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Here is what works: quotas, training, skills matching, mobility, and childcare leave policies.
Resilient health systems, early warning tools, and community safeguards can reduce chronic heat risks and protect vulnerable populations.
How to make it work: skills training, civic engagement and forums that help young people become active in society.
Chronic respiratory disease screening and management through digital spirometry can improve lung health outcomes in Asia and the Pacific.
Plans, policies, projects, and partnerships should deliver concurrently on these imperatives: access to renewables, energy efficiency, and coal phaseout.
Strategies include smart enforcement, presumptive taxes, digital tools, sector-specific reforms, and incentives tied to formalization benefits.
Short- and long-term actions in roads, rail, waterways, maritime, and aviation can enhance transport connectivity and promote integration in the SAARC region.
AI and satellite data improve poverty mapping in Indonesia and Maldives, enabling targeted solutions through data-driven insights.
In the Republic of Korea, a mobile and low-cost motorcycle inspection system was developed for commercialization and export.
Integrating road ecology principles and green infrastructure designs can balance construction with environmental conservation.