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MAL: Comparative Analysis of DMC Legal Framework and ADB Safeguard Policy Statement: Involuntary Resettlement

31 May 2015
Policy Principle 1: Screen the project early on to identify past, present, and future involuntary resettlement impacts and risks. Determine the scope of resettlement planning through a survey and/or census of displaced persons, including a gender analysis, specifically related to resettlement…

Improving Community Disaster Response and Resilience through the Use of Technology in a Community-Driven Development Program

20 May 2015
This presentation explains the role of community-driven development programs in disaster recovery and rehabilitation efforts of the Department of Social Welfare and Development in the Philippines. Technological challenges, particularly those experienced during the Typhoon Yolanda disaster response…

Advancing Transdisciplinary Education

19 May 2015
While there are tremendous advances in science and technology, there is slow progress in solving pressing global problems. Inadequate local capacity has partly resulted to a general lack of societal involvement in program development. The use of transdisciplinary approach is essential to achieve…

Shanghai Houtan Park: Landscape as a Living System

19 May 2015
Houtan Park in the City of Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, demonstrates a living system where ecological infrastructure can provide multiple services for society and nature. This presentation provides an overview of the project, including details on design strategy. The environmental, social…

SRI: The Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka

15 May 2015
This document contains details of the Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.

TON: Tonga Strategic Development Framework 2015-2025: A more progressive Tonga: Enhancing Our Inheritance

1 May 2015
The Tongan Strategic Development Framework 2015-2025: A more progressive Tonga: Enhancing Our Inheritance, presents the Kingdom’s new development framework. The framework consists of the national impact we seek, 7+1 National Outcomes and twenty-nine Organisational Outcomes, which, working together…

MYA: Institutional Strengthening and Capacity Development for the Ministry of Construction Final Report

30 April 2015
Myanmar has a relatively modern environmental policy but lacks a social safeguards policy to address emerging social issues associated with development agenda that the country has set for future. As one of the initiatives to build capacity within the country, the ADB in July 2012 approved the TA…

INO: Strengthening Capacity of Indonesia’s AMDAL System — COMPILATION OF WORKSHOP MATERIAL AND GUIDELINES

31 March 2015
This book contents a compilation of materials from meetings and workshops with various stakeholders for the ADB TA-7566REG: Strengthening and Use of Country Safeguards System: Strengthening Capacity of Indonesia’s Environmental Impact Assessment (AMDAL) System. The materials are as directive and…

Environment and Social Safeguards

26 March 2015
Learn how ADB is considering environment and social safeguards in its projects.

Elderly Care: A Challenge for Asia and ADB

19 February 2015
Although there is a prevailing negative view on aging, it creates numerous opportunities for the elderly to become productive and active contributors to society. Addressing elderly care, however, is a complex issue that requires the participation of ADB's other sectors apart from health and social…