The Asian Development Bank is committed to achieving a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, while sustaining its efforts to eradicate extreme poverty. Established in 1966, it is owned by 68 members—49 from the region. Its main instruments for helping its developing member countries are policy dialogue, loans, equity investments, guarantees, grants, and technical assistance.

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Drones, remote sensing, and other tech-driven solutions make biodiversity monitoring and impact assessment for development projects easier and less costly.

Insight

Outcome-based budgeting is a comprehensive approach that considers the inputs, outputs, and outcomes to be achieved with public funds.

Case Study

In the People’s Republic of China, biogas plants supply electricity to livestock farms using their wastes and produce organic fertilizer for eco-farming.

Summary

Performance-based funding improved urban governance and quality of infrastructure and services, and promoted women’s empowerment.

Insight

Governments work together to develop viable projects and financing to protect and preserve the wetlands along the East Asian–Australasian Flyway.

Explainer

In climate-vulnerable communities in Fiji and Mongolia, capacity-building activities support women’s participation in the green economy.

Case Study

Mobile apps enable farmers, including women smallholders, to modernize and diversify their production and transact with suppliers and buyers directly.