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ADB Experience: Private Sector Operations

12 April 2018
ADB complies with internationally recognized core labor standards in loan design and formulation as part of its social protection strategy. Projects or activities that involve harmful or exploitative forms of forced labor or child labor do not qualify for ADB financing. This presentation features…

Nature-based Solutions for Cities

4 April 2018
Re-examine the importance of nature-based solutions (NBS) to help achieve water management objectives. NBS for water promote innovativeness by embedding the perspectives of ecosystem services, enhanced resilience, and livelihood considerations in water planning and management. Biomimicry is a…

Energy Transition in Asia: Leapfrogging Development

4 April 2018
With over 400 million people without access to electricity and modern fuels, energy poverty persists in Asia. To assist the region leapfrog into a low-carbon economy, ADB has committed to continue investing in the energy sector, introduce new technologies that harness clean energy and improve…

Smart Grid Methodologies and Models to Address Affordability, Sustainability, and System Reliability and Resilience

4 April 2018
What are the tools necessary to develop pathways to facilitate an orderly transition from the old grid to smarter grids and low-carbon systems? How can models be designed to address affordability, sustainability, and system reliability? System resilience to extreme weather conditions is also an…

Smart Grid, Smart Workforce, and Capacity Development

4 April 2018
The number of jobs in the renewable energy industry worldwide is growing and studies indicate that much of this employment is shifting to Asia. Smarter grid will require a highly skilled workforce, with implications for retraining, training, and education. Some studies also find that the renewable…

Gender and Social Inclusion in Energy for Catalyzing Change in Rural Areas

3 April 2018
Addressing gender issues in the energy sector can help catalyze change in Sri Lanka's rural communities. Professor Anoja Wickramasinghe of Energia Network shares the results of ADB's Improving Gender Access to Clean and Renewable Energy in Ampara District, Sri Lanka project that aimed to provide…

Flexibility Services in the Future Smart Grid

3 April 2018
Transformative changes in the power sector demand flexibility services for system planning and operation. This presentation shares research findings of the University of Peradeniya on smart grid. It also discusses distributed renewable energy resources and how they can be best utilized to support…

Research for Community Access Partnership

3 April 2018
Research for Community Access Partnership is a research program, funded by UK Aid, with the aim of promoting safe and sustainable transport for rural communities in Africa. It supports knowledge sharing between participating countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia in order to enhance the uptake of…

Research for Community Access Partnership Status Review of the Updated Rural Access Index

3 April 2018
Rural Access Index (RAI) is the percentage of rural people who live within 2 km (typically equivalent to a walk of 20 minutes) of an all-season road as a proportion of the total rural population. After a review of the RAI was undertaken in 2015-2016, a new way of tracking was proposed. Called the…

Agricultural Market Efforts in Southeast Asia: Case of Myanmar and Thailand

16 March 2018
Natural hazards such as floods and drought increasingly occur due to extreme weather events that are exacerbated by climate change. To cope with the adverse effects of climate change, familiarization of agricultural insurance as an adaptation measure is needed especially by developing world farmers…