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Farming Crisis

9 March 2021
This session describes the current key challenges of farming and proposes transformative changes in policies and approaches for making farming profitable and gender-friendly, highly productive, and attractive to the youth in the region.

ADB Experience and Knowledge Sharing (Focus on Gender, Climate Change, and High-Level Technology)

9 March 2021
The Asian Development Bank has stepped up its efforts to introduce innovative approaches and technologies under its policy-based and investment loans as well as technical assistance projects. This session presents some of these innovative projects and highlights lessons learned so that other…

Welcome Remarks on International Women’s Day 2021

8 March 2021

AASCTF Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Strategy

29 January 2021
The ASEAN Australia Smart Cities Trust Fund's GESI Strategy builds on core principles that aim to foster gender equality and social inclusion throughout AASCTF-supported project cycles. It applies a twin track approach in which GESI is mainstreamed in all project activities via GESI Action Plans,…

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…