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A water project includes a gender, caste, and minority ethnic strategy to promote the rights of marginalized groups in Nepal.
Community involvement in planning, operation, and maintenance has been key to the successful provision of water and sanitation services for more than 700,000 people living in remote and poor regions in Nepal.
Performance-based funding improved urban governance and quality of infrastructure and services, and promoted women’s empowerment.
Cities in Asia and the Pacific need to scale up investments in resilient infrastructure amid increasing climate and disaster risks.
Scaling up farm activities through sustainable mechanisms that improve conditions and incomes of smallholder farmers can alleviate rural poverty.
It is time to revisit urban strategies and revise the urbanization process and practices to build back better post-pandemic cities.
Collaborations can bridge infrastructure deficits as well as support transformational development and enhance urban livability in many ways.
Nature-based solutions offer multiple co-benefits and are implementable at community scale.
India’s Rajasthan Urban Infrastructure Development Project offers practical operational lessons and best practices for forging more livable cities.
Women were actively involved in developing the vision, plans and implementation of the local climate change projects.