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4 June 2024
The Deep Dive Workshop (DDW) on Gender Inclusive Clean Energy Solutions to Tackle Energy Poverty was designed to explore the intersection between gender, energy, and the environment, with a view to advancing social equity and the green transition. The workshop was held during the 19th Asia Clean…
Organizer: ADBI
7 June 2023
LGBTQIA+ people and communities continue to experience stigma and discrimination, which negatively affect their employment prospects and access to healthcare, education, and social protection. This type of exclusion is also detrimental to economies and the achievement of the Sustainable Development…
Organizer: ADBI
30 March 2023
The climate change crisis is not gender-neutral. Its impacts affect women's and girls’ lives and livelihoods disproportionately, magnifying gender inequality globally. Women’s unequal participation in decision-making processes and the labor force prevents women from fully contributing to climate…
Organizer: ADBI
1 to 2 February 2023
Cohosted by ADBI, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and the Government of Japan, the 22nd Roundtable on Capital Market and Financial Reform in Asia examined strategies for strengthening financial resilience. Policy makers and experts together explored recent trends…
Organizer: ADBI
14 June 2022
This webinar highlighted Rohini Pande, Yale University economics professor and Director of the Yale Economic Growth Center, who discussed the interlinkage between poverty, inequality, and power and the role of policy in driving inclusive growth, with ADBI Dean Tetsushi Sonobe and experts.
Pande,…
Organizer: ADBI
20 April 2022
This year’s forum explored how advancing equal participation in agriculture can unlock women’s potential to boost agricultural production, food security, and sustainable development. Key stakeholders and experts from international organizations and academia identified policy recommendations for…
Organizer: ADBI
6 April 2022
Asia has made significant progress in expanding sanitation infrastructure, but challenges remain toward ensuring that sanitation services are environmentally, financially, and technically sustainable. These needs can be addressed via city-wide inclusive sanitation policy and investment strategy…
Organizer: ADBI
1 April 2022
This webinar will inaugurate the new ADBI Voices of Inclusion Speaker Series, aimed at promoting gender inclusion in Asia and the Pacific through knowledge and experience-sharing by influential thinkers. It will feature Chantale Wong, who was recently appointed as the United States Executive…
Organizer: ADBI
26 to 28 October 2021
Online commerce in developing Asia, enabled by accelerating digitalization, broadband internet access, and market demand, is at the forefront of the region’s digital economy growth. It is also opening new possibilities for women’s economic empowerment, offering family-friendly flexible work…
Organizer: ADBI
19 October 2021
This webinar highlighted key takeaways from the new ADBI Press book Demographic Transition and Its Impacts in Asia and Europe, as discussed by a panel of contributors to the book. The focuses included the sectoral and social effects of the regions’ accelerating population aging and approaches for…
Organizer: ADBI