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Community involvement in planning, operation, and maintenance has been key to the successful provision of water and sanitation services for more than 700,000 people living in remote and poor regions in Nepal.
In the Philippines, a pilot project to rehabilitate the Pasig River built community support around a low-cost waste management system.
Policies being undertaken in the Pacific are helping businesses move from the informal to the formal sector and generate better jobs.
Pacific island countries need to include climate action in national development plans to lessen the economic costs of climate change.
Scale nature-based solutions and align investments with the Global Biodiversity Framework to reverse wetland loss in Asia and the Pacific.
A migrant-inclusive approach to risk mitigation benefits everyone and leads to better development outcomes.
Governments must have a strategy that looks at SMEs at the enterprise level to help them survive in the new normal.
The pandemic has called attention to the health and financial well-being of older persons.
The Yangtze River Protection Law sets a precedent for legislating policies that support the sustainable development and management of rivers.
A data-driven “smart” system can help water utilities to reduce losses from unaccounted-for-water more efficiently and improve service delivery.