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Tolo News features insights from Asia Foundation Afghanistan Country Representative Abdullah Ahmadzai in a televised interview on the voter registration process in Afghanistan. The voter registration process for the upcoming presidential elections was kicked off on Saturday in which the Independent Election Commission (IEC) will not use the biometr… Read more

3:30pm – 6:00pm Morrison Library, Doe Library, 101 Library Ct, Berkeley, CA 94720.  A bipartisan delegation of members of South Korea’s 20th National Assembly will visit UC Berkeley this summer to discuss South Korea’s engagement policy toward North Korea. Led by Chung-in Moon, special advisor to the President of South Korea on policy regardin… Read more

New tool measures economic governance for private sector development Today, The Asia Foundation released the Myanmar Business Environment Index 2019 (MBEI) as a diagnostic tool to better understand the local business environment. The government of Myanmar has recognized the importance of private sector development, yet many Myanmar enterprises cont… Read more

The Asia Foundation, with support from the International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Office of the U.S. Department of State, has been working in close partnership with the Supreme Court and the Philippine Association of Law Schools on the Strengthening Rule of Law Through Legal Aid Clinics in the Philippines project. The project aims to o… Read more

KPIX 5 CBS San Francisco features Golden State Warriors’ CFO and Lotus Circle honoree Jennifer Cabalquinto at the 2019 Lotus Leadership Award Dinner. The Asia Foundation presented its Lotus Leadership Award to Golden State Warriors CFO Jennifer Cabalquinto on Wednesday.

Devex interviews The Asia Foundation’s Assistant Director of Evaluation and Learning Natasha Beale on how technology is transforming monitoring and evaluation.   Technology is being used a lot more in M&E work, said Natasha Beale, assistant director of the monitoring and evaluation unit at The Asia Foundation. Traditionally, M&E was mu… Read more

The National Institute For Healthcare Management Foundation awards 2019 Asia Foundation Development Fellow Sohara Mehroze Shachi their Digital Media Award for her work on the series “The Weight of Numbers: Air Pollution and PM2.5.” Larry Price, Gayathri Vaidyanathan, Talia Bronshtein, Sohara Mehroze Shachi, Anna Cunningham, Brendan Borrell, “The We… Read more

8000 Polled on Reintegration A new survey released today by The Asia Foundation explores the many challenges returnees to Afghanistan face, including limited employment opportunities and infrastructure, insecurity, lack of housing, discrimination and stigma, as well as language and cultural barriers. The first of its kind ever conducted in Afghanis… Read more

The Global Good Fund selects 2018 Asia Foundation Development Fellow Vaibhav Lodha as one of ten rising social entrepreneurs for its 2019 cohort. Founded in 2012, The Global Good Fund is a nonprofit organization that supports social entrepreneurs around the world. The announcement was also featured by Forbes.  

The Daily Star runs a front page feature of The Asia Foundation’s roundtable discussion on, “The Leather Sector After the Tanning Industry Relocation: Issues and Challenges.” Industry experts participate in a consultation session on the findings of the study “The leather sector after the tanning industry relocation: issues and challenges” at The Da… Read more