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The 2024 ProFIT Survey highlights the need to simplify business registration, expand SME financing, and align skills training with market demand.
Strategies include a regulatory planning framework, area-based development, green infrastructure, and community engagement.
Leverage science-based tools, foster collaboration across sectors, build local capacity, and promote global and regional cooperation.
Lessons from Indonesia show young entrepreneurs need mentorship and training, business services and facilities, and post-incubation assistance.
Scale up local-level adaptation by integrating climate adaptation considerations into decentralized governance processes and resources.
Develop and implement a comprehensive, evidence-based national MSME development strategy.
With the People's Republic of China and Indonesia as centers of excellence, a regional program demonstrates how the technology can reduce carbon intensity.
Address the social context that gives rise to violence and challenge the acceptance and normalization of such violence.
Create an enabling environment with strong policies, institutions, and financial systems that support solutions that can adapt to changing needs.
Shifting to circular approaches can deliver economic gains while helping address food security and promote sustainable production and consumption.