Reports and Documents

Efficient disaster management calls for meticulous planning.

This executive summary provides an overview of methodologies and findings of vulnerability assessments undertaken in 20 Indian cities as well as recommendations for future actions.

The report, titled 'Framework for Infrastructure Assets: A Case Study of Konkan Railways,' summarizes the uncertainties and risks that infrastructure assets face due to climate variability and suggests possible adaptation strategies.

This new study published by UNEP Risø Centre evaluates policy and design interventions for the implementation of NMT projects in Indian cities and considers their impact on road users.

The new guidebook published by UNEP Risø Centre focuses on the meaning of "low carbon" in the context of long-term global climate stabilization target, low carbon scenarios with alternate development pathways to achieve these scenarios and the role of low carbon development in India.

The Companies Bill, 2012, on receiving the assent of Honorable President of India on August 29, 2013, was notified in the Gazette of India on August 30, 2013 as the Companies Act, 2013 (18 of 2013). The Section 1 of the Act has come into force from the date of the notification.

This report examines private sector provision of on-site sanitation services in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Peru, and Tanzania, four countries where the local private sector already plays a major role in helping rural (and many urban) households construct and maintain sanitation.

Manual Scavenger means a person engaged or employed on regular or frequent basis by an individual or a local authority or a public or private agency, for manually cleaning, carrying, disposing of, or otherwise handling in any manner, human excreta in an insanitary latrine or in an open drain or pit into which human excreta from insanitary latrin

This synthesis report is the result of close, collaborative research initiated by the Asian Development Bank in partnership with Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development Canada; the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation; and the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia.

Compendiums starts with comprehensive overview of Pulp & Paper subsector , covering manufacturing capacity, production & energy consumption trend, technology status, future growth scenarios, policies, environmental issues etc relevant to the subsector.