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Digital financial services like mobile money can reduce transfer prices and improve transparency, efficiency, and access.
An ADB-supported project in Kolkata awarded flat titles to women as a mechanism to promote women's rights.
A district heating project taps the help of private sector companies to promote higher energy efficiency and lower emissions.
Accessible funds for the industry sector accelerated investments in energy efficiency and enhanced institutional capacities.
A water project includes a gender, caste, and minority ethnic strategy to promote the rights of marginalized groups in Nepal.
A project restores degraded lands, improves climate resilience of landscape ecosystems, and promotes green development in the western regions.
Sustainable farming and efficient water use can enhance high-value crop production and increase farmers’ income even in harsh environments.
Preventing and controlling the spread of deadly diseases from animals to humans require a collaborative, multisectoral, and transdisciplinary approach.
An integrated, green, and people-centric urban development strategy can help make cities inclusive and sustainable.
In Nepal, a participatory and consensus-based approach proved critical in changing people’s ‘not in my backyard’ attitude toward a municipal project.