Germany Business Opportunities Seminar

ADB Support to Education and Training

- Ongoing and Emerging Priorities
24 November 2021

Presented by
Brajesh Panth, Chief of Education Sector Group
Sustainable Development and Climate Change Department
Asian Development Bank
Asia Pacific among Fastest Growing Regions
• Economies in Asia and the Pacific have witnessed robust pre-
COVID-19 growth rates.
• Post-COVID-19, the region is projected to grow faster than global
average in 2021 (6.9% compared to 5.2% globally- IMF)
• Human capital development at the heart of knowledge-based
growth with emphasis on higher order talent, and skills
• As per a recent McKinsey report, investments in digital talent
reskilling will be 2 of the 5 levers for recovery post-COVID-19
• Reimagining education and training in the wake of COVID-19
BUT
Many challenges to be addressed – slow pace of growth of
high skills, digitalization, inequalities, and disparities
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Key Challenges in the Education sector
▪ ‘Learning crisis’: shortfall in foundational literacy and numeracy,
despite tremendous progress in access
▪ Ineffective teacher practices; inadequate teacher capacities
▪ Slow pace of adoption of next gen curriculum and pedagogy
▪ Inadequate attention to soft skills, digital skills, and higher skills
▪ Mismatch between training institutions and employers on skills
▪ Lack of adoption of disruptive technologies in public education to
improve learning and employability
BUT
▪ Governments addressing learning quality with equity
▪ COVID-19 spurring adoption of new technologies for
learning
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Education Sector Ongoing Lending
and Grants Projects
By Region By Subsector
$4.366 billion $4.366 billion

7.93% 14.35%
5.06%
14.67%
30.86% 0.30%
16.24%
34.81%

49.11% 26.67%

Central East Pacific South Southeast Education Sector Development Pre-primary and primary
and EARD Asia
CWRD Asia PARD SARD AsiaSERD
Asia
Secondary TVET
West
Asia Tertiary
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Education Sector Lending and Grants Pipeline
2021–2023
By Region By Subsector
$4.6 billion
$4.6 billion
0.87%
0.39% 5.41%
10.47% 12.16%
29.73%
37.89%
17.57%

50.37%

35.14%

East Asia Pacific Education Pre- Secondary TVET Tertiary

Central and West Asia
Sector primary
South Asia Southeast Asia Development and
primary

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Consulting Business Opportunities in ADB
Education Sector Programs
▪ Design phase: diagnostic studies, costing, economic analysis,
market scoping, environmental and social safeguards, and
assessment of climate change mitigation and adaptation
▪ Implementation phase: technical support to quality
improvement and management areas – teacher professional
development, curriculum, and training
▪ Monitoring and evaluation: annual fiduciary reviews,
independent verification of achievement of results for
results-based loans, tracer studies in TVET and higher
education, impact assessment research, and evaluation
studies.
▪ INDIVIDUAL EXPERTS AND CONSULTING FIRMS 6
Areas for Technical Support in Demand
from Partner Countries
• Developing member countries (DMCs) are looking for
finance++ partnerships
• Knowledge solutions are increasingly critical to successful
design and implementation of programs
• Innovative approaches and new operating modalities are
called for to help DMCs keep pace with global trends
• Sharing of global experiences and practices and concrete
working models with demonstrated results are sought by
DMCs
• High-quality analytics in planning, design, and
implementation are needed for value addition in ADB
programs and projects
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Key Areas for Technical Consulting
K-12 TVET Higher education
• STEM and improving • Skills for fourth industrial • Research, innovation,
science revolution start-up ecosystems
• Creativity, problem • Skills for climate resilient • Higher order digital
solving, soft skills and green occupations talent
• Student learning • Skills for health • Advanced skills in
assessment workforce, aging science and new
population and care technologies
• New pedagogies; economy
teacher training • Digital credentials,
• Skills for hi-tech
• Coding, digital skills blockchain for
agriculture
• Online learning with qualifications
• Advanced skills (tertiary)
instructional design • Corporate research
• Skills University
• Learning management partnerships
• Real time job market
system forecasting • Accelerators and
incubators and
• AI-based job matching
entrepreneurship
platforms
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Ecosystem Approach to EdTech
COVID-19 Starts 6 Months 2 Years 5 Years
3 Rs Response (During Emergency)
3 Es
5 Pillars Recover (Transition & Initial Recovery)
Rejuvenating (Sustained Recovery & Reform)
Equitable
Infrastructure
Weak ICT Infrastructure
Low-Tech Medium-Tech High-Tech • Disadvantaged Group
• Gender
(Connectivity and Devices)

Government EdTech Enabled Education Master Enduring

Lack of enabling government policies • Data Driven based on funding
Plan decision
• Sustainability

Scale up school management and

Schools/Teachers
Lack of qualified teachers and
administration
TPD Efficient
• Teacher training & support
Scale up home based and out of • Personalized learning
Parents/Students school learning • Foundational Skills
Lack of 21st century skills for new
• 21st century skills
jobs

Providers Scale up local provider landscape

Lack of EdTech partners

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New Modalities for Technical Collaboration
ADB seeks to explore new opportunities in operations:
▪ Rethinking capacity building
▪ Going beyond consulting to partnerships and long-term
institutional twinning
▪ Enabling exchange programs for faculty, students
▪ Promoting collaborative research practice and innovation
▪ Amplifying Peer-to-Peer knowledge transfer and sharing
global best practices
▪ Establishing professional networks and promoting regional
resource centers of excellence and ‘lighthouse’ institutions
▪ Enabling institutional partnerships for teacher training,
student assessments, and research collaboration
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Strategy 2030, Operational Priorities, and
COVID-19 Recovery
ADB seeks to explore opportunities in knowledge work:
▪ Multi-sectoral approaches for development impact
• Skills for infrastructure leading to quality jobs (energy, transport)
• Skills for climate resilient development processes
• Education, skills and talent pipeline for smart cities
• Training for hi-tech agriculture
▪ OP 1: address remaining poverty and reduce inequalities
• Intersection of education, health, and social protection
• Human capital, protection for all, generate quality jobs, and reduce
inequality in opportunities
▪ Post-COVID-19 actions
• ADB guidance note on response, recovery, and rejuvenation
• New departures and re-imagining education delivery
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German Expertise and Collaboration

Germany and Global practices in

▪ TVET and higher education including research and
development, university-TVET-industry linkages
▪ Work-based training and private sector-led workforce
development
▪ Digital transformation and green recovery
▪ New departures in well-known equity aspects such as
girls, disadvantaged youth, and students with disability

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Amplifying ADB-Germany Technical
Partnerships for Education

Build for Skills

▪ Including TVET in infrastructure projects
▪ IR4.0 and advance manufacturing

Develop new domains for technical assistance

▪ Smart Cities and Education (e.g., Smart City Academy) –
build education and training into smart city collaboration
▪ Climate Change and Education
▪ Clean Energy and Sustainability Schools in Higher Education

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 Examples of Innovative Approaches

BAN: Digital University CAM: STEM Program

INO: Higher Education for SOL: Education Sector Project
Higher
Technology and Innovation K12
Education SRI: Secondary Education Projects
Projects
MON: Research Universities UZB: Secondary Education STEM
VIE: Medical Schools PRC: Early Childhood Education

PHI: Innovation Learning Centers BAN: Advanced Agriculture Univ

IND: Assam Skill University PRC: Shanxi Changzhi Green Industrial
TVET Transformation and Human Cross-
Projects PNG: Improved TVET for Capital Development Project
Sectoral
Projects
Employment
PHI: Facilitating Youth School to Work
TAJ: Skills for Migrant Workers Transition

ADB TO PROVIDE ‘THOUGHT LEADERSHIP’ IN FUTURISTIC DESIGN

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 APPENDICES
List of Pipeline Projects 2021–2023
2021 Approval Pipeline ADB Financing
South Asia Regional Department
Accelerating State Education Program to Improve Results (ASPIRE)
India 300.0
(with piggybacked TA)
India Assam Skill University Project (with piggybacked TA) 112.0
Southeast Asia Regional Department
Indonesia Higher Education for Technology and Innovation 79.48
Indonesia Boosting Productivity and Human Capital Program, SP1 500.0
Total 2021 991.48

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List of Pipeline Projects 2021–2023
ADB
2022 Approval Pipeline Financing
Central and West Asia Regional Department
Pakistan Improving Workforce Readiness in Punjab Project 100.0
Kyrgyz 35.0
School Education Reform Sector Development Program
Republic
Azerbaijan Modernizing Vocational Education Sector Development Program 75.0
East Asia Regional Department
Mongolia Research University Sector Development Project 30.0
Mongolia Sustaining Access to and Quality of Education During Economic Difficulties Project (additional financing) 10.0
Pacific Department
Solomon 10.0
Secondary Education Project
Islands
South Asia Regional Department
Bangladesh Improving Computer and Software Engineering Tertiary Education Project 100.0
Bangladesh Education Sector Development Preparatory Facility (PRF) 15.0
Nepal Second Supporting School Sector Development Plan 100.0
Bangladesh Strengthening Agricultural Tertiary Education Project 150.0
India State Skills Development Project 100.0
Bangladesh Second Skills for Employment Project (Phase 1) 300.0
Nepal Improved Access to Skills for Productive Employment Project 70.0
Sri Lanka Second Skills Enhancement Program 200.0
Bhutan Pathways for Innovation and Technical Education Project 30.0
Bangladesh TVET Teachers for the Future 300.0
Southeast Asia Regional Department
Promoting Research and Innovation through Modernization and Enhancement of Science and Technology Park (formerly Higher 198.0
Indonesia
Education for Technology and Innovation Project Phase 2)
Philippines Integrating Innovation System in Philippine Technical and Vocational Education and Training (might be advanced to 2021) 100.0
Cambodia Skills for Future Economy Investment Program, PFR 1 80.0
Cambodia Science and Technology Project in Upper Secondary Education 80.0
Total 2022 2,083.0
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List of Pipeline Projects 2021–2023
ADB Financing
2023 Approval Pipeline
Central and West Asia Regional Department
Tajikistan Improving Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics Education Project 20.0
Pakistan Punjab Education Sector Development Program 50.0
Georgia Improving Learning Outcomes in General Education 150.0
Uzbekistan Secondary Education Investment in STEM Project 50.0
Pacific Department
Vanuatu Education Sector Project 8.00
South Asia Regional Department
Sri Lanka Innovation and R&D Capacity Development Project 100.0
India Meghalaya Human Capital Development Project (Phase 2) 80.0
Nepal Support for Devolved Education Project: Making Schools Work 50.0
Maldives Social Sector Development Project 22.8
Bhutan Strengthening Institutional Capacity for Innovation and Digital Transformation (TVET) 30.0
Sri Lanka Additional Financing of Science and Technology Human Resource Development Project 150.0
Bangladesh Innovations in Tertiary Education for Competitiveness (Garments and Textiles) Project 100.0
Southeast Asia Regional Department
Indonesia Boosting Productivity and Human Capital Program, SP2 500.0
Indonesia Improving Professional Veterinary Education 200.0
Total 2023 1,510.8

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Key Contacts for the Education Team
Names Designation Email
Rie Hiraoka Director, CWSS rhiraoka@adb.org
Eisuke Tajima OIC PAU Head, CWSS etajima@adb.org
Asif Cheema Director, EASS acheema@adb.org
Andrew McIntyre PAU Head, EASS amcintyre@adb.org
Ananya Basu Director, PASP abasu@adb.org
Ninebeth Carandang Senior Social Development Specialist / PAU ncarandang@adb.org
Sungsup Ra Director, SAHS sungsupra@adb.org
M. Shahadat Russell PAU Head, SAHS msrussell@adb.org
Ayako Inagaki Director, SEHS ainagaki@adb.org
Shamit Chakravarti Sector Leads, SEHS schakravarti@adb.org
Eduardo Banzon Sector Leads, SEHS ebanzon@adb.org
Lynnette Perez Sector Leads, SEHS LDPEREZ@adb.org
Brajesh Panth Chief of Education Sector Group, SDCC bpanth@adb.org
Shanti Jagannathan Principal Education Specialist, SDSC-EDU sjagannathan@adb.org
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Thank you!
bpanth@adb.org