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  • Never Too Late: Planning for Baku’s Explosive Growth
    Baku is a city without a master plan and it shows. High rises stand amidst three story apartment houses. Pieces of the city’s oil infrastructure sit in highly populated areas. Glittering high-priced boutiques...
    Date: February 18, 2015 Type: Results Language: English
  • Azerbaijan’s Railroads: The Missing Link?
    Azerbaijan’s railroad supporters say their country is the crucial link between east and west, the missing tie that speeds goods from the east to the markets of the west. A fast, efficient railroad system...
    Date: February 17, 2015 Type: Results Language: English
  • In Azerbaijan: The Life-Changing Impact of Water
    In Siyazan, a few hours’ drive north of the capital, Baku, the ground is brittle and golden with burnt grass. Roads are dusty, and there are almost no patches of green. People here can’t remember the last...
    Date: February 16, 2015 Type: Results Language: English
  • Water Supply and Sanitation: Sector Results Profile
    Challenge Much progress has been made in expanding water and sanitation services in the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) and the International Development Association (IDA)...
    Date: April 11, 2014 Type: Results Language: English
  • Growing Innovation
    Challenge The global connectivity explosion that infoDev championed throughout the last decade has broken new paths to bring high-quality jobs to the marginalized. Accordingly, infoDev has refocused from...
    Date: February 28, 2014 Type: Results Language: English
  • Azerbaijan: Toward Better Health Care
    Being on dialysis three times a week was hard enough, says Hashimova Gulmaya, but traveling 50 kilometers back and forth for the regular three hour treatments, she says, had simply overwhelmed her. “For...
    Date: August 28, 2013 Type: Results Language: English
  • In Azerbaijan: Managing Waste Safely
    Hundreds of thousands of tons of solid waste are generated daily by more than three million people living in Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku. It’s processed at the capital’s recently rehabilitated central Balakhani...
    Date: August 21, 2013 Type: Results Language: English
  • In Azerbaijan: Empowering Water Users
    59-year-old Rafik Mammadov says his fruit orchard in the region of Khahmaz, Azerbaijan, lay fallow just a few years ago because there was no organized system of irrigation and every farmer was on his or...
    Date: August 14, 2013 Type: Results Language: English
  • Social Development: Sector Results Profile
    Challenge Sustainable development requires balancing the needs of present and future generations and has become a rapidly growing global concern. Three critical factors — economic, ecological, and social...
    Date: April 14, 2013 Type: Results Language: English
  • Community-Driven Development: Results Profile
    Challenges Over the past decade, partly in response to local institutional challenges faced by several countries emerging from financial or political crises in the late 1990s, community-driven development...
    Date: April 14, 2013 Type: Results Language: English