The Asia Leadership Program: Building Communities of Leaders through Regional Knowledge Sharing

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The TA will expand, refine and leverage off the achievements of phase 1 of Asia Leadership Program for Sustainable Development and Climate Change (ALP). Phase II of the Program will focus on (i) "operationalizing" Sustainable Development- (SD) and Climate Change- (CC) related topics; and (ii) recent innovations in financing (e.g., carbon tax reforms), regulatory reforms, and private sector and NGO initiatives. The online "leadership knowledge platform" will enable the use of blended learning with case studies and other materials, videoconferences, webinars, and on-line chat forums. Phase II will create a community of leaders across ADB member countries through tools tailored to the leadership skills and needs required at each of the three levels of DMC participants (e.g., online sessions with recognized leaders on consensus building and communications). This online "leadership knowledge platform" will support the regional and sub-regional face-to-face learning and knowledge exchanges and South-South and triangular cooperation approaches; the platform will be linked to the proposed Knowledge Asia web portal. Under the TA, ADB will launch the Asia Women's Leadership Program (AWLP) on a pilot basis to help build capacity of women leaders in the Asia and Pacific region. The TA will support this first capacity building program in the region in the first quarter of 2014, targeting about 40 senior women government officials.