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Many transport projects include specific measures to prevent HIV/AIDS among migrant construction workers.
Sorsogon City in the Philippines is investigating options for upgrading its open dumpsites to a properly managed landfill.
An electricity trading project between Indonesia and Malaysia is lowering power costs, raising revenue and cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
The Korea Educational Broadcasting System has helped reduce inequality and costs in education in the Republic of Korea over the past 40 years.
Myanmar is improving its secondary education system through reforms of curriculum, teaching, and student assessment.
What is needed: Increased financing, reliable supplies of affordable and effective medicines, improved data from health information systems, stronger implementation of national malaria programs, and leadership that looks beyond the health sector.
While remittances from migrant workers continue to increase, they can only fuel economic growth if they enter the formal financial system and be channeled into productive investments.
A well-crafted action plan has helped women in Bangladesh who want to start small and medium-sized enterprises have a more equal playing field with men.
Policies being undertaken in the Pacific are helping businesses move from the informal to the formal sector and generate better jobs.
In Samoa, eDNA survey techniques were used to assess the potential effects of a proposed dam on freshwater ecosystems.