Over the past twenty years, Indonesia
has pursued an ambitious policy agenda for decentralization.
Indonesia's subnational governments play a key role in
providing frontline...
Type: ReportReport#: 163099Date: August 19, 2021Author:
Mansouri Moayed,Tara ;
Haerudin,Ihsan ;
Satria,Sentot Surya ;
Setiadji,Alexander B.
This brief summarizes volumes 1 and 2 of
the Ebb and Flow report, which examines the role of water
availability fluctuations in the migration and development
nexus in...
This report represents the largest
assessment of village spending since the enactment of the
Village Law. The findings presented here are based on a
public expenditure...
Type: Public Expenditure ReviewReport#: 162827Date: August 12, 2021Author:
O'Donnell,Anna Charlotte
This report discusses the remarks
delivered by the World Bank Group President, David Malpass
at the Conference in support of the Lebanese People on
August 4, 2021. He...
Type: President's SpeechReport#: 162885Date: August 4, 2021Author:
Malpass,David
This document provides guidelines for
food safety specialists and consultants on coaching client
food safety teams. The main objective of the document is to
ensure a...
This series showcases success stories of
partnership for cleaner textile (PaCT) partner factories in
the Bangladesh textile sector, which have implemented
cleaner production...
Type: BriefReport#: 162057Date: July 23, 2021Author:
Chowdhury,Nishat Shahid
More growth, less garbage presents an
updated picture of how waste generation can grow if the
world continues along the current trajectory and how to
consider changing...
The World Bank’s historical engagement
in transboundary water in West Africa is at a turning point,
at a time when the G5 Sahel region faces unprecedented
challenges....
Type: ReportReport#: 161512Date: July 12, 2021Author:
Bonzanigo,Laura ;
Pahuja,Sanjay ;
Stip,Clementine Marie ;
Borgia,Cecilia Eleonora Maria ;
Nanzoul,Mohamed ;
Pattison,Corey Ryan
Plastic is indispensable to modern life,
so ubiquitous that it is virtually invisible. In many ways,
it is an ideal material. Invented in the mid-19th century,
plastic...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 169312Date: July 1, 2021Author:
Villar Mallagray,Juan ;
Salo,Samu ;
Tu,Li ;
Schlorke,Sabine
This note presents a synthesis of the
comprehensive studies produced under the World Bank’s
analytical activity on an integrated approach to Universal
urban sanitation...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 163702Date: July 1, 2021
Radio has been a critical tool to ensure
the continuity of learning in the face external shocks.
Sierra Leone has used this tool both when Ebola struck, and
now, with...
This study estimates the impacts of two
interventions implemented as field experiments in informal
settlements by Nairobi’s water and sanitation
utility to improve...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9725Date: July 1, 2021Author:
Coville,Aidan ;
Galiani,Sebastian Franco ;
Gertler,Paul J. ;
Yoshida,Susumu
At Cluj County level, the water and
wastewater infrastructure has been analyzed from the
perspective of the existing regional systems supplemented by
local systems....
Type: ReportReport#: 161071Date: June 28, 2021Author:
Jozsef,Benedek ;
Moldovan,Ciprian ;
Cristea,Marius ;
Varvari,Ștefana ;
Ionescu-Heroiu,Marcel ;
Zotic,Vasile ;
Alexandru,Diana Elena ;
Bătinaș,Răzvan-Horațiu ;
Man,Titus-Cristian ;
Dolean,Bogdan Eugen ;
Hărănguș,Iulia
This policy brief aims to bring together
policy makers, development partners and implementing
agencies to advance the WASH-in-schools’ agenda in
Tajikistan. In June...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 161109Date: June 28, 2021
In the past two decades, insights from
behavioral sciences, particularly behavioral economics, have
been widely applied in the design of social programs such as
pensions,...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS9704Date: June 21, 2021Author:
Joseph,George ;
Ayling,Sophie Charlotte Emi ;
Miquel-Florensa,Pepita ;
Bejarano,Hernán D. ;
Cardona,Alejandra Quevedo
This policy note outlines key challenges
and identifies specific recommendations for improved,
inclusive, and sustainable development of Ukraine’s water
supply and sanitation...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 160673Date: June 18, 2021
This brief for policy makers is a
summary of the main conclusions derived from the “Argentina:
Valuing Water” report, a detailed and technical water
security diagnostic,...
This document outlines a Strategic
Communications Plan for promoting the World Bank’s
Regulatory Watch Initiative (Phase two) and discusses its
implementation. It provides...
Sint Maarten shares many of the
characteristics of small island states: susceptibility to
natural disasters; economies that are at once open, heavily
dependent on tourism,...
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