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Experience in Advocating Fecal Sludge Management

22 February 2017
To address water challenges in the Asia and Pacific region, ADB's Water Operational Plan 2011–2020 puts forward a number of priority solutions to improve the effectiveness and enhance the quality of the outcomes of ADB's water operations. This presentation discusses how ADB catalyzes its investment…

The Role of Government in Healthcare

20 February 2017
How important are government interventions in healthcare? How can public-private partnerships help? Why are government inventions in the health sector important? What are the types of government interventions in the health sector? Is public-private partnership necessary in providing healthcare? How…

Health, Development, and Health System

20 February 2017
Learn about the basic workings and development of the different national health systems in the world and in Asia. Health is a human right and is essential to development. Good health improves learning, worker productivity, and income. As such, health contributes to economic growth. This slide…

Health Security and Public Goods

20 February 2017
What is health security? What are public goods? Why is health security a public good? Learn about health security as an important public good. This presentation covers the multiple dimensions of health security and how historical events shaped institutions related to health security. It also…

Service Delivery and Human Resources for Health

20 February 2017
Learn about health service delivery and its importance in achieving universal health coverage. Universal health coverage is achieved when quality health service delivery is available for people to access. This presentation explains how health service delivery works and why it matters. Topics…

Primary Health Care and Urban Health

20 February 2017
Primary healthcare forms an integral part of the country’s health system and its provision in densely populated urban areas can be challenging. Learn about the the importance and avenues of primary healthcare and the challenges of providing universal health coverage in urban areas. The presentation…

Assessing the Resource Requirements for the Social Protection Agenda of SDGs in Asia- Health Care Schemes

15 February 2017
Social health protection aims to ease the burden caused by illness and disabilty. An effective health protection system provides universal access to affordable, available, and adequate health care. In Asia, much still needs to be done to provide social health protection to all. Lower middle income…

Social Protection Policies in Asia: Challenges and Solutions

15 February 2017
Social protection helps lift people out of poverty and enhances access to basic social services. It also builds human capital while increasing access to formal employment, incomes, and savings. In Asia, social protection programs in East Timor, Nepal, Solomon Islands, Thailand, Krygyz Republic, and…

On the (Un)Successfulness of Dual Education

20 January 2017
Find out why dual education is less successful in ADB’s developing member countries and the implications for ADB’s policy dialogue on TVET. In German-speaking countries, the government offers dual education as a solution to the socio-economic challenges facing young people who are not in employment…

Medicine e-Procurement in Indonesia

19 December 2016
Can Indonesia's e-procurement system assure an adequate supply of medicine and other healthcare needs? Will the system improve the delivery of vital public health services? ADB Health Specialist Sean Donato presented on the implementation of Indonesia's e-procurement systems for medicines and other…