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7 to 8 May 2024
Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Organizer: Office of Safeguards
5 May 2024
In his opening remarks, Emmanuel Jimenez made a presentation on why there is an IED and what it does. According to him, the IED provides shareholders with an independent assessment of returns on their investment in ADB. Unlike in the private sector, return is not measured by profit but by the…
Organizer: Independent Evaluation Department, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department
4 May 2024
This session focused on what the ADB Accountability Mechanism should look like with the new standalone safeguard standard on climate change under its new Environmental and Social Framework (ESF).
Julio Castor Achmadi, Communities Associate of the Accountability Counsel, cited several cases where…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department
29 to 30 April 2024
Air pollution and climate change continue to be a global concern, impacting the health and well-being, especially of marginalized groups and lower-income countries. The regional and global direction for action is for nations to progressively commit to a sustainability transition and adopt policies…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department
17 April 2024
Water utilities were tasked with the challenge of collecting sufficient income to deliver an agreed or expected level of service to their customers while meeting the public good requirement to provide affordable water to all. This was increasingly difficult as peri-urban and informal settlements…
Organizer: Pacific Department
17 April 2024
The new report, Sociocultural Dimensions in Water Resources Management: Policies, Practices, and Challenges, aims to promote the importance of incorporating sociocultural dimensions in water resources management, an underexplored aspect for achieving water security and climate resilience.
The…
Organizer: ADBI
15 to 19 April 2024
ADB and the Netherlands Water Partnership (NWP) hosted the Asia Netherlands Water Learning Week (ANWLW) in The Hague, The Netherlands, on 15-19 April.
The ANWLW was a week-long intensive program that brought together project teams from across the Asian Development Bank (ADB)’s developing member…
Organizer: Water and Urban Development Sector Office
1 April 2024
This conversation with Subramanian Ramadorai, Chairperson at Karmayogi Bharat, was about the changing nature of work driven by digital technologies, artificial intelligence (AI), and innovation. The world is moving from rule-based frameworks to role-based frameworks, bringing a transformation in…
Organizer: ADBI
27 March 2024
Asset management was recognized as a fundamental tool for the sustainable management of infrastructure. Asset management planning identified asset stock, condition, and performance, enabling agencies to prioritize schemes in modernization programs.
In Central Asian countries, the sustainability…
Organizer: Water and Urban Development Sector Office
26 March 2024
Nobel laureate Claudia Goldin showed economic growth did not always increase women’s workforce participation in the United States. Women’s work declined during the transition from agriculture to manufacturing but increased with greater jobs in the service sector. Despite progress, women continue…
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department