This publication recaps proceedings during ADB's Southeast Asia Development Symposium 2022. It highlights the solutions adopted by governments, industry, civil society, and individuals to address challenges brought on by the pandemic.
Upcoming Event
ADB Southeast Asia Development Symposium 2023: Imagining a Net Zero ASEAN
This annual flagship event from ADB will examine how countries in the region can harness new green, innovative, and cost-effective approaches to support decarbonization in a wide range of sectors while revitalizing economies.
Indonesia's Women Entrepreneurs: Her Barriers Are More Systemic Than
You Think
Women entrepreneurs face a range of constraints in growing their businesses, including limited access to capital, advice, and training opportunities, as well as support networks for business-related resources.
Safer Trains: Reporting
Gender-Based Violence in Public Transport in the Philippines
Grievance redress mechanisms are essential for quick response to stakeholder feedback—and to make public transport equitable and safer.
Building a Climate Resilient Asia: What Is Most Needed?
Ensuring cities are livable, adopting nature-based solutions, adopting sustainable transport, and shifting to hydrogen power among initiatives seen to bolster fight against climate change.
MSMEs Critical for a Greener Future in Southeast Asia
MSMEs are the first and last mile of the economy. As such, more concerted support for MSMEs to chart a greener way forward is needed, from governments, platform companies, and new digital solutions providers.
Five Ways to Fund the Philippines’ Fight against Climate Change
Financing climate action was a key topic at the COP27 climate change conference in Sharm El-Sheikh. For the Philippines, on the front lines of the global climate emergency, it is a make-or-break question.
$3 Million in Seed Funding at Stake in Search for Innovative Solutions to Fight Climate Change
Grant size ranges from $100,000 to $250,000; deadline ends 31 January 2023.
Latest News
Report
Report
This report explores how governments, investors, and communities can understand the opportunities promised by green economic strategy and take action to build sustainable prosperity.
Solutions
Women entrepreneurs face a range of constraints in growing their businesses, including limited access to capital, advice, and training opportunities, as well as support networks for business-related resources.
Report
This paper reflects on the implications of gender-based cyber violence for digital equality and economic development.
Report
This publication shares findings from a 2021 review by the provincial government of DKI Jakarta on the implementation of the SDGs.
Solutions
Nusantara’s plan to achieve a carbon-neutral, resource-efficient, and livable city will contribute to Indonesia’s target of achieving net-zero emissions by 2060.
Solutions
Ensuring cities are livable, adopting nature-based solutions, adopting sustainable transport, and shifting to hydrogen power among initiatives seen to bolster fight against climate change.
Solutions
MSMEs are the first and last mile of the economy. As such, more concerted support for MSMEs to chart a greener way forward is needed, from governments, platform companies, and new digital solutions providers.
Report
This report from ADB provides updated economic projections, revising growth forecasts for developing Asia down slightly from 4.3% to 4.2% in 2022 and from 4.9% to 4.6% in 2023.
News
Monetary policy tightening by central banks globally and in the region, the protracted Russian invasion of Ukraine, and recurring lockdowns in the People’s Republic of China are slowing down developing Asia’s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Videos
The portal is designed as a virtual marketplace to showcase upcoming infrastructure projects in the region.
Solutions
Leaders want countries to brace for headwinds from COVID-19, supply chain disruptions, food shortage, climate change, and other threats.
Solutions
Financing climate action was a key topic at the COP27 climate change conference in Sharm El-Sheikh. For the Philippines, on the front lines of the global climate emergency, it is a make-or-break question.
Solutions
Education systems need retooling to meet the growing demand for higher digital skills.
Report
This report shows how the Lao PDR can leverage its regional position to boost trade, increase agriculture, and harness the power of its cities to promote inclusive and equitable growth.
News
Grant size ranges from $100,000 to $250,000; deadline ends 31 January 2023.
Report
This report examines the current and potential role of digital technology in fostering the inclusion and economic empowerment of people with disabilities in Southeast Asia.
Solutions
Grievance redress mechanisms are essential for quick response to stakeholder feedback—and to make public transport equitable and safer.
Solutions
Intellectual property and other intangible assets needed to help Southeast Asia meet net zero goals.
Solutions
A mobile app that enables citizens to easily call for emergency assistance during calamities bags top prize.
Solutions
Given that buildings and the wider built environment contribute more than a third of the total greenhouse gas emissions emitted continuously into the Earth’s atmosphere, action is urgently needed to decarbonize the property sector.
Report
This publication, which provides a tourism recovery communications plan and toolkit, was jointly prepared by BIMP-EAGA and IMT-GT.
Solutions
Riding the waves of innovations can help leapfrog Paris pathways.
News
ADB's assistance will support Indonesia’s energy sector reforms to boost fiscal sustainability and governance, expand private sector investments in clean and renewable energy, and promote green recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Solutions
Redefining Business As Usual: Exploring the Future of MSMEs in Indonesia through Strategic Foresight
05 December 2022
Strategic foresight can help policymakers grasp a more holistic understanding of an issue, such as illustrating how technological, economic, social, environmental, and political drivers (and their interlinkages) might influence the future.
Report
This brief explains the critical role small firms play in Southeast Asia's economy and what measures are needed to help them recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Paper
This report highlights some of the strategies, opportunities, and challenges facing the tech industry in the wake of the pandemic.
Solutions
IP rights is essential to enable innovation and diffusion of sustainable technologies, improve collaboration, and foster prosperity in developing countries.
Report
This publication highlights evidence-based approaches for advancing decarbonization across sectors.
Solutions
Thanks to a 2-day tech bootcamp, former supply chain industry worker musters courage to find job in the tech industry.
Solutions
Grievance redress mechanisms are essential for quick response to stakeholder feedback—and to make public transport equitable and safer.
Intellectual property and other intangible assets needed to help Southeast Asia meet net zero goals.
Given that buildings and the wider built environment contribute more than a third of the total greenhouse gas emissions emitted continuously into the Earth’s atmosphere, action is urgently needed to decarbonize the property sector.
Spotlight
ASEAN Policy Network
Amid increasing demand for knowledge from developing member countries (DMCs) in Southeast Asia, ADB's ASEAN Policy Network facilitates knowledge sharing and collaboration within and between its operational and central knowledge departments and seeks to build relationships with academes, think tanks, research institutions, and other partners.
Southeast Asia Sustainable Tourism Hub
With Southeast Asia’s tourism industry still reeling from the impact of COVID-19, ADB is increasing its support for investments, capacity development, and knowledge to accelerate an inclusive and sustainable recovery.
Publications
This report from ADB provides updated economic projections, revising growth forecasts for developing Asia down slightly from 4.3% to 4.2% in 2022 and from 4.9% to 4.6% in 2023.
This report shows how the Lao PDR can leverage its regional position to boost trade, increase agriculture, and harness the power of its cities to promote inclusive and equitable growth.
This report examines how employers in Asia and the Pacific now want new hires to have higher digital skills, like digital design, data analytics, data science, machine learning, and programming.
Webinar Recordings
This webinar examined the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the emerging trends in Southeast Asia's labor markets, particularly for women and the youth, and what needs to be done to ensure a resilient and inclusive workforce in a post-COVID-19 world.
This webinar discussed the implications of competing short-, medium-, and long-term challenges on the region’s prospect for building a resilient and sustainable recovery. It also explored policy instruments that could be used to address such challenges.
This webinar focused on enhancing collective understanding about the cloud, its benefits, and the policy best practices for building a cloud-first environment.
Featured Events
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09
February
2023
Online
Technology and Disability: Trends and Opportunities in the Digital Economy in ASEAN
03:00 pm - 04:15 pm
UTC+7
Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia
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30
March
2023
Hybrid
ADB Southeast Asia Development Symposium 2023: Imagining a Net Zero ASEAN
09:00 am - 05:00 pm
GMT+8
Asian Development Bank
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June
2023
In-Person
PATA Destination Experience Forum and Mart 2023
08:00 am - 05:00 pm
UTC+8
Pacific Asia Travel Association
What is SEADS?
The Southeast Asia Development Solutions—SEADS—is a knowledge and innovation platform under the Asian Development Bank. In tandem with its partner program, the Southeast Asia Development Symposium, SEADS aims to help crystallize thinking on relevant and critical issues in the region, and support countries in becoming prosperous, knowledge-based, and sustainable.
Sowing SEADS of Growth
INNOVATIONS
Discover the latest cutting-edge breakthroughs that can help countries tackle pressing challenges.
SOLUTIONS
Hear from leading minds and trailblazers from industry, technology, the public sector, and academia.
CONNECTIONS
Interact with problem-solvers and next-generation thinkers from Southeast Asia and beyond.
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