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WASH investments through piped water, improved drainage, and waste management can help curb water-related disease risks and boost climate resilience for refugees and host communities.
Economic incentives push producers and consumers to use resources more efficiently and reduce environmental costs as well as spur innovative practices.
A project promoting south–south knowledge transfer adapted ICT-based Chinese information dissemination models to the Cambodian context.
Shaded rest, clean water, and cooling systems safeguard workers from extreme heat while boosting productivity.
Digital solutions tailored to the local contexts and reinforced by human interactions hold great potential for scaling action against plastic pollution.
A sound governance framework, supported by qualitative and quantitative value for money analysis, maximizes benefits from infrastructure investments.
Experts endorse 10 principles for risk mitigation, which include evacuation plans for medical and quarantine facilities and areas under lockdown.
Knowledge of a startup’s technology, human resources, marketability, and growth potential lowers the risks of venture capital investments.
In Bangladesh, improvements in rural roads and markets paved the way for women’s empowerment.
A Korean firm develops a low-maintenance flowmeter that can measure a wide variation of sewage flow rates to improve efficiency and prevent flooding.