Deepak Sharma Keywords education Read more about Deepak Sharma Mr. Deepak Sharma is currently serving as a Director for Planning and Monitoring in the Department of Education (DOE) under the Ministry of Education. The DOE has the sole responsibility for the planning, programming, monitoring and management of the school education sub sector. Government of Nepal is implementing School Sector Development Plan (SSDP) under the SWAP and DOE is working as implementing agency.
Ayako Inagaki Keywords social sector education skills Health ADB social protection Read more about Ayako Inagaki Ayako Inagaki is the Director of ADB's South East Asia Department, Human and Social Development Division. She leads the planning, implementation, and supervision of ADB's lending and non-lending operations in the social sectors, that includes education and skills development, health, and social protection. Ms. Inagaki is also the Chair of ADB's Health Sector Group where she guides the preparation and implementation of the health sector group work plan which sets out priorities and targets based on ADB's Operational Plan for Health 2015-2020.
7th International Skills Forum: Anticipating and Preparing for Emerging Skills and Jobs Read more about 7th International Skills Forum: Anticipating and Preparing for Emerging Skills and Jobs How do education and training systems respond to the rapid changes in technology? How will education and training transform to help equip future workers to co-exist with and manage machines in creating new opportunities?
Using Entertainment Education for Projects Read more about Using Entertainment Education for Projects Advertising professional Fernando Austria shared how projects can capitalize on the popularity of stories and storytelling to change behavior and shift mindsets about development issues. Entertainment education uses combinations of mass and folk media, animation, dance, theater, soap operas, street theater, and art to promote social messages.
Building Resilience/Adaptive Capacity through Social Collaboration in Community DRR and Learning Programs - Knowledge Sharing Webinar Series Read more about Building Resilience/Adaptive Capacity through Social Collaboration in Community DRR and Learning Programs - Knowledge Sharing Webinar Series Paul Ofei-Manu shares the underlying principles of social collaboration and case studies on initiatives that highlight good collaborative processes/practices
Building Resilience in Community Disaster-risk Reduction Programs Read more about Building Resilience in Community Disaster-risk Reduction Programs This installment of the Knowledge Sharing Webinar Series highlights the importance of multi-stakeholder collaboration and its structures, processes and practices in building resilience and adaptative capacity of urban communities in community disaster-risk reduction (DRR) and learning programs. This webinar aimed to:
Communicating Technical and Vocational Education and Training Read more about Communicating Technical and Vocational Education and Training Project experiences of Asian Development Bank (ADB) on communicating technical and vocational education and training (TVET) across different countries are shared in this report summarizing the highlights of the learning event on "Communicating TVET." As ADB’s TVET portfolio expands, the common communication-related themes on TVET promotion raised by education and TVET specialists during the activity are also included.
Clarissa Delgado Keywords RDFS Forum RDFS Forum 2022 rdfs tg food security rural development agricultural value chains agriculture and natural resources smart agriculture education history Read more about Clarissa Delgado Selected out of over 21,000 applications from 191 countries, Clarissa is a member of the inaugural 2018 class of Obama Foundation Fellows. Clarissa is also a 2019 recipient of the national The Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service Award (TOWNS) and the Ten Outstanding Young Men and Women Award (TOYM) presented by the President of the Republic of the Philippines, as well as the regional Asia Society Asia 21 Young Leaders Award both in 2016 and the Global Mover Award from Rappler, the organization of Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa.
B.V. Phani Keywords engineering industrial education innovation entrepreneurship Read more about B.V. Phani B. V. Phani is the head of the Department of Industrial & Management Engineering at IIT Kanpur. His research interests are financial intermediaries, credit risk modeling, entrepreneurial finance, innovation, entrepreneurial ecosystems, market micro-structure and valuation, and corporate governance.
Promoting What to Whom? Read more about Promoting What to Whom? Most technical and vocational education and training (TVET) promotion efforts currently emphasize the course, not the resulting job. Conducting market research is critical to understand who TVET’s audiences are, their interests and concerns, and what they aspire to be.