Training on Successful Implementation of a Digital Financial Services for Health Project: Practical Considerations

Digital financial services (DFS) are financial transactions, including banking, insurance, and payment services that can be accessed via digital channels. ADB DMCs can make significant progress in applying DFS to health programs, supporting progress to universal health coverage.

Ishita Ganguli Tripathy

Ishita Ganguli Tripathy is an officer of Government of India’s Indian Economic Service. In the past 22 years she has worked in different Ministries and Departments of the Government of India, including the Ministry of Finance, Planning Commission, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways and Ministry of Commerce and Industry in various capacities. She is currently Additional Development Commissioner in the Office of Development Commissioner (MSME). Her PhD from IIT Delhi is on Managerial Economics.

Lessons from Asia Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Monitor 2021: Accelerating Dynamics of MSMEs post COVID-19 in South Asia

This webinar comprised five sessions:

1. Trends and challenges in MSME development in South Asia: lessons from the Asia SME Monitor 2021, which summarized key findings from the ASM 2021 Volume I;

2. National efforts to scale up MSMEs and challenges against the pandemic, which discussed selected governments’ efforts to develop the MSME sector with key challenges during the COVID-19 crisis;