Insight Thursday: Building Community Resilience Through National Climate Funds Read more about Insight Thursday: Building Community Resilience Through National Climate Funds This session explored how creating “community windows” within national climate funds was a key strategy for delivering locally owned investments. Interestingly, ADB developing member countries were keen on establishing specific finance vehicles to invest in their resilience and development goals, to enable increased finance mobilization, greater coordination, and support programmatic approaches.
Insight Thursday: Scaling Up Local Adaptation Measures Through Climate-Responsive Decentralization Processes Read more about Insight Thursday: Scaling Up Local Adaptation Measures Through Climate-Responsive Decentralization Processes
Insight Thursday: Strengthening Climate Resilience at Scale While Leaving No One Behind Read more about Insight Thursday: Strengthening Climate Resilience at Scale While Leaving No One Behind
Jamie Naval Keywords sustainable livelihood circular economy Read more about Jamie Naval Jamie is passionate about utilizing design to address textile waste while generating sustainable livelihood for women, particularly in her role in Anthill Fabric Gallery. Anthill is a social and cultural enterprise dedicated to preserving Philippine weaving traditions and creating sustainable livelihoods by celebrating and elevating Filipino culture through contemporary and circular design. She is also the Founder and Chief Toymaker of TenTwenty Kids, an earth-loving and educational toy brand for kids using upcycled textiles with the help of partner artisan nanays (mothers).
Marlowe Popes Keywords social development social protection sustainable livelihood Read more about Marlowe Popes When one of the world’s longest running lockdowns began in the Philippines due to COVID-19, Marlowe’s team was tasked with ensuring the project’s 1,800 participants developed sustainable livelihoods and carved pathways out of extreme poverty when the project ended amidst one of our lifetime’s greatest shocks.
OpenStreetMap: Map the Philippines Read more about OpenStreetMap: Map the Philippines Recognizing the chaos that accompanies disaster response along with an existing surplus of maps in the Philippines, OpenStreetMap aims to offer a cross-sector platform where data can be shared openly with all communities and across local sectors. The initiative extends beyond crisis and disaster to community resiliency mapping.
Yukiko Ito Keywords social development community-driven development social protection inclusive business sustainable livelihood social analysis graduation approach Read more about 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.