CDIA Progress Report for January-June 2023
December 22, 2023
In its latest Progress Report covering January to June 2023, CDIA highlighted its milestones as it started on a new five-year strategy period.
The interactive report gives a snapshot of how it helps secondary cities in Asia and the Pacific meet their urban development needs by providing expertise in the preparation of inclusive, resilient, and low-carbon infrastructure projects.
From 2007 to June 2023, CDIA has worked with 131 cities in 22 countries in the region, thereby, offering solutions that contribute to poverty reduction and inclusiveness, climate change adaptation and/or mitigation, environmental improvement, and good governance.
It has commissioned 117 project preparation studies, out of which it generated $14 billion in infrastructure investment toward improving people’s lives.
In this reporting period, CDIA has worked on the following projects:
- Transformation and Sustainable Development of Residential Areas in Bishkek (Kyrgyz Republic)
- Bhutan Green and Resilient Affordable Housing Advisory Project
- Khulna Water Supply Expansion (Bangladesh)
- Smart Cities Corridor Development Project (Bangladesh)
- Low-Carbon Mobility in Siem Reap (Cambodia)
- Can Tho Bus Priority Corridor Project (Viet Nam)
- Faecal Sludge Management Project in Tacloban City (Philippines)
- Vientiane-Nong Khai Cross Border Cable Car Project (Lao PDR/Thailand)
Activities on capacity building, communications and outreach, and monitoring and evaluation have further continued, including the conduct of bespoke training activities, participation in targeted outreach and partnership-building activities, and tracking of accomplishments at the program and activity levels, among others.
