Development Asia

ADB is a pioneer in conducting proactive integrity reviews to ensure projects are transparent, fair, and have proper and controls.

Drawing from the integrity reviews of more than 100 ADB projects, this piece reveals lessons learned on integrity in the areas of , financial , and contract and management.

🟠 READ https://development.asia/summary/identifying-red-flags-and-mitigating-integrity-risks-projects

Anticorruption and Integrity at Asian Development Bank

A study found that a cohesive framework governing electric vehicles (EVs), combined with and regional collaboration, is needed to accelerate the transition to EVs in .

Learn about the barriers to adoption in the region and the most effective instruments enabling it, such as national EV targets, duty exemptions, and and purchase subsidies.

🟠 READ https://development.asia/summary/powering-road-ahead-decarbonizing-transport-carec

CAREC Program

READ ➡️ Designing an Effective Data Governance Framework for Plastic Waste Management
🟠 https://development.asia/explainer/designing-effective-data-governance-framework-plastic-waste-management

Asia Tenggara menghadapi krisis sampah plastik yang semakin kompleks akibat urbanisasi pesat dan meningkatnya konsumsi plastik sekali pakai. ADB melalui proyek bantuan teknis regional mengembangkan model operasional tata kelola data untuk Indonesia dan Vietnam bersama DT Global dan Seureca-Veolia, yang menetapkan peran dan tanggung jawab yang jelas di antara stakeholder kunci dari pemerintah pusat dan daerah hingga industri dan komunitas.

Solusi digital seperti Internet of Things, blockchain, kecerdasan buatan, dan platform mobile menawarkan potensi transformatif untuk mempercepat transisi menuju ekonomi sirkular plastik. Dengan menggabungkan alat digital dan kerangka tata kelola yang kuat, Asia Tenggara dapat mencapai tujuan ekonomi sirkular dan mengatasi krisis sampah plastik secara berkelanjutan.

https://development.asia/explainer/designing-effective-data-governance-framework-plastic-waste-management

READ ➡️ Building Institutional Capacity for Water-Sensitive Urban Planning
🟠 https://development.asia/case-study/building-institutional-capacity-water-sensitive-urban-planning

Sebagai kota hutan cerdas dan berkelanjutan, Nusantara membutuhkan pengelolaan air yang terintegrasi sejak awal pembangunan.

Melalui Sustainable Infrastructure Assistance Program Phase 2 (SIAP2) yang didanai Pemerintah Australia, ADB bekerja sama dengan Otorita Ibu Kota Nusantara dan Kementerian Pekerjaan Umum untuk memperkuat kapasitas perencanaan kota yang sensitif air.

Program pelatihan Water Sensitive Cities (WSC) yang berlangsung Maret hingga Oktober 2025 melatih 31 pejabat dari OIKN dan Kementerian PU dengan pendekatan partisipatif dan berbasis studi kasus lokal. Hasilnya mencakup peningkatan pemahaman pengelolaan air terpadu, kolaborasi lintas lembaga yang lebih kuat, identifikasi 4 lokasi percontohan, serta rencana pembentukan gugus tugas WSC di OIKN.

https://development.asia/case-study/building-institutional-capacity-water-sensitive-urban-planning

The city of Ganzhou in the People’s Republic of constructed nearly 1,000 years ago a comprehensive system that combines engineered drainage channels, hydraulic control structures, and natural storage ponds to simultaneously manage stormwater, urban wastewater, and river flooding.

Its principles resonate with contemporary approaches to nature-based solutions and sponge city wherein
1️⃣ drainage channels and deep pipelines minimize the risk of surface flooding during heavy rainfall
2️⃣ outlets located along the wall automatically close or open in response to changing river levels, and
3️⃣ interconnected ponds capture excess runoff and supply for and aquaculture.

🟠 READ https://development.asia/explainer/what-1000-year-old-drainage-system-teaches-us-about-flood-risk

ADB Water and Urban Development

Dry bulk cargo ports are essential to global supply chains, but their can generate dust, greenhouse gas emissions, and contaminated runoff.

This ADB showcases practical approaches to managing dust, runoff, and emissions. It also examines how environmental performance is increasingly linked to operational , competitiveness, and access to .

🟠 WATCH https://events.development.asia/learning-events/dry-bulk-cargo-ports-managing-dust-runoff-and-emissions

READ ➡️ Empowering Fijian Villages Through Nature-Based Coastal Protection
🟠 https://development.asia/insight/empowering-fijian-villages-through-nature-based-coastal-protection

Bioplastics are made of substances derived from biomass materials and can be broken down by microorganisms. They help countries fight and move away from petrochemical use.

An ADB study examines the greenhouse gas emissions and consumption of bioplastics production and end-of-life, as well as the barriers to bioplastics industry growth in .

🟠 READ https://development.asia/explainer/addressing-challenges-southeast-asias-growing-biomaterial-industry

Greater Mekong Subregion Program, BIMP East ASEAN Growth Area