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Financing Universal Health Coverage

17 May 2018
Financing universal health coverage carries a high price tag - about $600 billion for sixteen countries in Asia. Developing countries in the region must increase its health investments, raise its pooled funding, and reduce out-of-pocket health expenses to meet this health financing gap. If done,…

Closing the Social Protection Gap: The Potential Contribution of Social Assistance

17 May 2018
Social assistance programs are valuable instruments that can help the marginalized cope with or even escape poverty. They can effectively ensure basic income security for impoverished children, adults, and the elderly. However, more needs to be done to ensure their wider coverage and adequacy,…

ADB, Social Protection, and the SDGs: Emerging Challenges in Asia and the Pacific

17 May 2018
ADB Strategy 2030 envisions a prosperous, inclusive, sustainable, and resilient Asia. To realize this vision, developing member-countries (DMC) need to build their capacity to provide adequate social protection. ADB currently supports governments in developing systems and programs that will expand…

Social Budgeting for Achieving the SDGs: The Case of Timor-Leste

17 May 2018
Social budgeting can help show how government revenues and expenditures relate to social protection measures. This presentation applies this concept to the case of Timor-Leste. It discusses the country's social protection gaps and its revenues. It presents options on how the country can bridge…

Closing Financial Gaps for Contributory Schemes

17 May 2018
This presentation shares the International Labour Organization's (ILO) two-dimensional approach for the extension of social security: the vertical and horizontal approach. The former progressively ensures higher levels protection while the latter guarantees access to essential health care and…

Opportunities and Challenges in the Manufacturing Sector

12 May 2018
The manufacturing industry is multi-faceted and dynamic. Get to know the opportunities and challenges of internal audit (IA) in the manufacturing sector as shared by an IA practitioner in a manufacturing company in the Philippines.

Supporting women employed in the transport sector through international networks

25 April 2018
The presentation includes reflections on the speaker's personal leadership journey in the public sector including as Chairperson of Women in Logistics and Transport (WiLAT) - Pakistan. It also presents an argument on the importance of promoting women's participation in transport and logistics (a…

Facilitating women’s employment in the transport sector

25 April 2018
The presentation covers the following: (i) the World Bank Group's Gender Strategy 2016-2023; (ii) barriers to women's employment in the transport sector; (iii) the economic case for gender equality; (iv) operational lessons learned on what works and what does not; and (v) an overview of World Bank…

Tbilisi Transport Company’s actions to give equal opportunities to women

25 April 2018
The presentation discusses gender equality improvement program implemented by the Tbilisi Transportation Company, including an overview of the company's gender equality policy, and related benefits, training, and awareness-raising campaign.

Women in Business in Armenia

24 April 2018
The presentation contains an overview of GIZ programs that are focused on meeting the needs of women entrepreneurs in Armenia.