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Wastewater Surveillance: Helpful in the Pacific for COVID-19 Response and Beyond?

1 October 2021
Wastewater surveillance has been successfully used to monitor pathogen presence, persistence, and occurrence patterns within populations. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, wastewater surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 has helped inform many countries’ public health responses. Across the Pacific, this…
Organizer: Pacific Department

PRC - Preliminary Working Meeting to Implement the RFI in the People’s Republic of China

29 September 2021
The wetlands of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) support globally important biodiversity values and ecosystem services which support the livelihoods of millions of people. The PRC’s wetlands provide critical habitats for over 210 species of waterbirds to rest and refuel, as well as water,…
Organizer: East Asia Department, Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department

Accelerating e-commerce in the new normal

28 September 2021
The 17th Policy Actions for COVID-19 Economic Recovery (PACER) Dialogue on “Accelerating e-commerce in the new normal” featured policy options and global good practice examples to help countries foster an enabling environment in the medium and long-term as they mitigate COVID-19 impacts and…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department

How Smaller Firms in Indonesia Survive One Year into the Pandemic

19 August 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about forced changes in people’s lives and work styles as fit to contactless societies under the “new normal.” One year after the outbreak in 2020, how could Indonesia’s micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) survive and change their business models in…
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department

Practical Tools and Tips on Mainstreaming Gender for Water Utilities

18 August 2021
Access to clean water is vital for everyone, but some groups need special consideration. One such group is women and girls, who are often responsible for duties such as collecting, storing, and managing household water supplies. We often hear about the importance of gender mainstreaming, but do…
Organizer: Pacific Department

ADBI Featured Speaker Webinar: United States Patent and Trademark Office’s Peter Fowler on IP Protection and Enforcement for Trade, Competition, and Innovation in Asia and the Pacific

17 August 2021
This ADBI Featured Speaker Webinar presented United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Senior Counsel Peter Fowler, who discussed the increasing importance of intellectual property (IP) protection and enforcement in Asia and the Pacific given rising e-commerce and digital trade, competition…
Organizer: ADBI

ADBI-Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Webinar on Sanitation and Development: Strategies to Increase Adoption of Welfare-Improving Technologies (like Toilets)

16 August 2021
The ADBI-Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation webinar was organized in collaboration with the Institute for Fiscal Studies. The webinar featured Yale University’s Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak who presented his work on technology adoption in developing countries. This includes low technology uptake in the…
Organizer: ADBI

Shaping a Better Employment Landscape for People with Disabilities in Asia-Pacific

11 August 2021
The second webinar in the series 'Digital Technologies and Quality Jobs – Lessons Learnt and New Horizons' focused on the topic of disabilities and labor market inclusion. The virtual event, “Shaping a Better Employment Landscape for People with Disabilities in Asia-Pacific” was hosted in…
Organizer: Climate Change and Sustainable Development Department, Human and Social Development Sector Office

Promoting Social Bonds for Impact Investments in Asia

4 August 2021
Social bond markets have grown rapidly amid the pandemic. This webinar discussed the potential social impacts of social bonds in tackling developing Asia’s most urgent social issues, in both the short and long term. The findings aimed to help maximize the impact of the social bond market for…
Organizer: Economic Research and Development Impact Department

Digitizing trade in the new normal

3 August 2021
The 16th Policy Actions for COVID-19 Economic Recovery (PACER) Dialogue on “Digitizing trade in the new normal” discussed benefits of trade digitization and sustaining supply chains in the new normal. Over 100 government officials from Southeast Asia and the People’s Republic of China participated…
Organizer: Southeast Asia Department