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Improve water supply, sanitation, and solid waste management to strengthen resilience to vector-borne diseases.
Two of five adults in the Asia and Pacific region are overweight or obese and the costs associated with these conditions undermine economic growth as well as the achievement of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, particularly on health.
Invest in preparedness and establish a shock-responsive social protection system to weather future shocks and reap dividends from resilience.
Update curricula to offer more green-focused programs, leverage R&D on new technologies, and commercialize green-tech start-ups.
Develop a digital framework, adapt pavement innovations, and leverage ICT systems.
The Dhaka and Western Zone grid expansion project is using high-level tech applications to raise efficiency, cut emissions, and build climate resilience.
PPPs in renewable energy create more investment and jobs and help bring countries closer to their sustainable goals.
A project promoting south–south knowledge transfer adapted ICT-based Chinese information dissemination models to the Cambodian context.
Contractual arrangements for PPP infrastructure procurement must be improved.
Here’s what worked and what didn’t for Asian Development Bank’s first regional technical assistance on innovation.