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Putting in place policies, systems, and infrastructure for e-government helped improve efficiency, transparency, and people’s access and participation.
Strategies include enhancing water resource management, strengthening biodiversity conservation, and promoting sustainable ecotourism.
Experience from a hydropower project in Pakistan shows how construction workers’ welfare, which is usually overlooked, can be served better.
Statisticians use satellite images of Earth’s night lights to measure social and economic activity.
The People’s Republic of China’s efforts to integrate natural capital accounting into its national policy development process may encourage mainstreaming of the practice in other parts of the world.
Indonesia could reduce the impact of a prolonged El Niño by easing food import restrictions and strengthening social protection and food security.
In Viet Nam, where the motorcycle is king of the road, convincing the public to support a metro rail project required a strategic communication plan.
The Republic of Korea takes quick and decisive action to control the spread of the virus and to mitigate risks to public health.
Water tariff reforms coupled with personnel training, social contracts, and technology updates can make water utilities more efficient.
Size the BESS correctly, list the performance requirements in the tender document, and develop operational guidelines and pricing policy.