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A project in Bangladesh used behavior change communication as a large-scale health care intervention to help women and poor households access health care.
A Greater Mekong Subregion study looks at a combination of risk retention, risk sharing, and risk transfer mechanisms in strengthening disaster resilience in rural areas.
In the Indian city of Mangalore, the local government partnered with private companies to modernize the sewage system and turn wastewater into a valuable asset.
Taking a risk-management approach to large-scale projects involves investing in project preparation and attending to stakeholders’ concerns early, such as land and resettlement issues.
How to make it work: skills training, civic engagement and forums that help young people become active in society.
Improve water supply, sanitation, and solid waste management to strengthen resilience to vector-borne diseases.
Ecosystem-based adaptation solutions can reduce vulnerability and build resilience of urban areas to climate change.
A new framework enables near real-time monitoring of sea routes, helping improve decisions on vessel movement and transport of global goods.
Investment facilitation, stronger grids, financing systems, and delivery capacity can help turn renewable potential into investments.
As climate finance expands, Supreme Audit Institutions can help strengthen oversight, improve accountability, and support effective climate outcomes.