Dam safety and resilience is an increasing area of concern worldwide. Some of the notable issues, in developing countries particularly, are pertaining to sustainable operation and management of dams, including...
Date: September 21, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
ISLAMABAD, September 20, 2016 ─ The World Bank approved today an Additional Financing (AF) of $390 million to help sustainable expansion of Pakistan’s electricity generation capacity. The AF under...
Date: September 20, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
ABUJA, Nigeria – August 25, 2016 – The World Bank Group expresses its deepest condolences to the families of the victims of the drowning tragedy that took place on the Egbe Dam. Contrary to some reports,...
Date: August 25, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
The China Water and Electric Corporation (CWE), EPC Contractor for the Isimba Hyropower Project in Uganda, which the World Bank is not financing, ran a paid advertisement in The Daily Monitor, a Ugandan...
Date: March 21, 2016
Type: Press Release
Language: English
METOLONG, December 18, 2015 – Scores of young men lined up forming a human chain atop a hill in rural Lesotho, swaying in unison with sticks raised up in the air and their right elbows stacked side-by-...
Date: December 18, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
ANTANANARIVO, December 4, 2015 - Madagascar is a member of the “Vulnerable Twenty” (V20), a group gathering twenty nations that may see their future development severely impacted by climate change. One...
Date: December 4, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
MASERU, December 1, 2015 – Mamosala was devastated when she found out that she was HIV positive. As a 35-year-old woman, her worry was not for herself but for her unborn child. Pregnant and living in a...
Date: December 1, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
A decade ago, the international community came together with a commitment to help Lao PDR – one of the world’s poorest countries – develop a better kind of hydropower project, one that generates power...
Date: May 14, 2015
Type: Opinion
Language: English
ANDAPA, November 19, 2014 – The SAVA region of northeastern Madagascar, one of the country’s leading rice producers, has just acquired a diversion dam on the Ankaibe River in Andapa District. Inaugurated...
Date: November 19, 2014
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
EDEA, July 23, 2014 – Every morning, Rose Bassong, a cassava vendor in Edea, a town located 171 kilometers from Yaoundé along the Sanaga river, sets off at dawn to buy wood to heat water and prepare meals...
Date: July 23, 2014
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Following endorsement of the project’s justification note by its development partners, CIWA is set to begin an exciting new partnership with the Niger Basin Authority (NBA) on the Niger River Basin Management...
Date: July 8, 2014
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
PUTTALAM, May 8, 2014 - B.L. Piyasena used to fear living downstream from the Tabbowa Dam. The structure had not been comprehensively overhauled for over 100 years and villagers were haunted by the threat...
Date: June 11, 2014
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
MANILA, JUNE 2, 2014 – Over 70 delegates from East Asia, South Asia and Africa are convening for the Third East Asia regional workshop on Flood Risk Management and Urban Resilience, on June 3 to 5, 2014...
Date: June 3, 2014
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Vientiane, November 20, 2013 —Lao PDR and the World Bank Group have been close partners in the development and implementation of the Nam Theun 2 project. Analysis of several rounds of socio-economic monitoring...
Date: November 20, 2013
Type: Press Release
Language: English
ZOMBA, November 7, 2013 -- In the early 1990’s concern over a special species of butterflies found on Zomba Mountain nearly denied the people of Zomba a reliable source of water. Both the Malawi government...
Date: November 7, 2013
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
MANILA, Sept.5, 2013 - ‘Lesson not learned,’ wrote Candy Dizon in her blog, at the height of typhoon Maring (international name: Trami) in August 2013. The businesswoman lamented how the combination...
Date: September 23, 2013
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
WASHINGTON, June 11, 2013 - The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors today approved a US$108 million IDA* grant to support the Government of Cameroon’s efforts to rehabilitate embankments, dams and...
Date: June 11, 2013
Type: Press Release
Language: English
VIENTIANE, June 7, 2013 – The World Bank’s Vice President for East Asia and the Pacific, Axel van Trotsenburg, commended Lao PDR for its steady economic growth and success in overcoming poverty as he concluded...
Date: June 7, 2013
Type: Press Release
Language: English
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