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“If you are feeling the pain and you have a solution in mind, I would say go for it, because ADB is the right place to just do it.”
Veronica Jo re
Social Development Specialist for Gender and Development, East Asia Department; and
ADB Very Innovative Person
ADB gender mainstreaming data at your ngertips
The challenge: ADB has one of the most sophisticated approaches to mainstreaming gender in lending operations, but the data associated with it are hidden and disconnected.
The innovation: Set up an automated system that uses ADB digital infrastructure to capture and visualize results in gender mainstreaming in a
format that allows the user to zoom in and out by project, sector, country, while tracking corporate results indicators in real time.
The story: Veronica Jo re wants to let you know that she’s not a techie: “I’m not a coder, or a millennial—but I am user—just like you!" Her message is that as technology becomes more embedded
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