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Despite extensive aid, countries with fragile and conflict-affected situations are generally failing to significantly improve the lives of their people. New thinking is needed.
Policy reforms critical to building resilience include revamping teacher training and improving quality, relevance, and inclusion in the education sector.
To build a well-coordinated government assistance program, focus on communication and outreach, targeting, service delivery, and evaluation.
To strengthen its skills base, the Philippines complemented basic education reforms with Germany’s system of dual vocational training.
Public-private partnerships can help make clean technologies for turning waste into energy accessible to cities.
Clean Development Mechanism projects supported by the Future Carbon Fund are reducing greenhouse gas emissions while delivering social, environmental, and economic co-benefits that contribute to sustainable development.
Microfinance anchored on civil society organizations is a promising model in banking the unbanked.
The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) shifted the focus to learning from schooling and helped design pedagogy to address learning gaps.
Good quality environmental data and statistics are critical to monitoring and evaluating progress toward the SDGs in Mongolia, and developing policies to achieve these goals.
Solomon Islands has overcome significant challenges to private sector development by implementing policies that create jobs and livelihoods through private enterprise.