Institutions

GovTech and Public Sector Innovation Global Forum

The World Bank's Institutions Global Department and the Innovation for Development Impact Department hosted the second iteration of the GovTech and Public Sector Innovation Global Forum on May 27-28, 2025. The Forum ...

Partnerships for Anticorruption Global Forum 2025

The Partnerships for Anticorruption Global Forum, was held on April 8-9, 2025, in Washington, D.C. The World Bank Group's Anticorruption for Development Global Program (AC4D) and the International Corruption Hunters ...

Justice and the Rule of Law Global Forum

The Governance Global Practice hosted the Justice and the Rule of Law Global Forum: Fostering Inclusive and Sustainable Development on June 25-26 which brought together more than 420 in-person participants and 5,000 ...

Public Administration Global Forum

The World Bank hosted world leaders, experts, and practitioners to discuss citizen trust and better approaches to work in the public sector at the Public Administration Global Forum on Transforming Governments for a ...

Highlights from the Anticorruption for Development (AC4D) Global Forum: ...

The World Bank Group (WBG) hosted the Anticorruption for Development (AC4D) Global Forum in Washington, D.C. The Forum brought together more than 220 partners, leaders, and practitioners from government, private ...

GovTech Global Forum: Governance in the Digital Era

The Governance Global Practice hosted the inaugural GovTech Global Forum focused on "Governance in the Digital Era." This Forum convened the world's top thinkers, innovators, and practitioners on GovTech to exchange ...

Governing Effectively During Challenging Times

Governments worldwide are facing overlapping crises, including COVID-19, debt, climate change, and conflict, which challenge their ability to provide essential public goods and services to their people, especially the ...

The Future of Government: Reimagining Government for Good

The Future of Government report is a guide for governments and non-governmental actors to reimagine the role of the State in formulating policy, providing regulation, and delivering services for development outcomes. The ...

Innovations in Tax Compliance : Building Trust, Navigating Politics, and ...

Innovations in Tax Compliance: Building Trust, Navigating Politics, and Tailoring Reform takes a fresh look at tax reform as countries deal with more debt burdens by COVID-19. New research and experiences guide the best ...

Building Blocks and New Frontiers for Open Government

This report analyzes the WB's open, participatory, and responsive governance knowledge. It rethinks the term "open government," identifies new frontiers, and summarizes steps to advance an open, participatory agenda.

Corruption, Capture and Fragile Contexts

For International Anticorruption Day this year the World Bank is drawing attention to the challenges, complexities, and consequences of corruption in fragile settings. The term “fragility” can mean many things, and there ...

Deploying Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology for Government Digital ...

This webinar presented the application of a novel high-level conceptual model and accompanying question-led framework for the design and implementation of blockchain. Distributed ledger systems illustrating how the ...

PEFA at 20 Years and Beyond

PEFA celebrated their journey over the last two decades, while discussing the role of PFM in building green, resilient, and inclusive development, and in supporting recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Symposium on Data Analytics and Anticorruption

A Symposium on Data Analytics and Anticorruption was co-hosted by the World Bank and the Korea Development Institute School of Public Policy and Management on October 25-28. The four-day event was launched last year with ...

Worldwide Bureaucracy Indicators

The WWBI is a cross-national dataset on public sector employment and wages. The indicators are derived using a consistent methodology from micro-data based on nationally representative labor force and household surveys, ...

GTMI: The State of Digital Transformation in the Public Sector

The World Bank has developed the GovTech Maturity Index (GTMI) to measure key aspects in the four focus areas of digital transformation in the public sector: core government systems, public service delivery, citizen ...

Leadership Training Toolkit for State-Owned Enterprises

The SOE Leadership Toolkit was developed jointly by the World Bank and IFC to support countries’ efforts to build capacity of State ownership entities, SOE boards, and SOE senior management. It addresses the growing need ...

Governance and Institutional Issues in COVID-19 Vaccination

Success in the COVID-19 vaccination program requires that large numbers of people get the vaccine quickly, equitably, & effectively. This involves both the willing participation of the population & well-functioning ...

Designing Effective Climate Legislation - Launch of World Bank Reference Guide

This was a joint event of the World Bank and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences launching the World Bank's reference guide on ...

Climate Change Budget Tagging: A Review of International Experience

This report is to provide development practitioners and government officials with an understanding of the context and key design features of climate budget tagging initiatives.

Disruptive Technologies in Public Procurement

This study provides an overview of selected technologies identified as “disruptive” that could be useful to public procurement.

GovTech Launch Report and Short-Term Action Plan

This report presents the work program priorities for the first two years of the World Bank’s GovTech Global Partnership (GTGP), drawing upon the trends in GovTech applications and lessons learned from the last 25 years ...

Tech for Integrity: International Anti-Corruption Day

This session focused on the development of innovative tools, solutions and approaches to help control corruption, and explored how they can help control corruption risks at the country level.

World Bank Reference Guide to Climate Change Framework Legislation

The twelve key principles for framework legislation laid out in this guide can contribute to building back better by helping countries to lay a solid foundation for climate-smart development that creates new jobs and ...

Curbing Corruption in the Midst of a Pandemic is More Important Than Ever, New ...

Progress against corruption can be made even under the most challenging conditions, a new World Bank report finds.

Preventing and Managing Conflicts of Interest in the Public Sector : Good ...

The Guide is intended as a resource for policymakers, practitioners and civil society in strengthening conflict of interest regulations and systems. It illustrates experiences and good practices in managing and ...

Managing the Public Sector Wage Bill during COVID-19

This note provides suggestions on managing the public sector wage bill to best achieve the difficult balance between fiscal consolidation, protection of lives and livelihoods, service delivery, and job restoration.

Building Effective, Accountable, and Inclusive Institutions in Europe and ...

This publication builds on the World Bank’s vast engagement across ECA and on the 2019 regional governance conference.

Ensuring Better PFM Outcomes with FMIS Investments

An operational guidance note for FMIS project teams designing and implementing FMIS solutions.

Public Investment Management Reference Guide

The Public Investment Management (PIM) Reference Guide aims to convey country experiences and good international practices as a basis for decisions on how to address country-specific PIM reform agendas.

Global Public Procurement Database

A World Bank initiative with the objective of meeting the increasing demand for a global knowledge product that captures data about country procurement systems and eProcurement implementations.