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Creating a market for green business requires policies that help businesses make or save money from environmental compliance.
Strategies for making electric vehicles a sustainable solution include a phased implementation starting with e-buses in Dushanbe and climate finance.
Among the lessons: Make inclusive investments in education, sanitation, and health in order to avoid enclaves of rich and poor.
The keys to success: link education, experience and tourism to create benefits while considering local conditions such as topography and climate.
Mobile apps enable farmers, including women smallholders, to modernize and diversify their production and transact with suppliers and buyers directly.
Experience from two projects shows digital tools for database management help ensure a fair and transparent process and efficient resource allocation.
In Sri Lanka, the rural water sector has benefited from the active role of women in management and operations.
Solomon Islands has overcome significant challenges to private sector development by implementing policies that create jobs and livelihoods through private enterprise.
In Mongolia, community revolving funds helped poor households develop tourism goods and services aligned with biodiversity conservation.
Targeted training tracks, enhanced online learning, and close collaborations with other agencies can make TVET system more responsive.