban Sector Group Committee

Jingmin Huang
Jingmin Huang

Director, Pacific Department and Committee Chair

Manoj Sharma
Manoj Sharma

Chief of Urban Sector Group, Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department

Asif Cheema
Asif Cheema

Director, East Asia Department

Heeyoung Hong
Heeyoung Hong

Principal Urban Development Specialist (Finance), Central and West Asia Department

Norio Saito
Norio Saito

Director, South Asia Department

Srinivas Sampath
Srinivas Sampath

Director, Southeast Asia Department

Hisaka Kimura
Hisaka Kimura

Advisor, Private Sector Operations Department

Contact

  Email the Urban Development Sector Group