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Designing an effective assistance package involves collaboration and coordination to address immediate to long-term needs.
Growing imbalances across regions call for localized development strategies as the country moves toward economic diversification.
Digital financial services like mobile money can reduce transfer prices and improve transparency, efficiency, and access.
Targeted training tracks, enhanced online learning, and close collaborations with other agencies can make TVET system more responsive.
From a policy and economic standpoint, a paid sick leave program for COVID-19 is cost-effective in promoting behaviors that reduce disease spread.
In Indonesia, a university in Lampung is building an SDGs monitoring dashboard to improve data management and visualization for local governments.
Using a tablet or smartphone to conduct survey interviews makes it easier and faster to benchmark progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals.
E-commerce can enhance rural livelihoods with public investments in facilities and training, access to funding, and favorable market conditions.
A livelihood project sets up night markets in border towns of the Greater Mekong Subregion and provides microfinance support to vendors.
Digital finance promises to be an effective means of reaching the unbanked, but its use must be accompanied by consumer information and education.