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Proven solutions include digitizing paperwork, integrating databases, using smart cards and digital payments, and transmitting emergency assistance via mobile phones.
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To build a well-coordinated government assistance program, focus on communication and outreach, targeting, service delivery, and evaluation.
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How to make it work: skills training, civic engagement and forums that help young people become active in society.
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Many transport projects include specific measures to prevent HIV/AIDS among migrant construction workers.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Latin America's long experience with conditional cash transfers offers lessons for implementing these innovative human development programs in Asia and the Pacific.
SDG: Goal 1: No Poverty
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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.
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Indonesia could reduce the impact of a prolonged El Niño by easing food import restrictions and strengthening social protection and food security.
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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.
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This paper analyzes the common challenges and drivers of job growth in the Pacific, and policy options to improve the labor market.