Early Warning System

Countries

Armenia
Indonesia
Mongolia
Nauru
Solomon Islands
Uzbekistan

Geographic location where the impacts of the investment may be experienced.

Financial Institutions

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

International, regional and national development finance institutions. Many of these banks have a public interest mission, such as poverty reduction.

Project Status

Approved

Stage of the project cycle. Stages vary by development bank and can include: pending, approval, implementation, and closed or completed.

Bank Risk Rating

Environmental and social categorization assessed by the development bank as a measure of the planned project’s environmental and social impacts. A higher risk rating may require more due diligence to limit or avoid harm to people and the environment. For example, "A" or "B" are risk categories where "A" represents the highest amount of risk. Results will include projects that specifically recorded a rating, all other projects are marked ‘U’ for "Undisclosed."

Voting Date

Aug 28, 2025

Date when project documentation and funding is reviewed by the Board for consideration and approval. Some development banks will state a "board date" or "decision date." When funding approval is obtained, the legal documents are accepted and signed, the implementation phase begins.

Borrower

Regional - Asian Development Bank

A public entity (government or state-owned) provided with funds or financial support to manage and/or implement a project.

Sectors

Law and Government
Technical Cooperation

The service or industry focus of the investment. A project can have several sectors.

Investment Type(s)

Grant

The categories of the bank investment: loan, grant, guarantee, technical assistance, advisory services, equity and fund.

Investment Amount (USD)

$ 1.30 million

Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.

Project Cost (USD)

$ 1.30 million

Value listed on project documents at time of disclosure. If necessary, this amount is converted to USD ($) on the date of disclosure. Please review updated project documents for more information.

Bank Documents

Advancing Gender-Responsive Budgeting in Asia and the Pacific: Technical Assistance Report

Primary Source

Original disclosure @ ADB website

Updated in EWS Nov 9, 2025

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Project Description

If provided by the financial institution, the Early Warning System Team writes a short summary describing the purported development objective of the project and project components. Review the complete project documentation for a detailed description.

According to the Bank’s website, this technical assistance (TA) will support developing member countries (DMCs), including Armenia, Indonesia, Mongolia, Nauru, Solomon Islands, and Uzbekistan, in integrating and advancing gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) into fiscal policymaking and public financial management (PFM). This will be the first multiregion TA of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) that focuses on GRB. It will support policy dialogue and develop the capacities of government agencies on GRB approaches and good practices in government policies and programs through training, workshops, and knowledge products and solutions.

This TA will generate upstream knowledge and evidence to inform policy development across ADB's DMCs and will directly support the development of GRB policies and strategies linked with ongoing policy-based programs in selected countries. Specifically, the TA will generate new knowledge and information on mainstreaming gender equality in PFM systems, provide training to government stakeholders, develop methodologies for conducting gender gap assessments, and establish processes for GRB at the national level. Given that mainstreaming gender in PFM is important to ensuring that government budgets and financial policies promote gender equality and address the unique needs and priorities of all citizens, TA resources are necessary to convey internationally recognized good practices and standards to DMCs. The TA includes two small island developing states Solomon Islands and Nauru where GRB has not been formally initiated and where a tailored approach will be pursued, cognizant of the intersecting challenges of demography, geography, and cultural norms.

Early Warning System Project Analysis

For a project with severe or irreversible impacts to local community and natural resources, the Early Warning System Team may conduct a thorough analysis regarding its potential impacts to human and environmental rights.

According to the Technical Assistance Report, the Risk Categories are:

Environment: Not Applicable
Involuntary Resettlement: Not Applicable
Indigenous Peoples: Not Applicable

Investment Description

Here you can find a list of individual development financial institutions that finance the project.

Asian Development Bank (ADB)

The TA financing amount is $1,300,000, which will be financed on a grant basis by ADB’s Technical Assistance Special Fund (TASF-other sources).

Contact Information

This section aims to support the local communities and local CSO to get to know which stakeholders are involved in a project with their roles and responsibilities. If available, there may be a complaint office for the respective bank which operates independently to receive and determine violations in policy and practice. Independent Accountability Mechanisms receive and respond to complaints. Most Independent Accountability Mechanisms offer two functions for addressing complaints: dispute resolution and compliance review.

No contacts available at the time of disclosure.