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  <title>TUR: Arkas Transport Expansion Project</title>
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  <pubDate>2026-04-22</pubDate>
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  <title>Ameriabank Expanding sustainable lending and access to finance for Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprises Lending Project</title>
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  <pubDate>2026-04-21</pubDate>
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  <title>TBC Uzbekistan Enabling Inclusive Access to Finance through Digital Banking Project</title>
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  <pubDate>2026-04-15</pubDate>
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  <title>Supporting the Preparation and Presidency for the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification's 17th Session of the Conference of the Parties</title>
  <link>https://www.adb.org/projects/60073-001/main</link>
  <description>The technical assistance (TA) will support the Government of Mongolia in preparing for and delivering the 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in 2026 and in carrying out its two-year COP presidency (20262028). The TA will focus on strengthening the substantive and knowledge foundation of Mongolia's leadership, complementing the logistical preparations managed by the government and the UNCCD Secretariat.</description>
  <pubDate>2026-04-14</pubDate>
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  <title>Supporting the Gujarat Skills Development Program</title>
  <link>https://www.adb.org/projects/59187-001/main</link>
  <description>The technical assistance (TA) will provide targeted implementation support to the Government of Gujaratprincipally to Kaushalya: The Skills University (KSU) and its networkto operationalize quality-assured, industry-relevant training systems, international partnerships and twinning arrangements, and evidence-based program management underpinning the $109.97 million results-based loan (RBL) for Gujarat Skills Development Program.</description>
  <pubDate>2026-04-13</pubDate>
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  <title>Narayanganj Green and Resilient Urban Development Project</title>
  <link>https://www.adb.org/projects/56139-001/main</link>
  <description>&lt;p&gt;The project will be aligned with the following impacts: (i) sustainable and inclusive urban development achieved, and (ii) safe and climate-resilient delta area achieved. The project will have the following outcome: NCC's resilience, and access to inclusive, reliable, and sustainable urban services improved. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
  <pubDate>2026-04-10</pubDate>
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  <title>Project Preparation Assistance Facility</title>
  <link>https://www.adb.org/projects/59508-001/main</link>
  <description>The Project Preparation Assistance Facility (PPAF) will help Cambodia improve project readiness by financing detailed engineering designs and bidding documents for priority infrastructure projects across sectors such as transport, energy, health, agriculture, water, digital, and tourism. The facility supports the government's Public Investment Management System Reform Strategy and Project Development Facility to ensure technically sound, implementation-ready projects, reduce startup delays, and enhance quality-at-entry.</description>
  <pubDate>2026-04-06</pubDate>
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  <title>Promoting Inclusive and Green Housing Finance Project</title>
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  <description>The project will promote affordable residential mortgage loans to women and the development and funding of benchmark green mortgage products in Kazakhstan via Otbasy Bank.</description>
  <pubDate>2026-03-31</pubDate>
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  <title>Supporting West Bengal Distribution System Strengthening Program</title>
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  <pubDate>2026-03-30</pubDate>
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  <title>Solar Rooftop Investment Program (Tranche 4)</title>
  <link>https://www.adb.org/projects/49419-005/main</link>
  <description>On 30 September 2016, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) approved the Solar Rooftop Investment Program to help the Government of India establish a solar rooftop financing facility. The program cost was estimated at $1 billion, of which $500 million was expected to be financed through three multitranche financing facility (MFF) tranches through financial intermediary loans. The MFF comprises (i) $330 million from ADB's regular ordinary capital resources (OCR) and (ii) $170 million from the Clean Technology Fund (CTF) in the form of concessional loans administered by ADB.</description>
  <pubDate>2026-03-29</pubDate>
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  <title>Golomt Bank Supporting Sustainable and Inclusive Finance Project</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;The Golomt Bank Supporting Sustainable and Inclusive Finance Project will provide up to $60 million in long-term financing from ADB's ordinary capital resources to enhance sustainable and inclusive finance in Mongolia. At least $40 million will be allocated to support Golomt Bank's sustainable finance operations, funding green loans aligned with Mongolia's Green Taxonomy and National Adaptation Plan. These loans will target sectors such as energy efficiency, green housing, small-scale renewable energy, clean transport, sustainable agriculture, and sustainable water and waste use.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
  <pubDate>2026-03-27</pubDate>
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  <title>Technology Demonstrations and Investment Opportunity Identification for Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems</title>
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  <description>The proposed TA aims to advance sustainable and resilient food systems transformation in ADB operations in Bangladesh by piloting and demonstrating innovative and commercially viable technologies in priority value chains and strengthening institutional and technical capacities for technology adoption for ensuring food and nutrition security, developing export-oriented food value chains, achieving climate goals, and encouraging both domestic and foreign investments.</description>
  <pubDate>2026-03-19</pubDate>
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  <title>Pacific Healthy Islands Transformation Project-FMRF</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;The proposed PHIT project aims to address rising health challenges in Fiji and across several Pacific Islands Countries through a coordinated response, with a focus on the non-communicable disease crisis. The PHIT project finances solutions to respond to systemic and functional challenges through sequenced investments across key enablers - health infrastructure including tertiary and rural health facilities, workforce transformation, digital health and continuity of care.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
  <pubDate>2026-03-10</pubDate>
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  <title>Nepal Digital Transformation Project-FMRF</title>
  <link>https://www.adb.org/projects/59512-001/main</link>
  <description>&lt;p&gt;The Nepal Digital Transformation Project (Project) aims to improve delivery and increase the use of inclusive and high-impact services for citizens and businesses by strengthening digital public infrastructure (DPI) and modernizing priority government services. The Project will enhance trust, resilience, and interoperability of Nepal's digital ecosystem through investments in secure data infrastructure, core DPI, and the digitalization of high-impact services. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
  <pubDate>2026-03-10</pubDate>
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  <title>Fiscal Sustainability and Financial Markets Development Program, Subprogram 3</title>
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  <pubDate>2026-03-10</pubDate>
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  <title>Manatuto Solar and Battery Energy Storage System</title>
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  <description>The project involves the design, construction, maintenance, and operation of a 73.7 MWac grid-connected solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant, an 80.2 MWh Battery Energy Storage System (BESS), and other ancillary facilities including a substation and connecting 150kV transmission lines in the area around Manatuto, Timor-Leste.</description>
  <pubDate>2026-03-04</pubDate>
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  <title>Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Security and Resilience Improvement Project</title>
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  <pubDate>2026-02-24</pubDate>
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  <title>Typhoon Tino and Uwan Emergency Response Project</title>
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  <pubDate>2026-02-23</pubDate>
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  <title>Tamtam Submarine Cable Project</title>
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  <description>The project involves the design, construction, marine deployment, commissioning, and operation of a 411-kilometer submarine fiber optic telecommunications cable called "Tamtam Cable", which will connect Port Vila, Vanuatu to Lifou, New Caledonia, France.</description>
  <pubDate>2026-02-10</pubDate>
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  <title>Climate Resilient Brahmaputra Integrated Flood and Riverbank Erosion Risk Management Project in Assam - Additional Financing</title>
  <link>https://www.adb.org/projects/56283-002/main</link>
  <description>The additional financing will expand the scope of the ongoing project by adding work locations in two of the four main river reaches that are currently part of the ongoing project, and extending work into the river's two remaining main reaches. This will contribute substantially to the broader stabilization of the Brahmaputra River in Assam, ensuring an enhanced development impact. Overall, the additional financing will improve the livelihoods of about 600,000 rural residents of Assam, particularly the poor, including women and disadvantaged persons.</description>
  <pubDate>2026-02-05</pubDate>
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  <title>Administration of Equity Investment in Nibertex Pte. Ltd.</title>
  <link>https://www.adb.org/projects/59371-001/main</link>
  <description>Nibertex is a Singapore-domiciled advanced materials company founded in 2023, with primary operations in the Philippines, that specializes in the manufacture of water resistant, breathable membranes that do not contain poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).</description>
  <pubDate>2025-12-16</pubDate>
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  <title>Assam Sustainable Wetland and Integrated Fisheries Transformation Project</title>
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  <pubDate>2025-12-12</pubDate>
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  <title>Tata Energy Access Solar Project</title>
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  <description>The project comprises the construction and operation of a 965.8 MW solar-wind hybrid plant being implemented by TP Vardhaman Surya Limited (TPVSL), a subsidiary of Tata Power Renewable Energy Limited (TPREL), which is in turn a subsidiary of Tata Power Company Limited (TPCL). The plant consists of 379 MW of ground-mounted solar photovoltaic capacity and 586.8 MW of wind capacity, spread across Karnataka, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu in India.</description>
  <pubDate>2025-12-11</pubDate>
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  <title>Women Entrepreneurs Leveraging Innovative Finance in Tonga Project</title>
  <link>https://www.adb.org/projects/59004-001/main</link>
  <description>The Women Entrepreneurs Leveraging Innovative Finance in Tonga (WE-LIFT) project, financed through an Asian Development Fund grant under the Sustainable Development Goal 5: Transformative Gender Agenda thematic window and designed using a financial intermediation modality, aims to accelerate women entrepreneurs' access to finance and strengthen their entrepreneurial and financial capabilities in Tonga, a small island economy facing structural vulnerabilities and gender-based exclusion.</description>
  <pubDate>2025-12-11</pubDate>
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  <title>Enhancing Climate Resilience of Coastal Communities Sector Project</title>
  <link>https://www.adb.org/projects/58056-001/main</link>
  <description>&lt;p&gt;The project aims to enhance climate resilience and promote sustainable development in about 15 vulnerable coastal communities in Fiji. The project will pilot and implement climate adaptation measures such as hybrid and nature-based coastal protection solutions, increase community engagement and strengthen local and institutional capacities to address coastal flooding and erosion caused by sea-level rise and extreme weather. The project is expected to directly benefit 3,000 people living in the coastal communities of which 50% are women.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
  <pubDate>2025-12-11</pubDate>
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  <title>Credit Saison India Supporting Micro, Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Project</title>
  <link>https://www.adb.org/projects/59315-001/main</link>
  <description>Borrower will use the proceeds of ADB's OCR loan to support extend sub-loans directly to micro, small and medium-sized enterprise (MSMEs) and to low-income individual entrepreneurs, with at least 30% towards women borrowers.</description>
  <pubDate>2025-12-11</pubDate>
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  <title>Bank of Tianjin Healthcare and Elderly Care Finance Project</title>
  <link>https://www.adb.org/projects/59185-001/main</link>
  <description>ADB will provide a senior loan to Bank of Tianjin Co., Ltd. (BOT) of up to $100,000,000 (or its yuan equivalent) with a tenor of up to 5 years, for the Bank of Tianjin Healthcare and Elderly Care Finance Project in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The proposed project will support healthcare and elderly care providers by funding their capital investments in facilities, equipment and information technology systems and meeting their permanent working capital requirements.</description>
  <pubDate>2025-12-10</pubDate>
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  <title>Improving Capacity for Policy and Project Implementation in Skills Sector</title>
  <link>https://www.adb.org/projects/58391-001/main</link>
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  <pubDate>2025-12-09</pubDate>
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  <title>Urban Challenge Fund—Catalyzing Transformation in Indian Cities</title>
  <link>https://www.adb.org/projects/59405-001/main</link>
  <description>&lt;p&gt;1.A technical assistance is proposed to support India for operationalizing and implementing the Urban Challenge Fund (UCF) to contribute to the catalytic urban transformation and development of livable cities by designing bankable projects and strengthening the capacity of states and urban local bodies.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
  <pubDate>2025-12-09</pubDate>
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  <title>Yaodou Pharma Supply Chain Project</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;The project will fund Zhejiang Xinghan Bona Pharmaceutical Technology Co., Ltd. (Yaodou) working capital to enable it to distribute more pharmaceutical and medical products to pharmacies and community health centers, thus supporting the availability of pharmaceuticals outside hospital dispensaries. The project will provide up to $50 million equivalent in yuan senior secured loans, comprising (i) an A loan of up to $20 million equivalent in yuan from ADB's ordinary capital resources; and (ii) a parallel loan of up to $30 million equivalent in yuan. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
  <pubDate>2025-12-08</pubDate>
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