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Forum: Enabling Green and Socially Responsible Supply Chains

28 March 2022
Making supply chains green and socially responsible. Three brainstorming sessions hosted by the Asian Development Bank’s Trade and Supply Chain Finance Program brought together public and private sectors to identify an actionable path toward green and socially responsible supply chains. The “…
Organizer: Private Sector Operations Department

Digitalization and Credit Scoring for Women SMEs: Part III – Implementation Challenges

24 March 2022
This is the third and final installment of the three-part series, "Alternative Credit Scoring for Women SMEs." The series aimed to provide practical knowledge on gender, alternative data, and insights on credit scoring for financial institutions . Watch previous episodes: part 1 – the basics and…
Organizer: Private Sector Operations Department

Youth in Action: Driving Solutions for Sustainable Tourism

17 March 2022
This session was part of the larger Southeast Asia Development Symposium (SEADS), ADB's preeminent development policy forum for the Southeast Asia region. ADB Youth for Asia (YfA), an initiative under the NGO and Civil Society Center, organized the "Youth in Action: Driving Solutions for…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Citywide Inclusive Sanitation: Pacific Applications

23 February 2022
Across the Pacific, 71% of Islanders have access to basic sanitation services (JMP 2020, excluding PNG). Lack of safe sanitation access is not only a major health concern but also affects educational and health outcomes, as well as Pacific island country overall development. As the contexts and…
Organizer: Pacific Department

Digitalization and Credit Scoring for Women SMEs: Part II – The Technical Challenges

20 January 2022
This is the second installment of a three-part series, "Digitalization and Credit Scoring for Women SMEs," with credit scoring specialist Dean Caire and fintech expert Steven Landman. The first part in December 2021 unraveled how credit scoring works and how new approaches can make traditional…
Organizer: Private Sector Operations Department

Serendipity Knowledge Program: Enabling Public-Private Partnerships in Sri Lanka: Highlights of the PPP Monitor

12 January 2022
Sri Lanka is on the cusp of becoming an upper-middle-income country (UMIC). Private investments in key sectors will be an important ingredient in facilitating economic advancement and establishing the country as a UMIC. Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) can bring private sector capital and…
Organizer: South Asia Department

Trade-Relevant Data in Suspicious Transaction Reports

14 December 2021
via Zoom 90-minute webinar for banks and financial institutions to introduce the ADB-led trade-based money laundering (TBML) project with seven Asia and the Pacific FIU-collaborators, and to provide a platform for experts to share TBML detection tips and best practices. Note: Session recordings…
Organizer: Private Sector Operations Department

Digitalization and Credit Scoring for Women SMEs: Part I – The Basics

2 December 2021
In this 30-minute technical session presented by the Women's Finance Exchange (WFX), participants will get the chance to hear from and ask the experts as they talk about "Accessing Female SMEs: Digitalization and Credit Scoring." This first installment of a three-part series was conducted on 2…
Organizer: Private Sector Operations Department

Digitalization and Credit Scoring for Women SMES Webinar Series

2 December 2021 to 24 February 2022
The webinar series, "Digitalization and Credit Scoring for Women SMEs," aimed to provide practical knowledge on gender, alternative data, and insights on credit scoring for financial institutions, with discussants Dean Caire, a credit scoring specialist, and Steven Landman, a fintech expert. The…
Organizer: Private Sector Operations Department

Lessons from Asia Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Monitor 2021: Accelerating Dynamics of MSMEs post COVID-19 in South Asia

1 December 2021
This webinar comprised five sessions: 1. Trends and challenges in MSME development in South Asia: lessons from the Asia SME Monitor 2021, which summarized key findings from the ASM 2021 Volume I; 2. National efforts to scale up MSMEs and challenges against the pandemic, which discussed selected…
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department