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Implement supportive policies, encourage merchant adoption, and integrate digital payments into public services.
In Nepal’s mountain eco-regions, the needs of women and vulnerable groups were considered in designing a project that protects water resources from climate risks.
Invest in economic sectors that are more likely to generate more productive jobs.
Improved integration of disaster risk data, social registries, and delivery systems can strengthen crisis response.
Performance-based funding improved urban governance and quality of infrastructure and services, and promoted women’s empowerment.
Here is what works: quotas, training, skills matching, mobility, and childcare leave policies.
Sri Lanka is transforming its education system to take its economy to the next level.
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.
In climate-vulnerable communities in Fiji and Mongolia, capacity-building activities support women’s participation in the green economy.
High upfront costs and lack of incentives impede fuel efficiency initiatives in road freight in the Greater Mekong Subregion.