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Gender tip sheets make the business case for mainstreaming gender goals into finance, renewable energy, agribusiness, and other private sector projects.
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.
Project interventions evolved to create a virtuous cycle in water services, using performance-based contracts, participatory planning, behavioral change campaigns, and institutional reforms.
Ecosystem-based adaptation solutions can reduce vulnerability and build resilience of urban areas to climate change.
In Sri Lanka, the rural water sector has benefited from the active role of women in management and operations.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution is changing, as well as challenging, the way people learn.
Establishing centers of excellence can be a fast and cost-effective way for countries and industries to create much-needed specialists.
Putting resources toward specialized training, mentoring and confidence building is a successful formula for giving greater voice to women in the countryside.
Digital technology is a game changer in reducing remittance costs between overseas workers and developing countries in Asia.
Digital finance promises to be an effective means of reaching the unbanked, but its use must be accompanied by consumer information and education.