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Policies should promote the growth and sustainability of social enterprises without making them dependent on state support.
Explore equity, quasi-equity, and other non-debt assistance and structural reforms to protect small businesses from COVID-19 and other shocks.
Design a framework that minimizes extra-contractual renegotiations and upholds prudence and transparency.
Water tariff reforms coupled with personnel training, social contracts, and technology updates can make water utilities more efficient.
Involving forest users in managing and conserving resources while strengthening value chains help curb illegal logging and forest fires.
Digital financial services like mobile money can reduce transfer prices and improve transparency, efficiency, and access.
Experience from a hydropower project in Pakistan shows how construction workers’ welfare, which is usually overlooked, can be served better.
A project restores degraded lands, improves climate resilience of landscape ecosystems, and promotes green development in the western regions.
Legal reforms, including specialized courts, can provide women and girls better access to justice for gender-based violence.
In Indonesia, a rating system encourages companies to step up efforts in controlling water pollution.