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In South Asia, stakeholders worked together to enhance integrated water resources management in mountainous river basins prone to precipitation extremes.
Countries need to build capacity and develop financial solutions for different climate risks, including those that can better address slow-onset events.
Among the investments supported by the Afghanistan Business Innovation Fund were businesses that targeted women as workers, producers, and consumers.
In the People’s Republic of China, reducing the risk of illness-induced poverty entails raising the poor’s financial protection and health system reforms.
Enhancing transport and trade linkages between and across the countries in the Bay of Bengal region requires a strategic master plan.
Synergizing the efforts of multiple stakeholders to support digitalization will facilitate circular plastic economy transition in the PRC.
What is needed: Increased financing, reliable supplies of affordable and effective medicines, improved data from health information systems, stronger implementation of national malaria programs, and leadership that looks beyond the health sector.
Better coordination and accountability are helping to improve road and water systems in Armenia.
Key governance improvements and innovative financing strategies can promote sustainable water management in Central Asia.
Investing in energy transition may enable the textile sector to access markets that require lower-carbon supply chains.