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Featured Stories
Bridge to Prosperity
The Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge—the most expensive and technically one of the most challenging transport infrastructure projects ever accomplished in Bangladesh—is a gateway to economic growth and prosperity for millions.
New Condom Campaign to Combat HIV/AIDS
A well-researched $10 million program to distribute millions of subsidized condoms in "hot spots" of sexual activity around the country aims to control an HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Unlikely Heroes
A poor, disaster-prone province in the Philippines topped rankings in national secondary school exams, thanks to innovative curriculum and alternative approaches under an ADB loan project.
Asian Development Fund: Changing Lives
For more than three decades, the Asian Development Fund has been providing grants and low interest loans to help ADB's poorest borrowing countries to reduce poverty and improve the lives of the poor. On this site, we tell the stories of how ADF has changed lives in 13 borrowing countries, ranging from Afghanistan to Viet Nam and from Tajikistan to Papua New Guinea.
Pacific Impact Stories
Over the last 4 decades, ADB has been helping the Philippine Government achieve its vision of a country free of poverty. In this publication, we tell the stories of the people and places this partnership has helped.
Philippines Impact Stories
Over the last 4 decades, ADB has been helping its Pacific developing member countries overcome common challenges in delivering sustained economic growth and human development, and in reducing poverty from small, narrowly focused economies. In this publication, we tell the stories of the people and places this partnership has helped.
NGO Impact Stories
In 2005, ADB approved technical assistance grants worth $8,670,000 from the Cooperation Fund for Fighting HIV/AIDS in Asia and the Pacific to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS. Set up and initially financed by the Government of Sweden to the tune of $12.93 million, the fund is to be boosted by another $140 million from the Asian Development Fund IX, ADB's soft loan instrument for its poorest developing member countries.
