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An evaluation of possible project impacts helps preserve culturally and environmentally important sites and protect nearby communities.
Promoting domestic tourism is essential to the Lao People’s Democratic Republic’s COVID-19 recovery.
Replacing an old barrage with advanced technology vastly improved water and flood control, connectivity, and access to essential social services.
Strengthening the capacity of the new lake authority was a critical success factor in implementing an integrated lake basin management project.
Disruptive innovation and technologies in transport are ushering smart processes, infrastructure, and operations, challenging regulators and raising passengers’ expectations.
In Afghanistan, river basin managers work with farmers in ensuring equitable and sustainable irrigation practices to improve yields and livelihoods.
Advances in technology are making more jobs obsolete, which means workers need skills to adapt quickly to changes in the workplace.
Success lies in industry links, technology, skills development, new modes of education delivery, and school-to-work transition programs.
Urban planners in Seoul shifted from paper-based processes to a computerized system to improve information sharing and decision-making.
Lanzhou, in the People’s Republic of China, has the world's first bus rapid transit with a split station design allowing buses in the same direction to stop on both sides of the platform, easing travel time.