This Guidance Note highlights the drivers of water scarcity, suggesting programme actions for the WASH sector to increase water security for children, and outlines programme principles to guide action at global, regional, national and local levels. The principles focus on risk-based approaches, valuing water resources, managing water sustainably and equitably, partnerships, and on acceleration of WASH coverage.
This report highlights inequalities and vulnerabilities that have amplified the impact of the pandemic in Asia and the Pacific and emphasizes the need for a focus on people centered development, sustainability, and climate change issues. It considers the role that digitalization has played in helping the region manage the pandemic, and the need for more inclusive digital transformation.
This report reviews the full range of policies and initiatives that an ideal green central bank would adopt across four categories: Research and Advocacy, Monetary Policy, Financial Policy, and Leading by Example.
Companies play a key role in ending deforestation because their revenues depend on commodities that cause it. As a key source of demand for these commodities, they are also able to influence how they are produced and drive change at scale. In order to increase the scale and speed to end deforestation, right mix of solutions is needed - with collaboration and transparency at the heart of it. Ambitious collective action on deforestation is needed to achieve global climate goals, curb biodiversity loss and manage pandemic risks.
This report analyses planned infrastructure projects, decision-making frameworks related to infrastructure development and strategic planning documents in the six countries of the EU Eastern Partnership: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.
This paper compiles available data and analyses, and derives policy messages, for countries in the Asia Pacific region and their partners (including development finance institutions). It characterises an enabling environment that can facilitate and expedite financing for water security commensurate with the challenges and distinctive opportunities in the region.