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Minimum Public Health Interventions for Post COVID-19 Lockdown: Lives and Livelihoods

1 July 2020
The fourth Policy Actions for COVID-19 Economic Recovery (PACER) Dialogue on “Minimum public health interventions for post COVID-19 lockdown: Lives and Livelihoods” featured global good practice examples of effective public health interventions to kick-start opening up of economies. Over 70…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department

Innovation Speakers' Series: Fighting Corruption at a Time of Crisis

30 June 2020
ADB's Office of Anticorruption and Integrity and Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department gathered 400 representatives from the US Embassy, USAID, Basel Institute on Governance, Philippine Commission on Audit, and ADB in a webinar on risk mitigation in emergency assistance. Gretta…
Organizer: Office of Anticorruption and Integrity

Tourism: Respond, Restart, and Recover

24 June 2020
The third Policy Actions for COVID-19 Economic Recovery (PACER) Dialogue on “Tourism: Respond, Restart and Recover” featured global good practice examples of effective tourism crisis recovery policies. Over 130 participants including 64 government officials from Southeast Asia and the People’s…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department

COVID-19 Response and Recovery: Experience and Lessons of New Zealand

17 June 2020
The second Policy Actions for COVID-19 Economic Recovery (PACER) Dialogue on “COVID-19 Response and Recovery: Experience and Lessons of New Zealand" featured New Zealand’s design and implementation of its multi-faceted COVID-19 response and recovery policies. Over 100 participants including 42…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department

Policy Actions for COVID-19 Economic Recovery (PACER) Dialogues

3 June 2020
The Policy Actions for COVID-19 Economic Recovery (PACER) Dialogues is exploring measures that can help economies “bounce back” from the COVID-19 pandemic and accelerate economic recovery. The series of Dialogues will address a range of issues, including: good practices in national planning for “…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department

Tackling COVID-19: Economic and Financial Measures of the Republic of Korea

3 June 2020
The inaugural Policy Actions for COVID-19 Economic Recovery (PACER) Dialogues on “Tackling COVID-19: Economic and Financial Measures of the Republic of Korea (ROK)” featured the successful, multi-faceted policy responses ROK is employing to address the COVID-19 crisis. Over 40 government…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department

Remote Learning in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic

30 April 2020
During the COVID-19 pandemic, 90% of the world's student population is affected by school closures. Governments, development organizations, and private companies mitigate this through remote learning. Coursera, one of the leading educational technology companies providing massive open online…
Organizer: Human and Social Development Sector Office, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Building High-Touch, High-Tech Learning

25 February 2020
Ju-Ho Lee, former Minister of Education, Science and Technology, Republic of Korea, currently a Commissioner of the International Commission on Financing the Global Educational Opportunity, shared his experiences on taking innovations to scale and combining artificial intelligence, mobile…
Organizer: Human and Social Development Sector Office

Audit is Life

20 February 2020
Heidi Lloce Mendoza, former Undersecretary General for Internal Oversight Services of the United Nations and former Commissioner of the Philippines' Commission on Audit, talked about her new book Audit is Life. The book covers the stories that happened during audit but are not included in an audit…
Organizer: Office of the Auditor General

Student Career Counselling – Examples from Cambodia and the Philippines

20 January 2020
Saara Lehmuskoski, Country Director for Cambodia of Finn Church Aid and Marjorie San Pedro, Senior Partnership Manager of Edukasyon Philippines separately presented on blended youth career counselling approaches—face-to-face and online—and their impact on students gaining socio-emotional skills,…
Organizer: Human and Social Development Sector Office