Asian Development Bank – Ninth Replenishment of the Asian Development Fund

Results achieved from January 2010 to December 2013 include: (1) supporting programs to improve schools including building or upgrading classrooms and training over 700 000 teachers benefitting approximately 17.1 million students; (2) connecting almost 1.1 million new households to electricity; (3) installing or upgrading 5 300 km of energy transmission lines and 13 000 km of distribution lines; (4) building or upgrading 31 000 km of national highways and provincial district and rural roads and 75 km of railways; (5) contributing to greenhouse gas emission reductions of approximately 600 000 million tons of CO2 equivalent a year; (6) installing or upgrading 16 000 km of water supply pipe and providing over 2 million new households with water supply and nearly 300 000 new households with sanitation services; (7) improving more than 2 million hectares of land through irrigation services drainage and flood management; and (8) opening or maintaining some 2 million microfinance accounts and 9 700 small and medium sized enterprise loan accounts.