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ADB supports Maldives in addressing its challenges as a small island developing state, improving fiscal management, building climate resilience, developing the private sector, and strengthening knowledge and institutional capacity.
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In the Spotlight
ADB Appoints Sona Shrestha as Director General for South Asia
ADB has appointed Sona Shrestha as Director General of its South Asia Department, where she will lead the development and implementation of ADB’s strategy and operations in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka.
How Digital Financial Systems and Compliance Reforms Can Ease Debt Pressures in the Maldives
Digital financial management, risk-based audits, and stronger oversight are needed to improve accountability, efficiency, and long-term stability across government operations.
Healthy Oceans: ADB’s Journey Toward a Sustainable Blue Future
Since 2019, the Asian Development Bank has mobilized over $4 billion for ocean action in Asia and the Pacific, supporting coastal resilience, restoring marine ecosystems, reducing pollution, and promoting sustainable blue economies through financing.
Digital Public Infrastructure: Landscape and Opportunities in South Asia
Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) enables secure digital identity, interoperable payment systems, and data exchange platforms. This publication examines DPI in South Asia and explores how it could help unlock inclusive growth.
Maldives Facts
ADB's Work in Maldives
Typical of small island nations, Maldives has a limited human resource pool that makes capacity constraints more challenging and affects the planning and implementation of some ADB-supported projects in the country. To address this, ADB has been extending technical assistance for strengthening the institutional capacity and skills of the government for country programming, interagency coordination, and portfolio management.
To date, ADB has committed 121 public sector loans, grants, and technical assistance totaling $554 million to Maldives.
Data: Maldives
Forecasts are based on ADB's flagship publication, the Asian Development Outlook. Updated four times a year, it analyzes economic and development issues in developing countries in Asia and the Pacific.
Development indicators for Maldives, including a selection of economic, environmental, and social indicators used globally to track progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals.
Results achieved are aggregate amounts of outputs and outcomes from operations reported in project completion reports and extended annual review reports circulated for the year.
Cofinancing operations enable ADB’s financing partners, governments or their agencies, multilateral financing institutions, and commercial organizations to participate in financing ADB projects.
ADB Projects in Maldives View all projects
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Creating positive transformation requires all voices to be heard. In the atoll nations of Kiribati, Maldives, the Marshall Islands, and Tuvalu, community youth leadership is crucial to address the impacts of evolving climate conditions.
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- Financial Sector Development Partnership Special Fund
- Global Environment Facility
- Green Climate Fund
- High-Level Technology Fund
- Investment Climate Facilitation Fund
- Ireland Trust Fund for Building Climate Change and Disaster Resilience in Small Island Developing States
- Japan Fund for Information and Communication Technology
- Japan Fund for Prosperous and Resilient Asia and the Pacific
- Japan Fund for the Joint Crediting Mechanism
- Japan Special Fund
- Project Preparation and Implementation Support Trust Fund
- Regional Cooperation and Integration Financing Partnership Facility
- Regional Cooperation and Integration Fund
- Republic of Korea e-Asia and Knowledge Partnership Fund
- Technical Assistance Special Fund
- Water Financing Partnership Facility
What's New
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ADB Appoints Sona Shrestha as Director General for South Asia
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Digital Public Infrastructure: Landscape and Opportunities in South Asia
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ADB President Listens to Pacific Leaders’ Shared Vision, Highlights Record Support
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Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Diagnostic of Selected Sectors in Maldives
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Engaging Men and Transforming Masculinities to Achieve Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: A Stocktaking of Initiatives in South Asia
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| News Releases, News from Country Offices
ADB to Help Maldives Strengthen Climate Resilience, Food Security
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Understanding Fragility in Asia and the Pacific
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Preparing Outer Islands for Sustainable Energy Development: Maldives’ Experience in Deploying Advanced Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems
Contact: South Asia Department (SARD)
6 ADB Avenue, Mandaluyong City, 1550 Metro Manila, Philippines
Office Hours: 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (Monday to Friday)
ADB does not have a resident mission in Maldives. ADB South Asia Department (SARD) is responsible for the country coordination for Maldives.
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