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Achieving financial inclusion through technology-based solutions presents both opportunities and challenges in Sri Lanka’s financial sector.  

Blockchain can help plug leaks in the supply chain, facilitating and securing the flow of trade, finance, and information. 

Strategies include a regulatory planning framework, area-based development, green infrastructure, and community engagement.

Design projects with high economic impact and share dividends with investors and communities through hometown investment funds, land trusts, and other instruments.

Restoring the globally important Yancheng wetlands required engineering interventions, forest rehabilitation, and capacity building.

In Kaysone Phomvihane, Lao PDR, good O&M contract management and community support will ensure the sustainability of a new sanitary landfill facility.

Multitranche financing supports an investment program to improve the safety, accessibility and reliability of Papua New Guinea’s airports.

Investments include water conservation, ecosystem rehabilitation, disaster prevention, and green growth capacity development.

In Thailand, subsidies, housing grants, educational programs and the leveraging of economies of scale are being used to benefit poor urban dwellers.

Recovery interventions should provide not only economic stimulus but also address climate and disaster risk to ensure that gains are sustained.