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Overview of ADB Strategy 2030 and Operational Priority1 Poverty and Reducing Inequalities

28 July 2020
This presentation gives an overview of ADB Strategy 2030 and its first operational priority--poverty.

An NGO Perspective Bidding for and Implementing an ADBFinanced Contract

28 March 2019
What are the benefits and challenges of implementing ADB-financed contracts? Gain insights from the experience of BRAC, one of the many non-government organizations working closely with ADB.

Core Labor Standards

12 April 2018
ADB encounters core labor standards (CLS) in its operations as most of the projects it finances involve some type of employment or labor contracting. It supports CLS through four sets of interrelated, official documents and guidelines: (i) social protection; (ii) safeguards; (iii) social analysis…

The Microfinance Risk Participation and Guarantee Program

16 November 2017
Access to finance is a huge struggle that impedes the development of small entrepreneurs and microfinance institutions across Asia and the Pacific. Launched in 2010 by ADB, the Microfinance Risk Participation and Guarantee Program encourages international and local banks to increase lending to…

Social Protection Policies in Asia Challenges and Solutions

15 February 2017
Social protection helps lift people out of poverty and enhances access to basic social services. It also builds human capital while increasing access to formal employment, incomes, and savings. In Asia, social protection programs in East Timor, Nepal, Solomon Islands, Thailand, Krygyz Republic, and…

The Social Protection Agenda of the SDGs and its Fiscal Challenge

15 February 2017
Successfuly meeting the SDGs is not an easy feat, especially since some of these goals have far-reaching social protection agenda. ADB developing member countries (DMCs) must be able to identify cost and resource requirements required to meet these goals. This presentation shares a modelling…

The Potential Contribution of Noncontributory Social Assistance Schemes to the Closure of the Protection Gap in Asia

15 February 2017
Social assistance can help reduce poverty and inequality, increase human and physical capital, generate local and regional multiplier effects, and foster economic and social mobility. However, most social assistance programs in many countries underperform. There is clearly a need to go beyond…
Organizer: Human and Social Development Sector Office

Enabling Conditions to Foster Success in National Programmes Conditional TransfersExperiences 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…

Benazir Income Support ProgramChallenges and Opportunities

19 September 2016
The Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) is Pakistan's social safety net. It maintains a database of the socio-economic status of the country's population using techology-based operations. It provides cash grants to about 5.3 million beneficiaries using various payment schemes, such as through…

Public Pension Schemes in Korea

19 September 2016
Reforms in pension systems are difficult to implement. Ensuring universal coverage, adequate benefits, and sustainability using a single pension scheme has challenged many countries. In Korea, the Duru Nuri Social Insurance Program was introduced to enable the entire nation to widely enjoy the…