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23 to 25 September 2025
In today's rapidly evolving financial landscape, achieving financial health, sustainable finance, and fostering an inclusive, resilient, and stable financial system have become critical priorities for the Asia-Pacific region. Financial health, encompassing the ability of individuals, households,…
Organizer: Finance Sector Office
3 to 6 June 2025
The Stanley Hotel and Suites, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
10 to 13 June 2025
ADB Headquarters, Manila, Philippines
The Pacific Women Leaders Program (PWLP) is part of ADB’s flagship Asia Women Leaders Program (AWLP) that aims to address significant gaps in women’s leadership in Asia and…
Organizer: Gender Equality Division
11 April 2025
This workshop aimed to build on the insights and innovative ideas from the Singapore Fintech Festival (SFF) design thinking session on financing bamboo agroforestry (Development Asia for the proceedings). This second installment focused on practical implementation, exploring real-world case…
Organizer: Finance Sector Office
10 April 2025
This workshop aimed to identify and develop immediate and next-generation solutions to address the ongoing challenges of correspondent banking de-risking in the Pacific. By exploring policy, regulatory capacity, technological innovations, and funding mechanisms, the session…
Organizer: Finance Sector Office
12 to 13 February 2025
Representatives from key segments of the tuna fisheries value chain in the Republic of Maldives gathered in Malé on 12-13 February 2025 for the Tuna Think Tank Workshop. This event brought together significant stakeholders, including delegates from the Maldivian government, fish processing…
Organizer: Finance Sector Office
2 to 3 December 2024
Background
Contractors tendering for Pacific Region Infrastructure Facility (PRIF) partner projects in the Pacific Island countries (PICs) are struggling to access the insurances and related risk engineering services required to deliver quality construction infrastructure projects funded by donors…
Organizer: Finance Sector Office, Procurement, Portfolio, and Financial Management Department
26 November 2024
Men and boys are central to the changes necessary for ending gender-based violence (GBV). These changes include difficult transformations: men changing deeply entrenched behaviors and the social norms that support them, re-balancing power in intimate and social relationships, change in…
Organizer: Gender Equality Division
4 November 2024
This focused design thinking workshop, curated by the ADB, aimed to consider mechanisms to scale high-impact agroforestry. Using bamboo as a case study for how agroforestry might achieve affordable, disaster-resilient housing, climate mitigation, and financial health for the vulnerable, this…
Organizer: Finance Sector Office
19 to 20 September 2024
ABOUT THE EVENT
The Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) faces complex challenges – climate change, demographic shifts, rapid technological advancement – that both threaten progress and offer potential for transformative solutions. In this dynamic landscape, the GMS Gender Equality and Inclusion…
Organizer: Gender Equality Division
30 August 2024
Climate change is increasing the intensity, frequency, and duration of heat waves, disproportionately affecting women across Asia and the Pacific. Women, especially those engaged in informal and outdoor work, face heightened risks to their health, economic productivity and social welfare.…
Organizer: Gender Equality Division