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Bangladesh trained 1.5 million people by linking directly to the real-world needs of employers.
Indonesia's ambition to provide universal access to electricity by 2025, and from clean energy sources wherever possible, rests on its ability to harness wind and solar energy.
Indigenous peoples can better articulate their role in making sense of a project’s environmental and social impacts through participatory storytelling.
The Sri Lanka Southern Transport Development Project offers lessons in implementing large infrastructure projects involving multiple development partners and affecting many people and communities.
Proactive integrity checks can improve public trust in law enforcement agencies and advance societal development.
Lessons from Indonesia show young entrepreneurs need mentorship and training, business services and facilities, and post-incubation assistance.
Tax reforms aimed at a 10% reduction in smoking prevalence could reduce the population of smokers by 38.7 million and prevent 11.6 million premature deaths.
With the People's Republic of China and Indonesia as centers of excellence, a regional program demonstrates how the technology can reduce carbon intensity.
Tablet devices and smartphones can be used to improve learning in public schools by providing real-time data on performance of teachers and students.
Myanmar is putting in place a national safeguards system to better balance rapid economic growth and environmental sustainability.