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ICT as Enabler of Universal Healthcare - MediLink

9 June 2016
Medilink offers a value-added electronic network that faciltates information and funds flow among healthcare ecosystem stakeholders. Using data analytics, Medilink is able to see the link between lifestyle, profile, and diseases, as well as the rising demand in healthcare.

ICT Innovations in Healthcare

9 June 2016
Adolescent Health Education and Practical Training for Healthcare Service Providers Nationwide or ADEPT is a UNICEF-funded project, which aims to make health services adolescent-friendly by bridging the communication gap and educating people about adolescent health. ADEPT's main output will be a…

Health Financing

9 June 2016
A core question for a health system is not how to finance healthcare costs, but how to make tradeoffs among competing goals. This presentation looks into the health care philosophy applied by Singapore, and how its public health infrastructure and a tiered approach has built a health population.

Financing Models including Health Insurance (ADB)

9 June 2016
Currently, individuals finance health care through pre-paid means and post-paid means. This presentation highlights the emerging role for private health insurance in Asia and the Pacific to implement selected health insurance functions and paid by govenrment through health purchasing fund.

Communication Strategies for Innovative Sustainable Development and Climate Change Initiatives - Knowledge Sharing Webinar Series

18 May 2016
Teresa Erickson and Tim Ward impart proven tips and tools that will help leaders become a powerful communicator, change agent, and catalyst for transformation.
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Disabilities: Still Misunderstood!

12 May 2016
This presentation highlights how Asian Development Bank can be better at addressing disability. It also shows the connection between disability and various sectors such as poverty, gender equity, and the economy. Good practices on inclusion are presented as well.

Preventing Early Marriage in Bondowoso, East Java

28 April 2016
Maternal mortality and teenage pregnancy occur significantly more frequently in Indonesia than in neighboring Asia-Pacific countries. It is estimated that 48 of every 1,000 live births in Indonesia in 2015 was to a teenage mother. Teenage pregnancy is also one of the driving causes of maternal…

Sri Lanka Road Investments – Building and Maintaining Trust and Partnership

26 April 2016
A Multitranche Financing Facility (MFF) by ADB of $800 million to the road sector in Sri Lanka is the culmination of a development towards an approach where development partners align to the government policy framework. As an essential part of this development of a close and trustful partnership,…

Matching Skills and Labour Markets in Sri Lanka: Results-Based Lending as Reform Vehicle

26 April 2016
The technical and vocational education and training (TVET) sector in Sri Lanka is reforming at sector level because of strong early champions in the Ministry of Finance and Planning (MoFP) and, subsequently, change agents at sector level with strong network and knowledge both about the MoFP and the…

Myanmar: Working with Incentives and Identifying Common Ground to Produce a Collaborative, Inclusive Fisheries Law

26 April 2016
The Rakhine Fisheries Law is a new benchmark for Myanmar both in terms of delivering equitable resource sharing and, crucially, as a replicable model for consultation and public participation in policy-making. This case demonstrates that despite decades of repressive state machinery, with the right…