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Making Risk Finance an Integral Synergizing Element of Comprehensive Risk Management: Philippines’ Experience

6 September 2016
Enhancing the comprehensive risk management (CRM) is key to addressing loss and damage associated with climate change impacts. As a part of CRM, risk finance such as insurance should be designed in a way that creates synergy with risk control. To that end, building incentive mechanisms for risk…

Notes on Philippine Funding Options in the Loss and Damage Age

6 September 2016
The Philippine Government has established the people’s survival fund through Republic Act 10174. The fund is intended to provide long-term finance streams to enable the Government to address the problem of climate change. This is among the noted funding options that aim to address climate loss and…

Social Protection in the Area of Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia Pacific: IFRC Experience and Learnings

5 September 2016
Climate‐related disasters are expected to increasingly affect vulnerable people, adding to the already unmanageable workload of humanitarian teams. There is a need for systems that can respond predictably and effectively to protect vulnerable communities amidst the evolving risks.

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…

Partnering for Social Accountability

2 September 2016
Around 60% of the world's youth population reside in the Asia and Pacific region, and this translates to more than 750 million young men and women with much potential. Unfortunately, they often do not have the opportunity to shape the cities they live in. This presentation by World Vision…

Asian Water Development Outlook 2016

31 August 2016
Asia and the Pacific shows a positive trend in strengthening water security with the number of water insecure countries dropping to 29 from 38 in 2013, according to this edition of the Asian Water Development Outlook.

The ADB Solar Rooftop Project: Boosting Solar Energy Growth in the Philippines

1 August 2016
As the threat of global warming and climate change looms, the need to shift to environment-friendly renewable energy (RE) sources has become more pressing. Solar energy is fast becoming a viable option because it is viewed as the most accessible, inexhaustible, and cleaner option among all the…

Definition of Civil Society

27 July 2016
A definition of "civil society" to set the stage for the discussion. It clarifies its difference with the family, the state, and the market.

Overview of Civil Society in the Pacific

27 July 2016
This presentation gives an overview of how Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) work in the Pacific. It also lists down the strengths of CSOs and the common challenges they face. Common themes for Pacific CSO development are enumerated as well.

NGO/ CSO Contracting

27 July 2016
This presentation outlines the process on how Asian Development Bank engages Civil Society Organizations and non-government organizations. Specifiically, it tackles the issues and challenges, engagement options, and the actual contracting process.