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Invest in economic sectors that are more likely to generate more productive jobs.
Proper monitoring and regulation of traditional medicine and its integration with western medicine can enhance the quality of health care response.
Debt-for-climate-and-nature swaps provide Sri Lanka with a practical solution to ease debt, combat climate change, and protect biodiversity.
Future-proof workers against the impact of future pandemics by strengthening community- and evidence-based initiatives.
Proven solutions include digitizing paperwork, integrating databases, using smart cards and digital payments, and transmitting emergency assistance via mobile phones.
Sri Lanka’s Aswesuma program can better support the vulnerable by refining targeting, improving data, and aligning aid with poverty reduction.
Adjust the tax rate in response to inflation and income growth to sustain its potency in discouraging sugar-sweetened beverages consumption.
The country’s first large-scale wind farm sets the groundwork for sustainable renewable energy investment and deployment.
A data-driven roadmap integrates governance, technology, and finance to help Sri Lanka’s water utility adapt to climate risks and lower emissions.
A results-driven project is closing the skills gap through sector-wide reforms focused on improving technical and vocational education and training.