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Financial readiness and pre-arranged support reduce delays, protect budgets, and enable faster, more efficient rebuilding.
Improved integration of disaster risk data, social registries, and delivery systems can strengthen crisis response.
The tea industry needs to improve productivity and explore value chain opportunities while maintaining quality and brand uniqueness.
Explore equity, quasi-equity, and other non-debt assistance and structural reforms to protect small businesses from COVID-19 and other shocks.
Social protection spending and coverage are increasing, yet some countries continue to favor the nonpoor over the poor, and men over women.
Policymakers must examine and address the root causes of why certain young people are not in employment, education, or training.
Upskilling through TVET and STEM education can help prepare female workers for the automation of apparel manufacturing in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
A comprehensive strategy that addresses learning loss and improves learning outcomes is the key to a robust education system in the new normal.
A properly functioning market chain and flow of agricultural products are vital to ensuring food and nutrition security amid COVID-19.
Adopt a full lifecycle approach to plastic management, backed by strong enforcement and circular economy solutions.