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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.
WASH investments through piped water, improved drainage, and waste management can help curb water-related disease risks and boost climate resilience for refugees and host communities.
The COVID-19 pandemic shows the importance of real-time learning in adapting interventions to an uncertain and rapidly changing situation.
Countries can meet goals for climate change and the planned global plastics treaty through investments, technologies, and financing with co-benefits.
Building roads for socioeconomic development depends on an efficient O&M system that considers the difficult topology and fiscal issues.
The government is strengthening its economic foundations and upscaling food and nutrition and climate-resilient social assistance to address the country’s food insecurity.
Increased road crashes linked to motorcycles call for improving policies on their use for public transport and logistics.
Market-responsive training, recognized competency certifications, and timely learning modules can provide the skills needed for green jobs in the energy sector.
PPPs can advance road projects, strengthen infrastructure, and support Sustainable Development Goals, but require effective fiscal and debt management.
Initiatives should start by focusing on building awareness on the importance of oceans and coastal habitat.