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Experience from other countries shows online business registries are transparent and easy to use, encouraging enterprises to formalize their business.
The COVID-19 pandemic shows the importance of real-time learning in adapting interventions to an uncertain and rapidly changing situation.
Modernized facilities and customs reform cut the passage time by over 50% at the busy border crossing in Uzbekistan.
In Southeast Asia, big data can help transform the delivery of education, health care, and social welfare and protection services.
Investments include water conservation, ecosystem rehabilitation, disaster prevention, and green growth capacity development.
Lessons from the People’s Republic of China and the Asia-Pacific region suggest managing river basins as single ecological units.
Water tariff reforms coupled with personnel training, social contracts, and technology updates can make water utilities more efficient.
In the Greater Mekong Subregion, environmental assessment for livestock value chains projects helps avoid, minimize, and mitigate environmental, health, and safety risks.
In urban areas in the Lao PDR, decentralized solutions prove to be a low-maintenance and environment-friendly way to ensure clean water and sanitation.
Introduce interventions that address childcare issues and employment segregation.