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14 April 2025
Background
Economic growth has fundamentally changed lives in Asia and the Pacific, lifting more than 1.5 billion people out of poverty over just two generations. In only one generation, poverty rates in our region dropped from 75% of the population to less than 10%. A new middle class now enjoys…
Organizer: Human and Social Development Sector Office
26 to 28 September 2023
ADB Headquarters, Manila, Philippines
WELCOME TO THE ASIA-PACIFIC SOCIAL PROTECTION WEEK 2023!
The Asia-Pacific Social Protection Week 2023: Social Protection in a Changing World, hosted by ADB’s Human and Social Development Sector Office, brought together in-person at ADB Headquarters more than…
Organizer: Human and Social Development Sector Office
17 to 18 May 2018
ADB’s developing member countries (DMCs) recognize social protection as a key priority to achieve inclusive growth. Governments have already started designing and reforming their social protection systems, but coverage provided by social insurance typically remains limited to formal employment. One…
Organizer: Human and Social Development Sector Office
10 October 2017
The training provided an overview of the poverty and social analysis (PSA) documentation requirements. Participants were given the opportunity to engage with urban and social development specialists on key issues in the sector and learn how good PSA can support project design and implementation.…
Organizer: Human and Social Development Sector Office, Budget, Personnel, and Management Systems Department
29 to 31 August 2017
Designing and implementing social protection programs can be challenging to many countries. This training aims to help developing member countries (DMCs) address this diffculty by helping them build their knowledge base on approaches to social protection. It also gives them the opportunity to…
Organizer: Human and Social Development Sector Office
18 to 19 January 2017
Remittances are one of the driving factors for labor migration, especially within Asia. Of the $581 billion global remittances recorded in 2015, around 75% or $432 billion came from developing countries, particularly East Asia, the Pacific, and South Asia. Remittances by migrants from developing…
Organizer: Human and Social Development Sector Office
15 February 2017
Social assistance can help reduce poverty and inequality, increase human and physical capital, generate local and regional multiplier effects, and foster economic and social mobility. However, most social assistance programs in many countries underperform. There is clearly a need to go beyond…
Organizer: Human and Social Development Sector Office
21 September 2016
Various stakeholders from Asia and the Pacific share their insights on the importance of investing in ICT for social protection. ICT, they said, is a crtiical foundation for social protection as it helps provide direction to social protection programs. By investing in ICT, organizations can improve…
Organizer: Human and Social Development Sector Office