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Comprehensive Climate Risk Management: Can Social Protection be a Leverage?

5 September 2016
Can social protection provide enough cushion against the risks of climate change? This presentation examines initiatives on climate insurance, and provides pointers that organizations can consider in rolling out projects on social protection against climate change losses.

Contingency Finance

5 September 2016
African Risk Capacity (ARC) is a specialised agency of the African Union that provides index-based drought insurance. It is working to offer cyclone and flood insurance soon. Through its unique structure, ARC bring together three critical elements to create a powerful value proposition for it…

Accelerated Action on Adaptation and Implementing Approaches to Address Loss and Damage in Africa

5 September 2016
Africa is already experiencing significant consequences of climate change. Under all mitigation and adaptation scenarios, Africa will experience residual loss and damage in areas such as agriculture and food security. The Africa Adaptation Initiative is taking major steps in addressing this huge…

Risk Transfer Schemes: The Example of CCRIF SPC

5 September 2016
The economic costs of disasters are rising. Governments can certainly reduce further loss through some risk transfer mechanisms.

Keynote Statement

5 September 2016
ADB's Vice-President for Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development, Bambang Susantono, delivers his keynote speech. He talks about the solutions required to build climate resilience and ADB's experience in addressing the risk of loss and damage in Asia and the Pacific.

Keynote Statement

5 September 2016
Extreme weather conditions have affected 1.3 billion people in the past decade. How do you address this? In this speech, ADB's Vice-President for Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development, Bambang Susantono, highlights the need to build climate resilience in the region. He also shares ADB's…

Environmental Justice: ADB and Asian Judges for Sustainable Development

25 August 2016
With Asia experiencing a climate crisis, innovative approaches are needed to ensure coordination and cooperation among the different pillars of the environmental justice system. The Asian Judges Network on Environment was established from recognition of the judiciary’s role in promoting…

Tools of Participation

28 July 2016
Asian Developmet Bank's Strategy 2020 recognizes the role of partners, including non-government organizations (NGOs) in planning, financing, and implementing its operations. This presentations gives a snapshot of the tools of participation that are applicable to civil society organizations and NGOs…

Engaging with Advocacy Civil Society Organizations

28 July 2016
Issues raised by advocacy non-government organizations (NGOs) are often related to weak consultation and participation. From 2009 to 2012, for instance, there were 213 reported concerns on 76 Asian Development Bank projects. About half of these concerns were about lack of consultation and…

Contracting Local Non-Government Organizations

28 July 2016
This presentation gives an overview on how ADB engages local non-government organizations (NGOs). It also tackles the common difficulties faced in the process of contracing local NGOs.