Asian Development Bank (ADB)

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  • R Researcher

Description

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is committed to achieving a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, while sustaining its efforts to eradicate extreme poverty. It assists its members and partners by providing loans, technical assistance, grants, and equity investments to promote social and economic development.

Primary Functions

  • Capacity building/Technical assistance
  • Funding

Secondary Functions

  • Research - policy analysis

Geographic Scope

  • Global / regional

Areas of work Back to Top

Education topics addressed

Attainment
  • Primary completion
  • Primary enrollment
  • Secondary completion
Other
  • Other
Other skills
  • Life skills/sexuality education
  • Vocational training
Quality
  • School quality
  • School-related gender-based violence

Cross-cutting topics addressed

  • Economic/livelihoods (including savings/financial inclusion, etc.)
  • Food/water security
  • WASH (water, sanitation and hygiene)

Funders and partners Back to Top

Current girls' education partners

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Website

Asian Development Bank (ADB)


Headquarters location(s)

  • Mandaluyong City, National Capital Region, Philippines

Office location(s)

  • Afghanistan
  • Armenia
  • Australia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bangladesh
  • Bhutan
  • Cambodia
  • China
  • Fiji
  • Georgia
  • Germany
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Japan
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Lao People's Democratic Republic
  • Mongolia
  • Myanmar
  • Nepal
  • Niger
  • Pakistan
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Philippines
  • Sri Lanka
  • Tajikistan
  • Thailand
  • Timor-Leste
  • Turkmenistan
  • United States of America
  • Uzbekistan
  • Viet Nam

Contacts

ADB Education Sector Group
Education@adb.org
Asian Development Bank (ADB)

Locations of current girls’ education work

Map showing countries (listed below) where the organization is involved with girls' education programs

  • Afghanistan
  • Armenia
  • Azerbaijan
  • Bangladesh
  • Bhutan
  • Cambodia
  • China
  • Fiji
  • Georgia
  • India
  • Indonesia
  • Kazakhstan
  • Kiribati
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Lao People's Democratic Republic
  • Maldives
  • Marshall Islands
  • Micronesia, Federated States of
  • Mongolia
  • Myanmar
  • Nauru
  • Nepal
  • Pakistan
  • Palau
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Philippines
  • Samoa
  • Solomon Islands
  • Sri Lanka
  • Tajikistan
  • Thailand
  • Timor-Leste
  • Tonga
  • Turkmenistan
  • Tuvalu
  • Uzbekistan
  • Vanuatu
  • Viet Nam

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