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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…

Exploring Factors that Enhance and Restrict Women’s Empowerment through Electrification: Scoping Study Report

30 March 2016
This report examines how policy and practice may enhance women’s empowerment though electrification in rural areas in the South. It presents the results of a desk study in which empirical literature on women’s empowerment from electrification and international initiatives and national electricity…

Education (Overview)

17 March 2016
Learn more about ADB's focus and action areas in the education sector.

Health and Education (South Asia)

17 March 2016
Know more about ADB's programs, projects, and opportunities in South Asia under Health and Education.

Health and Education (Central and West)

17 March 2016
Know more about ADB's programs, projects, and opportunities in Central and West Asia under Health and Education.

Health and Education (East Asia)

17 March 2016
Know more about ADB's programs, projects, and opportunities in East Asia under Health and Education.

Health and Education (Pacific)

17 March 2016
Know more about ADB's programs, projects, and opportunities in the Pacific under Health and Education.

Insight Thursday: Beyond the Headlines

17 March 2016
Insight Thursday, a 30-minute weekly event, brings together different people to share and exchange knowledge.

Strengthening Enterprises through Gender Capacity Building

3 March 2016
The Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves explicitly prioritizes women’s empowerment in its mission statement. It implements a robust gender capacity building program to ensure cooking sector enterprises prioritize and understand how to integrate gender throughout their business models.