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Around 52% of the Philippine population reside in cities and urban municipalities and the number is expected to rise to 62% in 2050. The sector is particularly vulnerable to impacts of climate change, with informal settlement and poverty continuing t

A $450,000 grant project awarded by ADB to LocationMind, Inc. will support the development of a poverty impact and vulnerability evaluation (PIVE) tool designed to assist policymakers, planners, and other stakeholders in disaster management and urban planning.

News and analytical articles about Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan.

ADB has approved a $150 million loan and a $3 million grant to help improve food and water security in Uzbekistan through better land and water resources management for improved agricultural productivity.

The project will help improve on-farm water management, introduce technology, and scale up practices to increase water productivity.

When temperatures plummet in the Mongolian winter and households pile more coal onto their stoves to keep warm, Oyun-Erdene Navganjav’s concern grows for herself and her family. “It gets very cold and very smoky. There’s much more pollution and I worry about how much it is damaging the children’s health,” says the 30-year-old mother of three from her three-room brick home in the Bayankhoshuu subcenter on the southern outskirts of the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar. Oyun-Erdene is on...