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Targeted financing, regional pooling, and digital solutions can expand access to essential health services across dispersed island populations.
Act early, act together, and act wisely—so AI amplifies human aspiration rather than undermines social cohesion and development.
To overcome vaccine hesitancy, survey shows campaigns should target women and rural and high-risk populations and focus on family immunization.
Youth-focused programs and digital tools are creating accessible, effective pathways to mental well-being.
The government is strengthening its economic foundations and upscaling food and nutrition and climate-resilient social assistance to address the country’s food insecurity.
Here is what works: quotas, training, skills matching, mobility, and childcare leave policies.
A results-driven project is closing the skills gap through sector-wide reforms focused on improving technical and vocational education and training.
Employment outcomes for young people can be maximized with career guidance and employment services.
Plans, policies, projects, and partnerships should deliver concurrently on these imperatives: access to renewables, energy efficiency, and coal phaseout.
Experience from a hydropower project in Pakistan shows how construction workers’ welfare, which is usually overlooked, can be served better.