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Resilience to Floods (rather than resistance to floods)

24 August 2021
This presentation shared the importance of building resilience to floods, rather than resisting floods. This requires flood risk management infrastructure, including nature-based solutions, and providing room for the river.

AASCTF Baguio City Gender and Inclusion Study

23 August 2021
The Baguio City Gender and Inclusion Study Report is the first deliverable in the project “PHI: Gender Transformative Approach for Strengthened Development, Application, and Replication of the Baguio City Smart Flood Early Warning”. The project involves a collaboration between Ramboll and Practical…

Webinar Video: Youth Economic Empowerment

20 August 2021
This session focuses on the implications of changing jobs and livelihood prospects of young workers and entrepreneurs because of the coronavirus crisis and how they’ve stayed resilient throughout the pandemic.

Webinar Video: Health and Wellness

18 August 2021
Health is an area where youth-led activities have the potential to significantly affect outcomes for young people, and in turn, have whole life-cycle implications. For instance, in the area of diet, harmful habits (drugs/alcohol), and exercise, positive behavior change can reduce non-communicable…

Webinar Video: Climate Change

16 August 2021
From Nepal to the Marshall Islands, hundreds of thousands of young volunteers have taken to streets ringing alarm bells around the climate change crisis and are participating in global campaigns like ‘Fridays for Future’ and ‘Climate Action Now’. While the protests showcase youth’s frustration in…

COVID-19 pandemic from the perspective of ADB’s Private Sector Operations Department

12 August 2021
Hisaka Kimura highlighted resilient water and sanitation during recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic from the perspective of ADB’s Private Sector Operations Department

Sponge Cities in the People’s Republic of China - Evolution of ADB Support

15 July 2021
This presentation gives an overview of sponge cities and measures for green infrastructure and nature-based solutions as well as other benefits of sponge city projects.

Green Roads for Water

15 July 2021
In this presentation, the speaker gave insights on Bangladesh’ infrastructure projects and recommended best practices for road water management for coastal and lowland areas.

Experience and lessons learned in Nature-based Solutions in Tacloban-Palo

15 July 2021
Wetlands International shared their experience and lessons learned on their Coastal Protection Strategy in Tacloban and Palo, Leyte, Philippines.

Disaster Resilience in Asia—A Special Supplement 0f Asia’s Journey to Prosperity: Policy, Market, and Technology Over 50 Years

1 July 2021
This presentation gives an overview of the special supplement publication on "Asia's Journey to Prosperity: Policy, Market, and Technology Over 50 Years".