Business Opportunities

• Imphal Ring Road Project

  The proposed Imphal Ring Road Project will improve quality of life in Imphal by helping to decongest the city and promoting the use of e-vehicles. Access to markets, economic opportunities, as well as administrative, health and educational services will be enhanced. It will stimulate economic activities and directly create jobs. By improving road infrastructure and transport services focusing on safety elements and universal features for pedestrians and vulnerable users, the project benefits will be inclusive.

• BIDV Supporting Sustainable Agriculture and Expanding Access to Finance for Women-Owned Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Lending Project

  The technical assistance (TA) will support ADB's proposed transaction with BIDV by enhancing its capacity to lend to individual farmers, corporations, and small and medium-sized enterprises in sustainable agriculture, including those SMEs owned by women.

• Higher Education Revitalization Project

  The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has severely impacted micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and employment, and has amplified development challenges in Mongolia. The country lacks systems for developing highly skilled workers capable of driving digital transformation, research and development (R&D), and innovation to address its development challenges.

• Hoa Binh Province Tourism Infrastructure Development Project

  The project will expand and rehabilitate the existing rural roads around the Hoa Binh reservoir connecting Hoa Binh city to Cao Phong district to improve access to tourism destinations, thus opening new areas for tourism development. Improved access will boost tourist arrivals and catalyze private investment that would not occur without the proposed project investments. Upgrading climate and disaster-resilient rural roads will also allow local residents to transport agricultural products to market more efficiently, access education and health services, and improve road safety.

• Preparing Sustainable Transport Bus Electrification Project

  The proposed technical assistance will support the preparation of the ensuing project on Sustainable Transport Bus Electrification in Thailand. The TA will develop detailed feasibility report, and support activities on due diligence with regard to finance, economic, environmental, and other statutory requirements.

• BIDV Supporting Sustainable Agriculture and Expanding Access to Finance for Women-Owned Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Lending Project

  Senior unsecured loan to BIDV for $100m of ADB OCR proceeds - 80% ($80m) will support green agriculture; and 20% ($20m) to expand access to finance for women-owned SMEs (WSMEs); up to $20m of concessional loan from CANPA for green agriculture, and $100m of parallel loans from commercial lenders to be arranged by ADB for onlending to WSMEs and SMEs in rural areas.

• Second Improving Governance and Public Sector Efficiency Program (Subprogram 1)

  The proposed Second Improving Governance and Public Sector Efficiency Program (IGPSEP II) aims to support Azerbaijan's transition to a more stable, inclusive, environmentally sustainable, and diversified market economy by (i) strengthening fiscal management, (ii) improving the governance and operations of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), and (iii) deepening private sector participation and green economy initiatives.

• Preparing the Babeldaob Island Urban Resilience Project (formerly Strengthening Urban Planning and Management)

  For approval in 2023.

• Green Public Transport in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Cities

  The project will improve the public transportation network with low emission transport modes in district headquarters (7 cities) - Peshawar; (ii) Mardan; (iii) D.I. Khan; (iv) Bannu; (v) Kohat; (vi) Abbottabad; and (vii) Mingora.

• Climate Resilient and Sustainable Water Supply Improvement Project

  The project will rehabilitate and expand water supply coverage to about 155,000 households and improve the operational efficiency of services and management to provide safe, efficient, and climate-resilient water supply services in eight towns in the Western and Southern Provinces in Sri Lanka. It will promote (i) efficient use of resources by nonrevenue water (NRW) reduction and district metered area (DMA) approach, (ii) reduction of service levels discrepancies between rural and urban areas, and (iii) switching from groundwater to surface water source.