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Being Future Fit: Innovation & the Development "Mutants"

5 August 2016
Over the last couple of years, UNDP Asia Pacific has taken concentrated on innovation with modest investments to encourage staff to experiment with new ideas outside traditional project cycles, challenge business as usual, and engage with new and non-traditional partners. Despite a few challenges…
Organizer: Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office

Effective Civil Society Organization Engagement in the Pacific for Better Development Results

27 to 29 July 2016
This learning event aimed to build the capacity of focal persons in civil society organizations (CSOs) and select project officers in the Pacific Department (PARD) of ADB in terms of collaborating in designing and implementing ADB projects. The purpose is to develop mechanisms for engaging CSOs to…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Open Government Partnership Asia-Pacific Regional Dialogue

21 to 22 July 2016
The Open Government Partnership (OGP) is an international platform for domestic reformers committed to making their governments more open, accountable, and responsive to citizens. Since its launch in 2011, OGP has grown from 8 countries to 70 participating countries, with 12 from the Asia-Pacific…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Managing for Development Results: Inclusive Development

4 to 8 July 2016
Managing for Development Results (MfDR) is an approach to management that orients policies, institutions, and individuals to focus more on results than activities and inputs to achieve intended outcomes. MfDR is recognized as a key approach to development effectiveness. In line with its aim of…
Organizer: Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office

Leadership and Communication Challenges for Climate Change Aspects of Development Projects

21 June 2016
Effective communication among different parties and stakeholders regarding climate change, environmental impact and mitigation issues is highlighted as one of the biggest leadership challenges in the successful execution of projects, including ADB projects. For example, environmental non-government…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Results of the Financial Reforms for Economic Development

15 June 2016
Asian Development Bank (ADB)’s Gambhir Bhatta, Srinivasan Janardanam, and Anouj Mehta discussed the main results of and lessons from the forum organized by World Bank and the Confederation of Asian and Pacific Accountants from 17 to 18 May 2016 in Malaysia’s capital city of Kuala Lumpur. They also…
Organizer: Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office

Innovative Strategies for Development Summit 2016

8 to 10 June 2016
Innovative Strategies for Development Summit (ISDS) gathered a diverse set of stakeholders and participants to discuss, debate, and develop new strategies related to the use of technological innovations in order to achieve several Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), such as in education,…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Country Safeguard Systems Subregional Workshop

30 May to 1 June 2016
ADB held the Country Safeguards Systems Subregional Workshop on 30 May to 1 June 2016 in Tbilisi, Georgia for representatives from 11 DMCs in Central, West, and East Asia. Over 60 participants from governments, civil society, ADB, and development partners attended the workshop. Organized by SDCC…
Organizer: Office of Safeguards

Asia Leadership Program 2016

23 to 27 May 2016
High-level policy makers and officials exchanged ideas with ADB counterparts at the Asia Leadership Program 2016. The fourth annual program highlighted co-learning between Asian Development Bank staff and 23 participants, three of which are Executive-Level Policy Makers while the other 20 are…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Joint Workshop for e-Government and Smart City

23 to 27 May 2016
Information and communications technology (ICT) has been used holistically to bolster financial and managerial capacities of local governments and municipal service providers; manage urban traffic, and increase the competence and autonomy of urban water supply, as well as sanitation and solid waste…
Organizer: Public Sector Management and Governance Sector Office, Water and Urban Development Sector Office