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Shaping Water Sensitive Cities

22 March 2017
Water-sensitive cities are cities that are sustainable, productive, resilient, and liveable. These cities maximize the contribution water makes to economic growth and development, social well-being, and the environment. This presentation shares new knowledge and industry-ready tools to assist…

The Future of Emerging Market Economies Developing Financial Markets to Support Financial Stability and Sustainable Growth

22 March 2017
This seminar brought together policy makers and market participants from emerging market and advanced economies to share lessons learned from their experiences developing financial markets.

The Importance of Sex Disaggregated Data in Tracking Gender Equality

15 March 2017
As part of ADB's month-long celebration of Gender Month, ADB's Imrana Jalal shares measures for integrating sex-disaggregated data into national action plans in order to better monitor the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Ulaanbaatar Ger Area Cultural Heritage Tourism and Community Enhancement Project PFS

8 March 2017
How do you reconcile cultural heritage preservation and infrastructure investments? This presentation shares insights from the Pre-Feasibility on Ulaanbaatar’s Ger Area Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Community Enhancement Project conducted by Cities Development Initiative for Asia, and how it can…

Urban Ropeways Solution for Congested Cities

6 March 2017
Cities worldwide suffer from traffic congestion and environmental pollution and switching to electric vehicles will not be enough to address these challenges. Characterized as safe, durable, and environmentally friendly, the urban ropeway system was developed as an alternative transport solution.…

ADB Urban Data Collection Management and Utilization Status Quo and the Way Forward

1 March 2017
Understanding urban growth and change in Asia or anywhere else requires data—properly and effectively collected and managed data at that. ADB Urban Sector Consultant Renard Teipelke shares ways on how ADB can improve ways of collecting, managing, utilizing urban data. This presentation also…

How to Diagnose and Improve Water and Wastewater Utilities Operations Performance

24 February 2017
WIKTI, a performance management tool of SUEZ, can help improve the service and performance of water utlities. The tool also enables water service providers to set targets and corresponding action plans. It also provides an objective evaluation of the maturity of all business processes. The tool has…

Urban Transportation in Emerging Cities

22 February 2017
To address the issues of accessibility, mobility, and congestion in emerging cities, this presentation aims to (i) rekindle interest on urban transportation in emerging cities; (ii) propose an integrated framework to think about accessibility, mobility, and congestion consistently; (iii) and show…

The Role of Government in Healthcare

20 February 2017
How important are government interventions in healthcare? How can public-private partnerships help? Why are government inventions in the health sector important? What are the types of government interventions in the health sector? Is public-private partnership necessary in providing healthcare? How…

Health Development and Health System

20 February 2017
Learn about the basic workings and development of the different national health systems in the world and in Asia. Health is a human right and is essential to development. Good health improves learning, worker productivity, and income. As such, health contributes to economic growth. This slide…