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Policymakers should focus on long-term strategic plans such as zoning of territories based on potential water sources when designing water and sanitation solutions for communities.
Technology can help reboot the tourism sector by enabling contactless and digital transactions and mapping COVID-19 infections for disease control.
A Philippine distiller has demonstrated how to turn wastewater into clean energy and fertilizer, highlighting the cost effectiveness of green solutions to pollution.
Among the lessons: Make inclusive investments in education, sanitation, and health in order to avoid enclaves of rich and poor.
Collaborations can bridge infrastructure deficits as well as support transformational development and enhance urban livability in many ways.
The region needs integrated and holistic policies to push an ambitious agenda that requires capital, innovation, and new business models and mindsets.
Large-scale vaccination requires a comprehensive strategy, infrastructure, human resources, monitoring systems, and a receptive public.
Increasing private sector participation in training can help build employer confidence and prepare graduates for the job market.
Real-time data is critical for reopening borders, managing destinations, and for the industry to build back better from the crisis.
Local governments need a combination of strategic policy reforms and capacity building to effectively perform disaster risk reduction and management functions.