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Practical Experiences in Combining Poverty and Environment at the National Level: The Experience of South Africa

24 November 2016
Poverty in South Africa is seen as one of the major challenges facing the young democracy. This is compounded by the high and continually increasing unemployment figures, with the youth and women being the most vulnerable groups. Such problems forced the population to overutilize the country’s…

Enabling Conditions to Foster Success in National Programmes: Conditional Transfers—Experiences, Lessons and Challenges

24 November 2016
Ina Porras, senior researcher at the International Institute for Environment and Development, shared experiences between poverty and environmental experts, policy makers and researchers, and across geographies on how conditional transfers are used to protect or restore fragile ecosystems and…

Behavior Change and the Principles of Pride

10 November 2016
Many schools of thought and theories exist on how behaviors change. Effecting change will require behavior shifts from a collective level across a group of people. Rare uses what it calls a “pride” campaign as behavioral change approach inspiring communities to change social norms around how their…

Social Marketing and Behavior Change for Environmental Protection

10 November 2016
By following a set of customized sequential actions, Rare integrates behavior change communication early in its project design. This report discusses in detail Rare’s behavioral change approaches and the elements of its “pride” campaign that resulted in effective behavior adoption.

Japan International Cooperation Agency's Technical and Vocational Education and Training Projects in Viet Nam and Cambodia

19 September 2016
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) aims to improve education and training to meet the changing needs of industry. JICA’s technical and vocational education and training (TVET) projects focuses on the training of trainers in Viet Nam and on improving the quality of TVET to meet…

Road Safety in Cambodia

14 September 2016
Ensuring rural road safety is one of the responsibilities of the Social and Environment Office (SEO) of Cambodia’s Ministry of Rural Development. This presentation provides a brief background of SEO. It also explains SEO’s involvement in rural road safety and how it undertakes capacity improvement…

Community-Based Rural Road Safety Output

14 September 2016
Learn about the Rural Roads Improvement Project in Cambodia supported by ADB. The project used a three-stream approach in the form of safe school zone, data collection analysis, and social enforcement.

Accelerated Action on Adaptation and Implementing Approaches to Address Loss and Damage in Africa

5 September 2016
Africa is already experiencing significant consequences of climate change. Under all mitigation and adaptation scenarios, Africa will experience residual loss and damage in areas such as agriculture and food security. The Africa Adaptation Initiative is taking major steps in addressing this huge…

The Development of Government Bond Market in Cambodia

18 August 2016
Cambodia has shown a robust economic growth for the past decade, around 7.5% real growth. In order to maintain this growth, Cambodia needs to strengthen its investment in infrastructure and other areas. The challenge is to beef up public investments; thus, government bonds are being issued to…

CAM: Comparative Analysis of Cambodia’s Legal Framework and Involuntary Resettlement Safeguards in the ADB Safeguard Policy Statement

31 July 2016
Objectives: To avoid involuntary resettlement wherever possible; to minimize involuntary resettlement by exploring project and design alternatives; to enhance, or at least restore, the livelihoods of all displaced persons in real terms relative to pre-project levels; and to improve the standards of…