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This report provides a framework for implementing commercially viable distributed electrification solutions and shares lessons from a pilot in the Philippines.
Innovative and sustained support for Grameen-style lending expanded financial services for underserved groups, including women.
As a way forward for coastal cities, this article explores the potential of system of systems approaches for integrated planning and management of coastal assets using nature-based solutions that engage communities.
Increasingly, businesses in Asia are looking for innovative solutions to environment and climate change challenges, while pursuing their corporate goals.
Inclusive business models can effectively reduce inequality, helping vulnerable low-income earners get out of poverty.
In the Greater Mekong Subregion, environmental assessment for livestock value chains projects helps avoid, minimize, and mitigate environmental, health, and safety risks.
Sustainable energy is about more than renewables. Challenges will remain in financing and maintaining energy systems, even after the clean-energy transition is complete.
Involving residents from rural communities is key to improve access to markets and commercial areas.
A study looks at how countries can mobilize sustainable financing to reduce vulnerability among the poor and provide them access to social protection schemes.
In the Philippines, targeted cash grants to help poor students finish high school could double their potential income and lift them out of chronic poverty.