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Project preparation is critical for embedding gender and climate considerations, stakeholder engagement, and capacity building.
Financial readiness and pre-arranged support reduce delays, protect budgets, and enable faster, more efficient rebuilding.
The region needs integrated and holistic policies to push an ambitious agenda that requires capital, innovation, and new business models and mindsets.
AI and digital innovation can help extend working lives, strengthen pensions, and build more resilient systems for the aging population.
Pilot projects in the region demonstrate how digital technologies can increase access to finance even in remote areas.
Using resource-saving technology, new rice varieties, and intercropping of vegetables improve yields and income in Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Nepal.
Large-scale vaccination requires a comprehensive strategy, infrastructure, human resources, monitoring systems, and a receptive public.
Leverage blue bonds, PPPs, and blended finance to direct capital toward nature-based and policy-driven solutions that safeguard river ecosystems.
Lessons from Indonesia show digital transformation scales only when industry and digital governance align as one system.
A study of four countries shows vulnerable businesses need cash flow support primarily, including low or no-interest loans.