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The Southville 7 community in the Philippines shows how different sectors of society worked successfully together to turn a basic housing project into a livable community for 5,000 resettled families.
Proven solutions include digitizing paperwork, integrating databases, using smart cards and digital payments, and transmitting emergency assistance via mobile phones.
Combining market-based instruments, such as payments for ecosystem services and conditional social transfers, alleviate poverty while conserving ecosystems.
Performance-based funding improved urban governance and quality of infrastructure and services, and promoted women’s empowerment.
Embracing small business banking opportunities, and tackling operational efficiency, data and technology challenges can help Asian banks weather the storm.
Legislative and regulatory reforms are crucial to shifting toward a seamless, harmonized, and paper-less trade system.
Investing in energy transition may enable the textile sector to access markets that require lower-carbon supply chains.
A cost-effective and scalable approach may improve real-time pollution assessment for low- and middle-income countries.
Identify investment opportunities, expedite reforms to improve business environment, support ESG standards, and forge strategic partnerships.
CSOs can play an array of roles in implementing the SDGs, but they need capacity support and a conducive legal and political environment to do so.