ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK

It aids Pakistan through improving its resilience to

climate change, empowering women, and building
institutional capacity. It also enhances infrastructure,
urban services, the private sector, public finance,
energy, food security, and social services, so
encouraging long-term development and economic
progress.

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SUPPORTING IDEA 1
This initiative exemplifies ADB’s
The project also includes fitting nearly commitment to providing clean,
2,500 healthcare units with solar PAKISTAN POWERS SCHOOLS reliable, and sustainable energy,
panels to ensure continuous
healthcare service delivery and
THROUGH SOLAR ENERGY supporting universal access to energy
services, and promoting a low-carbon
constructing 600 micro hydropower
This project tackled unreliable electricity transition in Central and West Asia.
plants in off-grid areas.
access, with power outages lasting hours.
Over 12,000 public schools, including
remote ones, benefited. Additionally,
around 2,500 basic health units received
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SUPPORTING IDEA 2 solar panels, ensuring continuous
Solar power installations have
healthcare service.
ADB supported a $325 million project saved Punjab schools
to install solar panels in over 10,700 approximately PKR 509 million
schools in Punjab and more than annually in utility bills, with some
2,000 schools in Khyber schools earning by selling excess
Pakhtunkhwa, providing reliable electricity to the national grid.
electricity. IMPLEMENTATION
The Islamia University of Bahawalpur benefited
from the program, saving around PKR 70 million
in utility bills, allowing them to invest in other
pressing needs.