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A technical assistance project helped identify and prepare projects and reforms with regional impact.

Improve water supply, sanitation, and solid waste management to strengthen resilience to vector-borne diseases.

Designing an effective assistance package involves collaboration and coordination to address immediate to long-term needs.

The region needs integrated and holistic policies to push an ambitious agenda that requires capital, innovation, and new business models and mindsets.

Establish an internal risk management system, implement concrete strategies, enhance governance structure, and strengthen information disclosure. 

Plans, policies, projects, and partnerships should deliver concurrently on these imperatives: access to renewables, energy efficiency, and coal phaseout.

Lessons from the People’s Republic of China and the Asia-Pacific region suggest managing river basins as single ecological units.

New technologies, including APIs and SDMX, are revolutionizing data collection and sharing, reducing the data gap in Asia and the Pacific.

Instead of recapturing the tourism of the pre-pandemic era, countries should strive to create a new kind of tourism that is more closely aligned to the SDGs.

Digital financial services like mobile money can reduce transfer prices and improve transparency, efficiency, and access.