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Disaster risk insurance can help countries in Asia and the Pacific to minimize losses from natural hazards.
In Mongolia, project procurement-related reviews helped safeguard a health project from corruption, fraud, and other integrity risks.
Providing a lifeline to workers and businesses most affected by the COVID-19 crisis calls for innovative solutions, such as digital money transfers.
In Indonesia, the rural poor gave cash and in-kind contributions to improve and maintain water supply and services.
A rural electrification project in Viet Nam built mini-hydropower plants and rehabilitated distribution networks to provide affordable electricity to remote communes.
Maneuvering through the web of stakeholder interests, the Republic of Korea institutionalized a service-oriented bus transportation system in Seoul and its satellite cities in surrounding provinces.
Water tariff reforms coupled with personnel training, social contracts, and technology updates can make water utilities more efficient.
The poorest of the poor need sustained and integrated assistance in order to overcome the multidimensional problems of poverty.
The Republic of Korea’s capital city faced and resolved a series of obstacles to constructing a modern public building on a historic site.
In South Asia, stakeholders worked together to enhance integrated water resources management in mountainous river basins prone to precipitation extremes.