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Stronger institutions and policies can help broaden the coverage and benefits of social protection spending.
Efforts to provide rural infrastructure and sanitation facilities can be opportunities for gender mainstreaming.
Gender-targeted strategies are needed to improve health care for women under India’s universal medical insurance program.
Statisticians turn to digital solutions and nontraditional methods for faster data collection, processing, and dissemination to inform crisis response.
A context-sensitive approach in Myanmar is helping to avoid negative impacts and maximize positive results of development projects and programs.
Investments include water conservation, ecosystem rehabilitation, disaster prevention, and green growth capacity development.
In South Asia, stakeholders worked together to enhance integrated water resources management in mountainous river basins prone to precipitation extremes.
Digital financial services like mobile money can reduce transfer prices and improve transparency, efficiency, and access.
Harmonization of transportation and customs policies will boost the corridor’s potential as an alternative trade route between Asia and Europe.
In the Philippines, a pilot project to rehabilitate the Pasig River built community support around a low-cost waste management system.