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Policy reforms critical to building resilience include revamping teacher training and improving quality, relevance, and inclusion in the education sector.
Experts endorse 10 principles for risk mitigation, which include evacuation plans for medical and quarantine facilities and areas under lockdown.
Plans, policies, projects, and partnerships should deliver concurrently on these imperatives: access to renewables, energy efficiency, and coal phaseout.
Lessons from Greater Mekong Subregion countries can help efforts to develop premium markets for Kazakhstan’s halal lamb meat and Mongolia’s camel wool.
A study shows the planned railway will increase access to more and better jobs in 48 cities and municipalities in Metro Manila and Southern Luzon.
Design projects with high economic impact and share dividends with investors and communities through hometown investment funds, land trusts, and other instruments.
The secondary education sector can benefit from government support for private schools and vocational schools.
Improve water supply, sanitation, and solid waste management to strengthen resilience to vector-borne diseases.
Scaling up farm activities through sustainable mechanisms that improve conditions and incomes of smallholder farmers can alleviate rural poverty.
The World Food Programme uses cash transfers not just to feed the hungry but also to give people purchasing power to buy locally, helping to boost economies.