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HS challenges in Vanuatu VAN Solutions

12 June 2024

Supporting the Delivery of Skills Development in Vanuatu

22 January 2024
The session was tailored for participants who have oversight involvement and project responsibility. It aimed to increase awareness of potential integrity risks and remedial actions and improve skills in corruption and integrity risk detection, assessment, and prevention.

VAN Strengthening Implementation Capacity for EIA Action Plan

25 October 2022
The background of the TA was the need for Vanuatu to successfully apply CSS for a series of forthcoming infrastructure projects. The current environmental safeguards system was established in recent years and the director of DEPC is keen to review the performance of environmental safeguards with a…

VAN Strengthening Implementation Capacity for EIA Institutional Capacity Assessment

25 October 2022
The government plans to address these challenges by strengthening the CSS framework and building the capacity of its key ministries. To this end ADB has provided support to Vanuatu through a subproject under the Technical Assistance for Strengthening and Use of Country Safeguard Systems (RETA 7566-…

Transport in Developing Asias New Normal

28 August 2020
ADB's Vice-President for Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development, Bambang Susantono, discussed different trends for transport during COVID 19 pandemic and how ADB can address these transport challenges while adapting to the "new normal."

COVID19 A Summary of New Zealand Policy Response So Far

17 June 2020
Presentation on the experience and lessons of New Zealand in COVID-19 response and recovery.

Driving Better Results from Public Services in New Zealand Issues Innovations Prospects

13 September 2018
Learn about the impetus, objectives, and main elements of New Zealand’s public sector reform. This presentation discusses the results-based management approach as a crucial element in New Zealand’s reform efforts.

Financing Tertiary Education

22 August 2018
Given the need to expand universities in Asia and therefore the critical role of financing, the author seeks to answer questions such as the case for university tuition charges and why student loans are necessary. He also differentiates between time-based repayment loans and income-contingent loans…

The Impact of Demographic Change on Labor Supply and Economic Growth Can Asia Meet the Challenge Ahead

18 May 2018
Some member-nations of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) will see their working-age population grow or slightly decline by 2050; others will see them shrink. Several APEC countries rely on migration to expand their labor force and GDP. The labor force participation rates among people…

Tapping Technology to Maximize the Longevity Dividend in Asia

18 May 2018
The workforce in many Asian countries is aging and shrinking. Specific technologies could help improve the labor force participation of senior citizens or their productivity. Policies should promote the promotion and adoption of technologies, lifelong learning for seniors, and cross-border, intra-…