Why Partner with ADB?
As Asia-Pacific’s own regional development bank, ADB is a long-term development partner and is already fully committed to play a major role in the important phase of rehabilitation and reconstruction. Substantial progress has already been made in loss and assessment analysis in the affected communities and rehabilitation projects will be ready for consideration by the ADB Board of Directors by April/May, 2005. Once approved, the reconstruction activities will commence immediately. Providing financing for economic and social development in Asia is ADB’s only business. It does not focus on other regions. In this regard, ADB possesses unique regional knowledge and insights. All key countries in the region are shareholders of ADB. This has enabled ADB to develop strong relationships in both the public and private sectors of Asia. ADB has long-experience in designing and implementing disaster rehabilitation projects in the Asian region, including floods in Bangladesh, earthquakes in India,
