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Project interventions evolved to create a virtuous cycle in water services, using performance-based contracts, participatory planning, behavioral change campaigns, and institutional reforms.
Strategies include smart enforcement, presumptive taxes, digital tools, sector-specific reforms, and incentives tied to formalization benefits.
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.
A preliminary study in Sri Lanka provides important insights into mechanistic-empirical pavement thickness and overlay design for roadway networks.
Nature-based solutions offer multiple co-benefits and are implementable at community scale.
The development of transportation infrastructure served as a linchpin of rapid economic growth in the Republic of Korea.
LOCA demonstrates how frontier markets can promote green urban mobility through local innovation and sustainable transport solutions.
EPR frameworks, plastic credit schemes, and high-level waste management technologies can support the Global Plastics Treaty implementation.