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Service Delivery and Human Resources for Health

20 February 2017
Learn about health service delivery and its importance in achieving universal health coverage. Universal health coverage is achieved when quality health service delivery is available for people to access. This presentation explains how health service delivery works and why it matters. Topics…

Primary Health Care and Urban Health

20 February 2017
Primary healthcare forms an integral part of the country’s health system and its provision in densely populated urban areas can be challenging. Learn about the the importance and avenues of primary healthcare and the challenges of providing universal health coverage in urban areas. The presentation…

Options to Create Additional Fiscal Space for Adherence to the Social Protection Agenda of the Sustainable Development Goals

16 February 2017
To fill the social protection gap of the Sustainable Development Goals implies an increase in spending by 30% in many countries. To bridge this gap, countries can consider several options, such as reallocating energy subsidies, reducing tax evasion, and raising taxes. This presentation explains…

The Potential Contribution of Non-contributory 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

Assessing the Resource Requirements for the Social Protection Agenda of SDGs in Asia- Health Care Schemes

15 February 2017
Social health protection aims to ease the burden caused by illness and disabilty. An effective health protection system provides universal access to affordable, available, and adequate health care. In Asia, much still needs to be done to provide social health protection to all. Lower middle income…

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…

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…

Land Governance: A Prerequisite for Sustainable Urban Development

10 February 2017
Several land governance challenges hamper poverty eradication and fulfillment of human rights. Complexity of land rights, rapid urbanization, food insecurity, and corruption in the land sector, among others pose problems in attaining security for all. In this presentation, Danilo Antonio of UN-…

Piloting “Sponge Cities” in the People’s Republic of China | Asian Development Bank (adb.org)

31 January 2017
Intelligently planned and protected urban green spaces are being introduced in 16 cities in the People's Republic of China to reduce flood risks and manage water resources.

On the (Un)Successfulness of Dual Education

20 January 2017
Find out why dual education is less successful in ADB’s developing member countries and the implications for ADB’s policy dialogue on TVET. In German-speaking countries, the government offers dual education as a solution to the socio-economic challenges facing young people who are not in employment…