The Role of Extended Producer Responsibility in Advancing a Circular Future Shifting waste responsibility to producers is a powerful approach for reducing plastic waste and fostering a circular economy.
Protecting Children in the Digital Age: Risks, Resilience, and Strategies Parents and caregivers can safeguard children online by promoting digital literacy, open communication, and engaged parenting.
Scaling Medical Devices in Asia and the Pacific Through Stronger Regulations, Greater Harmonization Harmonizing standards and navigating medical device regulations to boost innovations can facilitate access beyond national boundaries.
Mapping Industry Networks as a Key to Coordinated Economic Growth The Industry Employment Network Database helps the Philippines shape more strategic policy and infrastructure plans.
Designing a Comprehensive Public Financial Management Reform Plan for the Philippines PFM in sustainable development requires strengthening efforts to be inclusive and tailored to local context.
How to Adopt Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes International exchange of information curbs the outflow of resources from tax evasion.
Empowering Local Governments for Effective Disaster Management and Climate Resilience Local governments need a combination of strategic policy reforms and capacity building to effectively perform disaster risk reduction and management functions.
Making and Telling Stories with Indigenous Peoples Indigenous peoples can better articulate their role in making sense of a project’s environmental and social impacts through participatory storytelling.
Harmonizing Marine Plastic Pollution Data in the East Asian Seas Regional cooperation and improved data practices can help address the challenge of plastic pollution more effectively.
Revamping Tobacco Taxation Strategies for High-Burden Asian Countries Tax reforms aimed at a 10% reduction in smoking prevalence could reduce the population of smokers by 38.7 million and prevent 11.6 million premature deaths.