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The rapid spread of COVID-19 in 2020 triggered severe public health and economic crises across the world including in Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) member countries. MDB’s have focused on crisis response, supporting its member countries contain the spread of the disease and protect the vulnerable. But over this one year the pandemic has placed…
Speaker, Presenter, or Instructor
Name
Karen Murray
Organization
Asian Development Bank
Title
Alternate Executive Director, Board of Directors
Short Biography
Karen is New Zealand’s representative at the ADB Board of Directors. Prior to joining ADB she worked at NZ’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the NZ Commerce Commission and Lehman Brothers in London.
Name
Neeta Pokhrel
Organization
Asian Development Bank
Title
Chief of Water Sector Group, SDCC
Short Biography
She has over 25 years of experience working with ADB, private sector, international consulting firms, NGOs & water utilities. She leads strategic development of ADB’s water sector & provides KM & implementation support to operational departments to meet ADB’s goals of resilient & water secure Asia.
Name
Joanne Asquith
Organization
Asian Development Bank
Title
IETC Director, IED
Short Biography
Prior to ADB, she worked in African Development Bank, as Chief Evaluation Officer. She has Master’s degree in Economic and Social Studies; Bachelor’s degree in Economics; and certification in Teaching from Victoria University of Manchester. She has 28 years of international development experience.
Name
Naheed Sarabi
Organization
UNDP, Afghanistan
Title
Assistant Resident Representative (Prosperity)
Short Biography
Former Deputy Minister for Policy of Ministry of Finance, Director General for Analysis & Monitoring at the Policy Department of the Ministry of Finance, and also served as policy advisor. She has over 10 years of development related experience in both government & NGOs.
Name
Hyun Son
Organization
Asian Development Bank
Title
Principal Evaluation Specialist, IED
Short Biography
Prior to ADB, she was a poverty specialist in UNDP. She also worked for World Bank and taught at Macquarie University. She published over 30 journal articles & 3 books in economic development. She has PhD(Economics) from University of New South Wales & Masters(Public Policy) from Harvard University.
Event Proceedings
Main Issues Discussed:Independent Evaluation Department (IED) held a panel discussion which focused on:
(i) how COVID 19 pandemic has unleashed an unprecedented crisis causing further disruption to the SDG progress;
(ii) the role of evaluations in ensuring that while MDB’s respond to the COVID-19 Crisis, SDGs are not forgotten.
(i) how COVID 19 pandemic has unleashed an unprecedented crisis causing further disruption to the SDG progress;
(ii) the role of evaluations in ensuring that while MDB’s respond to the COVID-19 Crisis, SDGs are not forgotten.
Conclusions:If the ongoing pandemic has taught us one thing, it is that we cannot go back to the old paradigm of focusing solely on economic growth. Patterns of growth matter in ensuring that all segments of societies participate in and benefit from economic growth. And the SDGs and its mantra of leaving no one behind offers the blueprint for building back better from COVID-19 and other crises, with a focus on green, inclusive, and resilient growth.
Follow-up Actions:Further sharing of knowledge through various platforms both internal and external that ADB must strengthen the use and potential of the SDG blueprint. Countries should take strong ownership of the SDG’s 17 goals and targets; second, that the country financial requirements for reaching the SDGs in a post-pandemic setting are urgently re-assessed and addressed; and third that data gaps for monitoring development outcomes are tackled.
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• Nice to see that a very high caliber panel can be only women-based, even in ADB!
• Panel discussion helped me understand the co relation between the COVID 19 crisis, the SDGs and the unbalanced efforts and funding.
• Experts’ opinion on a very important global topic that also guides Asia Pacific moving forward.
• Panel discussion helped me understand the co relation between the COVID 19 crisis, the SDGs and the unbalanced efforts and funding.
• Experts’ opinion on a very important global topic that also guides Asia Pacific moving forward.
Name
Neeta Pokhrel
Title
Chief of Water Sector Group, SDCC
Organization
Asian Development Bank
Testimonial
I learnt from today’s discussion, met inspiring people. Enjoyed it a lot too, which does not always happen in similar panels. More confirmation of FENEL power (all female panel, as opposed to manel.)
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The Asian Development Bank (ADB) , established in 1966 is owned by 68 members—49 from the region. ADB is committed to achieving a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, while sustaining its efforts to eradicate extreme poverty.
ADB assists its members, and partners, by providing loans, technical assistance, grants, and equity investments to promote social and economic development. ADB maximizes the development impact of its assistance by facilitating policy dialogues, providing advisory services, and mobilizing financial resources through co-
financing operations that tap official, commercial, and export credit sources.
ADB assists its members, and partners, by providing loans, technical assistance, grants, and equity investments to promote social and economic development. ADB maximizes the development impact of its assistance by facilitating policy dialogues, providing advisory services, and mobilizing financial resources through co-
financing operations that tap official, commercial, and export credit sources.
