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Implement supportive policies, encourage merchant adoption, and integrate digital payments into public services.
How to make it work: skills training, civic engagement and forums that help young people become active in society.
Innovative and sustained support for Grameen-style lending expanded financial services for underserved groups, including women.
The widespread loss of natural ecosystems and biodiversity is much more than a conservation issue; countless lives and livelihoods depend on them.
Statisticians use satellite images of Earth’s night lights to measure social and economic activity.
Strengthen laws, improve labeling, create incentives, regulate refrigerants, and promote large-scale adoption.
Government can partner with telcos and educators and use multiple channels of existing infrastructure to reach as many children as possible.
A national standardized spatial data infrastructure offers insights for sustainable and resilient land resource management and smart city planning.
Science-based solutions help rural communities manage water resources sustainably and build resilience against climate change impacts.
Modernizing milk production can help reduce the grazing pressure on grasslands and support the livelihood of herders.