Development Asia

02/10/2026

READ ➡ How Investing in Women's Leadership Strengthens Climate Resilience
🔵 https://development.asia/insight/how-investing-womens-leadership-strengthens-climate-resilience

📈 𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 Development Asia!

👉𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 on how investing in women’s leadership, confidence, and climate knowledge can strengthen climate resilience:

https://development.asia/insight/how-investing-womens-leadership-strengthens-climate-resilience

ADB Water and Urban Development

02/10/2026

Small island developing states (SIDS) face distinct challenges, but they are also sources of practical solutions that can be applied far beyond their shores.

READ our latest newsletter for ideas and approaches from Pacific SIDS on creating , strengthening essential , and building more resilient communities.

🟠 https://mailchi.mp/development.asia/sept2026-18260682

ADB in the Pacific

01/10/2026

This international dialogue, co-organized by ADB, presents to the international community the policies is implementing in the field of public-private partnerships (PPPs), the status of the country’s ecosystem, investment , and PPP projects being structured jointly with international financial institutions.

🟠 Access the presentation materials at https://events.development.asia/learning-events/international-investment-dialogue-development-public-private-partnerships

Asian Development Bank Kazakhstan

30/09/2026

Banjihas or semi-basement flats comprised about 5% of all households in in 2020. Marginalized groups are more likely to reside in Banjihas because of their lower rents, but are at higher risk of flooding due to extreme weather events.

In 2022, the Seoul Metropolitan introduced the Banjiha Transformation Initiative, which provides residents with alternative accommodation in public rental and offers landlords a transition period to repurpose Banjiha for non-residential use. Within a year, 3,671 households were moved to public rental housing and 538 Banjihas were purchased and transformed into multifunctional spaces such as a mushroom farm.

🟠 READ https://development.asia/case-study/building-housing-resilience-vulnerable-amid-climate-challenges

29/09/2026

in intangible capital, such as R&D, design, and software, are now central to global value creation. Since 2008, intangible investment has grown more than three times faster than tangible .

This ADB explores the role of foreign direct investments in driving intangibles and how they can better support industrial upgrading in Asia and the Pacific. Discussions center on the role of , intellectual property, and human in preparing the region to harness the benefits of intangibles.

🟠 WATCH https://events.development.asia/learning-events/intangible-capital-and-gvcs-asia-and-pacific-appraisal

28/09/2026

In , the Institute of Civil and Building Technology pilot-tested the application of warm mix asphalt , which is produced with less consumption than conventional hot mix asphalt.

Based on laboratory results, the warm mix asphalt showed 10% greater resistance to cracking and 28% greater resistance to deformation than the conventional mixture. Wider adoption of warm mix asphalt could support the transition of developing countries like Viet Nam toward lower-carbon construction.

🟠 READ https://development.asia/insight/building-lower-carbon-roads-testing-warm-mix-asphalt-viet-nam

25/09/2026

Regional cooperation helps countries learn faster, share solutions, and scale effective action.

25/09/2026

Between 2009 and 2012, nonrevenue water loss in the Colombo Municipal Council area of was estimated at 49%, affecting water quality, service delivery, and reliability of .

An ADB-supported program replaced and rehabilitated pipelines in Colombo’s aging distribution network, established district metered areas, installed individual meters in tenement housing, and developed geographic information system of the network to improve asset . By 2022, average nonrevenue water decreased to 15%, and revenue increased by 20%. In the improved areas, 100% of households were receiving 24/7 pressurized water supply.

🟠 READ https://development.asia/case-study/water-loss-savings-nonrevenue-water-intervention-sri-lanka

ADB Water and Urban Development, ADB Sri Lanka, SASEC Program

24/09/2026

How can engagement of organizations of people with disabilities (OPDs) strengthen outcomes? This discusses two case studies on OPD engagement in ADB-financed projects.

The first presents how Indonesia's Ministry of Transportation Disability Inclusion Hub has integrated across infrastructure . The second delves into how a project in Mongolia has enabled early identification of children with disabilities and empowered OPDs to co-create a national awareness campaign and deliver services.

🟠 WATCH https://events.development.asia/learning-events/cso-conversations-nothing-about-us-without-us-meaningful-disability-engagement-adb

NGO & Civil Society Center, Asian Development Bank ADB