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A new framework enables near real-time monitoring of sea routes, helping improve decisions on vessel movement and transport of global goods.
Proven solutions include digitizing paperwork, integrating databases, using smart cards and digital payments, and transmitting emergency assistance via mobile phones.
The Republic of Korea’s shift to an information and communication technology-based education system provides useful lessons for other countries looking to make similar changes.
Mobile apps enable farmers, including women smallholders, to modernize and diversify their production and transact with suppliers and buyers directly.
A project in Mongolia mobilized ger youth to take an active role in community development.
Improving water supply access and sustainability amid environmental challenges requires radical changes in how water resources are developed and delivered.
Modernized facilities and customs reform cut the passage time by over 50% at the busy border crossing in Uzbekistan.
A community-driven initiative can benefit interventions in housing and create opportunities to improve the design and delivery of services and facilities in critical sectors.
Latin America's long experience with conditional cash transfers offers lessons for implementing these innovative human development programs in Asia and the Pacific.
A new climate-proofed system introduced surface water as the main source of water to conserve diminishing groundwater and reduced saltwater intrusion.