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Mobile remittances offer a way to provide unbanked populations with affordable, secure, and accessible financial services.
Transporting passengers and cargo over navigable rivers and canals reduces road and rail congestion, road crashes, pollution, emissions, and energy consumption.
One way to reduce poverty in developing countries is to make it cheaper and easier for migrant workers to send money home.
The Clean Air Scorecard Tool helped the most polluted cities to identify gaps in air quality management and introduce measures to rectify them.
Cities can turn to integrated ICT solutions to better manage the environment, health and safety of their industrial parks and enterprises.
Experience shows affordability, adoptability, and community support are critical for catalyzing digitalization efforts in the water sector.
In urban areas in the Lao PDR, decentralized solutions prove to be a low-maintenance and environment-friendly way to ensure clean water and sanitation.
Urban planners in Seoul shifted from paper-based processes to a computerized system to improve information sharing and decision-making.
In Seoul, 90% of landfill-bound wastes were instead used to produce energy enough to heat 518,000 households.
Meaningful involvement and leadership of young women and girls in nature-based solutions-related projects enhances sustainability of interventions.