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To build a well-coordinated government assistance program, focus on communication and outreach, targeting, service delivery, and evaluation.

How to make it work: skills training, civic engagement and forums that help young people become active in society.

Many transport projects include specific measures to prevent HIV/AIDS among migrant construction workers.

Despite extensive aid, countries with fragile and conflict-affected situations are generally failing to significantly improve the lives of their people. New thinking is needed.

The Southville 7 community in the Philippines shows how different sectors of society worked successfully together to turn a basic housing project into a livable community for 5,000 resettled families.

While many inclusive businesses support the concept of gender-inclusivity, much more needs to be done to ensure that women’s economic empowerment is promoted in the workplace.

Latin America's long experience with conditional cash transfers offers lessons for implementing these innovative human development programs in Asia and the Pacific.

In the Philippines, targeted cash grants to help poor students finish high school could double their potential income and lift them out of chronic poverty.

Indonesia could reduce the impact of a prolonged El Niño by easing food import restrictions and strengthening social protection and food security.

This policy brief underscores the need to facilitate the transition of businesses from the informal to the formal sector to generate more jobs in the Pacific.