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Employment Generation in Emerging Clean Energy Industries: How Can Women Break Through Traditional Barriers?

12 April 2016
South Asia’s rapid growth is met with an increasing crisis in energy demand. Strategic investments in human capital is needed to address this major challenge in energy security. The productive engagement of women in training and employment opportunities accelerates access to renewable energy…

Why Conduct Impact Evaluation

11 April 2016
Impact evaluation through cost-benefit analysis and improved project design leads to sustainable and meaningful investments. The importance of conducting impact evaluation of projects is highlighted in this presentation. Key aspects of impact evaluation are also discussed.

Community Rural Electrification in Nepal

10 April 2016
Nepal faces significant challenges in rural electrification, with less than 35% of the rural population electrified. Much has been done to address this such as increasing the grid-connected electrification rate in areas without electricity and empowering Electricity Users Cooperatives (EUCs). This…

Sri Lanka Women Come Together in Producer Groups to Assemble LED Bulbs

10 April 2016
Women in the rural areas of Sri Lanka are traditionally engaged in some income generating activities like food processing, sweet making, dairy, dress making, and agriculture. An Asian Development Bank-supported project built on and expanded these traditional income sources and included energy-based…

Hippocampus

5 April 2016
Hippocampus Learning Centers (HLC) is a company that pioneered an affordable supplementary education offering kindergarten and after-school programs for rural kids 3 to 11 years of age in India’s State of Karnataka. Using the pooled experiences of its Founder, Board of Directors, and staff in early…

Training the Hippo: Communication and the Education of India’s Rural Kids

5 April 2016
In providing equity investments to social enterprises with sound business models such as Hippocampus Leaning Centers (HLC), ADB’s experience has shown that there is a need to intensify communication approaches to sustain the delicate balance between commercial sustainability and affordability, and…

Green Cities and GrEEEn Leaders: Viet Nam Stakeholders and Nguyen Van Cao

1 April 2016
Viet Nam's cities are going green as local leaders adopt the Green Cities approach. Learn more from this case study. Through ADB's Secondary Cities Development Program, Viet Nam is improving basic urban infrastructure in Buon Ma Thuot in the central highland region and the coastal cities of Ha Tinh…

Opportunities and Obstacles to Anti-Corruption Reform and Tools to Assess the Potential for Successful Reform

22 March 2016
Striking an optimal balance between opportunities and deterrents for corruption leads to societal control of this unethical conduct. Effecting change will require the alignment of tools or measures with a domestic movement that is already in place.

Theories of Change for Anti-Corruption Reforms

22 March 2016
This presentation introduces the theory of change (ToC) methodology to advance anti-corruption reform. It explains the distinct features and various components and purposes of a ToC. The steps involved in a ToC development are also discussed.

Anti-Corruption Efforts in the Philippines: Sustaining the Gains and Moving Forward

21 March 2016
This presentation features the different types of anti-corruption approach employed by the Office of the Ombudsman in the Philippines. The office’s multi-sectoral approach to the government’s anti-corruption campaign and its monitoring and evaluation work in this aspect are explained.