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The Hidden Pandemic: Addressing the Differential Impacts of COVID-19 on Women, Men and Other Vulnerable Groups in Southeast Asia

10 November 2020
This presentation discusses the differential impact of COVID-19 upon women and other vulnerable groups, lessons learned from past experiences, and opportunities for future programming. Increased participation of women and vulnerable groups in COVID decison-making processes, access to information,…

ADB technical assistance cluster program: Strengthening Capacity, Institutions, and Policies for Enabling High-Quality, Green Development in the Yellow River Ecological Corridor (October 2020)

31 October 2020
The proposed knowledge and support technical assistance (TA) cluster will support the achievement of resilient ecological protection and high-quality development goals in the Yellow River Basin in the People's Republic of China (PRC). The TA cluster will design and implement approaches to support…

10 Reasons Why Farmers are in Distress

28 October 2020
The article lists 10 reasons that have contributed to farmers distress in India. Two successive years of drought (2014, 2015) have taken a toll on the farm sector. Prices have collapsed for farm commodities. Low international prices have meant exports have been hit while import have hurt prices at…

Five Ways to Close the Gender Gap in Anticorruption Programs

24 September 2020
Gaelle Demolis, Programme Specialist for Governance, Peace and Security at UN Women, shares strategies that development organizations can take to ensure that anticorruption programs promote gender equality.

ADB Business Opportunities (Agriculture and Natural Resources)

15 September 2020
This presentation gives an overview of ongoing and upcoming ADB business opportunities relevant to the agriculture sector.

Opening Remarks: Promoting Gender Equality in COVID-19 Response and Recovery

10 September 2020
Masatsuga Asakawa, President of Asian Development Bank, delivered the opening remarks expressing commitment to ensuring that gender equality is at the heart of ADB’s response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. He discussed how ADB’s support directly addressed one of the pandemic’s…

Closing Remarks: Promoting Gender Equality in COVID-19 Response and Recovery

10 September 2020
Bambamg Susantono, Vice-President for Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development of Asian Development Bank delivered the closing remarks. He talked about the four priority areas for ADB And UN Women joint collaboration from 2020 to 2024. These priority areas are (1) enhancing technical…

Understanding Disease Transmission and Health Risks through Water Systems

25 August 2020
This presentation discussed how an integrated approach contributes to the understanding of health risks in water systems, mainly on freshwater systems, looking at drivers, pressures, state, impact, and responses, citing a few examples of innovative monitoring and modeling used in forecasting and…

Renewable Energy-enabled Community-scale Agriculture: Evidence from Gram Oorja's Work

17 June 2020
The presentation discussed some initial interventions in community-scale solar pumping for agriculture. Preliminary learnings suggested that the approach is suitable for remote communities. Scaling these interventions holds promise and can facilitate further investments at the nexus of energy,…

Enhancing Women-focused Investments in Climate and Disaster Resilience (WfIR)

3 June 2020
This presentation shared key findings of a recent publication that calls for women-focused investments in resilience to meet the gender and climate targets of ADB's Strategy 2030.