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The Industry Employment Network Database helps the Philippines shape more strategic policy and infrastructure plans.
Replacing an old barrage with advanced technology vastly improved water and flood control, connectivity, and access to essential social services.
Among the lessons: Make inclusive investments in education, sanitation, and health in order to avoid enclaves of rich and poor.
Early and strong action mitigates health impact, while recovery measures focus on the long term.
Performance-based funding improved urban governance and quality of infrastructure and services, and promoted women’s empowerment.
Using resource-saving technology, new rice varieties, and intercropping of vegetables improve yields and income in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Nepal.
In the People’s Republic of China, food delivery businesses are finding innovative ways of reducing, reusing, recycling, and replacing plastic packaging.
Building roads for socioeconomic development depends on an efficient O&M system that considers the difficult topology and fiscal issues.
Short- and long-term actions in roads, rail, waterways, maritime, and aviation can enhance transport connectivity and promote integration in the SAARC region.
Indigenous peoples can better articulate their role in making sense of a project’s environmental and social impacts through participatory storytelling.