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One way to reduce poverty in developing countries is to make it cheaper and easier for migrant workers to send money home.

Among the lessons: Make inclusive investments in education, sanitation, and health in order to avoid enclaves of rich and poor.

Computer-assisted surveys make data collection possible despite COVID-19 travel and social restrictions.

Appreciative Inquiry, Most Significant Change, Social Audit are activities that can be used to engage stakeholders in project evaluation. 

Community Radio, Participatory Action Research, and Television Drama are some of the implementation tools for communications and behaviour change.

Debt-for-climate-and-nature swaps provide Sri Lanka with a practical solution to ease debt, combat climate change, and protect biodiversity.

Problem Tree, Beneficiary Assessment, and Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis are useful tools when preparing the design and monitoring framework for CSO engagement.

Baselining, Ten Seed Technique, Seasonal Calendar, Community Mapping, Transect Walk, and Visioning are all participatory tools used for assessment.

Visual Associations Mapping, Stakeholder Mapping Matrices, and Venn Diagrams can be used as stakeholder analysis tools for CSO engagement in the Pacific. 

This piece offers practical advice as to why working with civil society is important in the Pacific and how greater engagement between CSOs, government, and the Asian Development Bank can be achieved.