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- In the Asia and Pacific region, accessing clean water and sanitation is a constant challenge for residents of informal settlements. Informal service providers, or intermediaries, have emerged in response to this significant essential service gap.
- ADB's South Asia Department (SARD) conducted a study to assess the status and responses to the needs of disadvantaged groups in its member countries and identify entry points for greater gender equality and social inclusion impacts in its operations.
- This report assesses how to finance an extensive overhaul of transport infrastructure in the BIMSTEC subregion, considers the challenges of public and private financing, and outlines how to create an overarching financial framework.
- This report analyzes the online learning experiences of higher education students in six Asian countries during the pandemic to illustrate how to provide technical and learning support, narrow the digital divide, and direct future policy.
- This technical report assesses the string of events that triggered Nepal’s Melamchi River floods in 2021 and highlights threats to the catchment area that provides vital drinking water to Kathmandu’s fast-growing population.
- To date, ADB has committed 494 public sector loans, grants, and technical assistance totaling $7.7 billion to Nepal.
- To date, ADB has committed 494 public sector loans, grants, and technical assistance totaling $7.7 billion to Nepal.
- This edition’s theme chapter assesses customs reforms and trade facilitation program in Nepal. It recommends to validating the use of e-signatures to speed up customs clearance, strengthening risk management system, and better coordination between the private and public sectors to promoting paperless customs, among others.
- Accountability mechanisms are crucial in addressing the urgent challenge of providing safe sanitation access to nearly half of the world's population.
- This framework outlines how to integrate gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) into ADB’s operations in South Asia to help close the gender gap, combat exclusion, and bolster equitable economic growth.
- The combined effect of remittance inflows and institutional quality may have a dampening effect on long-term economic growth.
- This guidance note outlines how sector agencies in South Asia can develop gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) strategies, highlights their key elements, and shows how to effectively integrate them into projects and policies.
- This report assesses relief programs established by Nepal during its 2020 COVID-19 lockdown to mitigate food insecurity among vulnerable groups, analyzes their effectiveness, and recommends ways to make them more responsive and resilient.
- The lack of affordable sewer-based sanitation systems is a challenge to achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6.2 (safe sanitation).
- This publication is designed as a record and a sharing of experience for those who will be involved in future Asian Development Bank financing projects.
- Fintech play a critical role in addressing problems that impede inclusive growth, such as economic inequality.
- The implementation of trade facilitation measures has a significant impact on overall manufactured exports.
- This report shows how countries in the BIMSTEC subregion can work together to rebuild their pandemic-battered travel industries and create intraregional thematic tour packages to boost visitor numbers and support sustainable development.
- This report outlines nontariff barriers to trade between BISMSTEC subregion countries and shows how a structured approach centered on boosting compliance, harnessing technology, and improving infrastructure can bolster intraregional trade.
- This Nepal country briefing explains why events including monsoon floods, droughts, landslides, and earthquakes force thousands of people to leave their homes each year and shows how stronger data can support prevention and preparedness.