Promoting Smart Systems in ADB’s Future Cities Program

The technical assistance (TA) aimed to enhance operational knowledge of promoting pro-poor smart solutions with emphasis on poverty reduction and inclusiveness in five pilot cities: Bandung, Greater Suva Area, Mandalay, Tbilisi, and Ulaanbaatar. It endeavored to achieve this aim by developing knowledge and learning products; facilitating partnerships between cities; and conducting pre-feasibility studies on smart solutions to enhance and leverage city and business investments, and citizens’ potential.

President Hoyer and the EIB in Washington DC

An EIB delegation led by President Werner Hoyer, with the participation of Vice-Presidents Ambroise Fayolle and Thomas Östros, visited Washington DC on 25 and 26 August for high-level meetings with the US Administration, multilateral development institutions and leading think tanks on climate action and the forthcoming COP27 (6-18 November in Egypt), energy transition, Ukraine’s reconstruction and the global economic outlook as a result of the war in Ukraine.