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New Zealand’s Industry Training and Apprenticeship System: a Public-Private Partnership in Action

1 December 2015
Industry training is funded as an industry-government partnership in New Zealand, with government funding contingent on an industry cash contribution of at least 30 percent. Maintaining this level of industry contribution is a critical test of support for industry training organizations and to…

Scaling Up Clean Energy Financing

9 October 2015
This presentation shows the range of financing solutions offered by Asian Development Bank’s Private Sector Operations Department (PSOD) to meet clients’ needs. It also covers PSOD’s focus on clean energy in Indonesia and features the Tangguh LNG Project, Sarulla 320MW Geothermal Power, and Phase 1…

Liquefied Petroleum Gas: Increasing the Energy Options Benefitting Women Worldwide

1 September 2015
This material showcases various ways in which women are benefitting from liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and, by doing so, illustrates what can be done—at various points in the value chain—for LPG to support women’s needs and goals, and contribute to wider gender equity.

Self Employed Women's Association: A Collective Voice of Women

22 May 2015
Women in the informal sector are vulnerable, posing threat on their income security, food security, and social security. The Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) was established to help women become individually and collectively self-reliant, economically independent, and capable of making…

Gender-Responsive Laws, Policies, and Activism for Women's Empowerment

22 May 2015
Pakistan ended on the second to the last spot in the World Economic Forum's 2014 Global Gender Gap Index. But victories have been observed in the recent years when it comes to women empowerment. This presentation gives an overview of the Pakistani experience in lobbying for gender equity,…

Overview: Constraints to Women's Entrepreneurship

21 May 2015
Starting up a business is particularly challenging for women around the globe. This presentation gives a snapshot of entrepreneural activities of men and women in different regions, and enumerates the main obstacles that women need to hurdle in setting up their own. It also enumerates factors that…

Using ICTs to Leverage Women's Entrepreneurship in Central Asia -- Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Uzbekistan

21 May 2015
This presentation tackles the current environment for Information, Communication, and Technology (ICT) for womens' entrepreneurship development. It also identifies women entrepreneurs' ICT access and provides recommendations in leveraging appropriate ICT tools for womens' entrepreneurship…

High Mountain Agribusiness and Livelihood Improvement

21 May 2015
This presentation shares details of the Asian Development Bank project, High Mountain Agribusiness and Livelihood Improvement in Nepal. The project helped improve access of women and the disadvantaged to information and technical skills. The gains also included increased household income and…

Ride the Wave: Enabling Disaster Communications

20 May 2015
This presentation discusses the interoperability challenges everyone faces in times of crisis and disaster. It explains how Wave, an innovation of Motorola Solutions, Inc., responds to the challenge by providing effective communication and collaboration through secure, reliable, and real-time voice…

Effective Management of Disaster Risk and Opportunities

20 May 2015
This presentation introduces R!SE, an alliance between six collaborating communities, with the goal to unlock public-private disaster risk management (DRM) potential. The initiative is created based on the results of a survey seeking to understand why the private sector has not engaged in DRM…