9th ADB Business Opportunities Fair

Environment, Natural Resources, and

Agriculture --- East Asia
By: Yoshiaki Kobayashi, Principal Water
Resources Specialist
14 March 2018
 Countries
People’s Republic of China (PRC)
Mongolia (MON)

Areas of Operation
 Integrated Water Resources Management, Water Resources
Development, Flood Management, Drought Management,
Groundwater Management, Irrigation Management, Safe Drinking
Water

 Wetlands and Lakes Protection, Ecological and Biodiversity

Management, Wastewater and Solid Waste Management, Rural and
Agricultural Pollution Control and Regional Environment Protection

 High-Value Production and Market Supply-Chain Management,

Sustainable Rural Livelihoods, Land Management (Dry Lands,
Forests, Coastal Lands), Forestry Development, Biomass Clean
Energy and Low Carbon Agriculture, Food Safety and Green
Agriculture
 EARD Portfolio (Loans and Grants)
Amount (Excluding Counterpart Funds) Number of Projects
($ million)
Others; 438 ; Others; 8; 6%
3%

Energy;
14; 10%
Energy; 2,218
; 16% Transport; Transport; 39;
4,977 ; 36% 28%

Social; 2,684
Social; 40; Environment,
; 20%
Environment, 28% Natural
Natural Resources,
Resources, and
and Agriculture;
Agriculture; 39; 28%
3,465 ; 25%

Total: 13,781 Total: 140

 EARD Portfolio (TAs)
Amount (Excluding Counterpart Funds) Number of TAs
($ million) Transport; 8 Transport;
8; 6%
; 7%

Environment, Environment,
Natural Natural
Resources, Resources,
and and
Others; 42 ; Agriculture;
37% Agriculture; Others; 54;
21 ; 18% 41% 24; 18%

Social; 29 ; Social; 32;

25% 25%
Energy; 15 ; Energy;
13% 13; 10%

Total: 115 Total: 131

 Environment, Natural Resources, and
Agriculture Sector Portfolio for East Asia
Amount (Excluding Counterpart Funds)
($ million)

Loans, Grants, and TAs

5,000.00
4,500.00
4,000.00
3,500.00
3,000.00
2,500.00
2,000.00
1,500.00
1,000.00
500.00
-
End of 2016 End of 2017 End of 2018
 Environment, Natural Resources, and
Agriculture Sector Portfolio for East Asia
Amount (Excluding Counterpart Funds) Number
($ million)
TAs; 21 ; 1%

TAs; 24 ;
38%
Loans and
Grants; 39 ;
62%
Loans and
Grants; 3,465
; 99%

Total: 3,486 Total: 63

Environment, Natural Resources, and Agriculture
Sector Portfolio for East Asia (Loans and Grants)
Environment, Natural Resources, and Agriculture
Sector Portfolio for East Asia (TAs)

Amount (Excluding Counterpart Funds) Number

($)

TAs (MON); TAs

8,515 ; 41% (MON); 8
; 33%
TAs (PRC);
12,351 ; TAs
59% (PRC); 16
; 67%

Total: 20,866 Total: 24

Opportunities for Ongoing Loans, Grants, and TAs
Type No. Country Name General Description Estimated Selection Advertisement
Contract Method
Value
($ million)
Anhui Huainan Urban
Sustainable urban water and lake
Loan 3054 PRC Water Systems Integrated 0.50 QCBS Q4 2018
management
Rehabilitation Project
Henan Hebi Qihe River Qihe River ecological monitoring and 0.61 QCBS Q4 2018
Environmental management program
Loan 3401 PRC Improvement and
Qihe river basin 3D digital system 0.66 QCBS Q4 2018
Ecological Conservation
development
Project
Strengthening Hydrological geophysical survey 0.0075 ICS Q1 2018
Community Resilience to
Grant 9187 MON
Dzud, and Forest and
Steppe Fires
Socio-Economic, Health and Soil 0.05 CQS Q2 2018
Monitoring Baseline Survey
Managing Soil Pollution in
Training program by khoroo health clinics 0.03 SSS Q2 2018
Ger Areas through
Grant 9189 MON 5 individual consultants (for project 0.04 ICS Q2 2018
improved On-site
assistant; legal advisor; procurement
Sanitation Project
specialist; construction engineer;
architect)
CQS = consultants' qualifications selection, ICS = individual consultant selection, QCBS = quality- and cost-based selection, SSS
= single source selection.
Opportunities for Ongoing Loans, Grants, and TAs
Type No. Country Name General Description Estimated Selection Advertisement
Contract Method
Value
($ million)
ZQ-CS1: a consultant team for project 1.20 QCBS Q2 2018
management support
Shanxi Urban-Rural
ZQ-CS4: a consultant team for institutional 0.36 QCBS TBD
Water Source Protection
Loan 3557 PRC and capacity strengthening for integrated
and Environmental
urban-rural water supply
Demonstration Project
ZQ-CS5: a consultant team for sponge city 0.30 QCBS TBD
planning and implementation support
Guizhou Rocky CS-06: a consultant team for water and 0.61 QCBS Q2 2018
Loan 3564 PRC Desertification Area Water rocky desertification management
Management Project
C01: Implementation support 0.47 QCBS Q2 2018
Firm/NGO/Entity
C02: Agronomist and agri-business 0.15 ICS Q2 2018
Community Vegetable specialist (international)
Grant 9192 MON Farming for Livelihood C03: Resource person for greenhouse 0.01 SSS Q2 2018
Improvement Project (international)
C04: Resource person for packaging and 0.01 SSS Q1 2019
processing workshop (international)
C05: Financial audit 0.04 LCS Q4 2018
ICS = individual consultant selection, LCS = least-cost selection, QCBS = quality- and cost-based selection, SSS = single source
selection, TBD = to be determined.
 Lending Pipeline, 2018-2020
Country Project (Loan) Nam e Am ount
($ m illion)
2018 Firm
MON Ulaanbaatar Air Quality Improvement Program 130.0
Yangtze River Green Ecological Corridor Comprehensive
PRC 300.0
Agriculture Development Project
Chongqing Longxi River Environment Comprehensive Treatment
PRC 150.0
and Ecological Protection Demonstration Project
Sustainable and Inclusive Industrial Transformation of Yangtze
PRC 200.0
River Economic Belt-Ziyang City Subproject
2018 Stand-by
Gansu Internet-Plus Based Socialized Agricultural Service
PRC 150.0
System Development Project
Heilongjiang Jiamusi Modern Irrigation and Drainage System
PRC 150.0
Modernization Project
Note: Projects are indicative, pending ADB Management and Board approval, and approval timelines are
subject to change.
 Lending Pipeline, 2018-2020
Country Project (Loan) Nam e Am ount
($ m illion)
2019 Firm
Gansu Internet-Plus Based Socialized Agricultural Service
PRC 150.0
System Development Project
Heilongjiang Jiamusi Modern Irrigation and Drainage System
PRC 150.0
Modernization Project
Henan Dengzhou Ecological Protection and Integrated
PRC 200.0
Rehabilitation Project
MON Sustainable Tourism Development Project 38.0
MON Vegetable Production and Irrigated Agriculture Project 20.0

Note: Projects are indicative, pending ADB Management and Board approval, and approval timelines are
subject to change.
 Lending Pipeline, 2018-2020
Country Project (Loan) Nam e Am ount
($ m illion)
2020 Firm
Yunnan Sayu River Basin Eco-compensation Demonstration
PRC 100.00
Project
Anhui Huangshan Xin'an'jiang River Ecological Protection and
PRC 100.00
Green Development Project
2020 Standby
PRC Silk Road Ecological Rehabilitation and Protection Project 200.00
Chishui River Transprovincial Environmental and Eco-
PRC 600.00
compensation Project

Note: Projects are indicative, pending ADB Management and Board approval, and approval timelines are
subject to change.
 Nonlending Pipeline, 2018
Country Project (Grant) Nam e Am ount
($ m illion)
2018 Firm
MON Community Waste Management and Recycling Project 3.00
MON Strengthening Disaster Insurance Scheme in Mongolia Project 2.00
Strengthening the Capacity on Disaster Risk Assessment and
MON 1.00
Disaster Prevention Planning Project
2018 Standby
Strengthening Community Livelihoods in the Buffer Zones of
MON 3.00
Mongolia's Protected Areas Project

Note: Projects are indicative, pending ADB Management and Board approval, and approval timelines are
subject to change.
 Nonlending Pipeline, 2018
Country TA Nam e Am ount
(Excluding TAs for Project Preparation) ($ m illion)
2018 Firm
MON Urban Green Development Master Plan 0.70
Feasibility Study for Sustainable Tourism in Central and Eastern
MON 0.80
Mongolia
MON Support to Ulaanbaatar Air Quality Improvement 0.50
Pilot Implementation of Public-Private Partnership Funding
PRC 0.40
Mechanism for Chishui Watershed Protection
Policy Study on Integrating Poverty Alleviation into Ecological
PRC 0.40
Conservation
Policy Research on Forestry and Ecological Construction
PRC 0.35
Coordinated Development in the Yangtze River Economic Belt
PRC Study on the Comprehensive Eco-compensation Mechanism 0.40

Note: Projects are indicative, pending ADB Management and Board approval, and approval timelines are
subject to change.
 Nonlending Pipeline, 2018
Country TA Nam e Am ount
(Excluding TAs for Project Preparation) ($ m illion)
2018 Standby
Study on Construction of National Civil Ecological Protection Pilot
PRC 0.40
Zone in Qinghai
Monitoring and Load Assessment of Agricultural Diffused
PRC 0.40
Pollution in Typical Watershed

Note: Projects are indicative, pending ADB Management and Board approval, and approval timelines are
subject to change.
 Contact person:

Yoshiaki Kobayashi
Principal Water Resources Specialist, EAER
yoshikobayashi@adb.org

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