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Boosting Student Learning: Programme for International Student Assessment for Development

19 September 2016
Issued by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) aims to evaluate education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students in mathematics, reading, and science. PISA for Development, among…

Scale With Quality: The Citizens' Foundation Approach to Providing Education

19 September 2016
The Citizens Foundation (TCF) addresses the massive educational challenge in Pakistan by empowering children to become agents of positive change. TCF provides student-centric academic interventions and offers leadership, teacher, and pre-service training programs.

Skills for Employment Investment Program in Bangladesh

19 September 2016
The Government of Bangladesh’s Skills for Employment Investment Program (SEIP) is the largest skills development program in Asia and the Pacific. Under a private-public partnership model, SEIP will support training of 1.5 million youths in Bangladesh of which about 70% will be provided with…

The Citizens Foundation, Pakistan

19 September 2016
By providing quality education and creating opportunities for a better future, the Citizens Foundation (TCF) aims to remove the barriers of class and privilege to turn the citizens of Pakistan into agents of positive change. TCF’s female-centric approach towards social development is perhaps the…

Love2Work

19 September 2016
The fast-changing nature of the world increasingly intensifies the critical value of socio-emotional skills. Love2Work, a consultancy practice, shows why new competencies of emotional intelligence, problem solving, and critical thinking are crucial for developing the world at work.

Skills Development Funds: Country Experiences and Implications for South Asia

16 September 2016
Technical and vocational education and training (TVET), in general, equips workforce with lifelong and technical skills that are required from employers. One of the ways to finance TVET is by setting up a dedicated fund for skills development, known as skills development fund.

2017 World Development Report: Understanding Governance Preview

16 September 2016
Institutions matter for progress in all areas of development. Policymakers should make fuller use of behavioral, technological, and institutional instruments to improve policy effectiveness. Successful reforms are not just about “best practice” and to be effective, policies must guarantee credible…

New Zealand Lifelines

13 September 2016
Read about New Zealand Lifelines Council (NZLC) and how it improves infrastructure resilience. This presentation also focuses on Keeping Our Roads Open, a project of New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA)’s resilience project. NZTA, a member of NZLC, aims to improve the experiences that people have on…

Good Governance: A Foundation to Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

12 September 2016
This presentation discusses why governance is an important foundation to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and shares the outcomes of the study on the topic. It also discusses which governance issues should be considered in helping Asian Development Bank’s developing…

Communicating Environmental Protection

7 September 2016
The Coral Reef Rehabilitation and Management Project in Indonesia is a three-phased project with the objective of setting up 20 million hectares of Marine Protected Areas by 2020. Based on lessons from Phase 1, communication was integrated as a component for Phase 2 and considered critical for…