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Involving residents from rural communities is key to improve access to markets and commercial areas.
Debt-for-climate-and-nature swaps provide Sri Lanka with a practical solution to ease debt, combat climate change, and protect biodiversity.
A comprehensive assessment of climate impacts helped tailor appropriate and impactful interventions in Huangshan city.
Policies should promote the growth and sustainability of social enterprises without making them dependent on state support.
Farmers are managing seasonal floods and droughts better, thanks to a modern irrigation system, flood-proof road, and disaster risk control measures.
Statisticians turn to digital solutions and nontraditional methods for faster data collection, processing, and dissemination to inform crisis response.
A combination of asphalt and concrete layers that incorporate plastic waste could make durable, sustainable, and cost-effective rural roads.
Governments must have a strategy that looks at SMEs at the enterprise level to help them survive in the new normal.
The poorest of the poor need sustained and integrated assistance in order to overcome the multidimensional problems of poverty.
Jobs, education and skills development are needed to help elderly people lead a more stable life and contribute to the economy.