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29 September 2020
The webinar was organized jointly with the OECD’s Anticorruption Network for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ACN) to identify and analyse corruption-related challenges posed by Covid-19 emergency measures, as well as their impact on the detection, investigation, prosecution and adjudication of…
Organizer: Office of Anticorruption and Integrity
22 September 2020
Water managers are continuously making decisions to guarantee water safety. These decisions relate to the short term; for example, ongoing droughts or when there is a risk of flooding. But these decisions can also affect the long term given the more extreme weather events caused by climate…
Organizer: Water and Urban Development Sector Office
2 September 2020
Asia and the Pacific is grappling with the devastating consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. A collective response will be needed to contain the loss of life and address this evolving human crisis. Returning to “business as usual” is not an option for a region that is already off-track to…
Organizer: Office of the Vice-President (Sectors and Themes)
24 August 2020
The Office of Anticorruption and Integrity (OAI) shared anticorruption efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic being implemented by ADB and the Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia-Pacific. OAI's Cholpon Mambetova also discussed mitigation measures and OECD policy recommendations to ensure that these…
Organizer: Office of Anticorruption and Integrity
20 August 2020
As the world experiences the COVID-19 crisis, water-related disasters remain as imminent now as before COVID-19. People worldwide have been affected, and thousands of people have lost their lives due to water-related disasters, which are increasingly frequent. In light of the current pandemic…
Organizer: Office of the Vice-President (Sectors and Themes)
28 July 2020
More than 130 participants from the member countries and jurisdictions of the Anti-Corruption Initiative for Asia-Pacific (ACI), observer countries, advisory group, Philippine Commission on Audit, OECD, and ADB joined the webinar on Safeguarding Integrity in the COVID-19 Response and Recovery held…
Organizer: Office of Anticorruption and Integrity
5 June 2020
This webinar featured Satish V. Ukkusuri of Purdue University who discussed how mobility data can be used to understand how cities can recover after major shocks, such as natural disasters and pandemics. Ukkusuri focused on the role of mobile phone and social media data to understand the recovery…
Organizer: ADBI
3 June 2020
Women are agents of change for resilient development. However, substantial gaps remain in building women’s capacity. In this webinar, Zonibel Woods and Arghya Sinha Roy shared key findings of a recent publication that calls for women-focused investments in resilience to meet the gender and climate…
Organizer: Gender Equality Division, Climate Change, Resilience, and Environment Cluster
3 June 2020
The Policy Actions for COVID-19 Economic Recovery (PACER) Dialogues is exploring measures that can help economies “bounce back” from the COVID-19 pandemic and accelerate economic recovery. The series of Dialogues will address a range of issues, including: good practices in national planning for “…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department
4 May 2020
Learn about the digital technology solutions applied by Hong Kong, China in handling the spread of COVID-19.
In this webinar, the Office of the Government Chief Information Officer of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China presented some…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department, Human and Social Development Sector Office