March 2020

Quarterly Summary Report on Approved (A) Transaction Technical Assistance Not Exceeding $5,000,000; (B) Knowledge and Support Technical Assistance Projects Not Exceeding $225,000; and (C) Technical Assistance Cluster Subprojects (October–December 2019) This document is being disclosed to the public in accordance with ADB's Access to Information Policy.

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LIST OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROJECTS

Seq. No. TA No. TA Name

Amount ($'000)

Date Approved

(A) TRANSACTION TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE NOT EXCEEDING $5,000,000

1. PROJECT PREPARATORY

1 9826-AFG Water Resources Sector Development 1,500.0 17-Oct-19

2 9821-BAN Support to Tertiary Education Development 700.0 9-Oct-19

3 9869-BAN Additional Financing for Bangladesh Power System Enhancement and Efficiency Improvement

450.0 20-Nov-19

4 9879-BAN South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Integrated Trade Facilitation Sector Development Program

1,500.0 28-Nov-19

5 9927-BAN Climate and Disaster Resilient Small-Scale Water Resources Management

1,250.0 24-Dec-19

6 9820-PRC Preparing Sustainable Development Projects 1,800.0 4-Oct-19

7 9813-IND Enhancing Capacity to Design and Implement Energy Sector Projects

1,000.0 3-Oct-19

8 9828-IND Bengaluru Smart Energy Efficient Power Distribution

225.0 21-Oct-19

9 9844-IND Supporting Education and Skills Development Facility

1,000.0 4-Nov-19

10 9849-IND India Urban and Water Projects Support Facility 2,000.0 4-Nov-19

11 9854-KGZ School Education Reform Sector Development Program

700.0 11-Nov-19

12 9899-MON Forest Sector Development Program 800.0 10-Dec-19

13 9873-NEP South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Airport Capacity Enhancement Sector Development Program

1,000.0 27-Nov-19

14 9839-PAK Preparing Urban Development Projects 1,650.00 29-Oct-19

15 9866-PAK Punjab Agriculture Markets Development 800.0 8-Nov-19

16 9903-PAK Kurram Tangi Integrated Water Resources Development

1,800.0 12-Dec-19

17 9817-PNG Renewable Biomass 225.0 4-Oct-19

18 9890-PNG Preparing the Land and Maritime Transport Projects

2,500.0 5-Dec-19

19 9865-SOL Strengthening Urban Health Services 750.0 19-Nov-19

20 9867-TAJ Irrigation and Drainage Modernization in the Vaksh River Basin

1,000.0 19-Nov-19

21 9894-TAJ Financial Sector and Fiscal Management Improvement Program

750.0 9-Dec-19

22 9847-UZB Surkhandarya Regional Road 1,200.0 4-Nov-19

23 9892-UZB Integrated Perinatal Care 1,200.0 2-Dec-19

24 9933-UZB Gas Infrastructure Modernization in Uzbekistan 225.0 27-Dec-19

25 9852-REG Improving Safeguard Implementation in South Asia

3,000.0 6-Nov-19

26 9925-REG Southeast Asia Transport Project Preparatory Facility Phase 2

5,000.0 20-Dec-19

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Seq. No. TA No. TA Name

Amount ($'000)

Date Approved

2. CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT AND POLICY ADVICE

27 9876-AZE Supporting Public Sector Governance Reforms 800.0 28-Nov-19

28 9883-BAN Support to Quality Enhancement in Primary Education

1,200.0 4-Dec-19

29 9872-BHU Supporting Financial Market Development Program

500.0 26-Nov-19

30 9843-IND Institutional Capacity Building of Tamil Nadu Transmission Corporation Limited

650.0 4-Nov-19

31 9874-IND Scaling Up Demand-Side Energy Efficiency Sector 2,000.0 27-Nov-19

32 9857-INO Automated Liquidity Management Framework 225.0 13-Nov-19

33 9834-KAZ Supporting the Promoting Gender Equality in Housing Finance Project

620.0 24-Oct-19

34 9851-KGZ Supporting the Naryn Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Development Program

225.0 8-Nov-19

35 9900-KGZ Promoting Financial Sector Resilience 225.0 12-Dec-19

36 9888-MON Supporting the Ulaanbaatar Air Quality Improvement Program – Phase 2

750.0 5-Dec-19

37 9906-MON Improving Transport Services in Ger Areas 500.0 10-Dec-19

38 9836-NEP Enhancing Road Safety, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Project Implementation Capacity

500.0 29-Oct-19

39 9842-NEP Supporting the Food Safety and Agriculture Commercialization Program

500.0 31-Oct-19

40 9853-NEP Capacity Development for Rural Enterprise Financing

750.0 11-Nov-19

41 9913-PHI Strengthening the Transition of Vulnerable Communities Affected by the Malolos-Clark Railway

2,000.0 18-Dec-19

42 9877-UZB Implementing the Mortgage Market Sector Development Program

800.0 28-Nov-19

43 9910-VIE Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Investment and Development of Viet Nam: Mainstreaming Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

750.0 17-Dec-19

44 9833-REG Building Community Resilience through Microfinance in Lagging Peri-Urban Settlements

3,000.0 23-Oct-19

45 9837-REG Improving Project Implementation and Portfolio Performance in South Asia

2,500.0 29-Oct-19

46 9923-REG Strengthening Project Readiness, Procurement and Financial Management in Southeast Asia

1,500.0 20-Dec-19

47 9926-REG Financial Sustainability of Early-Stage Infrastructure Development

220.0 20-Dec-19

(B) KNOWLEDGE AND SUPPORT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROJECTS NOT EXCEEDING $225,000

48 9904-AFG Improving Management of Involuntary Resettlement Impacts in Afghanistan

225.0 3-Dec-19

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Seq. No. TA No. TA Name

Amount ($'000)

Date Approved

49 9846-PRC Developing Partnerships for Knowledge Sharing on Natural Capital Investment in the Yangtze River Economic Belt

225.0 15-Oct-19

50 9889-PRC Sharing ADB’s Operational Knowledge in Technical and Vocational Education and Training in the PRC with CAREC Member Countries

195.0 27-Nov-19

51 9909-FIJ Supporting Competition Policy and Law Reform 225.0 11-Dec-19

52 9935-GEO Georgia Global Utilities: Preparing Geothermal Power Projects in West Georgia

225.0 24-Dec-19

53 9827-IND Supporting Strategic Interventions in the Health Sector Towards Achieving Universal Health Coverage

225.0 17-Oct-19

54 9831-IND Supporting National Health Authority 225.0 23-Oct-19

55 9816-KAZ Kazakhstan Gas Sector Transformation Initiative Support

225.0 3-Oct-19

56 9934-KGZ Enhancing Knowledge and Capacity for Project Management in the Kyrgyz Republic

225.0 5-Dec-19

57 9885-MON Preparatory Work for Country Partnership Strategy 225.0 4-Dec-19

58 9905-UZB Analytical Support on Uzbekistan's Foreign Economic Policy Issues

225.0 10-Dec-19

59 9822-REG Integrated Disaster Risk Management Fund: Sharing Lessons, Achievements, and Best Practices

225.0 11-Oct-19

60 9830-REG Evidence-Based and Strategic Country Knowledge Support

225.0 18-Oct-19

61 9856-REG Strengthening Urban Investment Planning and Capacity for Project Preparation and Implementation in Central and West Asia

225.0 31-Oct-19

62 9868-REG Establishment of the Pacific Energy Regulators Alliance

225.0 15-Nov-19

63 9895-REG Supporting the Enabling Environment for Public Financial Management Reforms

207.0 2-Dec-19

64 9907-REG Stocktaking Study for Benchmarking Sustainable Management of Exclusive Economic Zones in the Pacific

225.0 16-Dec-19

65 9922-REG Strengthening Regional Cooperation and Knowledge Sharing on the Application of Technology in Financial Services

225.0 19-Dec-19

66 9936-REG Supporting Research on Pacific Development 225.0 20-Dec-19

(C) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CLUSTER SUBPROJECTS

67 9829-IND

Strengthening Climate Change Resilience in Urban India - Strengthening Smart Urban Mass Rapid Transit and Climate Change Resilience in the National Capital Region (Subproject 3)

2,891.2 22-Oct-19

68 9861-INO Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program Phase II - Supporting Sustainable and Universal Electricity Access Phase 2 (Subproject 3)

3,500.0 15-Nov-19

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Seq. No. TA No. TA Name

Amount ($'000)

Date Approved

69 9815-REG

Support for Innovation and Technology Partnerships in Asia and the Pacific - Energy Sector High-Level Technology Application (Subproject 2)

1,500.0 1-Oct-19

70 9823-REG

Regional Cooperation on Increasing Cross-Border Energy Trading within the Central Asian Power System - Expansion of Membership in Central Asian Power System (Subproject 3)

500.0 10-Oct-19

71 9850-REG Asian Development Outlook 2019–2021 - Asian Development Outlook 2020 (Subproject 2)

1,000.0 8-Nov-19

72 9871-REG Capacity Development for the Supply Chain Finance Program (Phase 2) (Subproject 2)

1,166.7 22-Nov-19

73 9911-REG

Promoting Action on Plastic Pollution from Source to Sea in Asia and the Pacific - Enhancing Knowledge and Creating Enabling Environments for Reducing Marine Plastic Pollution (Subproject 1)

1,700.0 18-Dec-19

74 9920-REG Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2021–2023 - Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2021 (Subproject 1)

800.0 18-Dec-19

75 9930-REG Olam International Limited: Inclusive, Sustainable, and Connected Coffee Value Chain (Subproject 3)

300.0 27-Dec-19

76 9931-REG Olam International Limited: Inclusive, Sustainable, and Connected Coffee Value Chain (Subproject 4)

750.0 27-Dec-19

77 9940-REG Mainstreaming Impact Evaluation Methodologies, Approaches, and Capacities in Selected Developing Member Countries (Subproject 1)

1,500.0 19-Dec-19

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(A) TRANSACTION TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE NOT EXCEEDING $5,000,000 1. PROJECT PREPARATORY 1. TA 9826-AFG: Water Resources Sector Development Executing Agency : Ministry of Finance TA Amount ($'000) : 1,500.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 21 October 2019 Date Approved : 17 October 2019 The TA will prepare the following outputs for the ensuing project: (i) project design; (ii) compliance with safeguard and social policies; and (iii) assessment of implementation capacity. The project will support Afghanistan to strengthen water resources management in rural areas. Its expected outputs are: (i) community-based irrigation schemes modernized; (ii) small-scale rainwater harvesting structures for sustainable land management constructed; and (iii) water and energy efficiency technologies for local water management applied. These will result in improved water productivity in rural areas. The project will be aligned with the following impacts: improved livelihood opportunities for rural communities and increased agricultural production. Support will include policy support and technical assistance to strengthen operation and maintenance and rural asset management, and to promote innovation. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 2. TA 9821-BAN: Support to Tertiary Education Development Executing Agency : Ministry of Education TA Amount ($'000) : 700.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 10 October 2019 Date Approved : 9 October 2019 The transaction TA facility will provide project preparation support and capacity building to a series of ensuing projects as follows: (i) Improving Computer and Software Engineering Tertiary Education Project; (ii) Digital University Development Project; (iii) Innovations in Tertiary Education for Competitiveness (Advanced Agriculture) Project; and (iv) Innovations in Tertiary Education for Competitiveness (Garments and Textiles) Project. All ensuing projects are in the tertiary education subsector where the Ministry of Education, the University Grants Commissions, relevant universities, and industry partners will be key stakeholders in project design and implementation. The project preparation will require a set of due diligence in technical, safeguard, poverty, social, gender, fiduciary management and economic assessment. Using a TA facility is suitable as it will enhance project preparation efficiency, strengthen incorporation of lessons in new project designs, and improve project implementation readiness by: (i) allowing the same experts and consultants to be mobilized for similar due diligence activities; (ii) facilitating learning on project processing and implementation across different projects; and (iii) providing technical inputs and capacity development opportunities to accelerate project readiness and initial implementation processes. The major outputs are: (i) capacity in innovative approaches in tertiary education project design process enhanced; (ii) project management capacity strengthened; and (iii) due diligence for ADB financing completed. Status of Consulting Services : Consultant has been fielded.

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3. TA 9869-BAN: Additional Financing for Bangladesh Power System Enhancement

and Efficiency Improvement

Executing Agency : Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board TA Amount ($'000) : 450.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 22 November 2019 Date Approved : 20 November 2019 The TA will prepare the additional financing to the ongoing Bangladesh Power System Enhancement project. The project’s outcome is improved access to efficient and reliable electricity supply in Bangladesh. The main project outputs are: (i) national transmission network in southern Bangladesh strengthened; (ii) distribution network improved; (iii) distribution network in rural areas improved; and (iv) capacity in power sector agencies enhanced. These will lead to the following outcome: access to efficient and reliable electricity supply in Bangladesh improved. The project is aligned with the following impact: 100% access to power by 2021 and power sector sustainability improved in Bangladesh by 2030. The additional financing for Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board will further improve access to efficient and reliable electricity supply in rural areas in Khulna division (western Bangladesh). It aims to enhance the primary distribution network capacity of the rural electrification network and rehabilitate and improve sections of the network that are over 20 years old using wooden distribution poles with low-capacity conductors. These investments are needed to deliver increased power requirement and meet customer demand in an efficient and reliable manner. Status of Consulting Services : Consultant has been fielded. 4. TA 9879-BAN: South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Integrated Trade Facilitation Sector Development Program Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 1,500.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 2 December 2019 Date Approved : 28 November 2019 The TA will help the government of Bangladesh prepare the investment part of the ensuing program and coordinate the development and modernization of customs facilities at the land customs stations (LCSs) with the countries adjacent to Bangladesh. Its major outputs are: (i) feasibility study of the ensuing program prepared; (ii) engineering design and cost estimate prepared; (iii) safeguard and gender documents prepared; (iv) procurement plan and bidding documents prepared; and (v) coordination with the adjacent countries achieved. The ensuing program will help improve Bangladesh’s border infrastructure and trade facilitation environment, thereby contributing to the national goals of promoting a favorable industrialization and trade policy regime. The policy reform part of the program will help speed up clearances, improve customs compliance, focus essential resources on higher-risk cargo, and lead to better administration of customs laws and regulations. The investment part of the program will: (i) develop modern LCSs, expand the capacity of land ports, and improve 2–5 kilometers of roads as well as railway cargo handling facilities at selected border-crossing points; and (ii) construct a central customs laboratory and regional training center in Dhaka. Electronic cargo-tracking systems will be introduced at the LCSs to register and monitor international transit cargoes. These solutions will result in the following outcome: faster, cheaper, more predictable, and more secure

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cross-border trade in Bangladesh achieved. The program will be aligned with the following impact: region’s trade and commerce expanded. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 5. TA 9927-BAN: Climate and Disaster Resilient Small-Scale Water Resources Management Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank; Local Government

Engineering Department TA Amount ($'000) : 1,250.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 24 December 2019 Date Approved : 24 December 2019 The TA will have the following major outputs to prepare the ensuing project: (i) relevant policy and regulatory frameworks assessed and proposal for improvements identified; (ii) agricultural market analysis conducted to select key commodities and value chain analysis for key commodities prepared; (iii) subprojects selected, and feasibility of representative sample sub-projects appraised; (iv) draft loan documentation produced, and project implementation start-up facilitated. The ensuing project will improve agricultural productivity and profitability through effective, participatory, and sustainable small-scale water resources management within the selected geographic areas which are prone to climate and natural hazards risks. It will support the small-scale water resources subsector by: (i) drawing lessons from previous investments; (ii) incorporating climate and disaster resilience features in infrastructure and facilities; (iii) promoting climate and disaster tolerant crops and cropping practices; and (iv) introducing agricultural value chains. Its outputs are: (i) participatory subproject development improved; (ii) small-scale water resources infrastructure with climate and disaster resilient features developed or enhanced; and (iii) Upazila and water management cooperative associations-level value chain development activities prepared and implemented. These will result in the following outcome: climate resilient agricultural productivity and profitability in selected geographic areas increased. The project impact is food security and rural livelihoods resilience to climate change-induced disasters among project beneficiaries increased. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 6. TA 9820-PRC: Preparing Sustainable Development Projects

Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 1,800.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 9 October 2019 Date Approved : 4 October 2019 The TA facility will provide project preparation support to a series of projects, initially comprising of: (i) Gansu Rural Vitalization and Integrated Industry Development; (ii) Shanxi Low-Carbon and Beautiful Villages Development; (iii) Guangxi–Guilin Comprehensive Ecological Rehabilitation; and (iv) Heilongjiang Regional Economic Cooperation. Its major outputs are: (i) technical feasibility assessments conducted and opportunities for cofinancing explored; (ii) procurement plans formulated; (iii) economic and financial analyses and social, environment, resettlement and indigenous people safeguards due diligence and gender mainstreaming completed; and (iv)

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sector and social assessments prepared. The ensuing projects involve investments in green and low carbon infrastructure, rural vitalization and regional integration. Their outputs include: (i) green and bankable infrastructure projects developed; (ii) increased participation of financial institutions (FI) in sustainable projects; and (ii) capacity development of government and Fl to screen, appraise and support sustainable projects. The projects’ outcome will be enhanced green, low-carbon and sustainable infrastructure sector development in the Government of the People’s Republic of China while their outcome will be increased investment to promote green growth through air-, water-, and land-quality improvements as well as lower greenhouse gas emissions. Status of Consulting Services : Consultant has been fielded. 7. TA 9813-IND: Enhancing Capacity to Design and Implement Energy Sector Projects

Executing Agency : Department of Economic Affairs TA Amount ($'000) : 1,000.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 4 October 2019 Date Approved : 3 October 2019 The TA facility will help the executing and implementing agencies meet government and ADB financing by supporting project preparation, increasing project readiness, building capacity in project implementation and overall portfolio management in India. It will support the following projects: (i) Uttarakhand Transmission Strengthening and Distribution Improvement Project; (ii) Meghalaya Power Distribution Sector Improvement Project; (iii) Tripura Generation Upgrading and Distribution Strengthening Project; and (iv) other projects to be proposed by the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance for ADB financing. The TA facility is suitable as it will: (i) support ensuing projects in the energy sector in low-income states in India with similar due diligence requirements; (ii) enhance project preparation efficiency and improve readiness of projects that have limited processing resources; (iii) promote sharing of experiences among different states working with the same team of consultants; and (iv) strengthen coordination in project preparation. This modality will reduce transaction costs and time through minimizing the resources of stand-alone transaction TAs. The outputs are: (i) network planning and detailed technical assessment supported; (ii) procurement, financial and economic assessment supported; (iii) environment and social safeguards due diligence completed; and (iv) safeguard capacity of implementing agencies improved. Status of Consulting Services : Consultants have been fielded. 8. TA 9828-IND: Bengaluru Smart Energy Efficient Power Distribution

Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 225.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 22 October 2019 Date Approved : 21 October 2019 The TA will: (i) conduct technical and safeguards due diligence to enhance readiness of the ensuing project; and (ii) support building capacity of Bengaluru Electricity Supply Company Limited in (a) distribution network management system and business practices, and (b) environmental safeguard monitoring. The TA outputs are: (i) due diligence on ensuing project conducted; (ii) bidding documents prepared; (iii) technical capacity of implementing agency

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enhanced; and (iv) environment safeguard monitoring report prepared. The ensuing project will have the following outputs: (i) smart and disaster-resilient power distribution system established in seven districts in urban areas of Bengaluru; (ii) and knowledge of implementing agency in modern power distribution system improved. The outputs will result in the following outcome: energy efficiency, reliability, and safety of power supply system in Bengaluru urban areas improved. The project will be aligned with the following impact: livable Bengaluru urban areas developed. Status of Consulting Services : Consultants have been fielded.

9. TA 9844-IND: Supporting Education and Skills Development Facility

Executing Agency : Department of Economic Affairs TA Amount ($'000) : 1,000.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 5 November 2019 Date Approved : 4 November 2019 The TA facility will support project preparation, capacity building, undertaking due diligence, and increasing the readiness of the following pipeline projects in India: (i) Supporting School Education Program in India; (ii) Kerala Skills Development Project; and (iii) Supporting State-Level Skills Development Project (for Assam). These projects are all in the education sector, including technical and vocational education and training subsector, and have similar due diligence requirements. The TA facility will also support ongoing projects as required and agreed with the project’s respective executing and implementing agencies. Its outputs are: (i) quality education and skills development projects designed and project readiness achieved; (ii) project implementation and management capacity of executing and implementing agencies improved; and (iii) capacity of executing and implementing agencies strengthened to apply innovative practices and technology solutions for project design and implementation. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 10. TA 9849-IND: India Urban and Water Projects Support Facility

Executing Agency : Ministry of Finance TA Amount ($'000) : 2,000.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 8 November 2019 Date Approved : 4 November 2019 The complex challenges and increasing demands in the urban and water sector in India require innovative and integrated solutions for infrastructure and institutional development, including advanced technologies, to improve efficiency, reliability and quality of service delivery. A total of 16 projects and 4 TA grants are in the pipeline for 2020–2022 to address these challenges. The TA facility will support (i) project preparation of ensuing urban and water projects in India during 2021–2022, and (ii) capacity building and implementation of selected ongoing urban and water projects in India. It will assist the projects to: (i) include integrated solutions for urban development and drinking water supply promoting international best-practices and innovation for improved efficiency and sustainability; (ii) achieve high project readiness as set by ADB and government of India; and (iii) strengthen capacity for implementation and sustainable and efficient operation and maintenance of the assets built. This requires a thorough technical, safeguards, institutional, financial management,

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and economic due diligence, and continuous implementation support to the selected executing and implementing agencies. The TA facility outputs are: (i) project quality and readiness improved; and (ii) project implementation improved. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed.

11. TA 9854-KGZ: School Education Reform Sector Development Program Executing Agency : Ministry of Education and Science TA Amount ($'000) : 700.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 13 November 2019 Date Approved : 11 November 2019 The TA will help the Kyrgyz government to (i) design the program and prepare its due diligence, and (ii) identify schools and other institutions to be supported under the program and prepare the preliminary design of infrastructure improvement. Through a comprehensive set of instruments, the TA will review and analyze the existing policies, practices, and constraints of the school education sector and propose the most appropriate solutions. The program will help the Ministry of Education and Science accelerate the reform process initiated in 2010–2017 and ensure sustainable deepening and expansion of reforms in key areas: teacher development, school curriculum, teaching materials and e-resources, school leadership, and sector management. While the policy component of the program will support policy formulation in school education, the investment component will help improve teaching and learning of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in secondary and upper-secondary grades. The program outputs are: (i) quality and relevance of curriculum improved; (ii) quality of teaching and teacher training improved; and (iii) the network of future schools strengthened. These will lead to the following: learning outcomes of public school’s students improved. The program will be aligned with the following impact: equitable and quality education system focused on: (i) raising a harmoniously developed personality; (ii) full realization of the genuine talents of each person; and (iii) formation of practical skills and competencies. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 12. TA 9899-MON: Forest Sector Development Program

Executing Agency : Ministry of Environment and Tourism TA Amount ($'000) : 800.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 12 December 2019 Date Approved : 10 December 2019 The TA will help the government of Mongolia prepare a project design that complies with the ADB requirements and international best practice. Its major outputs are: (i) technical design developed and feasibility assessments conducted; (ii) assessment and planning on social, gender, and safeguards (social and environment) completed; (iii) investment plan and procurement packages prepared; and (iv) project management capacity of the executing and implementing agencies improved. The program aims to increase income-generating opportunities from forests by improving sector functions and services, applying sustainable forest management to improve forest health, protection, and resources, and support the growth of the forest industry and forest products. The outputs are: (i) institutional, governance, management, and financial management

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enhanced; (ii) inclusive sustainable forest management implemented and services provided; and (iii) forest industry business, value chain, and infrastructure improved. These outputs will result in the following outcome: sustainability and productivity of forest industry in Mongolia increased. The impact will be forestry development for Mongolia economically and environmentally sustained. The executing agency, the Ministry of Environment and Tourism, has limited experience with ADB requirements for loan preparation. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 13. TA 9873-NEP: South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Airport Capacity

Enhancement Sector Development Program

Executing Agency : Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation TA Amount ($'000) : 1,000.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 27 November 2019 Date Approved : 27 November 2019 The TA will help the government of Nepal: (i) prepare a program design that complies with ADB requirements and international best practices; and (ii) implement the sector development program (SDP) through (a) support for procurement activities for the investment component and (b) monitoring and facilitating of execution of policy actions under the program component. Major outputs of the TA include: (i) design of the SDP prepared; (ii) procurement support for the investment component completed; and (iii) execution of policy actions under the program component monitored and facilitated. The SDP will: (i) support civil aviation sector reforms in restructuring of the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal and strengthening of its regulatory functions, management governance and business plan development in operations, financial restructuring, operational efficiency improvement, and civil aviation safety (the program component); and (ii) finance the improvement of facilities at the Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) in Kathmandu and the Gautam Buddha International Airport (GBIA) in Lumbini (the investment component). The investment component includes: (i) relocation of hangars to the eastern part of the TIA; (ii) construction of dedicated domestic apron areas at the TIA; and (iii) construction of a new international terminal building with a floor space of 35,000 square meters at the GBIA. The outcome will be safety, capacity, and efficiency of air travel to and from Nepal improved. The SDP will have the following impact: tourism in Nepal developed. Status of Consulting Services : Consultants have been fielded. 14. TA 9839-PAK: Preparing Urban Development Projects

Executing Agency : Ministry of Finance, Revenue and Economic Affairs TA Amount ($'000) : 1,650.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 30 October 2019 Date Approved : 29 October 2019 The TA facility will support urban sector analyses, project preparation and capacity development, and project due diligence during 2019–2021 to a series of urban development investment projects. These projects will comprise the subsectors of: (i) urban transport; (ii) urban water, sanitation, and flood control; (iii) solid waste management; (iv) low-income housing; (v) cultural

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heritage restoration; (vi) tourism development; and (vii) information and communications technology. To develop these projects, preparatory work in the form of feasibility studies, environmental and social safeguards work, financial management assessments, and economic analyses will be required. The overall outcome for the TA facility will be the preparation of the investment projects suitable for ADB financing. The TA facility will deliver three key outputs: (i) feasibility studies and investment plans; (ii) due diligence for ensuing projects; and (iii) strengthened project management and urban service delivery capacity. Status of Consulting Services : Consultants have been fielded. 15. TA 9866-PAK: Punjab Agriculture Markets Development

Executing Agency : Agriculture Department, Government of the Punjab TA Amount ($'000) : 800.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 8 October 2019 Date Approved : 8 November 2019 The TA will help ADB, Agence Française de Développement and the government with: (i) conducting the feasibility study and due diligence for the project; and (ii) developing a masterplan for development of sustainable agriculture marketing environment and agricultural markets in Punjab, including a roadmap for capacity building of a new agriculture markets regulator and food supply and distribution chain organization. The ensuing project will finance the establishment of a modern holistic wholesale agriculture market in Punjab, Pakistan. It will support the government’s agriculture policy by establishing new and modern wholesale markets that will lead to enhanced value addition, quality improvement and reduction in transaction costs. Success of these markets will lead to increased productivity, improved processing and storage capacity, and reduced post-harvest losses, thereby improving the agriculture sector growth of Punjab. The project will have two outputs: (i) a modern wholesale agriculture market established; and (ii) capacity of Punjab Agricultural Markets Regulatory Authority to regulate agriculture markets enhanced. These outputs will result in increased volume of agriculture produce auctioned at new markets. The project will be aligned with the following impact: agriculture produce markets improved and institutional capacity strengthened. Status of Consulting Services : Consultants have been fielded. 16. TA 9903-PAK: Kurram Tangi Integrated Water Resources Development

Executing Agency : Water and Power Development Authority TA Amount ($'000) : 1,800.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 13 December 2019 Date Approved : 12 December 2019 The TA will enable a comprehensive feasibility study to validate the technical feasibility and economic viability of the ensuing project, applying best international practice in planning and design of dams, along with planning and layout design of irrigation and agricultural development component, as well as updating and strengthening of environmental and social due diligence works. It will have the following TA outputs: (i) integrated multi-sector water resources management plan prepared; (ii) feasibility-level design of project structures and facilities

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prepared; and (iii) comprehensive agricultural development and irrigation management improvement plan developed. The TA will also help prepare institutional development plans for operational management of reservoir and power houses, on-farm water and agriculture management and irrigation supplies monitoring and control mechanisms vis-à-vis capacity development program for the new institution. The ensuing project will improve the productivity and sustainability of water resources management in the Kurram river basin, and will improve agricultural productivity through: (i) construction of a multipurpose dam with a 98-meter height; (ii) construction and upgrading of irrigation canals; (iii) construction of a hydropower generation station; (iv) construction of on-farm water courses and providing agricultural support; and (v) institutional capacity strengthening for efficient water management and sustainability of infrastructures. The outcome will be improved productivity and sustainability of water resources. The project will be aligned with the following impact: water, food and energy security improved. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 17. TA 9817-PNG: Renewable Biomass

Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 225.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 7 October 2019 Date Approved : 4 October 2019 The TA to be financed on a grant basis by the Canadian Climate Fund for the Private Sector in Asia under the Clean Energy Financing Partnership Facility will determine how best to incorporate climate adaptation in the ensuing project’s design. The project entails the construction, operation and maintenance of a wood biomass fueled power station, with a total net generation capacity of 30 megawatts. A key objective of the project is to replace imported diesel with a local energy source, thereby enhancing energy independence of PNG. Access to electricity remains one of the country’s most significant development challenges, with less than 15% of PNG’s population connected to a power grid. The PNG government is therefore seeking solutions that will substantially improve the access to electricity and will ultimately lower their power generation costs. The project outputs are: (i) biomass power plant constructed; (ii) solar power plant constructed; (iii) local economy supported; and (iv) employment generated. These will lead to the following outcome: private sector biomass power plant in PNG sustained and clean power to the domestic grid increased. The project is aligned with the following impact: substantial increase in the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix ensured. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed.

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18. TA 9890-PNG: Preparing the Land and Maritime Transport Projects

Executing Agency : Department of Works and Implementation;

Department of Transport TA Amount ($'000) : 2,500.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 6 December 2019 Date Approved : 5 December 2019 The TA facility will provide project preparation support and capacity building to a series of ensuing projects in Papua New Guinea: (i) Northern Region corridor from Wutung to Angoram; (ii) Northern Region Road Corridor from Lae to Malalaua; and (iii) Highlands Region Road Improvement Investment Program, Phase 2. All ensuing projects are in the transport sector. To develop these projects, preparatory work in the form of feasibility studies, environmental and social safeguards work, financial management assessments, economic analysis, procurement assessment, and gender analysis will be required. The major outputs are: (i) review of the feasibility studies and detailed engineering designs for roads and ports conducted and due diligence on ensuing projects prepared; (ii) poverty and social development component of the ensuing projects developed; and (iii) governance and project implementation capacity of the Department of Works and Implementation and Department of Transport improved. In parallel with the TA facility, a separate project readiness financing (PRF) loan is being prepared and will be implemented separately. The PRF and TA facility will provide support for the same ensuing projects concurrently. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 19. TA 9865-SOL: Strengthening Urban Health Services

Executing Agency : Ministry of Finance and Treasury TA Amount ($'000) : 750.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 20 November 2019 Date Approved : 19 November 2019 The TA will provide technical analysis and assessments to assist the Solomon Islands government and the ADB in developing the project. It is justified given the scope of activities and specialist nature of skills required. Due diligence will be undertaken based on the proposed project design. The TA will also build the capacity of the Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS) to administer the ensuing project and enhance project readiness for timely implementation given ADB’s relatively new engagement with MHMS. The ensuing project will improve the quality and coverage of health services in Solomon Islands, with particular focus on Honiara. The following output areas are expected to be delivered under the project: (i) quality of services provided by the National Referral Hospital strengthened; (ii) primary and secondary healthcare provision in Honiara upgraded; and (iii) urban healthcare delivery systems improved. The project outcome will be enhanced quality and coverage of urban health services. The impact will be improved health, happiness, and productivity of the people of Solomon Islands. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed.

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20. TA 9867-TAJ: Irrigation and Drainage Modernization in the Vaksh River Basin

Executing Agency : Agency for Land Reclamation and Irrigation TA Amount ($'000) : 1,000.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 27 November 2019 Date Approved : 19 November 2019 The TA will support the government of Tajikistan to prepare feasibility studies that will identify proposed interventions and include technical (engineering design) and environmental, social, economic and financial assessments for the project. It will identify targeted interventions for gender empowerment and inclusion in irrigation and drainage (I&D) modernization, decision making and income generation. It will also identify suitable interventions to be made for improved on-farm water management (OFWM), including land and water management initiatives and application of technologies, particularly for high value crops. These activities will highlight areas for capacity building support in technical, procurement, and financial management for ALRI. The project will modernize the Yavan and priority components of Kumsangir I&D systems in the Lower Vaksh river basin in Tajikistan. This will be achieved with: (i) climate resilient and modernized I&D infrastructure to improve water use efficiency; (ii) inclusive and reliable OFWM; and (iii) policy and institutions strengthened for sustainable I&D management, focusing on the Agency of Land Reclamation and Irrigation (ALRI) and water users associations. The project outcome will be improved performance of Yavan and Kumsangir I&D systems. The impact will be increased food security and people’s access to good quality nutrition. Status of Consulting Services : Consultants have been fielded. 21. TA 9894-TAJ: Financial Sector and Fiscal Management Improvement Program

Executing Agency : Ministry of Finance TA Amount ($'000) : 750.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 10 December 2019 Date Approved : 9 December 2019 The TA will: (i) help design and implement reforms and detailed policy actions under the ensuing program; and (ii) provide policy advice to the government to support fiscal management reforms and the development of the financial sector. It will also strengthen the capacity of the executing and implementing agencies to effectively and sustainably implement the program and improve governance. The ensuing program aims to support the Government of Tajikistan with reforms to create a more stable financial system, enhance access to financial services, and improve fiscal management to accelerate sustainable private sector growth. It will: (i) enhance banking sector stability; (ii) improve the enabling environment for the financial sector; and (iii) strengthen public financial management. These outputs will lead to increased private sector investment. The impact will be improved standard of living of the population through sustainable economic development. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed.

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22. TA 9847-UZB: Surkhandarya Regional Road

Executing Agency : Committee for Roads TA Amount ($'000) : 1,200.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 7 November 2019 Date Approved : 4 November 2019 The TA will ensure that the ensuing project will be prepared to acceptable technical, safeguards, and procurement standards. Its outputs will include: (i) due diligence and procurement documents for the proposed project; and (ii) improved Committee for Roads (CR) capacity in network management and maintenance, project preparation and implementation. The ensuing project will rehabilitate the 111-kilometer Derbent to Denau Road, linking the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Corridors 3b and 6b (Russian Federation to Central Asia). The core problem of the road subsector in Uzbekistan is inefficient road infrastructure which leads to reduced mobility, unsafe roads and limited access to markets and services which disproportionately affect women. The project will contribute to addressing this core problem through two outputs: (i) Derbent to Denau highway section in Surkhandarya region rehabilitated; and (ii) institutional capacity of CR improved and an intelligent transport system installed and made operational to provide smart and efficient transport mobility. These solutions will result to a more efficient and safer road network in the Surkhandarya region. The project will be aligned with the following impacts: (i) implementation of targeted programs to build affordable housing, development and modernization of road transport, engineering, communications and social infrastructure achieved; and (ii) competitive corridors across the CAREC region established. Status of Consulting Services : Consultants have been fielded. 23. TA 9892-UZB: Integrated Perinatal Care

Executing Agency : Ministry of Health TA Amount ($'000) : 1,200.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 9 December 2019 Date Approved : 2 December 2019 The TA will help the government of Uzbekistan to: (i) review the technical, economic and financial viability of the project and ascertain the project rationale, scope, cost, schedule, implementation arrangements, risks and mitigation measures; (ii) ensure compliance with ADB’s safeguard policy statement and identify mitigation measures and institutional strengthening; and (iii) assist the project executing and implementing agencies undertake advance actions for the ensuing project. The TA outputs include: (i) feasibility study and project due diligence; and (ii) perinatal services delivery plan for Fergana Valley performed. The ensuing project will support the government in their quest of improving the quality of perinatal care. It will have four outputs: (i) perinatal centers modernized and upgraded; (ii) referral system strengthened; (iii) quality adherence at perinatal centers enhanced; and (iv) maternal health-seeking behavior improved. These will lead to the following outcome: woman- and baby-friendly quality perinatal care services adequately utilized. The intended impact is a reduction of the maternal and neonatal mortality rates. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed.

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24. TA 9933-UZB: Gas Infrastructure Modernization in Uzbekistan

Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 225.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 9 January 2020 Date Approved : 27 December 2019 The TA will support the preparation of supervisory control and data acquisition system (SCADA) implementation for Uzbekistan’s gas sector. SCADA is a standard operational practice in gas transportation systems and allows real-time assessment of the status of gas transportation infrastructure, including natural gas flow rates, operational pressure, and other technical indicators at any given time and location of the network. The TA will enable fast preparation of SCADA component and its integration to the project, for which preparatory works are already at an advanced stage. The project scope will comprise: (i) the modernization of two compressor stations (at Yangier and Khodjaabad); (ii) the construction of a 95-kilometer pipeline linking Yangier and Akhangaran; and (iii) in-line inspection of the Soh-Namangan-Andijan pipeline. In December 2019, the Government of Uzbekistan requested ADB to include two additional components and ADB agreed to incorporate them to the existing scope: (i) the installation of SCADA; and (ii) the expansion of the underground gas storage at Khodjaabad. The project outcome will be enhanced Uzbekistan gas transmission efficiency. Its impact will be strengthened efficiency and reliability of gas transmission infrastructure. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 25. TA 9852-REG: Improving Safeguard Implementation in South Asia

Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 3,000.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 11 November 2019 Date Approved : 6 November 2019 The TA facility will provide environment and social risk management, capacity building, and support to future and ongoing projects within the South Asia region. It will build on and expand the scope of TA 8569-REG, an earlier TA that enhanced safeguards policy application in selected South Asia region developing member countries (DMCs). It will also strengthen the capacity of key government units, civil society, academe, consultants, and contractors to design, implement, and monitor robust measures that address project risks to people and the environment. It will support environment and social safeguards due diligence, consultation, supervision, monitoring, and grievance redress in ADB-funded projects in all the South Asian countries and sectors within these countries. This will be essential for the smooth preparation and implementation of ADB’s 2020–2022 programs in South Asia DMCs. The programs include some 140 proposed projects involving a total of $22 billion in ADB funding. The TA facility’s outputs include: (i) improved environment and social risk management capacity; (ii) project management and supervision capacity of executing agencies strengthened using advanced technology applications; and (iii) guidance material and knowledge products enhanced. Status of Consulting Services : Consultants have been fielded.

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26. TA 9925-REG: Southeast Asia Transport Project Preparatory Facility Phase 2

Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 5,000.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 23 December 2019 Date Approved : 20 December 2019 The TA Facility will provide project preparation support and capacity building for a series of ensuing investment projects in the transport sector in Southeast Asia, initially comprising the following projects: (i) Railway Development Project (Indonesia); (ii) Railway Modernization Project (Myanmar); (iii) Additional Financing to Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) Highway Modernization Project (Myanmar); (iv) Davao Public Transport Modernization Project (Philippines); (v) Additional Financing to GMS Highway Expansion Phase 2 Project (Thailand); (vi) Road Network Sustainability Project (Timor-Leste); (vii) Dili Airport Upgrading Project (Timor-Leste); (viii) Public Transport Project (Timor-Leste); and (ix) Ho Chi Minh City Urban Mass Rapid Transit Line 2 Project (Viet Nam). It will also provide due diligence and capacity building support, as needed, to those ensuing projects and other ongoing projects. In subsectors such as railways, public transport, and aviation, the executing and implementing agencies usually do not have comprehensive knowledge and experience in the development and implementation of efficient operating, climate-friendly, and disaster-resilient systems. ADB’s prompt and seamless support from project processing to implementation will allow the executing and implementing agencies to ensure high project readiness, help attract private sectors’ participation in the ensuing projects, and develop quality and efficient transport systems and sustainable system operation. TA Facility will: (i) enhance project preparation efficiency and improve project readiness; (ii) improve synergies within a pool of consultants working in different countries but facing similar implementation challenges and policy issues; (iii) reduce lengthy consultant recruitment processes and transaction costs; (iv) improve knowledge transfer from one country to other countries through the consultants; and (v) strengthen coordination of resource use and TA outputs among the DMCs. Its outputs are: (i) feasibility study for ensuing projects prepared; (ii) project implementation activities supported; and (iii) technical and project management capacity of the executing and implementing agencies improved. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed.

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2. CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT AND POLICY ADVICE 27. TA 9876-AZE: Supporting Public Sector Governance Reforms Executing Agency : Ministry of Finance TA Amount ($'000) : 800.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 28 November 2019 Date Approved : 28 November 2019 The TA will support the implementation of the Post-Program Engagement Framework (PPEF) of the Azerbaijan: Improving Governance and Public Sector Efficiency Program (IGPSE) – Subprogram 2. This will help avoid any loss of reform momentum and support the Government of Azerbaijan in delivering on its commitment to deploy its best efforts to carry out the PPEF. Through this TA, ADB will be able to flexibly provide strategic policy advice to the government in the implementation of rules-based fiscal planning, in state-owned enterprises restructuring and strengthening of private sector participation, and in enhancing access to finance and improving the business environment to small and medium-sized enterprises. The reforms included in the PPEF and to be supported by the proposed TA are, in general, a natural sequence of the reform achievements under the IGPSE. The major outputs and activities include: (i) Policy Output Area 1: implementation of rules-based fiscal planning (implement medium-term expenditure framework and medium-term fiscal framework; establish fiscal risk management functions; and implement public debt management strategy); (ii) Policy Output Area 2: further state-owned enterprise restructuring and strengthening of framework private sector participation in infrastructure (strengthen the centralized financial management control of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and deepen SOE sector-specific reforms; and develop an effective operational framework for public-private partnerships); and Policy Reform Output Area 3: enhancing access to finance and improving the business environment (provide further legal and regulatory reforms for diversification and access to finance; develop the policy coordination and role of the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority; and support the sustaining of direct finance initiatives). Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 28. TA 9883-BAN: Support to Quality Enhancement in Primary Education Executing Agency : Ministry of Primary and Mass Education TA Amount ($'000) : 1,200.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 5 December 2019 Date Approved : 4 December 2019 The program will support Bangladesh’s primary education system covering all children from pre-primary to grade 5 nationwide. It builds on the achievements of previous programs with a stronger focus on strengthening quality of education and enhancing institutional management. Its outputs are: (i) quality of primary education improved; (ii) access and participation to primary education enhanced; and (iii) governance and management of primary education system improved. The outcome of the program will be improved quality and equity of primary education for all children from pre-primary to grade 5. The impact is strengthened human capital formation. The program will strengthen teaching-learning quality for children to acquire the essential grade level competencies stipulated in the curriculum. It will also improve governance and management of the primary education system, which is necessary for education quality enhancement. To achieve

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these goals, the following areas need to be strengthened: (i) needs-based Continuous Professional Development (CPD) for in-service teacher development; (ii) classroom teaching assessment system for monitoring teaching quality; and (iii) education management information system (EMIS) for monitoring and accountability. The TA will support the implementation of these innovative initiatives in the initial stage of the program. Its activities include: (i) supporting the operationalization of CPD framework (with an integrated component of ICT-based teacher training); (ii) providing technical support to update classroom observation tool; and (iii) structuring the web-based integrated EMIS and conducting early-stage tests. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 29. TA 9872-BHU: Supporting Financial Market Development Program Executing Agency : Ministry of Finance TA Amount ($'000) : 500.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 26 November 2019 Date Approved : 26 November 2019 The program aims to help the Government of Bhutan adopt timely reforms to enhance the efficiency, stability, and inclusiveness of the finance sector. It will support the government with implementing institutional reforms and will build the technical capacity of regulators and financial institutions. The program outputs are: (i) non-bank financial system developed; (ii) stability and integrity of the financial system strengthened; and (iii) financial inclusion promoted. Its outcome will be stability, efficiency and inclusiveness of the finance sector enhanced. The impact will be the improved economic welfare of the Bhutanese people, especially women, through increased employment, private sector business development, enhanced access to finance, and greater efficiency of financial intermediation. ADB has consistently recognized and responded to Bhutan’s substantial need and demand for capacity building. Continued reforms and new policies in the finance sector are necessary to support Bhutan’s transition toward middle-income status. The TA will help the government formulate regulations and guidelines to implement the three areas of reform under the program, build the capacity of the government agencies and financial institutions to implement the reforms under subprogram 2 of the program, and provide training and capacity building to entrepreneurs and the disadvantaged to promote financial inclusion. The TA outputs include: (i) strategies and regulations developed; (ii) capacity of financial institutions and their supervisors strengthened; and (iii) knowledge and capacity of entrepreneurs and the disadvantaged increased. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 30. TA 9843-IND: Institutional Capacity Building of Tamil Nadu Transmission Corporation Limited Executing Agency : Tamil Nadu Transmission Corporation Limited TA Amount ($'000) : 650.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 4 November 2019 Date Approved : 4 November 2019 The project will strengthen power transmission connectivity between the southern part of the Chennai–Kanyakumari Industrial Corridor (CKIC) and the northern part of the CKIC by

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augmenting the 765 kilovolt (kV) and 400 kV networks. This will allow more power, including renewable energy, to be evacuated from new generation facilities in the south CKIC to the energy hungry north CKIC. The project will also enhance the institutional capacity of Tamil Nadu Transmission Corporation Limited (TANTRANSCO). The outputs of the project include: (i) transmission link from southern CKIC to load centers in northern CKIC established; (ii) pooling substation in Thoothukudi District established; and (iii) financial sustainability and institutional capacity of TANTRASCO improved. The project outcome will be power supply in the CKIC increased in a financially sustainable manner. The impact will be industrial development and renewable energy utilization in Tamil Nadu enhanced. The TA will have the following objectives: (i) enhance TANTRANSCO’s financial management capacity; (ii) implement the financial restructuring plan (FRP); (iii) facilitate gender-sensitive workplace practices; and (iv) enhance the capacity of TANTRANSCO to monitor the environmental and social impacts of transmission line projects. The TA outputs are: (i) implementation of FRP and financial management action plan supported; (ii) gender-sensitive workplace practices promoted; and (iii) capacity of TANTRANSCO to monitor environmental and social impacts enhanced. Status of Consulting Services : Consultant has been fielded. 31. TA 9874-IND: Scaling Up Demand-Side Energy Efficiency Sector Executing Agency : Energy Efficiency Services Limited TA Amount ($'000) : 2,000.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 27 November 2019 Date Approved : 27 November 2019 The project will be the second ADB loan to Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) to support the expansion of investments in energy efficiency. It will follow tested and improved new business models to exploit vast investment opportunities in energy efficiency. Key areas of intervention will include: (i) deployment of distributed solar photovoltaic systems in rural agricultural areas, smart meters, and electric vehicles (e-vehicles) with charging stations; and (ii) end-user energy-efficiency awareness and capacity development. The project will help scale up promotion of demand-side energy efficiency technologies and replicate the successes of and lessons learned from the ongoing ADB project. It will also complement other ADB energy sector investment operations, even though most of those are on the supply side—in electricity generation, transmission, and distribution. The project outputs are: (i) energy-efficient technologies in utility service areas in eligible states (including Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Delhi, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Odisha, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, and Uttar Pradesh) promoted and deployed; and (ii) awareness of the benefits of using energy-efficient technologies created, persuading people and other key stakeholders such as distribution companies to adopt and promote energy-efficient measures. The project outcome will be end-use energy efficiency in the project areas increased. The project is aligned with the following impact: emissions intensity of economy reduced. The TA will support in implementing the project by expanding policy dialogue with the government, implementing the gender action plan for the project, mobilizing private sector participation in energy-efficiency services, identifying new business opportunities, transferring knowledge about successful energy-efficiency investments, and pilot-testing new technologies and business models. Additionally, the TA will support: (i) project management consultants (primarily for monitoring and reporting); (ii) technology and business model analyses; (iii) identification and development of remaining subprojects; (iv) mapping of candidate sites for e-vehicle charging systems; (v) selective pilot-

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testing of promising technologies that can be rapidly deployed at scale; (vi) key elements of the gender action plan; and (vii) workshops and seminars. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 32. TA 9857-INO: Automated Liquidity Management Framework Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 225.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 14 November 2019 Date Approved : 13 November 2019 To support small and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs) access to finance, ADB’s nonsovereign operation is pursuing financial institutions in Indonesia that have a successful track record in servicing this segment. Most recently, ADB has been supporting microfinance institutions directly and through the Microfinance Risk Participation and Guarantee Program. The proposed transaction would be the first nonsovereign operations project to partner with a multi-finance company in Indonesia to fund SMEs. ADB selected PT Indosurya Inti Finance (Indosurya) because of its focused strategy of funding SMEs through targeted outreach. The outputs of the project will include: (i) Indosurya’s lending capacity, particularly for women SMEs, increased; and (ii) gender equity of Indosurya improved. The project outcome will be sustainable SME lending activities improved. The project is aligned with the following impact: financial inclusion supported through expanded access to finance by SME clients in Indonesia. The TA will support the project with the following outputs: (i) liquidity policies and procedures manual developed; and (ii) liquidity management system automated. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 33. TA 9834-KAZ: Supporting the Promoting Gender Equality in Housing Finance Project Executing Agency : Housing Construction Savings Bank of Kazakhstan TA Amount ($'000) : 620.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 8 May 2019 Date Approved : 24 October 2019 ADB seeks to provide a financial intermediation loan to Housing Construction Savings Bank of Kazakhstan (HCSBK) to expand the access of female borrowers to affordable mortgage finance. The project will help HCSBK address the unmet but growing demand for long-term, fixed-rate mortgage credit by using local currency funds to provide affordable mortgage finance to female borrowers. It will be ADB’s first-ever financial intermediation project in the country that targets exclusively women beneficiaries. The project outputs are: (i) long-term affordable mortgage financing for eligible women borrowers made available; (ii) accessibility to HCSBK’s lending products for eligible women borrowers improved; and (iii) gender inclusiveness of the banking sector’s housing finance assessed. The project outcome will be increased acquisition and renovation of housing units by women. The impact will be gender equity promotion and sustainable economic growth achieved. The TA will support HCSBK in its goal to improve access to affordable housing finance by women and expand financial inclusion for women in the country through capacity building services primarily involving the following actions: (i) improve financial literacy among potential women borrowers in Kazakhstan; (ii) raise awareness for gender-related

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lending aspects in HCSBK’s operations by hiring and training employees to become gender champions in its head office and some of its larger branches; (iii) assist in the implementation of a comprehensive gender action plan in HCSBK; and (iv) enhance HCSBK’s customer targeting by designing lending programs and products specific to women. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 34. TA 9851-KGZ: Supporting the Naryn Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Development Program Executing Agency : Department of Drinking Water Supply and Sewerage

Development under the State Agency for Water Resources under the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic

TA Amount ($'000) : 225.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 8 November 2019 Date Approved : 8 November 2019 The program will focus on Rural Water Supply and Sanitation (RWSS) provision for 42 villages in Naryn Oblast. Key outputs of the program include: (i) rural water supply system improved; (ii) non-network sanitation services piloted; and (iii) sustainable operational models established. The outcome will be inclusive and reliable access to water supply and sanitation services in Naryn Oblast improved. The program will be aligned with the following impacts: (i) decent living standards for each Kyrgyz citizen achieved; and (ii) health and quality of life improved and adverse environmental impact reduced by 2026. The TA will review the national program and recommend measures to reinforce and strengthen the government’s own system for delivery of RWSS services. It will: (i) conduct institutional and sector analysis; (ii) undertake fiduciary (financial management, procurement, and anticorruption), safeguard (social and environmental), expenditure framework, poverty, social, and gender assessment; and program soundness assessments; (iii) conduct due diligence on legal and institutional arrangements; (iv) prepare detailed program deliverables, including disbursement-linked indicators; (v) prepare integrated risk management plan; (vi) prepare a program action plan and program implementation guidelines; (vii) identify institutional and capacity gaps for the implementing agency and stakeholders; (viii) recommend technical and system improvements to the government program; and (ix) explore possibility of financing with the Aga Khan Development Network and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 35. TA 9900-KGZ: Promoting Financial Sector Resilience Executing Agency : National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic TA Amount ($'000) : 225.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 15 January 2020 Date Approved : 12 December 2019 The TA will support the loan transaction with Finca Bank Kyrgyzstan under the Kyrgyzstan Rural Financial Inclusion Project in building a more stress resilient bank. Capacity development of the banking regulator, supported under this TA, is required to prevent the risks that increase with the

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growth of financial sector and build investors’ confidence in Kyrgyz banks. Alignment with Basel III standards will also make the regulatory capital ratios of the Kyrgyz banks internationally comparable for investors and rating agencies. This will in turn facilitate the Kyrgyz banks’ access to global capital markets. The TA is also important given the increasing sophistication of banking operations driven by the introduction of new banking services, such as digital financial products. The TA outputs are: (i) stress-testing and econometric models in place and used as an integral part of forward-looking micro and macroprudential supervision by the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic (NBKR); and (ii) NBKR’s staff’s skills improved in identifying and managing micro and macroprudential risks. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 36. TA 9888-MON: Supporting the Ulaanbaatar Air Quality Improvement Program – Phase 2 Executing Agency : Ministry of Finance TA Amount ($'000) : 750.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 5 September 2019 Date Approved : 5 December 2019 The ensuing program’s phase 2 aims to: (i) embed the strategies to address air pollution developed under the program’s phase 1 into Mongolia’s legal and regulatory framework; (ii) support the government in fully realizing its increased aspirations; and (iii) put in place sustainable long-term measures for a clean heating supply in Ulaanbaatar. Phase 2 will be provided as a standalone policy-based loan in two tranches, with the funds front-loaded to ensure that essential policy actions required for the successful implementation of the raw coal ban during the 2019–2020 heating season are undertaken in full. The expected outcome will be improved air quality in Ulaanbaatar. The program is aligned with the following impacts: urban air pollution reduced; and public health and living standards improved. The government will require assistance in designing and implementing key elements of the reform program where internal capacity is limited. Major outputs of the TA include (i) climate adaptation, urban resilience and gender and community dimensions incorporated in the Ulaanbaatar Master Plan; (ii) clean heat supply plan for ger (traditional dwellings) areas developed; (iii) study on longer-term electric heating tariff structures conducted; (iv) indoor air pollution impact assessment conducted; (v) opportunities for scaling-up and expanding the green financing mechanism recommended; and (vi) gender and community engagement plan developed. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 37. TA 9906-MON: Improving Transport Services in Ger Areas Executing Agency : Ulaanbaatar Municipal Government TA Amount ($'000) : 500.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 16 April 2019 Date Approved : 10 December 2019 The project aims to demonstrate interventions that improve the accessibility, safety, security, and quality of transport services along the Chingeltei street corridor in the ger areas of Ulaanbaatar city through three outputs: (i) improved public transport access, facilities and service in Chingeltei corridor; (ii) enhanced pedestrian safety facilities and residents’ safety awareness along

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Chingeltei street; and (iii) enhanced community-led behavior change and community engagement. It will pilot the following innovative features: (i) the installation of speakers on buses to announce buses arriving at stations, improving the accessibility of public transport services for persons with visual impairment; (ii) piloting a dedicated accessible bus service at a known time of day on the project routes to improve accessibility for persons with restricted mobility; (iii) community-led initiatives for landscaping and improvement works to encourage ownership over, and sustainability of, the project infrastructure; and (iv) a safe-systems approach to improve pedestrian road safety, including infrastructure, education, and both prevention and enforcement policing interventions. These innovative features respond directly to the needs of Chingeltei residents identified through consultations including persons with disabilities, women, and the elderly. The outcome of the project will be improved quality and safety of, and access to, public transport services for residents in ger areas demonstrated. The impact will be access to safe and comfortable transport services that meet customers’ demand improved. The TA will complement interventions under project outputs 1 and 3, including addressing issues related to the quality of public transport services by: (i) improving the public transport mobile application and customer feedback mechanisms; (ii) developing and conducting training on bus driver behavior, including bus driver etiquette, accessibility features, and customer service; (iii) improving the capacity of the Public Transport Service Department and bus companies related to sustainable public transport operations and improving public transport standards; and (iv) ensuring active community engagement and development of measures to implement necessary behavior changes among the key stakeholders to fully achieve the project objectives. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 38. TA 9836-NEP: Enhancing Road Safety, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Project Implementation Capacity Executing Agency : Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport TA Amount ($'000) : 500.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 17 June 2019 Date Approved : 29 October 2019 The project will finance the first phase of upgrading the Mugling–Pokhara Highway, and will: (i) rehabilitate and widen to four lanes the 81-kilometer (km) section between Abukhaireni and Pokhara; and (ii) increase awareness and strengthen the capacity of the Department of Roads (DOR) in road safety and disaster risk reduction. It will directly support economic growth by: (i) lowering transport costs and reducing logistics constraints; (ii) improving accessibility to domestic markets, jobs, and social services; (iii) enhancing national connectivity between Pokhara and Kathmandu; and (iv) facilitating access to international markets through Bharatpur and India. Consequently, the project is expected to: (i) promote the development of the private sector and competitive export supply chains in Pokhara and its hinterland; (ii) increase domestic and international trade; (iii) improve regional integration; and (iv) leverage Pokhara’s tourism potential. It will address infrastructure bottlenecks in the mid-hill region of Nepal. The supporting TA will improve road safety and traffic management; develop a disaster risk reduction system for road sections between Pokhara, Narayanghat, and Naubise; and strengthen the capacity of the executing and implementing agencies in project implementation, procurement, and contract management. As ADB’s pipeline in the strategic road sector is increasing, with large projects and contract packages, the TA will strengthen the capacity of the Ministry of Physical Infrastructure and Transport (MOPIT) and DOR in project implementation, mainly by providing training courses, workshops, and ad hoc expertise on procurement and contract management. The TA will

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implement the following key activities: (i) a feasibility study for an intelligent traffic management and information system for Mugling–Pokhara, Mugling–Narayanghat, and Mugling–Naubise; (ii) a feasibility study for the preparation of a landslide monitoring and management system; and (iii) capacity strengthening of MOPIT and DOR in procurement and contract management. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 39. TA 9842-NEP: Supporting the Food Safety and Agriculture Commercialization Program Executing Agency : International Economic Cooperation Coordination

Division, Ministry of Finance TA Amount ($'000) : 500.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 31 October 2019 Date Approved : 31 October 2019 The program will provide budget support for reforms to: (i) improve food safety and quality monitoring systems that will reduce transaction time and costs for exporters, and protect public health from unsafe food consumption; (ii) promote agriculture commercialization to support farmers in their transition from subsistence farming to profit-making production and sales; and (iii) strengthen institutional capacity, particularly at the subnational government level. It will also support Nepal’s agriculture sector with required policy and regulatory amendments as the country transitions from a unitary to a federal structure. The TA will support the implementing agencies to prepare the required policy actions. The recent transition to federalism has resulted in the reorganization of responsibilities among the three tiers of the government and the creation of new institutions to deliver public services related to agriculture. A key issue at present is the weak coordination among these tiers in the government and among the various institutions. Fulfillment of their new responsibilities is also constrained by inadequate staffing levels within these institutions. The TA will provide capacity building support to foster coordination among the different tiers of the government and other institutions. The public sector’s regulatory function for ensuring food quality and safety will also be strengthened. The TA outputs include: (i) delivery of agribusiness advisory services; and (ii) improved government regulatory capacity. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 40. TA 9853-NEP: Capacity Development for Rural Enterprise Financing Executing Agency : Ministry of Finance TA Amount ($'000) : 750.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 31 May 2019 Date Approved : 11 November 2019 The project will increase incomes of subsistence small farmers by helping them engage in rural enterprises. Through Small Farmers Development Bank (SFDB) (the financial intermediary) and SFDB’s member small farmers agriculture cooperatives (SFACs), the project will finance rural enterprises comprising: (i) collective enterprises that are jointly owned and operated by small farmers: and (ii) individual enterprises. The project will also improve the financial intermediary’s rural enterprise financing capacity as well as provide value chain development and business facilitation support for small farmers, especially women. It has three outputs: (i) collective

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enterprises developed and financed; (ii) individual enterprises promoted and financed; and (iii) rural enterprise financing capacity enhanced. The outcome of the project will be increased small farmers’ engagement in rural enterprises. The project is aligned with the following impact: employment-oriented economic activities increased. The TA will support SFDB and SFACs to enhance their capacity in rural enterprise financing and extend rural enterprise value chain development and business facilitation support. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 41. TA 9913-PHI: Strengthening the Transition of Vulnerable Communities Affected by the Malolos-Clark Railway Executing Agency : Department of Transportation TA Amount ($'000) : 2,000.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 2 January 2020 Date Approved : 18 December 2019 The project will support the construction of two sections, totaling 53.1 kilometers, of the North-South Commuter Railway (NSCR) connecting the regional center of Clark in Central Luzon with Metro Manila and Calamba, Laguna. It aims to provide affordable, reliable, and safe public transport. It will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and cut travel time from Metro Manila to Clark from 2–3 hours by bus to less than 1 hour by rail. The outputs of the project will be: (i) new railway line commissioned; and (ii) institutional capacity strengthened. The project outcome will be efficiency and capacity of transportation along the Manila–Clark corridor improved. The project is aligned with the following impact: local, national, and international connectivity improved. Resettlement due to the project will impact the following eight communities along the railway line of the project: Manila, Malolos, Calumpit, Apalit, Sto. Tomas, Angeles, San Fernando, and Mabalacat. Under the project’s resettlement action plan (RAP), compensations and transitional assistance will be provided to mitigate lost housing, assets, and income. The RAP facilitates integration of the project affected persons’ (PAPs) access to various government services and local livelihood opportunities, by means of entitlements and support measures aimed at enabling them to at least restore their living standards. The TA will assist the PAPs to navigate the resettlement process and effectively access services and benefits under the RAP and its integrated Livelihood Restoration and Improvement Program. It will establish a system of mentoring by case workers and develop an online monitoring system to enhance the resettlement intelligence and data analytics to enable targeting of tailored interventions. The TA will also apply the “Graduation Approach” to address vulnerability and improve resilience and financial stability of the communities resettled under the project. The Graduation Approach is a multi-dimensional, time-bound, and carefully sequenced set of interventions that aim to “graduate” people out of vulnerability and into sustainable livelihoods by addressing the many drivers of poverty. The TA outputs include: (i) financial resilience and stability of participants improved; (ii) urban resettlement baseline and monitoring systems established; and (iii) urban resettlement knowledge products produced. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed.

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42. TA 9877-UZB: Implementing the Mortgage Market Sector Development Program Executing Agency : Ministry of Finance TA Amount ($'000) : 800.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 19 June 2019 Date Approved : 28 November 2019 The program will help establish a market-based housing finance sector in Uzbekistan, expand product availability and improve access to mortgage finance. It will: (i) undertake some of the most urgent housing policy, regulatory, and legal reforms; (ii) strengthen the institutional structure for a more efficient housing policy and subsidy framework; and (iii) make long-term fixed-rate local currency funds available through a sustainable mechanism and with reduced costs. It will also assist the government in the identification of alternative and more efficient ways to provide subsidies to low-income families and improve access to long-term finance for underserved borrowers. The program outputs include: (i) policy, regulatory and legal framework for the mortgage finance industry strengthened; (ii) housing finance strategy and subsidy framework strengthened; and (iii) mortgage refinancing company supported with long-term funding established and operationalized. The outcome of the program will be availability of affordable market-based residential mortgage credit increased. The impact will be living standards improved for the population of Uzbekistan. The TA will have the following outputs: (i) new housing policy and subsidy framework prepared; (ii) comprehensive housing and mortgage market database developed and made accessible via the web; (iii) decision by the government to transform the Housing Assistance Unit into an independent housing agency supported; (iv) current prudential and regulatory framework governing housing finance and mortgage lending reviewed and amended; (v) areas and initiatives to promote demand- and supply-side competition in the housing market identified; (vi) the underwriting and monitoring capacity of the Uzbekistan Mortgage Refinancing Company improved; (vii) gender sensitivity analysis supported; and (viii) trainings and workshops carried out. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 43. TA 9910-VIE: Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Investment and Development of Viet Nam: Mainstreaming Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 750.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 17 December 2019 Date Approved : 17 December 2019 The ongoing project is supporting the growth of Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Investment and Development of Viet Nam’s (BIDV) lending to SMEs, providing critically needed financial products to this underserved segment. The increase in BIDV’s capacity in servicing SMEs will improve market standards and contribute to enterprise development and economic growth in Viet Nam through job creation. The project outputs include: (i) capacity of BIDV to serve SMEs with longer-tenor financing increased; and (ii) BIDV’s processes to manage social and environmental risks improved. The outcome will be increased provision of sustainable and longer-term financial services to SMEs and BIDV enabled to expand its SME businesses. The project is expected to contribute to the following impacts: (i) Viet Nam’s vision for socially equitable economic development; (ii) a sustainable and inclusive financial sector; and (iii) contribution to the goals of the new Law on Supporting SMEs. The TA will help BIDV increase its capacity and enhance

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efficiency in serving SMEs, including women-owned SMEs. It will leverage the impacts of the loan provided to BIDV by: (i) developing BIDV’s internal capacity to develop comprehensive SME advisory services, (ii) enhancing financial literacy and technology accessibility for SMEs; (iii) promoting SME banking digitalization; and (iv) developing BIDV’s supply chain finance products. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 44. TA 9833-REG: Building Community Resilience through Microfinance in Lagging Peri-Urban Settlements Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 3,000.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 25 October 2019 Date Approved : 23 October 2019 ADB’s Microfinance Risk Participation and Guarantee (MFP) is a credit-enhancement initiative designed to address market gaps by sharing risks to facilitate local currency lending to low-income people, predominantly women. The peri-urban and urban poor often reside in densely populated settlements, bearing the brunt of poor housing conditions that are highly vulnerable to climate change-induced extreme weather events. This situation is compounded by deteriorating access to basic services, especially water and sanitation. Given the geographical locations and their lower level of economic activity and prosperity, resources and institutional capacities in these locations are often limited. In many instances, government interventions are inadequate and affordable commercial solutions are rare. There is an opportunity to build the resilience of households by funding home improvements and better access to water and sanitation services through affordable, commercially structured solutions. The capital required for home improvements and safe water and sewage connections is typically provided by microfinance institutions (MFIs) via group-based lending. Collective decision-making within neighborhoods also helps build resilience in the urban communities. The TA will help the MFP continue to address market gaps while strengthening financing for upgrading housing and access to water supply and sanitation through the provision of loan loss guarantees targeting these micro-home improvement loans. It will target disaster-prone peri-urban settlements in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines, and Viet Nam. It will also provide MFP with funds to conduct institutional strengthening of participating MFIs that will include knowledge dissemination, beneficiary training, formulation of enabling policies, and progress monitoring. The TA will address bottlenecks by providing first-loss guarantees on loans that partner financial institutions extend to MFIs specifically targeted at these micro-home improvements, and by engaging reputable technical partners to work with MFIs to build their skills for delivering such loans to target beneficiaries. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed.

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45. TA 9837-REG: Improving Project Implementation and Portfolio Performance in South Asia Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 2,500.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 30 October 2019 Date Approved : 29 October 2019 The TA facility will provide financial management, procurement and project management-related capacity building and support to ongoing and future projects within South Asia. Lessons learned from the implementation of TA 8555-REG (TA for Improving Procurement in South Asia Department) have contributed to the improvement of effective procurement operations and project implementation. Notwithstanding the successful implementation of the previous TA, the continuation and expansion of the scope of the TA facility support is essential for the growth of ADB operations in the region in response to the new operational demands under Strategy 2030. The TA facility will provide: (i) demand-driven assistance on project design and implementation; (ii) studies, seminars and workshops on financial management; (iii) enhancement of the procurement and contract management capacity of executing agencies through the engagement of IT specialists, procurement consultants and International Federation of Consulting Engineers experts; and (iv) knowledge-sharing of best practices. The outcome of the TA facility will be improved project implementation and portfolio performance in South Asia for faster and higher quality of project implementation, timely contract awards and accelerated disbursement of project financing. The TA facility is in line with key operational priority of Strategy 2030 in strengthening governance and institutional capacity as the basis for development. It will support public management reforms and financial stability and strengthen service delivery and capacity of the member countries in South Asia. Status of Consulting Services : Consultants have been fielded. 46. TA 9923-REG: Strengthening Project Readiness, Procurement and Financial Management in Southeast Asia Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 1,500.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 20 December 2019 Date Approved : 20 December 2019 The TA facility will help strengthen ADB Southeast Asia DMCs’ institutional capacity and practices on project readiness, procurement, and financial management. Client feedback on programs carried out under prior TA projects suggests that the level of awareness on ADB’s operational procedures has increased but knowledge and skills gaps remain. Further, there is increasing demand from the project executing and implementing agencies for additional support and training on procurement and financial management not only at the project level, but also at the sectoral level to enhance institutional skills and experience in these specialized areas. Under the proposed TA facility, ADB will bring together expertise and knowledge to strategically coordinate the design and delivery of more cohesive capacity building programs. Program principles and tools will be embedded in practice and institutionalized to ensure replicability and sustainability. The TA facility will build on ADB’s experience in supporting capacity development through ongoing TA projects administered by the Southeast Asia Department and Procurement, Portfolio and Financial Management Department. It will not duplicate ongoing support and will instead complement the

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efforts of these TA projects in strengthening financial management and procurement capacity in Southeast Asia DMCs. Furthermore, the TA facility will be flexible in supporting emerging needs in Southeast Asia, while maintaining focus on project executing and implementing agencies, which significantly need additional support to improve efficiency in project preparation and implementation. The major outputs include: (i) project readiness, procurement, and financial management capacity of DMCs strengthened; and (ii) country procurement and financial management assessments prepared. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 47. TA 9926-REG: Financial Sustainability of Early-Stage Infrastructure Development Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 220.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 23 December 2019 Date Approved : 20 December 2019 ADB has been exploring opportunities to expand its involvement in infrastructure project development, especially for smaller projects, and is considering a partnership with and potential investment into Infraco Asia. This could further strengthen the Private Sector Department’s (PSOD) origination capabilities for early-stage infrastructure development projects. ADB has a constructive relationship with Infraco Asia and Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) for several years. Infraco Asia is a commercially managed infrastructure development and investment company of PIDG. Headquartered in Singapore, it aims to stimulate greater private sector investment in infrastructure in South and Southeast Asia. A pre-condition for an investment by ADB into Infraco Asia would be that the company achieve commercial viability within a reasonable period. ADB has held extensive discussions with Infraco Asia and reviewed the company’s long-term business plan and financial model to evaluate financial viability. The results were inconclusive as a potential break-even was shown only in the relatively distant future. The main output from the TA will be an outline of the business model and approaches that are relevant for ADB’s engagement with Infraco Asia. In addition, workshops will be conducted with Infraco Asia staff to facilitate engagement with the project, and the consulting firm will support meetings with key shareholders and donors of Infraco Asia in which some of the findings of the project will be explained. This TA can contribute to a better and sustained functioning of Infraco Asia and identify opportunities for ADB to financially participate in infrastructure project development. The outcome will be the viability of ADB PSOD engagement in Infraco Asia elaborated. The TA is aligned with the following impact: additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources mobilized. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed.

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(B) KNOWLEDGE AND SUPPORT TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE PROJECTS NOT EXCEEDING $225,000 48. TA 9904-AFG: Improving Management of Involuntary Resettlement Impacts in Afghanistan Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 225.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 16 December 2019 Date Approved : 3 December 2019 The TA aims to address social safeguards capacity related challenges in Afghanistan. As of October 2019, the Afghanistan portfolio included 25 ongoing projects with 54 subprojects/sections. Most of these require management of social safeguards activities, including projects with category A (likely to have significant adverse environmental impacts that are irreversible, diverse or unprecedented) for involuntary resettlement (IR). The paucity of government institutions with safeguards capacity in many areas of Afghanistan presents a serious challenge for conducting accurate project field surveys to ascertain IR impacts. The government initiated reforms that will cover the gap on land acquisition regulations in 2017–2018. Establishment of a new centralized land management authority, the Ministry of Urban Development and Land (MUDL), was an important outcome along with increased transparency in the land acquisition process by centralizing storage of land data and authorizing final verification of property rights to MUDL and its regional departments. Given the existing limitations in the national safeguards’ expertise, this TA will supplement the recently approved knowledge and support TA for infrastructure projects and support the capacity development of national experts whose skills need to be brought up to ADB safeguards requirements. The TA outputs include: (i) capacity of in-country social safeguards specialists enhanced; and (ii) operational support to improve management of involuntary resettlement impacts established. The outcome will be improved management of involuntary resettlements in ADB-funded projects in Afghanistan. The TA is aligned with the following impact: social safeguards compliance in ADB-funded project in Afghanistan improved. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 49. TA 9846-PRC: Developing Partnerships for Knowledge Sharing on Natural Capital Investment in the Yangtze River Economic Belt

Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 225.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 6 November 2019 Date Approved : 15 October 2019 Knowledge sharing between upper-middle income countries such as the PRC and other DMCs is one of the key priorities of the Poverty Reduction and Regional Cooperation Fund Implementation Guidelines and a central pillar under ADB’s Strategy 2030 which underscores the importance of strengthening and sharing knowledge, with ADB serving as an important knowledge broker through sharing successful project experiences between DMCs. To achieve this, relevant knowledge products and services need to be identified, captured and disseminated in anticipation of current and future DMCs’ knowledge gaps. In this regard, the PRC’s experiences in adopting integrated and multisector approach for river basin management and environmental protection projects offer rich and relevant knowledge and key lessons to be shared with other DMCs. For various DMCs,

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water and environmental management relating to transboundary river basins continue to face significant challenges. Many of the transboundary river basins face similar issues to the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) in the PRC, characterized by growing regional and rural–urban disparities which create economic imbalance and development tensions and have placed growing pressure on the ecology and water quality. The YREB represents a particularly valuable testbed for developing and applying new approaches and piloting innovative applications to (i) better capture the value of ecosystem services and identify sustainable financing mechanisms for natural capital investment, and (ii) mainstream ecosystem services within economic planning and management frameworks. The TA will develop an initiative to establish additional partnerships based on ADB’s collaboration with the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development’s Special Policy Study to share knowledge from ADB’s YREB program. This knowledge sharing in effect reflects valuable regional and global public goods for the DMCs, which are priorities under ADB’s Strategy 2030. Through these partnerships, an open platform and knowledge hub will be established to capture and share two-way flow of knowledge between the PRC and partner DMCs. The outputs of the TA include: (i) international partnership initiative for knowledge sharing on natural capital investment in the YREB developed; (ii) workshops to develop the partnership and consultation on the initiative organized; and (iii) partnership initiative officially launched. The outcome will be international partnership for the YREB knowledge sharing established. The TA is aligned with the following impact: more DMCs benefited from the YREB knowledge sharing with the partnership initiative established by the TA. Status of Consulting Services : Consultants have been fielded. 50. TA 9889-PRC: Sharing ADB’s Operational Knowledge in Technical and Vocational Education and Training in the PRC with CAREC Member Countries Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 195.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 6 December 2019 Date Approved : 27 November 2019 ADB has supported the education and training sectors in the PRC since 2006. At the end of 2018, 32 loans, grants and TA projects totaling $564.35 million have been provided, primarily through technical and vocational education and training (TVET) programs in poverty-stricken areas such as Guizhou Province and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The PRC’s national and provincial policy directives comprehensively articulate TVET as a tool for tackling economic and social development needs. In comparison, the TVET sector is less developed in member countries of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) program because of three noteworthy challenges: mismatches between curricula in TVET programs and the skills required by employers; absence of a national qualification system; and inadequate human financial resources. Promoting cooperation in education and skills development is one of the operational priorities under CAREC 2030, which seeks to expand the horizons of economic cooperation in the region by connecting people, project and policies for shared and sustainable development. Improved cross-border labor mobility will lead to possible enhanced TVET skills and cross-border labor migration in the CAREC region. During the 2018 country programming mission, the government of the PRC and ADB agreed to provide a knowledge and support TA as a platform for gathering and sharing ADB’s operational knowledge and policy. The TA will focus on distilling ADB’s operational knowledge in TVET, where ADB has supported the PRC through lending and TA projects since 2006. The experiences of other developmental partners and the PRC’s domestic policy interventions and innovations on TVET will also be examined. The expected outputs include: (i) policy experiences and lessons learnt from the

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PRC’s TVET operations and recommendations for other CAREC member countries identified; and (ii) capacity of key TVET stakeholders in CAREC member countries enhanced. The expected outcome will be effectiveness of new ideas and practices in TVET in the PRC and other CAREC member countries strengthened. The impact of the TA will be: (i) knowledge sharing between the PRC and other CAREC member countries enhanced; and (ii) the quality of policies and practices in TVET in the PRC and other CAREC member countries improved. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 51. TA 9909-FIJ: Supporting Competition Policy and Law Reform Executing Agency : Ministry of Economy TA Amount ($'000) : 225.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 17 December 2019 Date Approved : 11 December 2019 Competition in Fiji, like in many small island developing states, is constrained by its small market size and the dominance of state-owned enterprises and large private enterprises that occupy economic sectors. It is important for Fiji to have a strong competition and protection policy and law. To promote effective competition while ensuring equitable returns for businesses, Fiji established an independent competition regulator, the Fijian Competition and Consumer Commission (FCCC), through the FCCC Act 2010. The FCCC has been heavily engaged in price control, but is now working to increase its enforcement activity in the areas of competition and consumer protection, with advisory support from the Government of New Zealand and the ADB regional project: Pacific Private Sector Development Initiative. The outputs of the TA include: (i) competition and consumer protection policy and bill developed; and (ii) capacity to analyze competition and consumer protection issues enhanced. These will result to the following outcome: competition and consumer protection policy and law strengthened. The TA is aligned with the following impact: investment climate and business environment enhanced. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 52. TA 9935-GEO: Georgia Global Utilities: Preparing Geothermal Power Projects in West Georgia Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 225.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 2 January 2020 Date Approved : 24 December 2019 Historically, Georgia has been struggling to match unbalanced demand and supply of electricity. The country relies heavily on hydropower plants (HPPs), and recent data shows that there is increasing demand in electricity due to the heightening tourism boom. Despite the forecasted growth, development of new generators has been slow since planned power plants are mostly large HPPs, which have long project development cycles. With an aim to diversify the type of generators in an eco-friendly manner, Georgia Global Utilities (GGU) is looking to develop various renewable energy sources in the country. GGU is a subsidiary of Georgia Capital PLC, a United Kingdom-listed holding company focused on investments in multiple sectors in Georgia. GGU is currently developing two wind power projects and exploring the potential of a geothermal power plant (GPP).

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GGU is committed to utilize their own resources to complement the studies that will be conducted under this TA. ADB will support the preliminary survey and exploration in GGU’s development of a GPP through this TA. The major outputs of the TA are: (i) geothermal feasibility study report; (ii) identification of key sites; and (iii) initial environmental and social assessment report. The expected outcome will be a stable and reliable alternative renewable power source in West Georgia confirmed. The TA is aligned with the following impact: private sector participation in connectivity-enhancing infrastructure, with particular focus on renewable energy, in Georgia increased. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 53. TA 9827-IND: Supporting Strategic Interventions in the Health Sector Towards Achieving Universal Health Coverage Executing Agency : Ministry of Health and Family Welfare TA Amount ($'000) : 225.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 22 October 2019 Date Approved : 17 October 2019 The health sector in India is in a stage of transition. This presents both an opportunity and a challenge, given the increasing demand for quality health services exacerbated by changing disease patterns. Health being a state subject in India, effective implementation is dependent on state level capacity which varies across different states. Within this context and given ADB’s commitment towards the health sector, ADB needs to adopt a strategic approach for expanding health sector engagement in India. With universal health coverage (UHC) as the overarching theme, ADB Strategy 2030 under Operational priority 1 outlines reducing inequality of opportunity and social exclusion and removing the barriers that people face in acquiring health and essential services. This TA will support in assessing different priority areas for improved UHC and in developing a strategy to strengthen increased engagement. This would draw upon the vision laid out in ADB’s Strategy 2030 and identify key areas of support, including investment needs. It would also assess and document innovative practices, recognizing that India might develop organic solutions which are scalable, yet draw from best practices. The outputs from the TA are: (i) an assessment of priority areas for improved UHC in India completed; and (ii) an ADB strategy in India health sector developed. The outcome will be priority areas for ADB intervention in India health sector identified. The TA is aligned with the following impact: universal health care in India increased. Status of Consulting Services : Consultant has been fielded. 54. TA 9831-IND: Supporting National Health Authority Executing Agency : National Health Authority TA Amount ($'000) : 225.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 24 October 2019 Date Approved : 23 October 2019 Majority of India’s population is not covered by any form of health insurance. The government is unable to cover the full spectrum of healthcare needs because of low public investment in health, limited human resources, and inadequate health infrastructure, which increase the out-of-pocket expenditure and the financial burden of care. To address these challenges in a holistic way, the

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Government of India in 2018 launched its flagship healthcare program, Ayushman Bharat Yojana (Scheme for Healthy India). The government’s National Health Authority (NHA) has partnered with a number of state governments for scheme implementation. States have to make suitable budgetary allocations as per the prevalent center-state sharing pattern. Cognizant of the challenges faced by NHA, the TA will conduct the analysis to support the scheme’s implementation. The TA will examine the possibility of creating a finance window for financial institutions through a health financing intermediary, either through a new or an existing institution, which would target improving lending to private hospitals, based on a set of pre-defined selection criteria, willing to expand and upgrade their infrastructure, particularly in second and third tier cities and districts. The expected outputs include: (i) diagnostic appraisal of infrastructure gaps in secondary and tertiary health service provision and institutional arrangements completed and plan of actions recommended; (ii) design and implementation arrangements for a health financing intermediary completed; (iii) financial products and financial intermediation structures for expanding health financing window through a health financing intermediary developed; and (iv) institutional capacity development and advisory support for the Prime Minister’s Jan Arogya Yojana (PM-JAY) (or the Prime Minister’s Health Protection Scheme which provides health insurance for secondary and tertiary healthcare) implementation provided. The expected outcome will be the process and institutional arrangements and institutional framework for providing refinancing window to health service providers with NHA for PM-JAY implementation strengthened. The TA is aligned with the following impact: access to universal healthcare and social protection, particularly the poor and vulnerable across India, improved. Status of Consulting Services : Consultants have been fielded. 55. TA 9816-KAZ: Kazakhstan Gas Sector Transformation Initiative Support Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 225.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 7 October 2019 Date Approved : 3 October 2019 With an energy driven economy, Kazakhstan is heavily dependent on its capacity to monetize hydrocarbon reserves. It possesses a significant energy asset with proven gas reserves of about 3.3 trillion cubic meters and the potential to produce gas for sale in excess of 75 billion cubic meters. However, gas is contingent to petroleum production and underpriced in the economy of the country. Acting as a gas monopoly, Joint-Stock Company KazTransGas (KTG) is solely owned and governed by KazMunayGas JSC, a parent oil company which is 90% owned by Sovereign Wealth Fund Samruk-Kazyna and 10% by the National Bank of Kazakhstan. The TA aims to develop a corporate reform plan, which will help the government to implement KTG’s ownership unbundling and transforming into a standalone corporate legal entity with enhanced governance and economic incentives to run independently and efficiently, including the implementation of its capital investment program. It will have two major outputs: (i) Kazakhstan gas sector sustainability assessed; and (ii) KTG’s corporate reform plan established. The outcome of the TA will be Kazakhstan energy security and sustainability enhanced. The TA is aligned with the following impact: effective energy resource utilization promoted. Status of Consulting Services : Consultants have been fielded.

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56. TA 9934-KGZ: Enhancing Knowledge and Capacity for Project Management in the Kyrgyz Republic Executing Agency : Ministry of Finance TA Amount ($'000) : 225.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 15 January 2020 Date Approved : 5 December 2019 Despite ongoing support and assistance to executing and implementing agencies in the Kyrgyz Republic, the overall performance of the portfolio remains poor. Several large contracts need to be efficiently awarded and management of ongoing contracts must improve. Continuous staff turnover is a major issue at executing and implementing agencies and project implementing units which necessitates continuous capacity building and training on procurement, project management, and financial management and monitoring. Many of these government agencies lack the capacity and skills to effectively plan, prepare, implement and manage public investments and the local market, for qualified national consultants is also limited. The TA will support sector reviews to identify capacity constraints, knowledge and capacity building needs in the sectors in which ADB operates and enable the Kyrgyz Republic Resident Mission to follow up these needs assessments with workshops, outreach and capacity building events, to improve the performance of the ADB portfolio and increase the responsiveness and relevance of ADB support. The outputs from the TA include: (i) direct support for project implementation provided; and (ii) government knowledge and capacity for planning, financing and implementing development projects enhanced. The expected outcome will be performance of the ADB portfolio in the Kyrgyz Republic improved. The TA is aligned with the following impact: implementation of public investments in the Kyrgyz Republic made more efficient. Status of Consulting Services : Consultants have been fielded. 57. TA 9885-MON: Preparatory Work for Country Partnership Strategy Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 225.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 5 December 2019 Date Approved : 4 December 2019 Since Mongolia joined ADB in 1991, ADB has emerged as one of Mongolia’s leading development partners. ADB has strengthened its leadership role over time in Mongolia’s continuously evolving development finance landscape by progressively scaling up its assistance. This has been achieved by focusing its financial and knowledge support more on high-priority and complex operations. The economy is highly dependent on commodity prices and foreign investment into mining. Economic diversification is important for inclusive growth and to ease exposure to boom and bust cycles. Consequently, macroeconomic management will continue to be the most important tool in the short run to manage Mongolia’s commodity dependence. Despite its economic potential, Mongolia has not yet been able to translate this into inclusive growth and will need to overcome important development challenges to ensure all Mongolians can enjoy healthy and productive lives. The current Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) concludes in 2020 and ADB will start the preparation of a new CPS with the indicative timeframe of 2021–2024. ADB will use this CPS preparation period to undertake some detailed analysis of the development challenges and the operating environment, and to undertake comprehensive consultations with key stakeholders in Mongolia. This will ensure that ADB has a strong basis to ensure that it is providing the best possible support

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to Mongolia in the coming years. The outputs from the TA are: (i) comprehensive analysis to inform the CPS conducted; and (ii) feedback and advice from key stakeholders received. The TA will have the following outcome: CPS, with broad stakeholder buy-in approved. The TA is aligned with the following impact: inclusive development in Mongolia enhanced. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 58. TA 9905-UZB: Analytical Support on Uzbekistan's Foreign Economic Policy Issues

Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 225.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 16 December 2019 Date Approved : 10 December 2019 The Government of Uzbekistan has embarked on comprehensive economic reforms consistent with its national development strategy for 2017–2021. It prioritized key reform areas in foreign trade and investments policy and decided to pursue several approaches in foreign economic relations. In 2018, the government renewed the process to accede to the World Trade Organization. In February 2019, it started the negotiations with the European Union to sign an Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement in 2020. In June 2019, the government announced that it will also consider joining the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), emphasizing the major role the Russian Federation and the EEU play as Uzbekistan’s trade partners. The President of Uzbekistan called for a full assessment of the consequences and consistency with Uzbekistan’s interests prior to deciding to join the EEU. The Ministry of Investments and Foreign Trade and the Center for Economic Research and Reforms under the President’s Administration have inadequate analytical capacity and expertise in conducting impact assessment of the EEU accession. In this context, ADB will provide analytical support for the deliberation of its foreign economic policy on the EEU accession and its social and economic implications for Uzbekistan. The major outputs of the TA are: (i) a scoping study for the assessment of Uzbekistan’s potential accession to the EEU completed; and (ii) preliminary analysis of the impact of the accession to the EEU on Uzbekistan’s trade flows identified. The outcome will be capability of Uzbekistan’s government to conduct sound foreign economic policy on the EEU accession improved. The TA is aligned with the following impact: Uzbekistan’s decision on the EEU accession consistent with the country’s interests. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed.

59. TA 9822-REG: Integrated Disaster Risk Management Fund: Sharing Lessons, Achievements, and Best Practices Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 225.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 14 October 2019 Date Approved : 11 October 2019 Established in 2013, the Integrated Disaster Risk Management (IDRM) Fund aims to achieve an increased access to, and use of IDRM tools by key stakeholders, including vulnerable groups, particularly women, in Southeast Asia. Financed activities respond to the fund’s six priority outputs: (i) enhanced risk identification and analysis; (ii) increased investment in disaster risk reduction; (iii) improved access to disaster risk financed, including for the poor, particularly poor women; (iv)

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scaling up of community-based risk gender-focused approaches; (v) increased regional cooperation on IDRM; and (vi) enhanced knowledge and tools for IDRM. From March 2013 to July 2019, the fund has approved six TA projects, one grant project, and nine direct charges that directly support these outputs. The projects are diverse in objectives, scope, and scale; and have supported and/or partnered with a wide range of stakeholders across ADB’s Southeast Asian DMCs (Cambodia, Indonesia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam) and regionally with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The outcome indicators of the IDRM Fund have been achieved, including an increased number of IDRM projects in participating countries and the growing availability of various IDRM-related tools to meet the demands from various stakeholders, especially vulnerable groups. As ADB prepares to close the fund, documenting and sharing lessons learned among stakeholders in Southeast Asia is a priority. Given the broad scope of projects, activities, and knowledge generated across the seven DMCs, including the support for ASEAN, the TA will facilitate the identification and consolidation of lessons, achievements, and best practices to contribute to a potential scaling-up of sustainable investments. It will highlight the practical implementation of the Operational Plan for Integrated Disaster Risk Management 2014–2024 and the contribution made to the broader resilience agenda, as articulated in Strategy 2030. The specific output will be results of the Integrated Disaster Risk Management Fund documented. The outcome will be awareness of IDRM approaches and tools by key stakeholders in Southeast Asian DMCs increased. The TA is aligned with the following impact: use of IDRM tools increased. Status of Consulting Services : Consultants have been fielded. 60. TA 9830-REG: Evidence-Based and Strategic Country Knowledge Support Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 225.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 22 October 2019 Date Approved : 18 October 2019 Knowledge solutions should extend to high quality evidenced-based policy advice across DMCs’ national priorities and sectors, strengthen their institutional capacity, and expand knowledge partnerships for testing ideas and sourcing different ways of thinking about critical development issues. Recent DMC knowledge consultations confirm that ADB’s operations and its knowledge work needs to be more cohesive, able to leverage competitive advantage and should seek better integration to national work planning. ADB is well positioned to respond and support DMCs with its comparative advantage using differentiated approaches, such as (i) building and sustaining institutional capabilities; (ii) implementing evidence-based policy advice and shifts; and (iii) identifying and leveraging relevant innovations. The TA will test new approaches to provide strategic country-specific knowledge solutions that support the country’s development priorities and strategies, and ADB’s operations. It will implement a country-focused approach using the CPS as the main platform to define customized knowledge support, promote the use of innovative technologies, and deliver integrated solutions through cross-sector expertise. The outputs of the TA include: (i) knowledge needs and capacity enhancement workshops conducted; and (ii) new country knowledge support tool developed. The outcome will be country-specific knowledge support for DMCs’ development planning provided. The TA is aligned with the following impact: DMCs’ institutional capacity to address development issues strengthened. Status of Consulting Services : Consultants have been fielded.

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61. TA 9856-REG: Strengthening Urban Investment Planning and Capacity for Project Preparation and Implementation in Central and West Asia Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 225.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 13 November 2019 Date Approved : 31 October 2019 In December 2017, the regional small-scale TA 9474-REG: Strengthening Urban Investment Planning and Project Preparation and Implementation in Central and West Asia was approved. TA 9474-REG, in close coordination with the governments in Armenia and Kyrgyz Republic, supported the preparation of national urban assessments (NUAs), with the objective of informing the latest CPS and further ADB’s urban operations in those countries. A regional workshop on smart waste management practices, organized in collaboration with the Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department, was held in the Republic of Korea in 2018 to build capacity and exchange knowledge among officials from Georgia, Kyrgyz Republic, Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Both the NUAs and the workshop were successful in demonstrating value addition to ADB clients and operations, and enhanced awareness of key challenges and opportunities in the urban sector. Building on the success of TA 9474-REG, this TA will scale up the work of NUAs and explore strategic engagement for ADB’s future urban operations in the Central and West Asia region, provide programmatic support to the DMCs with project preparation and implementation, and build the knowledge base for integrated urban development and efficient service delivery. The outputs of the TA include: (i) NUA reports prepared; (ii) urban knowledge hub established; and (iii) project preparation and implementation strengthened. The expected outcome will be urban sector project identification, preparation and implementation in Central and West Asia improved. The TA is aligned with the following impact: integrated urban planning and development in Central and West Asia improved. Status of Consulting Services : Consultants have been fielded. 62. TA 9868-REG: Establishment of the Pacific Energy Regulators Alliance Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 225.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 21 November 2019 Date Approved : 15 November 2019 Regulation of public utilities in the Pacific, including the electricity sector, remains in its infancy. In most instances, electricity services are provided by state-owned vertically integrated natural monopolies, with sector regulatory decisions driven by political imperatives on an ad hoc and unpredictable basis. The government of several countries in the Pacific have recognized the importance of modern utility regulation and have established dedicated regulatory bodies to perform regulatory functions. In December 2016, the heads of energy regulatory bodies in Tonga, Samoa and Vanuatu founded an Alliance of energy regulators in the Pacific Region and adopted a constitution for this Alliance. However, this Alliance was not established as a legal entity in any jurisdiction and exists solely as an informal association. To date, the Alliance has expanded to include regulatory bodies in the Cook Islands, Fiji, Palau and Papua New Guinea. The TA will advance the Alliance’s members, the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, and prospective development-partner contributors. The outputs of the TA include: (i) the Alliance’s institutional framework defined, and operational guidelines agreed and implemented; and (ii) capacity of the

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Alliance members improved. The expected outcome will be better energy-sector regulatory environment in Alliance member countries supported. The TA is aligned with the following impacts: (i) leadership, governance, coordination and partnerships strengthened; and (ii) capacity development, planning, policy and regulatory frameworks to achieve energy security in the Pacific improved. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 63. TA 9895-REG: Supporting the Enabling Environment for Public Financial Management Reforms Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 207.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 12 December 2019 Date Approved : 2 December 2019 Governments and development partners have long recognized that a well-functioning public financial management (PFM) system is necessary for improved service delivery, poverty reduction and macroeconomic stability. Institutions governing public finances have a determining impact on the economic and social costs and benefits of revenue collection and expenditure. Sound PFM systems are vital to the delivery of social services for the achievement of social development goals and the provision of infrastructure and public institutions that enable economic growth and social inclusion. The Building State Capability Program of the Center for International Development at Harvard University has developed an innovative approach to PFM reform, the problem driven interactive adaptation (PDIA), which provides an analytical framework that will enable ADB and DMCs to strike the right balance between legitimacy and functionality and ensure that reforms are designed around problem-solving through an incremental process rather than pre-packaged solutions. The PDIA approach focuses on solving locally nominated and defined problems in performance and seeks to create: (i) an environment for decision-making that encourages experimentation; (ii) tight feedback loops that facilitate rapid experiential learning; and (iii) encourages broad sets of agents to ensure that reforms are viable, politically feasible, legitimate, relevant and supportable. The outputs of the TA are: (i) PFM reform experiences in selected Central and West Asia DMCs completed; and (ii) knowledge products and events for a PDIA-inspired approach to PFM reform produced. The expected outcome will be improved PFM functional performance. The TA is aligned with the following impact: demand-led and context appropriate support addresses core PFM problems. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 64. TA 9907-REG: Stocktaking Study for Benchmarking Sustainable Management of Exclusive Economic Zones in the Pacific Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 225.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 17 December 2019 Date Approved : 16 December 2019 The vast Pacific Ocean connects ADB’s 14 Pacific DMCs, and much of this ocean is their responsibility to manage sustainably. Within the Pacific community, there are many programs,

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initiatives and partners working together to support sustainable management of the Pacific Ocean. A critical element of sustainable ocean management is sustainable management of exclusive economic zones (EEZs). An EEZ is a concept adopted at the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) in 1982, whereby a coastal State assumes jurisdiction over the exploration and exploitation of marine resources in its adjacent section of the continental shelf, taken to be “the area beyond and adjacent to the territorial sea, extending not more than 200 nautical miles from the baselines from which the breadth of the territorial sea is measured. The EEZs of ADB’s 14 Pacific DMCs encompass an area of nearly 20 million square kilometers, or approximately twice the total land area of the United States. They provide Pacific countries sovereign rights to exploration and exploitation as well as responsibilities to conserve and sustainably manage these resources. The future development of Pacific DMCs is inextricably linked to sustainable management of EEZs, both at the country and regional levels. The TA will provide these major outputs: (i) the importance of EEZs in the Pacific, including economic, social, environmental and cultural benefits of sustainable management assessed; (ii) framework and approach for undertaking a benchmarking study on sustainable management of EEZs in ADB’s 14 Pacific DMCs established; (iii) consultations to share the TA’s initial findings and to assess interest among Pacific DMCs to participate in an EEZ benchmarking study achieved; and (iv) final report to be presented to stakeholders including a regional conference or meeting on oceans in 2020 (possibly “Our Oceans” conference hosted by Palau) provided. The expected outcome will be Pacific DMCs’ understanding of sustainable EEZ management enhanced. The TA is aligned with the following impact: sustainable use of the Pacific Ocean and its resources by Pacific island countries and external partners ensured. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed 65. TA 9922-REG: Strengthening Regional Cooperation and Knowledge Sharing on the Application of Technology in Financial Services Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 225.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 20 December 2019 Date Approved : 19 December 2019 Digital technology is transforming lives in the Asia and the Pacific region. With 5 billion mobile phone subscribers today, digital technology has been closely integrated in our daily lives, delivering transformative impact in the provision of health services, delivery of education, and access to finance. As a result, the financial services landscape in the region is changing with the widespread application and adoption of financial technology (FinTech), improving access to credit, and enhancing financial inclusion for the underserved households and small- and medium-sized enterprises. The TA will enhance and further extend our understanding of the recent trends, the key building blocks, and the impact of FinTech on financial services, inclusion and stability in the Asia and the Pacific region. It will also examine the enabling business environment—administration, policies and regulations—that is critical to support its growth and manage the attendant risks that emerge from FinTech. The outputs from the TA will be: (i) knowledge products on the building blocks of FinTech, emerging FinTech trends, and key issues on FinTech, financial inclusion and financial stability in Asia and the Pacific region produced and disseminated; (ii) policy toolkits that are important to support policy-making in an open, data-driven and client-focused manner designed and delivered; and (iii) knowledge and skills enhanced and shared through workshops to discuss policy and regulatory issues and toolkits on the application of technology to expand financial services and inclusion, while maintaining stability, organized. The expected outcome will be knowledge of policymakers, regulators and the private sector to address emerging FinTech-related

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issues for financial inclusion and stability enhanced. The impact of the TA will be the impact of FinTech on financial services, inclusion and stability, and strengthened policy and regulatory cooperation in Asia and the Pacific better understood and managed. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 66. TA 9936-REG: Supporting Research on Pacific Development Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 225.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 3 January 2020 Date Approved : 20 December 2019 Economic and development conditions in Pacific developing member countries (PDMCs) have changed significantly over the past 50 years. High social spending, supported by significant development assistance, has resulted in respectable human development indicators—a large segment of the population now has access to education, health, and water and sanitation services. However, major development constraints remain among most PDMCs—limited markets, geographical isolation, weak institutional capacities, customary land tenure systems, and vulnerability to natural disasters. The TA will design and implement a graduate research fellowship program covering Pacific development issues, including the administration of the application and selection process to award the graduate research fellowships, supervision and support for the graduate fellows’ research activities, and dissemination of the research outputs through knowledge-sharing activities, including policy-relevant publications. It will finance at least three awards of a graduate research fellowship for graduate thesis or dissertation research on a priority Pacific development subject. The major outputs and activities under the TA by February 2024 will include: (i) research studies by at least three research fellows conducted; (ii) policy-relevant research summaries prepared by the research fellows on Pacific development issues delivered; and (iii) knowledge-sharing programs to convey the findings and discuss potential mitigating actions and policies with key stakeholders in the Pacific conducted. The outcome will be awareness of the key development issues in the Pacific expanded by February 2024. The impact will be understanding of the development challenges of the Pacific increased. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed.

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(C) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CLUSTER SUBPROJECTS 67. TA 9829-IND: Strengthening Climate Change Resilience in Urban India – Strengthening Smart Urban Mass Rapid Transit and Climate Change Resilience in the National Capital Region (Subproject 3) Type of Technical Assistance : Transaction – Capacity Development Executing Agency : Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs TA Amount ($'000) : 2,891.185 Business Opportunities Listing : 22 October 2019 Date Approved : 22 October 2019 The TA outputs are: (i) climate change resilience in urban policies and plans mainstreamed; (ii) climate change resilience of infrastructure and project development supported; and (iii) institutional capacity, community awareness, and knowledge for sustaining climate-change-resilient cities strengthened. Its outcome is enhanced capacity of government to successfully implement urban climate-change-resilient projects. The overall impact is urban climate change resilience in selected states in India mainstreamed. Subproject 3 will have three distinct outputs in developing solutions for: (i) improved climate change resilience and environmental sustainability; (ii) urban transport gender mainstreaming and universal accessibility standards in dense urban context of the NCR for safety, affordability and connectivity of the regional rapid transit system (RRTS) provided; and (iii) platform for efficient and sustainable project management using smart technologies especially building information modelling established. This subproject is intended to provide targeted assistance for ensuring climate change resilience and universal accessibility through enhanced multimodal integration of the ensuing project. This is suitable in the context of the RRTS which is envisioned to be a new type of urban transport in India. Subproject 3 will thus review the existing transit-oriented urban planning approaches of the National Capital Region Transport Corporation and, where feasible, propose pilot studies for selected station areas or towns. It has a potentially large demonstration effect for the National Capital Region in terms of sharing good practices in innovation in project preparation and management, and in enhancing climate change resilience. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 68. TA 9861-INO: Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program Phase II – Supporting Sustainable and Universal Electricity Access Phase 2 (Subproject 3) Type of Technical Assistance : Transaction – Project Preparatory Executing Agency : P.T. Perusahaan Listrik Negara TA Amount ($'000) : 3,500.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 18 November 2019 Date Approved : 15 November 2019 The TA provides: (i) project preparation support to specific ensuing infrastructure projects listed in ADB’s current and future country operations business plans for Indonesia; (ii) implementation and capacity-building support to specific ongoing ADB-funded infrastructure projects; and (iii) knowledge and policy advisory support in the areas of infrastructure planning and financing, together with program management support for effective Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program Phase II implementation. Subproject 3 is designed as a TA facility to prepare and support a range of sovereign project, sector, and results-based loans aimed to enhance access to

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sustainable and universal electricity services across Indonesia. In particular, the subproject will support the preparation, capacity building, and results verification required under these investments. It will provide technical support and capacity building in rural electrification and clean energy, and project preparation for eight lending projects. Its outputs include: (i) power sector projects and programs prepared; (ii) innovation and institutional capacity enhanced; and (iii) verification of RBL programs strengthened. Status of Consulting Services : Consultants have been fielded. 69. TA 9815-REG: Support for Innovation and Technology Partnerships in Asia and the Pacific – Energy Sector High-Level Technology Application (Subproject 2) Type of Technical Assistance : Knowledge and Support – Capacity Development Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 1,500.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 9 October 2019 Date Approved : 1 October 2019 The TA will support ADB DMCs in effectively identifying high-level technology (HLT) solutions for development projects by using a competitive technology innovation challenge approach. It will enable early collaborations with technology providers from the public and private sectors, academia, and research institutes, while building capacity in DMCs to develop sustainable projects and programs with HLT applications. It aims to support DMCs’ objective to introduce HLT in projects, drive sector and thematic innovations, and provide guidance on how to proceed to project preparation and due diligence. Under Subproject 2, HLT solutions will specifically focus on energy-related development challenges, familiarizing selected DMCs with HLT options. HLT can provide DMCs with innovative solutions to meet growing energy needs, while also achieving nationally determined contributions, and increasing access to affordable, reliable, and clean energy. The outputs of Subproject 2 are: (i) high-level energy technologies and applications identified; (ii) proofs of concepts for application of high-level energy technologies produced; and (iii) knowledge sharing and support for scale-up of high-level energy technology disseminated. It will have the following outcome: high-level energy technologies in DMCs assessed. Subproject 2 is aligned with the following impact: use of advanced and innovative technologies across ADB operations promoted and capacity-building support to DMCs provided. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 70. TA 9823-REG: Regional Cooperation on Increasing Cross-Border Energy Trading within the Central Asian Power System – Expansion of Membership in Central Asian Power System (Subproject 3) Type of Technical Assistance : Knowledge and Support – Policy Advice Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 500.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 16 October 2019 Date Approved : 10 October 2019 The TA will support an increase in regional power trade among Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan by: (i) modernizing the coordinating

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dispatch center, Energiya, which coordinates power flow between the national electricity grids of the Central Asian power system (CAPS), to enhance its technical capacity; (ii) identifying the technical obstacles to power trade for CAPS, and proposing and coordinating solutions to overcome them for each country; and (iii) supporting the expansion of CAPS membership and seeking new markets. CAPS countries include Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Subproject 3 will have the following outputs: (i) list of infrastructure investments for CAPS expansion identified; and (ii) alternate energy markets identified. Current CAPS membership is envisaged to be expanded to include Afghanistan and Turkmenistan, who have expressed wish to join CAPS. Afghanistan wishes to join CAPS in order to increase the reliability of its domestic electricity grid while at the same time gaining access to more energy sources. Turkmenistan, who is a former CAPS member, wishes to join CAPS in order to diversify its electricity trade from Iran. Subproject 3 will have the following outcome: regional energy trade and cooperation enhanced. The identified infrastructure projects, which are necessary for connection of Afghanistan, Turkmenistan and other potential new electricity markets to CAPS will be submitted for endorsement of the CAPS governments at Central Asia United Power System Council Meeting. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 71. TA 9850-REG: Asian Development Outlook 2019–2021 – Asian Development Outlook 2020 (Subproject 2) Type of Technical Assistance : Knowledge and Support – Research and Development Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 1,000.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 8 November 2019 Date Approved : 8 November 2019 The TA aims to support the preparation of Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department’s (ERCD) flagship publication—the Asian Development Outlook (ADO)—for 3 years. Subproject 2 will provide the following outputs: (i) ADO 2020, ADO 2020 Update, and ADO supplements produced and disseminated; and (ii) background papers published. Adopting the “One ADB” approach in knowledge solutions, the Macroeconomics Research Division of ERCD will continue to collaborate with regional departments, including resident missions; other knowledge departments; and relevant sector and thematic groups on subproject activities. Subproject 2 will have the following outcome: reference to the ADO by the media, economic researchers, and developing member economy (DME) officials maintained or increased. It is aligned with the following impact: (i) environment within which policy formulation occurs in DMEs influenced by the ADO; and (ii) debates and policy research on important development challenges facing Asia and the Pacific spurred by the ADO. Status of Consulting Services : Consultants have been fielded.

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72. TA 9871-REG: Capacity Development for the Supply Chain Finance Program (Phase 2) (Subproject 2) Type of Technical Assistance : Transaction – Capacity Development Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 1,166.67 Business Opportunities Listing : 22 November 2019 Date Approved : 22 November 2019 The capacity building and knowledge-sharing and collaboration activities under the TA demonstrates ADB’s role as a knowledge institution and knowledge provider. The strategic direction of the Supply Chain Finance Program (SCFP) has widened from large global banks to include banks in DMCs. Pipeline development is ongoing with DMC-based partner financial institutions (PFIs), with initial candidates identified through ADB’s Trade Finance Program partner bank relationships. SCFP is also assessing the extension of debt financing directly to corporate and SME obligors without the involvement of a PFI and working with third-party supply chain finance (SCF) platforms. These are expected to further widen SCFP’s reach both geographically to focus on more challenging markets, and with SMEs. Subproject 2 outputs will include: (i) SCF availability in DMCs expanded; (ii) SCF knowledge in DMCs through in-house capacity development, as well as seminars and trainings, deepened; and (iii) gender initiatives for SCFP implemented. Participants will include supply chain finance operations and credit risk personnel from DMC banks and PFIs, as well as representatives from target DMC companies and relevant government agencies. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 73. TA 9911-REG: Promoting Action on Plastic Pollution from Source to Sea in Asia and the Pacific – Enhancing Knowledge and Creating Enabling Environments for Reducing Marine Plastic Pollution (Subproject 1) Type of Technical Assistance : Knowledge and Support – Capacity Development Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 1,700.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 18 December 2019 Date Approved : 18 December 2019 The TA will help ADB DMCs deliver their commitments to reduce marine plastic pollution from “source to sea.” It aims to support DMCs to: (i) prepare action plans; (ii) reform policy and regulations to encourage a circular economy; and (iii) prepare investments in integrated solid waste management and circular economy systems. It also promotes and facilitates regional cooperation and knowledge sharing. Its outputs and activities focus on filling critical information gaps for the region (particularly on infrastructure and technology needs), creating enabling environments for addressing marine plastic pollution through policy reforms and institutional strengthening, and identifying and responding to immediate plastic pollution reduction opportunities. Subproject 1 will have the following outputs: (i) action plans and policies to address marine plastic pollution supported; (ii) plastic pollution reduction investments supported; and (iii) knowledge, regional cooperation, and financing for marine plastic pollution solutions improved. Its expected outcome will be DMC action to address marine plastic pollution enhanced. Subproject 1 is aligned with the following impact: marine plastic pollution reduced, and health of rivers, coasts and marine ecosystems restored.

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Status of Consulting Services : Consultants have been fielded. 74. TA 9920-REG: Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2021–2023 – Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2021 (Subproject 1) Type of Technical Assistance : Knowledge and Support – Research and Development Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 800.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 20 December 2019 Date Approved : 17 December 2019 The TA supports the preparation of the annual flagship statistical publication, “Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific.” It will also provide a unique set of indicators on global value chains, support the preparation of the Basic Statistics brochure and the annual special supplements on data and methodology-related issue, including those resulting from ADB’s statistical capacity building initiatives, and enhance the Key Indicators database. Outputs from Subproject 1 include: (i) Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2021 and Basic Statistics 2021 finalized and published; (ii) Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific 2021 special supplements finalized and published; and (iii) Key Indicators Database, Portal for Statistics Resources, and AsiaData mobile application updated. The Portal for Statistics Resources, also known as the Statistics Portal, is available internally within ADB. It offers a systematic structure for organizing and disseminating the in-house statistics resources in ADB. AsiaData mobile application is a visualization tool for mobile devices that presents the latest macroeconomic and social indicators for ADB's regional members. Subproject 1 will have the following outcome: use of Key Indicators for Asia and the Pacific data and analysis for evidence-based policymaking by DMC officials and economic researchers sustained. It is aligned with the following impact: evidence-based policy making, investment decision, and project design in ADB’s DMCs influenced. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 75. TA 9930-REG: Olam International Limited: Inclusive, Sustainable, and Connected Coffee Value Chain (Subproject 3) Type of Technical Assistance : Transaction – Capacity Development Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 300.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 27 December 2019 Date Approved : 27 December 2019 The TA is designed to complement the approved loan to Olam International Limited (OIL) and two of its subsidiaries. The loan is supporting the capital expenditures and expansion plan of OIL and its subsidiaries (Olam) over the 2017–2019 period and invest in Olam’s midstream processing assets and permanent working capital for smallholder farmer supply in Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Papua New Guinea, and Viet Nam. The project will promote inclusive and sustainable agricultural value chains with higher local value addition in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Subproject 3 will complement the loan by providing capacity building support to 3,500 smallholder coffee farmers that Olam sources from in Viet Nam. Major outputs from Subproject 3 include: (i) inclusive coffee supply chain established; (ii) environmentally sustainable and climate resilient coffee supply chain established; and (iii) smallholder coffee farmer access to information and services expanded.

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Subproject 3 will help smallholder coffee farmers in Viet Nam fully benefit from their inclusion in the coffee value chain by improving the productivity and quality of crops, and by meeting international certification standards. It will also ensure that these farmers are better prepared to cope with the negative consequences of climate change. The impacts and outcome of the Subproject 3 are in line with the following: (i) agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers through inputs, knowledge, markets, and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment doubled; (ii) sustainable food production systems ensured and resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, and strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change implemented; and (iii) exports of developing countries significantly increased. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 76. TA 9931-REG: Olam International Limited: Inclusive, Sustainable, and Connected Coffee Value Chain (Subproject 4) Type of Technical Assistance : Transaction – Capacity Development Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 750.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 27 December 2019 Date Approved : 27 December 2019 The TA summary is described in the preceding paragraph for “TA 9930-REG: Olam International Limited: Inclusive, Sustainable, and Connected Coffee Value Chain (Subproject 3).” Subproject 4 has similar outputs and objectives as described in the above paragraph for Subproject 3 but applicable to coffee farmers in Papua New Guinea (instead of Viet Nam which is covered by Subproject 3). Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed. 77. TA 9940-REG: Mainstreaming Impact Evaluation Methodologies, Approaches, and Capacities in Selected Developing Member Countries (Subproject 1) Type of Technical Assistance : Knowledge and Support – Research and Development Executing Agency : Asian Development Bank TA Amount ($'000) : 1,500.0 Business Opportunities Listing : 16 January 2020 Date Approved : 19 December 2019 The TA aims to mainstream impact evaluation (IE) to improve the development effectiveness of project and policy interventions in the ADB DMCs. The cluster TA will support: (i) IE studies of ADB-financed sovereign interventions or pilot interventions under consideration for finance; and (ii) increase awareness and capacities of the DMCs to carry out IE and use the related results. The TA and its first subproject are part of the ADB Management approved 2019 results-based workplan of ADB’s Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department. Subproject 1 will comprise of two main outputs: (i) the conduct of at least five IE study phases/surveys applying various methodologies and survey instruments; and (ii) the development of IE awareness and capacity among the DMCs. The expected outcome will be that the consideration of evidence on the effectiveness of interventions in ADB operations and discussions informing DMC policies will

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be expanded. The subproject is aligned with the following impact: the development effectiveness of ADB finance and partnerships improved through enhanced knowledge. Status of Consulting Services : Recruitment of consultants is being processed.