Armie Jarin-Bennett, president of CNN Philippines, speaks about her experiences as a female journalist and how gender-related stereotyping and expectations have presented challenges throughout her career. This year's ADB's Distinguished Gender Month Speaker says mentoring is important in empowering women, and notes that dismantling gender stereotypes remains a challenge.

Maximum impacts of disasters are largely felt by the poorest members of society. Given this, interventions are needed that would bring in development benefits in the near term, while reducing their vulnerability over the longer term.

Integrated assessment models can be used to assess the economic impacts of climate change. While each has its own limitation, these models can help in assessing the physical impact of climate change and estimating the magnitude of funding required in rolling out adaptation measures.

Can social protection provide enough cushion against the risks of climate change? This presentation examines initiatives on climate insurance, and provides pointers that organizations can consider in rolling out projects on social protection against climate change losses.

There has been a huge expansion in higher education in the People's Republic of China (PRC) since the late 1990s. To help the country promote the employment of its college graduates, a group of education experts evaluated PRC's higher education policies through an ADB policy and advisory technical assistance (PATA) in 2014. The evaluation showed that labor demand in the PRC is decreasing, many graduates are finding it harder to get jobs, and those with post-graduate degrees have better chances of landing a job than those with four-year college diplomas.

Institutions matter for progress in all areas of development. Policymakers should make fuller use of behavioral, technological, and institutional instruments to improve policy effectiveness. Successful reforms are not just about “best practice” and to be effective, policies must guarantee credible commitment, support coordination, and promote cooperation.

Far Eastern University of the only Philippine university offering an internal audit degree.

Asian Development Bank (ADB)’s Andrew McIntyre leads the Future Cities Program, an initiative which aims to reinvigorate the process of development. He shares how engaging cities through a new approach of harmonizing quality research, expertise, and investments can reconfigure cross-sector collaboration, make cities more livable, and benefit Asia's poor.

This video covers the full session of ADB's in-house Insight Thursday lecture series.

Risk transfer schemes including insurance products and tools that help the vulnerable to have direct or indirect insurance coverage against the negative impact of climate change. The Munich Climate Insurance Initiative (MCII) is an example of such. Learn how MCII reach its target group and help them increase resilience.

The Internal Audit Capability Model (IA-CM) has different levels aimed at promoting continuous improvement of organizations.

It has been validated in collaboration with Internal Auditing Department of the World Bank. IA-CM offers several benefits as it helps in self-assessment, benchmarking, and strategic planning and visioning of organizations.