SDTG Online Thematic Training: Integrating the Graduation Approach into ADB Operations

The Social Development Thematic Group, through the Graduation Working Group, held a two-day e-learning course on Integrating the Graduation Approach into ADB Operations which focused on (i) understanding the core concepts of graduation approach and its integration in social protection programming, evidence, and innovation; and (ii) exploring how to integrate graduation approach into ADB’s portfolio.

Karin Schelzig

Dr. Karin Schelzig is a poverty and social protection specialist with more than 25 years of multidisciplinary human and social development (HSD) experience in East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific, including 20 years with the Asian Development Bank. Karin manages a regional HSD team that designed and delivered more than $2.4 billion in new education, health, and social protection financing in 2023 and implemented a large portfolio of ongoing operations and policy dialogue in 22 countries.

Yukiko Ito

Yukiko Ito promotes the implementation of ADB's social development agenda through her work on community-driven development, social protection, inclusive business, sustainable livelihood, social analysis, and graduation approach for the poor and the vulnerable. She is the co-team leader of Philippine Expanded Social Assistance Project, Philippine Social Protection Support Project AF-II and the Regional Technical Assistance project for Advancing Inclusive and Resilient Urban Development Targeted at the Urban Poor.