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Domestic violence is a human rights issue, requiring collective stakeholder interventions to provide a continuum of care for all affected.
Broaden the tax base, increase taxation on capital income, and strengthen all core functions of tax administration for improved compliance.
Debt-for-climate-and-nature swaps provide Sri Lanka with a practical solution to ease debt, combat climate change, and protect biodiversity.
The secondary education sector can benefit from government support for private schools and vocational schools.
Putting in place policies, systems, and infrastructure for e-government helped improve efficiency, transparency, and people’s access and participation.
Sustainable farming and efficient water use can enhance high-value crop production and increase farmers’ income even in harsh environments.
Regulations need to be aligned to improve the efficiency of environment, social, governance investments.
Update curricula to offer more green-focused programs, leverage R&D on new technologies, and commercialize green-tech start-ups.
Lessons from the People’s Republic of China and the Asia-Pacific region suggest managing river basins as single ecological units.
An urban housing project in India is using carefully sequenced interventions to help climate-vulnerable households relocate to safe areas and sustainably rebuild their lives.