News

Women’s entrepreneurship and gender equitable business models are increasingly understood to be a key driver of economic growth and job creation globally. Yesterday at the 2019 APEC Women in the Economy Forum in La Serena, Chile, The Asia Foundation and APEC Chile hosted “The Future of Women and the Economy: Promoting Women’s Entrepreneurship and S… Read more

5:30 pm-7:30 pmGensler, 45 Fremont Street, Suite 1500, San Francisco, CA 94105The garment and textile sector has been a major driver of economic growth in Asia for over 50 years. The sector has been key to the development of Asia’s advanced economies such as Korea, Singapore and China and continues to drive economic growth in middle-income economie… Read more

The Wall Street Journal quotes the Foundation’s country representative in Afghanistan Abdullah Ahmadzai on voter turnout and polling center security in coverage of the 2019 presidential election in Afghanistan. “The security provided by polling centers was unprecedented and the current national election commission appears to have learned many lesso… Read more

9:30 am – 11:00 am Choate Room, Ground Floor Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Building 1779 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036 Watch the live stream here The government of Myanmar has recognized the importance of private sector development, yet many enterprises across the country continue to face a challenging business environ… Read more

UrduPoint, a Pakistan-based news site, highlights The Asia Foundation’s partnership with the Islamabad Capital Territory administration to bring awareness to citizens on the harmful effects of plastic bags by distributing 20,000 cloth bags in markets around the city. During second phase 18,000 fabricated made bags would be distributed among the vis… Read more

From 2018 to 2019, 2,500 boys from 61 schools in Mumbai, Indore, and Delhi, India, took a journey to redefine masculinity and stand up to gender-based violence. The Gender Lab Boys Program is the brainchild of cofounders Akshat Singhal and Ayushi Banerji, strong believers in the power of collective action who say they are out to change a patriarchal society, one boy at a time.

TIME magazine profiles landscape architect and 2016 Asia Foundation Development Fellow Kotchakorn Voraakhom in their “2050: The Fight For Earth” issue as one of 15 women leading the fight against climate change. As a child, Kotchakorn Voraakhom liked to pry apart cracked pavement to let seedlings burst through Bangkok’s sprawl. Now, the landscape a… Read more

Oxfam blog From Poverty to Power features program director Jaime Faustino in an audio interview with Oxfam’s Duncan Green on the Foundation’s Coalitions for Change (CfC) program. The interview was followed by an article comparing CfC with other adaptive management programs in Tanzania, Nigeria, and Myanmar. 

Beh Lih Yi of Thomson Reuters Foundation profiles the Let’s Read “Mighty Girls” collection of books that feature dynamic female characters in “Indonesian storytellers spread ‘mighty girls’ message to fight male dominance.” “It will open their eyes to all the possibilities they can have as girls,” said The Asia Foundation’s Morga… Read more

The Lowy Institute’s The Interpreter features our head of Community Policing Support Program in Timor Leste Robin Perry’s opinion piece highlighting key findings from the 2019 Community-Police Perceptions Survey. Coming just a few days after the last of the dignitaries departed Dili, the launch of The Asia Foundation’s (TAF) Community-Police Percep… Read more