ADB Technical Assistance

The briefing argues that the Asian Development Bank's (ADB) technical assistance (TA), while a small part of overall financial commitments, exerts significant strategic influence over policy and project design. The authors contend that TA can act as a form of indirect funding for fossil gas and call for the ADB to align its energy policy with a total fossil gas phase-out, improve transparency, and ensure environmental and social risk disclosure for all TA.

• Technical assistance (TA) provided by the ADB serves as a strategic tool that shapes long-term development pathways, policy directions, and project design, despite representing a small portion of the bank's total financial commitments.
• The briefing identifies technical assistance as a mechanism for providing indirect funding to the fossil gas sector.
• To align with the Paris Agreement and the 1.5°C goal, the ADB is urged to phase out all direct and indirect support for fossil gas and redirect technical assistance toward a sustainable and just renewable energy transition.

APA

Race, M. (2025). ADB Technical Assistance. Recourse. https://re-course.org/newsupdates/adb-technical-assistance/

Chicago

Race, Madeleine. ADB Technical Assistance. Recourse, 2025. https://re-course.org/newsupdates/adb-technical-assistance/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{race2025adb, author = {Race, Madeleine}, title = {{ADB Technical Assistance}}, institution = {Recourse}, year = {2025}, month = may, url = {https://re-course.org/newsupdates/adb-technical-assistance/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }