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  • Empowering Women Entrepreneurs: The Asia Foundation Transfers B2B Platform to Mongolia Tech Start-up   
    The Asia Foundation in Mongolia has officially transferred the B2B platform to the Mongolia-based tech start-up Gerege Systems LLC. The Foundation originally partnered with Gerege Systems to develop a comprehensive platform under the “Supporting Women Entrepreneurs in Mongolia Using Digital Platforms for Business to Business” project. The B2B e-commerce platform is a comprehensive support system for women entrepreneurs and enhances women-led supply chains across Mongolia 

  • Upskilling Cambodia’s Digital Workforce: A Transformative Conference for Sustainable Education
    As digitization continues to reshape the global economy, Cambodia is taking steps to prepare its workforce with the necessary skills. From August 13-14, the USAID Digital Workforce Development (DWD) project convened a conference for digital educators to discuss building a sustainable ecosystem for digital education.

  • Sustainable Agroforestry: A Key to Climate-Smart Agriculture 
    The world runs on coffee. But the high demand for coffee bean has devastating environmental, social and economic impacts on farming communities. One solution- agroforestry, enhances soil health, carbon uptake, and water conservation, making it an effective system for both agricultural productivity and ecological preservation.

  • YSEALI Workshop in Indonesia Gathers ASEAN Youth to Shape Sustainable Cultural Tourism 
    The Asia Foundation, in collaboration with the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta and Universitas Gadjah Mada, co-hosted the 2024 Young Southeast Asian Leadership Initiative (YSEALI) Regional Workshop on Sustainable and Inclusive […]

  • Igniting Early Literacy in Cambodia
    The Let’s Read program in Cambodia is boosting early literacy in kindergarten students through a new curriculum that combines classroom sessions with home-based learning via the Let’s Read app. Launched in March, this initiative engages families and has already increased readership, showing promising results in three public schools.

  • MACSS Project 2023 to 2028
    USAID and Pact, Inc., through The Asia Foundation, launched the five-year (2023 to 2028) Media and Civil Society Strengthening (MACCS) in Mongolia project to support citizen participation and public access […]

  • Digital Trade Agreements in Asia and the Pacific
    Digital trade agreements (DTAs) are instrumental in expanding the benefits of the digital economy in emerging Asia. Moreover, economies in Asia and the Pacific have been the key architects of […]

  • Change Starts Here Campaign Impact Report
    The Asia Foundation launched an ambitious $50M Change Starts Here campaign in 2016 to support the Foundation’s life-enhancing programs and sustain the impact of our work long into the future. […]
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    Transforming a Time-Honored Tradition of Community Mediation 
    How The Asia Foundation in the 1990s worked to reform traditional community mediation in Bangladesh to make it more inclusive and more equitable.

  • Reducing the Price of Justice: Alternative Dispute Resolution in Bangladesh 
    Alternative dispute resolution continues to serve the poor and marginalized in Bangladesh, for whom the expensive and overloaded courts are often out of reach.

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