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Training Workshop on Digital Health for Supporting Universal Health Coverage in Asia and the Pacific
The training workshop will serve as a platform fostering IT-based national health system in Asian DMCs and will share insights drawn from Korea’s successful experiences.- The CRFPF is an initiative to support countries in Asia and the Pacific region to scale up community-level investments in climate adaptation.
- The COVID-19 pandemic that began in late 2019 imposed unprecedented challenges that affected countries worldwide. As the virus was found to be lethal and highly contagious, governments focused on treating those infected, while aggressively preventing it from affecting others.
- This virtual conference will explore food and nutritional security development, gaps, and opportunities for policy collaboration in Asia and Pacific
- Infrastructure projects often involve large-scale resettlement of affected populations. Involuntary resettlement may involve loss of livelihoods, productive assets, and incomes. In such cases, income restoration measures are required.
- The second CRPP Partnership Forum aims to discuss what role can poverty reduction programs play in building climate resilience.
- ADB will hold the 2nd Community Resilience Partnership Program (CRPP) Partnership Forum on 27-28 February 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand.
- Homelessness is an important multisector issue requiring integrated solutions across affordable housing, urban development, social protection, health, and other areas.
- About 95% of Metro Manila’s drinking water is sourced from the Angat system or Umiray-Angat-Ipo. Built in the early 1960s, the Angat dam, reservoir and tunnel system conveying water from the Angat reservoir to treatment plants are in many cases, reaching the end of their design lives.
- These charts illustrate the need for Pacific countries to expand local livelihood opportunities while balancing between sustaining remittance flows and addressing local labor shortages.
- This working paper presents the findings, in terms of projected costs and estimated coverage (2024–2030), of social protection reform for Asia and the Pacific, with variations in benefit levels, benefit durations, and other parameters of social protection programs as relevant for countries in the region.
- In 2020, ADB and PRC Fund implemented the Technical Assistance Mitigating Impact of COVID-19 through Community-Led Interventions in the Lao PDR, the Philippines, and Thailand. The project also engaged public health experts to train community workers for long-term pandemic preparedness. Watch this story highlighting the importance of community capacity in healthcare, economic resilience, and partnerships, paving the way to brighter futures in Asia and the Pacific.
- Research has consistently ranked law enforcement among the most corrupt public services.
- Micro-level intervention on the household choice of remittance channels and providers can potentially contribute to reducing remittance costs in the region.
- Amidst the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, ADB and EAKPF supported initiatives that exemplify the transformative potential of grassroots efforts in Mongolia and the Philippines.
- ADB's South Asia Department (SARD) conducted a study to assess the status and responses to the needs of disadvantaged groups in its member countries and identify entry points for greater gender equality and social inclusion impacts in its operations.
- This guidance note provides an overview of methods for evaluating the gender equality and social inclusion impacts of ADB programs and projects in South Asia.
- This guidance note aims to enhance the quality of poverty and social analysis for the design of country partnership strategies and programs in South Asia.
- Meeting the healthcare needs of the Nepalese population is a significant challenge, given the increasing burden of diseases and shifting health conditions.
- On the occasion of the Global Refugee Forum (13-15 December 2023 in Geneva, Switzerland), we—a group of multilateral development banks (MDBs) comprising the African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, Council of Europe Development Bank1, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, European Investment Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, Islamic Development Bank and World Bank—reaffirm our commitment to promoting sustainable solutions for situations of economic migration and forced displacement (EMFD)2 and to supporting the oper