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An ADB-supported project in Kolkata awarded flat titles to women as a mechanism to promote women's rights.
While many inclusive businesses support the concept of gender-inclusivity, much more can be done to ensure that women’s economic empowerment is promoted in the workplace.
Accessible funds for the industry sector accelerated investments in energy efficiency and enhanced institutional capacities.
Investments include water conservation, ecosystem rehabilitation, disaster prevention, and green growth capacity development.
Advances in technology are making more jobs obsolete, which means workers need skills to adapt quickly to changes in the workplace.
Privatization and corporatization can reduce costs, raise productivity, and improve social welfare.
A water project includes a gender, caste, and minority ethnic strategy to promote the rights of marginalized groups in Nepal.
A project restores degraded lands, improves climate resilience of landscape ecosystems, and promotes green development in the western regions.
Sustainable farming and efficient water use can enhance high-value crop production and increase farmers’ income even in harsh environments.
Targeted, strategic, and innovative measures are needed to ensure edtech effectively promotes inclusiveness for marginalized and vulnerable children.