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End Poverty in South Asia

Improving lives and bringing opportunities to South Asia
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Climate resilience Bangladesh

Bangladesh’s 50 years journey to climate resilience

November 12, 2020
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Swarna Kazi
Citizens of Karachi wading through flooded streets during the monsoon surge

Building resilience against floods in Pakistan’s largest city

November 12, 2020
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Henrike Brecht
Ahsan Tehsin
COVID-19 has been a very necessary alarm bell to think consciously about the future of transport and road safety.

Road safety matters, more so during COVID-19

November 10, 2020
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Hartwig Schafer
Dr. Runa Jha at the Nepal Public Health Laboratory that performs up to 2,000 tests per day.

As winter approaches, Nepal needs to step up its COVID-19 action

November 09, 2020
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Manav Bhattarai
Kari L. Hurt
Afghanistan's future starts by investing in women

Afghanistan's future starts by investing in women

November 04, 2020
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Saleh Mohammad Samit
Muhammad Najib Amiri
Goat farmer Bangladesh

Bangladesh steps up vaccination to protect its livestock

November 02, 2020
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Marimuthu Swaminathan
Izabela Leao
Samina Yasmin
A boy studying in Sindh, Pakistan. Photo - razum / Shutterstock.com

Strengthening the fight against Pakistan’s learning crisis

October 22, 2020
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Koen Geven
Amer Hasan
Cristian Aedo
Image of people visiting the local primary medical care unit

Three ways Sri Lanka can deal with COVID-19 induced poverty

October 21, 2020
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Faris Hadad-Zervos
human capital Bangladesh

Unleashing human capital potential is key to Bangladesh’s post-COVID resilience

October 19, 2020
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Mercy Tembon
End Poverty Day: A critical time to support Afghanistan's poorest

End Poverty Day: A critical time to support Afghanistan's poorest

October 19, 2020
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Hartwig Schafer
Regional cooperation can play an important role in helping the poorest and most vulnerable recover from COVID-19. Photo: Arcscapes / Shutterstock.com

Regional cooperation supports South Asia’s resilient recovery

October 13, 2020
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Hartwig Schafer
Cecile Fruman
Pakistan traverses a web of active geological fault lines. Photo: Shutterstock.com

Building seismic resilience in Pakistan: 15 years after the 2005 earthquake

October 08, 2020
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Ella Kim
Bilal Khalid
Elif Ayhan
Ahsan Tehsin
ID Card

Women’s access to identification cards can accelerate development in Afghanistan

October 05, 2020
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Talajeh Livani
Sarah Haddock
Afghanistan needs to invest in its people—now more than ever

Afghanistan needs to invest in its people—now more than ever

October 04, 2020
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Henry G. Kerali
Landslide in a hilly area of Nepal

Mitigating geohazard risk to help save lives in Nepal

September 24, 2020
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Faris Hadad-Zervos
John Roome
Female staff attending the Women’s Day event in Dhaka, March 2020. Photo: BREB

WePOWER helps Bangladesh’s largest power distribution company boost its female workforce

September 19, 2020
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Tanuja Bhattacharjee
Tehreem Saifey
NPI Training

Public procurement reforms boost transparency in Afghanistan

September 20, 2020
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Ahmad Shah Naqshbandi
A child born in Afghanistan today will be 40 percent as productive when she grows up as she could be if she enjoyed complete education and full health. Photo: World Bank

Protecting and investing in South Asia’s people is more important now than ever

September 17, 2020
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Hartwig Schafer
Workers maintaining social distance and wearing masks at the EDFC project site, India

Keeping India’s flagship railway project on track during COVID-19

September 16, 2020
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Sanjeev Moholkar
Gopalaswamy Srihari
Women Farmers at Work in Uttar Pradesh, India

How did India’s rural economy fare through the COVID-19 lockdown and the re-opening?

September 09, 2020
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Alreena Renita Pinto
Aditi Bhowmick
Raghav Kapoor Adlakha

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Building resilience against floods in Pakistan’s largest city

November 12, 2020 | Henrike Brecht, Ahsan Tehsin

Bangladesh’s 50 years journey to climate resilience

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Road safety matters, more so during COVID-19

November 10, 2020 | Hartwig Schafer

As winter approaches, Nepal needs to step up its COVID-19 action

November 09, 2020 | Manav Bhattarai, Kari L. Hurt

Afghanistan's future starts by investing in women

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Bangladesh steps up vaccination to protect its livestock

November 02, 2020 | Marimuthu Swaminathan, Izabela Leao, Samina Yasmin
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Women Farmers at Work in Uttar Pradesh, India

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August 27, 2020
Pakistan traverses a web of active geological fault lines. Photo: Shutterstock.com

Building seismic resilience in Pakistan: 15 years after the 2005 earthquake

October 08, 2020
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As water flows more freely, Sindh’s farmers in Pakistan reap better crops

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August 21, 2020
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