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Tata STRIVE: An Innovative Skills Development Program

20 September 2016
Tata STRIVE, an initiative of Tata Community Initiatives Trust and the first Group CSR program of the Tata Group, addresses the pressing need of skilling India's youth for employment, entrepreneurship, and community enterprise. It reaches out to communities and develops skills of people from…

Mindtree’s Experience in Global Learning Centre

20 September 2016
Mindtree Ltd. is a publicly-traded information technology services and solutions organization serving global customers. Changing learning models to adjust to client needs based on demographics, fine-tuning approaches on a continuous basis, and removing the fear of assessments while learning are…

University-Industry Linkages: Experiences at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

20 September 2016
Facilitating the natural flow of knowledge generation and innovation to its logical conclusion through academia-industry-state (AIS) linkages leads to societal benefits. With the aim to catalyze entrepreneurship for positive socio-economic impact, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur’s AIS…

Skills Development for Priority Sectors: An Indian Perspective

20 September 2016
Skills development for priority sectors in India is a shared responsibility of the government, industry, training provider, and the trainee as stakeholders comprising the value chain. This presentation discusses how the social entrepreneurial initiative Gram Tarang through the Centurion University…

ICT for Vocational Education: Plan International, Bangkok, Thailand

19 September 2016
As the number of unemployed youth in South Asia, East Asia, and the Pacific continue to rise, Plan International recognized the potential of Information Communication Technology for Development solutions to address the challenge. It developed the Youth Employment Solutions (YES!) Digital Ecosystem…

Skills Development Funds: Country Experiences and Implications for South Asia

16 September 2016
Technical and vocational education and training (TVET), in general, equips workforce with lifelong and technical skills that are required from employers. One of the ways to finance TVET is by setting up a dedicated fund for skills development, known as skills development fund.

Review of Retail Electricity Tariffs

5 September 2016
Electricity subsidies are often paid out if government budgets exceed all spending on education, healthcare, and rural support. In order to subsidize low residential customer prices, governments impose higher prices on industrial customers, which discourages new investment and encourage…

How Can Impact Evaluation Methodologies Capture Gender Equity Impacts?

2 September 2016
This presentation explores the impact of electricity on gender. It features Asian Development Bank’s intervention approach in the form of an evaluation exercise. It also examines if the intended objectives of this method have improved women’s quality of life and empowerment.

Overview of ADB Energy Portfolio in South Asia: Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Perspective

29 August 2016
Using a gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) lens, this presentation provides an overview of Asian Development Bank (ADB)’s energy portfolio in South Asia. The GESI framework applied in the energy sector and an energy project’s gender category (according to the gender categorization of ADB)…

Economic Impacts of Climate Change in South Asia

27 June 2016
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.