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Bangladesh trained 1.5 million people by linking directly to the real-world needs of employers.
While many inclusive businesses support the concept of gender-inclusivity, much more can be done to ensure that women’s economic empowerment is promoted in the workplace.
Here is what works: quotas, training, skills matching, mobility, and childcare leave policies.
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.