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8 December 2017
Slum dwellers, rural poor, and migrant populations are seen as difficult stakeholders in water and electricity projects. Governments see providing utility services for informal settlers as legitimizing the settlements. The Dhaka Water Supply Sector Development Program used behavior change…
Organizer: Department of Communications and Knowledge Management, South Asia Department
29 September 2017
Implementing successful, long-term solutions to reduce, dispose, and recover solid waste requires communication to change behaviors of diverse stakeholders from households to utilities. ADB’s Andrew McIntyre shared the results of a five-city technical assistance on mainstreaming solid waste…
Organizer: Department of Communications and Knowledge Management
15 to 16 June 2017
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) present a new holistic framework for all countries’ development efforts, linking people, planet, and prosperity by 2030. The SDGs pick up from the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which provided time-bound targets for addressing extreme poverty in its…
Organizer: Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office, Strategy, Policy and Partnerships Department
23 May 2017
The rapid penetration of mobile and internet-based technologies shapes how Asian Development Bank-supported projects communicate. The push for ICT for Development is gaining momentum, emphasizing the “D” to prioritize ICT applications for poorer sectors in developing countries.
Organizer: Department of Communications and Knowledge Management