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Knowledge Partnership Week 2015 Report

22 January 2016
This material contains the final report of ADB's Knowledge Partnership Week 2015. This report summarizes the highlights of the week, which aimed to promote innovation in the Bank’s operations by strengthening knowledge partnerships with crucial stakeholders. The event allowed ADB to promote…

Challenges in Scaling Up Integrated Approaches: ADB Perspectives

21 January 2016
Asia faces the daunting prospect of continuously having to cope with population growth, urbanization, and water insecurity, among other serious issues. Innovation and new technology across multiple sectors are vital to scaling up different approaches in meeting various challenges from the region.

India's Experiences in Modernization of Irrigation Management

20 January 2016
A scorecard of irrigation schemes completed in India's Madhya Pradesh Basin since 2010 is featured in this presentation. It also discusses how huge gains were achieved through better irrigation planning and governance, and strategic integration of technology.

Donated for a Cause: Land Transfers in DRILP

1 January 2016
The Decentralized Rural Infrastructure and Livelihood Project (DRILP) used a community-driven approach to bring much needed road and community infrastructure to Nepal's hill and mountain districts. It likewise built capacity for centralized governance. Three years after the project's approval,…

Accelerating the Deployment of Clean Technologies in Asia

16 December 2015
Energy demand is projected to increase annually through 2035. An alternative approach to meeting this challenge is the scaling up of low-carbon technology (LCT) and energy efficiency. IPEx, a technology market place and brokerage platform, is designed to facilitate the transfer and deployment of…

Nationwide Telecommunications Project in Myanmar: Bridging the Digital Gender Divide

9 December 2015
Political and economic reforms have promoted recent development of the telecommunication infrastructure in Myanmar. ADB viewed the Nationwide Telecommunications project as an opportunity to mainstream gender equity in private sector operations, and developed a Gender Action Plan (GAP) with Ooredoo…

Nationwide Telecommunications Project: Bridging the Digital and Gender Divides in Myanmar

9 December 2015
ICT projects that recognize the digital and gender divides can help provide women with equal access to communication tools to increase their voice and representation. This report explains in detail the communication and gender context of ADB’s Nationwide Telecommunications project in Myanmar,…

ICT in Technical and Vocational Education and Training: Regional Overview

1 December 2015
ICT-related developments on technical and vocational education and training (TVET) are increasingly becoming a megatrend in the Asia and Pacific region. Given ICT in TVET’s own share of achievements and challenges, certain conditions must be met to enable successful use as illustrated by the…

ICT-Enhanced Innovative Pedagogy in Technical and Vocational Education and Training

1 December 2015
The level of ICT implementation on pedagogical practices vary across countries in the Asia and Pacific region. Hybrid personal learning environments, blended-learning methods, and century-blended learning models are some of the latest trends in technology-enhanced learning. Today’s teachers should…

Designing and Implementing a Responsive Open Data Model

24 November 2015
Open data should be accessible, machine-readable, and re-usable. By introducing research and systematic innovations and engaging and capacitating partners, the Open Data Lab Jakarta as an enabler of open data that builds evidence for its social and political values is featured as an example in this…