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2022 Resilience Learning Month

15 to 23 September 2022
In celebration of Resilience Learning Month 2022, ADB has organized a series of online events and capacity-building workshops that highlight regional and global innovation and lessons learned on tackling climate change and building climate and disaster resilience, delivered in partnership with ADB…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department, Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster

20 Years of ADB and Civil Society

29 August 2022
ADB celebrates its meaningful engagement with civil society organizations over the past 20 years since the founding of the NGO and Civil Society Center (NGOC). At the same time, the bank looks ahead at the future of its collaboration with civil society in support of the Strategy 2030. ADB…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

ADB and Civil Society: 20 Years and Beyond

29 August 2022
Since the late 1980s, ADB has worked closely with civil society organizations in the design and implementation of development projects. Meaningful engagement with civil society has helped the bank increase its efforts to reduce poverty and increase the effectiveness, quality, and sustainability…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

20 Civil Society Stories

29 August 2022
In celebration of 20 years of ADB’s NGO and Civil Society Center, we are featuring 20 civil society organizations ADB has engaged with over the years.
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Implementing a Green Recovery in Southeast Asia

6 July 2022
As countries begin to recover from the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, policy makers must decide what type of economic recovery they want to pursue. Will they choose measures that continue with existing “business-as-usual” economic structures that have a negative impact on the…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department

Peer Learning Sessions: Innovations in Pacific Disaster Risk Knowledge

27 June to 29 July 2022
This session was the first of three technical sessions to explore risk knowledge in the Pacific in more detail. We will hear from government departments and regional experts who summarized the current availability of risk information in the Pacific. They presented examples of how risk insights have…
Organizer: Pacific Department

Disaster Risk Knowledge in the Pacific: Vital Information for Resilient Development

19 May 2022
Co-hosted by ADB and The Pacific Community, this was the first event of the Pacific Disaster Risk Knowledge Series consisting of four events in total. This first public and open event highlighted regional views of generating, communicating and using disaster and climate risk information…
Organizer: Pacific Department

Main Page: Pacific Disaster Risk Knowledge Series

19 May to 25 August 2022
Disaster risk knowledge is vital for effectively reducing disaster risk and adapting to climate change. The Pacific Disaster Risk Knowledge Series provided a consolidated overview of knowledge around recent and ongoing activities and innovations on the horizon, strengthening the evidence on…
Organizer: Pacific Department

IDAHOTB 2022: Driving Inclusion: Addressing Legal Barriers for Sexual and Gender Minorities

18 May 2022
ADB marked the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia (IDAHOTB) on 18 May with a webinar, Driving Inclusion: Addressing Legal Barriers for Sexual and Gender Minorities. In part of a collaboration with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Inter-American…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Unlocking Opportunities to Deliver Disaster-Resilient Infrastructure in Asia and the Pacific

27 April 2022
The Asian Development Bank convened a webinar to explore practical approaches for disaster-resilient infrastructure in Asia and the Pacific. Vivid Economics and the Asian DisasterPreparedness Centre presented their key findings. A panel of leading thinkers also shared their perspectives, followed…
Organizer: Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department