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AASCTF Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Strategy

15 January 2021
The ASEAN Australia Smart Cities Trust Fund's enhanced Strategy presents the M&E requirements that must be complied with across all of the trust fund’s activities. It also provides a short evaluation assessment, and describes the AASCTF Design and Monitoring Framework (DMF), including a…

[VIDEO] Opening Remarks, Congratulatory Remarks, and Keynote Speech

17 November 2020
Opening Session of KDIS-3ie-ADB-ADBI Conference on Impact Evaluation - Challenges and Promise for Human Capital Development in Asia

[VIDEO] A Bit of Salt, A Trace of Life: Gender Norms and The Impact of a Salt Iodization Program on Human Capital Formation of School Aged Children

17 November 2020
This paper examines the effects of a massive salt iodization program on human capital formation of schoolaged children in China. Exploiting province and time variation, we find a strong positive impact on cognition for girls and no effects for boys. For non-cognitive skills, we find the opposite…

The Hidden Pandemic: Addressing the Differential Impacts of COVID-19 on Women, Men and Other Vulnerable Groups in Southeast Asia

10 November 2020
This presentation discusses the differential impact of COVID-19 upon women and other vulnerable groups, lessons learned from past experiences, and opportunities for future programming. Increased participation of women and vulnerable groups in COVID decison-making processes, access to information,…

Five Ways to Close the Gender Gap in Anticorruption Programs

24 September 2020
Gaelle Demolis, Programme Specialist for Governance, Peace and Security at UN Women, shares strategies that development organizations can take to ensure that anticorruption programs promote gender equality.

Opening Remarks: Promoting Gender Equality in COVID-19 Response and Recovery

10 September 2020
Masatsuga Asakawa, President of Asian Development Bank, delivered the opening remarks expressing commitment to ensuring that gender equality is at the heart of ADB’s response to and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. He discussed how ADB’s support directly addressed one of the pandemic’s…

Closing Remarks: Promoting Gender Equality in COVID-19 Response and Recovery

10 September 2020
Bambamg Susantono, Vice-President for Knowledge Management and Sustainable Development of Asian Development Bank delivered the closing remarks. He talked about the four priority areas for ADB And UN Women joint collaboration from 2020 to 2024. These priority areas are (1) enhancing technical…

Enhancing Women-focused Investments in Climate and Disaster Resilience (WfIR)

3 June 2020
This presentation shared key findings of a recent publication that calls for women-focused investments in resilience to meet the gender and climate targets of ADB's Strategy 2030.

gLOCAL Insights: Support to Sustainable Transport Solutions in light of the COVID-19 Crisis

3 June 2020
This presentation discussed key findings from the assessment of ADB's transport support between 2010 to 2018, and presented six recommendations on how ADB can further strengthen the development support of its ADB transport interventions.

Video: International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia (IDAHOTB) 2020: Bridging the LGBTI Inclusion Data Gap

20 May 2020
To commemorate the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia (IDAHOTB) 2020, Asian Development Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the World Bank collaborated to organize a series of virtual events. The joint…