Project profile — Asian Development Bank - 10th Replenishment of the Asian Development Fund 2013-2014

The expected intermediate outcomes for this project include: (i) An overall reduction in poverty in the Bank’s developing member countries, with improved quality and access of education; strengthened public sector management; new households connected to electricity; additional roads built and/or upgraded; and, additional; households with new or improved water supply; and, (ii) increased regional cooperation and integration in the Asia-Pacific region.

Results achieved from July 2013 to June 2014 include: (1) supporting programs to improve schools including building or upgrading classrooms and training over 470,000 teachers (of which 202,000 were female), benefiting approximately 12 million students (including over 5.9 millions of girls); (2) connecting almost 25,000 new households to electricity; (3) installing or upgrading 280 km of energy transmission lines; (4) building or upgrading 2,200 km of national highways and provincial, district and rural roads; (5) installing or upgrading 4,600 km of water supply pipe and providing over 141,000 households with new or improved water supply and 61,000 households with new or improved sanitation services; (6) improving more than 213,000 hectares of land through irrigation services, drainage and/or flood management; (7) opening 830,000 microfinance accounts and 2,900 small and medium sized enterprise loan accounts; (8) facilitating 9,929,000 tons of cross-border cargo volume.