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The Dhaka and Western Zone grid expansion project is using high-level tech applications to raise efficiency, cut emissions, and build climate resilience.
Consider a holistic view of the future and a broad range of trends and factors when assessing transport projects.
Water tariff reforms coupled with personnel training, social contracts, and technology updates can make water utilities more efficient.
The student assistance program may be expanded to cushion the pandemic’s impact and enable more poor students, regardless of gender, to complete school.
In the Philippines, an education nonprofit is improving program monitoring by removing data silos to increase the reliability and sharing of data.
Regulators should focus on ensuring full corporate disclosure and transparency to protect stakeholders.
Policies should foster vibrant start-up ecosystems, enabled by foundational technologies, such as cloud computing.
Shifting to a low-carbon economy entails drastic reductions in fossil fuel use and emissions as well as structural adjustments.
The pandemic worsened disparities in chronic disease management among vulnerable groups, exerting adverse psychosocial and economic effects.
Investments should seek to strengthen women’s capacities to anticipate, absorb, and adapt to the impacts of natural hazards and climate change and contribute to sustainable development.