European Contractors, Suppliers, and Consultants Road Shows

The Asian Development Bank acknowledges that the global construction industry faces many challenges that will impact participation in and pricing of large-scale ADB-funded infrastructure projects. The continued effects of COVID-19, higher construction material costs, labor shortages, surging inflation, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, high energy and commodity prices, and supply chain bottlenecks all affect contractors' interest in ADB-funded projects.

Ivan Ivanov

Dr. Ivan Ivanov is Team Leader of the WHO Global Occupational Health Programme in Geneva. He has the overall responsibility for the implementation of the WHO Global Plan of Action on Workers’ Health, and for collaboration with other internal technical programmes and outside partners. In addition, currently he carries out several technical projects; his project portfolio includes scaling up coverage with occupational health services, workers’ health in a green economy and climate change policies, as well as occupational diseases.