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How Can We Use Community Contracting More Widely?

17 August 2017
ADB’s Hans Woldring shared his experience of using community contracting for constructing small-scale civil works in an emergency project in Afghanistan, and how the project transformed the lives of community members. He also discussed possible ways to apply the approach more widely in ADB's…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Open Government for Improving Public Services in Asia

7 to 8 August 2017
Good quality public services are critical to the lives of citizens and ensuring their effective delivery is an essential function of government. But governments are not alone in this; experience and evidence built up over a number of decades have shown that citizens and civil society also have…
Organizer: Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Sustaining Growth and Stability in Advanced Middle-Income Countries

13 July 2017
The Asia Foundation's William Cole discussed the rising challenges ahead for Asia's advanced middle-income countries. Global evidence suggests that sustaining economic growth and political stability through this phase has become harder and will only get worse in the decades ahead. Possible new…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Asia Leadership Program 2017

27 to 30 June 2017
Asia's leaders talked about climate resilient, sustainable, and inclusive urban development at the 2017 Asia Leadership Program. With the theme "Climate Resilient, Sustainable, and Inclusive Urban Development," this year's annual Asia Leadership Program enabled participants to incorporate insights…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Networking Practices of Sustainable Cities in Asia-Pacific

13 June 2017
This installment of the Knowledge Sharing Webinar Series was conducted in partnership with the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES). It shared shared their initiatives on sustainable cities and city-to-city networking. It aimed to enable the participants to: Understand the…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Crafting Compelling Messages

2 June 2017
This installment of the Knowledge Sharing Webinar Series discusses the importance of crafting catchy messages that can hook target audiences. Framing your ideas as compelling messages helps you get the attention of key stakeholders. Creating a compelling narrative makes them want to work with you…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Mutual Gains in Stakeholder Negotiation and Consensus Building

4 May 2017
To meet sustainable development challenges, public and private decision makers must respond to diverse and sometimes conflicting economic, environmental and social interests. The stakeholders in these challenges resist “trading off” their priorities for the sake of reaching an agreement or decision…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Strategic Leadership in Public Organizations

21 April 2017
Strategic Leadership in a public organization requires a realistic and in-depth understanding of the context they operate in, and constantly reassessing such context in three broad areas: 1) mission and mandate given to the public organization; 2) external political environment it operates under;…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Smart Cities: A Case Study of Singapore

3 to 5 April 2017
Just how smart is Singapore? Learn about the country's Smart Nation Initiative which aims to harness the power of ICTs in improving city life. ICT has been used holistically to bolster financial and managerial capacities of local governments and municipal service providers; manage urban traffic,…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

ADB and ADBI Learning Program: Financing Social Protection for the Sustainable Development Goals

15 to 16 February 2017
To assist its developing member countries (DMCs) in pursuing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ADB's Social Development Thematic Group initiated research on economic methods to estimate the fiscal implications of meeting the SDGs and pilot applications of the methods. The methods focused on…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department, Human and Social Development Sector Office