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Can Technical and Vocational Education and Training TVET Deliver on its Promise Assuring Quality in TVET

12 December 2017
Is technical and vocational education and training (TVET) keeping up with a world in constant motion? Addressing the make-or-break question on how to ensure quality in TVET is crucial for assuring it remains relevant in the future. Findings of the German Development Cooperation on quality…

Synergy of Poverty Reduction and Environmental Protection UN Case Studies and Lessons Learned

9 December 2017
What key lessons can the UN offer to solve the poverty-environment issues of the People’s Republic of China? Green development and poverty reduction—these are important itineraries common in both the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the People’s Republic of China’s national…

Conditional Transfers Ecosystem Services and Poverty Alleviation

9 December 2017
In the poverty agenda of developing countries, the literature warns of the problem of “payments for ecosystem services" overloading. By trying to both protect environmental services and reduce poverty, payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs face expensive trade-offs, inefficiencies, and the…

Social Impacts and mitigation process Lessons from Jaffna Seawater Desalinization plant

7 December 2017
Desalination projects do not only affect marine life, they also affect the communities surrounding the project site. They have various socio-economic impacts that may negatively or positively affect the lives and livelihood of people living near the project site. This presentation discusses these…

My Bosses My Mentors

7 December 2017
Xianbin Yao, Special Senior Advisor to the President, reflects on his journey of more than two decades with ADB and how he has benefited from colleagues since 1991. The presentation aims to (i) reflect on and share ADB experiences through few but pertinent snapshots; (ii) encourage the people in…

Privacy and Right to Information Twin Challenges

5 December 2017
The law on the right to information (RTI) recognizes people’s right to access information held by government bodies. We also have laws on the right to privacy, which acknowledges people’s right to control the collection, access, and use of personal information held by government and private…

Making the Demand Side of Freedom of Information Work

5 December 2017
In the United Kingdom, the passage of the Freedom of Information was a long and slow process. Maurice Frankel of the Campaign for Freedom of Information, UK, shares his experience in working on the United Kingdom’s campaign for FOI since it was set up in 1984. Prior to the FOI Law, a statutory…

Data Protection and Right to Information

5 December 2017
Data protection and right to privacy may sometimes come into conflict, but the degree to which these clash depends on the provisions of the laws governing them. This presentation provides actual examples of the conflict arising from different perceptions of what constitutes disclosing personal…

International Experiences Institutionalizing Freedom of Information Implementation

5 December 2017
The number of countries adopting the Right to Information (RTI) or Freedom of Information has grown from just 14 countries in 1990 to 116 at present and it is still increasing. This upward trend started from 1997 and holds true for all regions. RTI is now recognized as a basic human right but has…

Right to Information and Right to Privacy

5 December 2017
In India, the Right to Information Act (RTI) came after strong movement from the citizens for legislation. This presentation shares the country’s 12-year experience with its RTI, which was demanded, owned, used, and protected by the people.