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Southeast Asia

Department (SERD)

Madeleine VarkayPrincipal Private Sector Development Specialist, SEPF

mvarkay@adb.org

Public Management, FinancialSector and Trade Division (SEPF)

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Southeast Asian RegionThe Southeast Asia Department covers:

Brunei DarussalamCambodia*Indonesia*Lao Peoples Democratic Republic*

Malaysia*Myanmar *Philippines*Singapore

Thailand *Viet Nam *

* Countries where SEPF has ongoing and pipeline

projects

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Main Focus of Interventions

Public Management Public Financial ManagementReform, Fiscal Decentralization, Justice Reform,SOE Re-structuring.

Finance Banking and Non-banking Institutions,Capital Markets, Insurance, Social Security, PensionFunds, Micro-finance/insurance.

Trade Business Environment, SME, TradeFacilitation

Public Private Partnership

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TA PROJECTS IN CAMBODIA

Financial Sector Development

PPTA 8158, Promoting Economic DiversificationProgram II ($0.700M),

CDTA 8159, Decentralized Public Service andFinancial Management Program, Subprogram 2($0.800M)

Public Private Partnership

PPTA 8317, PPP Development Project ($0.950M)

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TA PROJECTS IN INDONESIA

Social Security Reform CDTA 8202, Fiscal Aspect of Social Security Reform,

($1.0M)

Public Sector Reform

CDTA 8057, Second Local Government Financing andBudget Reform Program (SP2) ($0.800M)

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TA PROJECTS IN LAO PDR

Public Sector Governance

CDTA 8182: Implementing RegulatoryImpact Assessment ($0.750M)

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TA PROJECTS IN THE PHILIPPINES

Financial Sector Development CDTA 8258: Capacity Building for Microinsurance in the

Philippines ($1.0M)

Public Private Partnership PPTA 8315: Structuring a Public Private Earthquake

Insurance Pool for the Philippines ($0.5M)

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TA PROJECTS IN MYANMAR

Financial Sector Development S-CDTA 8113, Support for Trade Policy Development

($0.225M) S-CDTA 8114, Capacity Development Support for

Improving the Business Climate ($0.225M)

Public Sector Management

S-CDTA 8156, Improving Fiscal Revenue Mobilization

($0.225M)

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TA PROJECTS IN VIET NAM

Financial Sector Development

PATA 8108, Supporting Microfinance Development - piggy-back TA to L2877 ($0.5M)

Private Sector Development

PATA 8184, SME Development - Phase 2 (SP2), ($0.8M)

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REGIONAL TA PROJECT

Islamic Finance

PATA 8214: Implementing Prudential Standards forIslamic Finance ($0.8M)

Trade

RETA 8096: Capacity Building for Trade Facilitation:Improved SPS Handling in GMS ($3.5M)

RETA 8313, Developing Government Support and RiskManagement Systems for PPP in SE Asia ($1.5M)

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SEPF CONTACT PERSONS:

Cambodia: Hiroyuki Aoki, Senior FinancialSector Specialist (haoki@adb.org)

Indonesia: Stephen Schuster, Senior Financial

Sector Specialist ( sschuster@adb.org)

Lao PDR, Philippines and Myanmar: Kelly Bird,Principal Economist (kbird@adb.org)

Malaysia: Madeleine Varkay, Principal PrivateSector Development Specialist(mvarkay@adb.org)

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SEPF CONTACT PERSONS:

Public Private Partnerships: Bob Finlayson and

Madeleine Varkay (bfinlayson@adb.org,mvarkay@adb.org)

Thailand: Lingling Ding, Principal TradeSpecialist (lding@adb.org)

Viet Nam: Juan Luis Gomez Reino, Senior PublicManagement Specialist (jlgomez@adb.org)