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Applying international standards for financial auditing strengthens country systems and enhances accountability for externally financed projects.
Define large businesses, implement comprehensive management of compliance risk, increase public accountability, and improve perceptions of fairness.
Short- and long-term actions in roads, rail, waterways, maritime, and aviation can enhance transport connectivity and promote integration in the SAARC region.
Design projects with high economic impact and share dividends with investors and communities through hometown investment funds, land trusts, and other instruments.
Satellite data was used in climate proofing water supply and wastewater facilities in Mandalay, Myanmar’s second largest city.
Increasing private sector participation in training can help build employer confidence and prepare graduates for the job market.
Experts endorse 10 principles for risk mitigation, which include evacuation plans for medical and quarantine facilities and areas under lockdown.
Resilient health systems, early warning tools, and community safeguards can reduce chronic heat risks and protect vulnerable populations.
In South Asia, stakeholders worked together to enhance integrated water resources management in mountainous river basins prone to precipitation extremes.
It is necessary to redesign private pension management fee schemes so companies have incentives to compete and develop better products.