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  • Women’s Resilience in Mongolia

    How Laws and Policies Promote Gender Equality in Climate Change and Disaster Risk Management

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    Globally, women are disproportionately impacted by climate change and disasters due to gender inequalities and limited participation in decision-making processes. Addressing this imbalance will involve integrating gender equality in laws and policies on climate change and disaster risk management and ensuring gender equality outcomes in building social and economic resilience. This report presents ... Read more

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  • Viet Nam

    Financial Sector Assessment, Strategy, and Road Map

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    Series series Country Sector and Thematic Assessments
    This sector assessment, strategy, and road map highlights the Government of Viet Nam's plans and strategies for addressing priority needs for the financial sector and identifies possible preliminary areas of international assistance. It assesses key sector development needs by analyzing strengths, constraints and weaknesses, various risks, potential threats, as well as opportunities. This ... Read more

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  • Using Evidence to Inform Policy

    Report of Impact and Policy Conference: Evidence in Governance, Financial Inclusion, and Entrepreneurship

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    To promote evidence-based policy making, the Asian Development Bank partnered with Innovations for Poverty Action and the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab in 2012 to deliver a 3-day conference on impact evaluation and public policy in Bangkok. Over 200 scholars, practitioners and policy makers from 34 countries attended the conference. Each day of the conference focused on one of three areas ... Read more

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  • Poverty in the Philippines

    Causes, Constraints, and Opportunities

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    Against the backdrop of the global financial crisis and rising food, fuel, and commodity prices, addressing poverty and inequality in the Philippines remains a challenge. The proportion of households living below the official poverty line has declined slowly and unevenly in the past four decades, and poverty reduction has been much slower than in neighboring countries such as the People's Republic ... Read more

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  • Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage Game Changers in Asia

    2020 Compendium of Technologies and Enablers

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    This compendium showcases new and innovative low carbon technologies that have potential to be deployed in Asia and the Pacific. It features 10 technologies for capturing, utilizing, or storing carbon dioxide. The key aspects of these technologies are discussed together with their advantages and status of development and commercialization. The compendium aims to contribute to low carbon ... Read more

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  • Good Practice Note on Addressing Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Harassment in ADB-Financed Projects with Civil Works

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    Designed to identify and tackle sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment (SEAH) in ADB-financed projects, this Good Practice Note sets out recommendations to prevent, mitigate, and manage this risk to create safe and inclusive workplaces. Focusing on new sovereign projects with civil works in developing member countries, it defines SEAH, highlights who is most vulnerable, and explains why ... Read more

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  • The Role of Special Economic Zones in Improving Effectiveness of Greater Mekong Subregion Economic Corridors

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    This study looks into the role of special economic zones in strengthening the competitiveness of economic corridors in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS). It examines factors behind the success of special economic zones and the role they can play in GMS economic corridor development. The analysis is based on a company-level survey in the Mae Sot special economic zone and interviews with clients ... Read more

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  • The Manager as Engineer (developing a staff that is willing to go to war for you)

    by Manager Development Services ...
    When managing from the heart, the manager becomes an engineer not only of the physical process, which sets the foundation for his department to excel, but he or she also engineers an emotional, spiritual, and social process instilling the internal practices which enables each individual to excel.As manager, I must utilize five roles to initiate the process:Human BeingMentorInstructorCounselorOrchestra ... Read more

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  • The Ocean-Energy Economy

    A Multifunctional Approach

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    This publication explores marine renewable energy sources from floating solar farms to deep ocean turbines and shows how increasing the capacity of the blue economy can help the Asia and Pacific region transition to a clean energy, low carbon future. Providing an overview of ADB’s Marine Aquaculture, Reefs, Renewable Energy, and Ecotourism for Ecosystem Services (MARES) project, it examines ... Read more

    $7.49 CAD

  • Build Back Better Sector Guides—Volume 3

    Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    When a disaster occurs, timely support for recovery and reconstruction efforts is critical to minimize long-term setbacks to sustainable and inclusive socioeconomic development. The Build Back Better Sector Guides, a collection of six guides, provide practical, solution-oriented resources to support clients, partners, and staff of the Asian Development Bank to enhance the climate and disaster ... Read more

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  • Handbook on Battery Energy Storage System

    by Asian Development Bank ...
    This handbook serves as a guide to deploying battery energy storage technologies, specifically for distributed energy resources and flexibility resources. Battery energy storage technology is the most promising, rapidly developed technology as it provides higher efficiency and ease of control. With energy transition through decarbonization and decentralization, energy storage plays a significant ... Read more

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  • SharePoint User's Guide

    Getting Started with SharePoint Collaboration Services

    by Infusion Development Corp. (Infusion Development Corporation) ...
    There's nothing like teamwork for making progress on a project, but sharing information and building on each other's successes can be challenging when your team is scattered across the miles. Microsoft's SharePoint helps teams and organizations close the distance. With SharePoint, groups construct web sites specifically for collaboration--sites where individuals can capture and share ideas, and ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD