Southeast Asia

Department (SERD)

Public Management, Financial

Sector and Trade Division (SEPF)

Prasanna Kumar Jena

Senior Public Management Specialist, SEPF
Southeast Asian Region
The Southeast Asia Department covers:
Brunei Darussalam*
Cambodia*
Indonesia*
Lao People’s Democratic Republic*
Malaysia*
Myanmar
Philippines*
Singapore
Thailand *
Vietnam *
* Countries where SEPF has ongoing and pipeline
projects
Main Focus of Interventions

• Finance –Banks and Non-banks, Capital Markets,

Insurance, Social Security, Pension
• Public Governance
• Trade – Business Environment, SME, Trade
Facilitation
Business Opportunities In

• Financial Sector Reform

• Governance and Public Financial Management

(PFM) Reform

• Small & Medium Enterprise (SME) Development

• Business Environment and Trade Reform

TA PROJECTS IN CAMBODIA
Financial Sector Reform
• CDTA 2011: Implementing Financial Sector Program III
Subprogram 2 [SP2] ($0.8M)
• CDTA 2012: Implementing Financial Sector Program III SP3
($0.7M)
• PPTA 2013: Financial Sector Program Cluster 4 ($0.8M)
Public Sector Management
• PPTA 2011: Promoting Economic Diversification (PED) SP3
($0.7M)
• PPTA 2012: PED Program II ($1.0M)
• PPTA 2013: Decentralized Public Service and Financial
Management II ($1.0M)
TA PROJECTS IN INDONESIA
Capital Market Development
• CDTA 2012: Support for Capital Markets Development
Program Cluster III ($1.0)

Financial Sector Development

• CDTA 2011: Support for Social Security Reform ($0.5M)

Public Sector Reform

• CDTA 2011: Second Local Gov’t Finance and
Governance Reform ($0.8M)
TA PROJECTS IN LAO PDR

Financial Sector Development

• CDTA 2012: Stock Market Implementation Capacity
Development ($0.7M)

Public Sector Governance

• CDTA 2011: Capacity Strengthening of the State Audit
Office ($0.75M)
• CDTA 2012: Accounting and Budget Formulation ($0.7M)
 TA PROJECTS IN THE
PHILIPPINES
Public Sector Management/Governance
• CDTA 2011: Disaster Risk Financing ($0.225M)
• PATA 2011: Public Financial Management 3 ($0.8M)
• CDTA 2011: Capacity Development for the Judiciary and
Justice Sector Agencies ($1.5M)
• CDTA 2013: Local Gov’t Finance and Budget Reform Program
Phase 2 ($0.7M)

Trade
• PATA 2011: Strengthening Institutions for and Improved
Investment Climate ($1.0M)
Financial Sector Development
• CDTA 2011: Capacity Development of Financial Regulators ($1.0M)
TA PROJECTS IN THAILAND
Financial Sector Development
• PATA 2012: Support for Mortgage Insurance Company
($0.8M)
• PATA 2012: Support for Pilot PPP Projects ($0.8M)
• PATA 2013:Pension Development for the Informal
Sector ($0.8M)

Public Sector Management

• PATA 2013: Support for Local Government Fiscal
Management ($1.0M)
 TA PROJECTS IN VIETNAM
Financial Sector Development
• PPTA 2011: Financial Sector Program Loan IV SP1 ($0.6M)
• PPTA 2012: Financial Sector Program Loan IV SP2 ($0.6M)
 REGIONAL TA PROJECT

Trade
• R-PATA 2013: Subregional Project Development Facility
for BIMP-EAGA and IMT-GT Phase ($2.0M)
 SEPF CONTACT PERSONS

Samiuela Tukuafu, Principal Financial Sector Specialist (email: stukuafu@adb.org)

Kelly Bird, Senior Financial Sector Specialist (email: kbird@adb.org)

Stephen Schuster, Senior Financial Sector Specialist (email: sschuster@adb.org)

Eiichi Sasaki, Senior Financial Sector Specialist (email: esasaki@adb.org)

Juan Luis Reino, Public Management Specialist (email: jlgomez@adb.org)

Rabin Hattari, Public Mgmt Economist (Fiscal Mgmt and Social Security)
(email: rhattari@adb.org)

Hiroyuki Aoki, Senior Financial Sector Specialist (email: haoki@adb.org)