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Sustainable hydropower project balances energy needs with tribal rights, cultural preservation, and inclusive livelihood restoration.
Inclusive business models can effectively reduce inequality, helping vulnerable low-income earners get out of poverty.
From a policy and economic standpoint, a paid sick leave program for COVID-19 is cost-effective in promoting behaviors that reduce disease spread.
Project interventions evolved to create a virtuous cycle in water services, using performance-based contracts, participatory planning, behavioral change campaigns, and institutional reforms.
Regenerative agroforestry can promote decarbonization and biodiversity, while improving coffee farmers’ livelihoods in the Lao PDR.
LOCA demonstrates how frontier markets can promote green urban mobility through local innovation and sustainable transport solutions.
While remittances from migrant workers continue to increase, they can only fuel economic growth if they enter the formal financial system and be channeled into productive investments.
Rehabilitating natural systems with green infrastructure is key to building sustainability and resilience to climate change in urban areas.
Transporting passengers and cargo over navigable rivers and canals reduces road and rail congestion, road crashes, pollution, emissions, and energy consumption.
Nature-based solutions offer multiple co-benefits and are implementable at community scale.