East and South Asia
| No |
Project |
Location |
Dates |
1 |
|
Pakistan |
2009-2010 |
2 |
|
Regional |
2006-2007 |
3 |
|
Regional |
2006-2007 |
4 |
|
Regional |
2006-2007 |
5 |
|
Maldives |
2006 |
6 |
|
Afghanistan |
2004-2005 |
7 |
|
Afghanistan |
2005 |
8 |
|
Sri Lanka |
2005 |
9 |
|
Japan |
2005 |
10 |
|
Pakistan |
2004 |
11 |
|
Bangladesh |
2003 |
Pakistan: Support for Governance Reforms: Strengthening Anti-Money Laundering Regime in Pakistan
The Asian Development Bank approved the provision of a technical assistance cluster to the Government of Pakistan for a value of US$11.5 million for “Support to Governance Reforms in Pakistan”. On the request from the State Bank of Pakistan, a subproject titled “Strengthening Anti-Money Laundering Regime in Pakistan” is being financed from the cluster.
The overall goal of the subproject is to improve governance and strengthen the financial system in Pakistan. The purpose of the subproject is to strengthen the anti-money laundering regime and support timely implementation of the new Anti-Money Laundering (AML) law, including effective consolidation of AML/Combating Financing of Terrorism (CFT) monitoring and analytical measures within a single financial intelligence unit.
Regional: Enhancing Financial Disclosure
Standards in Transitional Economies
The present RETA is focusing
on strengthening accounting standards in line with International
Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and auditing standards in
line with International Standards of Auditing (ISA) in four selected
TEs (Transition Economies): Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Mongolia,
and Uzbekistan. The RETA also provides training to regulators
for better enforcement of such standards while fostering knowledge
sharing in applying IFRS and ISA. Adopting an integrated approach,
the RETA identifies and addresses, on a country-specific basis,
weaknesses in the institutional, legal, and regulatory frameworks
of the four TEs in the adoption of IFRS and enforcement of ISA.
An integrated approach to these matters has the benefit of encouraging
better interface and debate on the common problems by exploiting
synergies and sharing experiences across the TEs while adopting
a cost-effective approach to such questions.
Regional: Technical Assistance
to China, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyz Republic for the CAREC Members
Electricity Regulators Forum (CMERF)
The Project consists of two parts
- STUDY A: Appropriate Pricing and Provision of Ancillary Services
and STUDY B: Risk sharing under power purchase agreements.
Study
A: The regulator and market operator can ensure that
ancillary services are provided using various blends of market
mechanisms and command-and-control mechanisms. The objective
of this study is to improve the capacity of the regulators to
analyze the cost factors of the four types of ancillary services
and outline a suggested package of these mechanisms for ensuring
ancillary services provision with reasonable certainty and at
low cost in the context of PRC plans for its power market.
Study
B: The study will improve regulators understanding
of what appetite private investors, distribution companies and
large consumers would have for various risks, and therefore how
to allocate the risk of power sector investments in the fashion
that minimizes the risk premiums that must be passed on to consumers.
This would improve the design of PPAs.
Regional: Upscaling the
Social Protection Index for Committed Poverty Reduction
We are engaged in providing support
to lead partner in 7 Asian counties of the 22 in total. The pilot
project has been completed successfully and the results will
be published soon. Given the positive feedback on the pilot phase
and the pivotal role of social protection index in poverty reduction
monitoring, the concept of a follow-up project to develop social
protection index for all Asian Member Countries of ADB was endorsed
for funding by the Poverty Reduction Cooperation Fund (PRF) by
the Department of International Development of the Government
of the United Kingdom on 4 October 2005. The index will be used
to measure developments and to compare countries in their efforts
to reduce poverty through social protection. Developing this
index would also help to define social protection (including
instruments like subsidies for the poor, informal sector schemes,
social welfare) with view to each individual ADB Member Country.
It also would help to improve statistical information on social
protection (monitoring of social protection strategy impacts).
The Social Protection Index, which is based on quantitative data,
would be accompanied by reports explaining and analyzing the
results.
Maldives: Preparing the
SME Development Project
The TA's desired impact is to
enhance SME growth and competitiveness and increase the private
sector's role in accelerating economic growth and poverty reduction,
especially in the atolls. The TA's objective is to help the Government
and ADB prepare and finalize the project design, emphasizing
a development framework for PSD and SME, BDS and technical support
for SMEs, entrepreneurial opportunities for the poor, and SOE
restructuring.
The TA will help develop policy,
regulatory, and institutional reforms to be supported by the
project. The TA will help the Government (i) prepare an SME development
strategy, targeting the atolls and outer islands; (ii) design
technical support to strengthen the policy framework and enabling
environment for SME development; (iii) develop SME business support
networks as well as improve access to affordable BDS, financial
services, and financing; (iv) identify, access, and support entrepreneurial
and job opportunities for economically vulnerable people in the
atolls; and (v) prepare a strategy and plan to privatize and
restructure SOEs, identifying and prioritizing opportunities
for their development and SME participation.
Afghanistan: Commercial
Agriculture Development
The goal is to assess, and where
appropriate, prioritize commercial opportunities for agriculture
with strong private sector focus. This process will contribute
to the National Development Plan's longer-term goal of raising
incomes and reducing poverty through diversified agricultural
production and enhanced employment and value added in the marketing
system. Moreover, the Government would like to put an emphasis
on commercializing the agriculture within the domestic market,
i.e., in resorts and the local community. The TA will synthesize
existing information and analyses of the agricultural sub sector,
undertake field studies in selected areas, consult widely with
public and private sector stakeholders including representatives
of micro-enterprises, and identify priority investments and provide
a framework for supporting appropriate and relevant research,
extension, and technical assistance in the agriculture sector.
Afghanistan: Analysis
of the Health Care System in Rural Areas
Consultants implemented a research
study on the health care system in the rural areas, identifying
key issues and problems in this sector, and proposed recommendations.
10 hospitals were considered for in-depth analysis and potential
pilot hospitals for the following investments. The project had
4 operational components: (1) Strengthening basic health care
services: provision of basic equipment, clinical protocol development,
referral and supervision systems, improvement of communication
and transport and identification of priority health areas; (2)
Health promotion: planning, community development activities,
material production, training and health promotion interventions;
(3) Strengthening health planning and management: capacity development,
evidence based plans, health information system development,
review of government health plans, monitoring and evaluation;
and (4) Human resources development: in-service training to lower
level health care workers.
Sri Lanka: Study on Poverty
Reduction and Social Development
The goal of the project is to
promote economic and social development of vulnerable groups
in a participatory and sustainable way. Poor rural livelihoods
in the selected regions are improved thanks to new income generating
activities, social service rehabilitation and improved capacity
of the local authorities.
Results that were achieved are:
(1) Local government staff are fully able to determine/implement
strategies and devise operational plans to reduce the incidence
of poverty in the project area; (2) Small and micro-businesses
increase turnover, profit and employment; (3) Farm sales and
incomes increased thanks to better marketing channels; (4) "hard
to reach" communities and individuals are helped out of
poverty through the actions of organizations supported through
the matching grant scheme; (5) poverty reduction and development
models developed, which may be replicated in other areas of the
region.
Japan: Business Plan
for a private client to develop Island-based services
The Consultant was engaged by
a private client to prepare a business plan and forecasting of
development of one of the southern islands of Japan for commercial
use. The scope of analysis included tourism development strategies,
real estate programs and infrastructure.
Pakistan: SME Development
Project
The Consultant was engaged to
carry out a study and in-depth analysis of the SME Development
in Pakistan with focus on agriculture production and processing.
Scopes of the study included identifying the constraints in management,
infrastructure, production and processing, as well as marketing
of finished goods. Financial management of the enterprises was
also analyzed with further recommendations on improving the environment.
Bangladesh: Development of Training Materials for Social Development
Centers
The Consultant was recruited
to provide a series of trainings on topics such as “how to run
a social development center”. The topics included such items
as fundraising, local/regional development, social and economic
development, unemployment, women and vulnerable population, strategy
formulation, and marketing activities. Also, among others, the
Consultant provided recommendations on network building.
