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27 to 28 June 2017
Extreme weather conditions brought about by climate change have been threatening the development and security of the Asia Pacific region. The poor are bearing the brunt of climate change given their vulnerability. ADB has a crucial role to play in leading the way towards a greener path. In line…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster
15 June 2017
Gerry McGovern, founder and CEO of Customer Carewords, explained how a digital culture can be internally built at ADB where flexibility, simplicity, empathy, and trust are the norm. He asserted that implementing new technology is often pointless unless the organization culture is transformed as…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department
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
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
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
29 to 31 May 2017
Regional cooperation and integration (RCI) is a process by which national economies become more interconnected regionally. RCI plays an important role in accelerating growth and reducing poverty.
Asian Development Bank's RCI Thematic Group (RCI TG) Skills Development Plan for 2017-2018 aims to…
Organizer: Regional Cooperation and Integration, and Trade Division
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
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
4 to 7 May 2017
Recognizing the crucial role of CSOs in helping reduce poverty in the region, ADB has been engaging civil society organizations (CSOs) on its operations.
During the 50th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors in May 2017, the Civil Society Program was part of the meeting that included sessions…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department
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