Notable Projects and Technical Assistance
- ADB is providing a multi-tranche financing facility of up to US $500 million to help Uzbekistan reconstruct around 230 km of poor quality roads, which will improve road connectivity and safety, and boost trade along a key regional transport corridor linking Asia to Europe which will be the Corridor 2 of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Road Investment Program. The first tranche of $130 million will be used to rehabilitate a 74-km section of A373 highway running through the Fergana Valley, where a third of all Uzbeks live and a large proportion of the country’s agricultural goods are produced. Assistance will also be given for road safety and asset management improvements.
- Afghan Diaspora Project
- Funding Utah State University led projects to bring labor skills in Thailand
- Earthquake and Tsunami Emergency Support Project in Indonesia
- Greater Mekong Subregional Program
- ROC Ping Hu Offshore Oil and Gas Development
- Strategic Private Sector Partnerships for Urban Poverty Reduction in the Philippines
- Trans-Afghanistan Gas Pipeline Feasibility Assessment
- Loan of $1.2 billion to bail it out of an impending economic crisis in Pakistan and ongoing funding for the countries growing energy needs, specifically Hydro-power projects
- Micro finance support for private enterprises, in conjunction with governments, including Pakistan and India.
- The Yichang-Wanzhou Railway project in the mountainous area of western Hubei Province and north-eastern Chongqing Municipality, China. (A US $500,000 loan, approved in 2003.)
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