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Solutions include food aid, farm recovery, climate-smart practices, fair pricing, rural finance, and resilient infrastructure.
Regular consultations, monitoring, and follow-up measures can help successfully restore the income of project-affected persons.
Investments include water conservation, ecosystem rehabilitation, disaster prevention, and green growth capacity development.
In the Philippines, solutions that respect river dynamics and ecosystem functions were adopted to keep vulnerable communities safe from natural hazards.
Water tariff reforms coupled with personnel training, social contracts, and technology updates can make water utilities more efficient.
After years of education reforms, Cambodia focuses on preparing workers for higher-level technical roles in a bid to become more globally competitive.
Project interventions evolved to create a virtuous cycle in water services, using performance-based contracts, participatory planning, behavioral change campaigns, and institutional reforms.
River infrastructure projects must consider natural flows in project planning to save aquatic ecosystems and downstream communities.
It is time to revisit urban strategies and revise the urbanization process and practices to build back better post-pandemic cities.
Raise the efficiency of public procurement and land and labor markets to boost productivity, and address growth constraints on agriculture and tourism.