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Government support, good governance, and resolute leadership helped Nepal Electricity Authority achieve profitability.
A project promoting south–south knowledge transfer adapted ICT-based Chinese information dissemination models to the Cambodian context.
On Indonesia’s remote Sumba Island, poorer households can pay for solar home systems with goods or services instead of cash.
Invest in preparedness and establish a shock-responsive social protection system to weather future shocks and reap dividends from resilience.
Stronger institutions and policies can help broaden the coverage and benefits of social protection spending.
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.
To overcome vaccine hesitancy, survey shows campaigns should target women and rural and high-risk populations and focus on family immunization.
Indonesia could reduce the impact of a prolonged El Niño by easing food import restrictions and strengthening social protection and food security.
There is a need for globally coordinated standards and principles that allow room for countries to adapt their policies.
Two of five adults in the Asia and Pacific region are overweight or obese and the costs associated with these conditions undermine economic growth as well as the achievement of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, particularly on health.