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Manila Bulletin highlights Go Digital ASEAN in a featured article by Google Philippines Country Director Bernadette Nacario on the nation’s new wave of internet users. The 10-country digital literacy initiative will train up to 200,000 people in marginalized communities across the region, 60 percent of them women. The Asia Foundation’s Go Digital A… Read more

On September 25th, The Asia Foundation launched a four-year Women’s Economic Empowerment Project in Mongolia funded by Global Affairs Canada. The launch event was attended by a range of leaders active in Mongolia’s gender equality movement. Those gathered represented Mongolian civil society, government, the private sector, international organizatio… Read more

Across Asia, like other parts of the world, the Covid-19 pandemic has had significant implications for public health and safety, social and economic security, governance, and political stability. Many countries across Asia are facing challenges that impact their ability to contain the spread of the pandemic and the socio-economic crisis. In the fac… Read more

9:00 am NZDT (Thursday, October 29) 4:00 pm EDT (Wednesday, October 28) As Covid-19 has swept the globe it has had acute impacts on women and girls, including rising rates of domestic violence and economic insecurity, especially for Indigenous women, other black and brown women, and those working in informal sectors. Join The Asia Foundation and Ph… Read more

6:00 pm PT / 9:00 pm ET Rivers of Iron: Railroads and Chinese Power in Southeast Asia examines China’s effort to create an intercountry railway system connecting China and its seven Southeast Asian neighbors (Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam). David M. Lampton, Selina Ho, and Kuik Cheng-Chwee illuminate the politi… Read more

The Asia Foundation has received a grant from the Center for Disaster Philanthropy’s Covid-19 Response Fund to support vulnerable communities in Myanmar and Nepal impacted by Covid-19. Across Asia, vulnerable communities such as women, youth, small- and medium-sized business (SMB) owners, and returnee migrant workers continue to be critically impac… Read more

5:00 PM to 6:30 PM PHT Bangsamoro Data Challenge invites every Filipino, especially Mindanao-based data science enthusiasts, to produce insights, solutions, or strategies using authentic and reliable publicly available data to help the development of the BARMM. Please join us to learn how to participate and help solve social issues in BARMM using d… Read more

Join us for the Summit on Women’s Leadership in STEM, a high-level virtual forum that brings together leaders from Japan, Republic of Korea, and the U.S. to share experiences, lessons learned, and best practices in developing and sustaining future generations of women leaders in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). Convened by The Asi… Read more

The Asia Foundation’s 2020 Asia Foundation Development Fellows: Emerging Leadership for Asia’s Future program will be deferred until 2021, due to current travel restrictions and the public health landscape. The Covid-19 global pandemic has disrupted lives across the globe, but the Foundation is pleased to announce that all Asia Foundation Developme… Read more

This webinar is part of a series of convenings on renewable energy organized by The Asia Foundation on transboundary energy trade, supported by the Sustainable Development Investment Portfolio of Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Speakers at this webinar have expertise in covering green energy finance, infrastructure and regional… Read more