Technical and Vocational Education and Training Reform in the Kyrgyz Republic: Responding to the Development Challenge

This presentation enumerates the employment challenges in the Kyrgyz Republic. It provides an overview of the country’s policies on employment and education, and international partnership agreements. The presentation also explains how partnership becomes a starting point and basis for TVET promotion, along with the challenges and lessons in receiving international assistance.

Private Sector Skills Development: A Study of Potential Opportunities for Private Sector Integration into Skills Development for Young People

This presentation discusses existing models of private sector integration with skills development for young people. It also highlights key lessons learned along with successful model examples. Proposed interventions, including specific recommendations that encourage private sector engagement, are shared.

Special Remarks - Knowledge Partnership Forum: Innovation for Resilient and Smart Communities

Strategic knowledge partnerships are critical for providing effective solutions to development problems; hence Asian Development Bank (ADB) recognizes the need to expand its knowledge base to better respond to clients’ diverse demands. The private sector, as technology and solution providers, can help ADB become a better knowledge bank, and an honest knowledge broker.

Asia's Urban Challenge

Cities in Asia increasingly face the triple challenges of rapid urbanization, aging population, and climate change. Smart urban development is an imperative given the challenges. A business-as-usual approach, however, will simply not achieve sustainable urban development and smart cities; a combination of leadership, partnership, and innovation is needed.

Applying Space-Based Technology and ICT to Strengthen Disaster Resilience

This presentation discusses the application of innovative and partnership approaches in strengthening disaster resilience. Asian Development Bank's project on “Applying Space-based Technology and Information and Communication Technology to Strengthen Disaster Resilience” is explained in detail. The discussion also includes examples of technology that can provide cost-effective innovative solutions for disaster risk management.

Advancing Transdisciplinary Education

While there are tremendous advances in science and technology, there is slow progress in solving pressing global problems. Inadequate local capacity has partly resulted to a general lack of societal involvement in program development. The use of transdisciplinary approach is essential to achieve efficient implementation and sustainability of programs or projects.