Building on the inaugural 2025 edition, the 2026 Challenge is being rolled out in Morocco for innovative solutions to strengthen public audit and financial oversight.
Delivering sustained change requires addressing the human and socio-political dimensions of reform by building coalitions, managing resistance, and sustaining commitment across stakeholders. The Toolkit offers a practical guide to designing and implementing leadership and skills development, multistakeholder engagement, and strategic communication approaches. The Technical Note synthesizes the academic and empirical literature across management science, behavioral economics, and political economy to explain why coalition building and change management work, what the evidence shows, and how to measure impact.
The Global Hub for Beneficial Ownership Transparency (GloBOT) is a newly launched multi-stakeholder platform that brings key actors together to accelerate beneficial ownership transparency reforms.
Kenya's justice sector has undergone a significant transformation following the 2010 Constitution, which strengthened judicial autonomy and independence. This report examines the state of the justice system in Kenya based on the JUPITER Methodology, benchmarking it in three main areas: access to justice, efficiency, and quality.
The new Public Workforce Performance and Prosperity global report is now available! Led by the Global Program on Improving Public Administration Performance, the report focuses on how to make the world’s 400 million public sector workers more effective in performing their core government functions to achieve better development outcomes. The report draws on the largest cross-national datasets on public sector employment, wages, and management practices in the world.
On December 2nd, 2025 the World Bank, the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs of Switzerland (SECO), and Trust Valley celebrated the outcomes of the GovTech Innovation Challenge 2025 by announcing the 6 companies whose proposals for innovative digital solutions for the Ghana Revenue Authority were selected for awards.
A new regional program supported by the G&I program and in partnership with Austria is supporting digital transformation in the Western Balkan countries' public sector, helping accelerate progress toward EU accession and economic growth.
The event, co-hosted by G&I, FCDO, Stanford University, and UNESCO on September 16-17, 2025, addressed today's complex global challenges—poverty, inequality, climate disasters, and more—through collective action and coalition-building.
Find out what an effective enabling state can do: the role of the state in South Korea’s and Finland’s transitions to high income, high innovation countries. Read on.
The Governance & Institutions Umbrella Program focuses on supporting client countries in improving public sector performance and strengthening institutional reform, leveraging the power of digital and technology solutions in the public sector, and enhancing transparency and accountability.
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The BEST Montenegro grant expansion will support additional work on analytics and technical assistance to reinforce governance and institutional frameworks, state owned enterprises, tax administration, and GovTech for ...
The G&I is thrilled to announce a new contribution from the European Union in the amount of EUR 3,000,000. The contribution allows to support additional work to reinforce governance and institutional frameworks.
Two new G&I grants will strengthen justice, anticorruption, and rule-of-law reforms in Moldova, building on ongoing support to integrity and asset recovery.
The G&I is thrilled to announce a new GBP 3,100,000 contribution from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, to support innovative approaches in governance and further digitalization of public services and ...
By financing analytical work in support of the Governance to Enable Service Delivery Phase 2 project, the activity will help the Government of Malawi further institutionalize performance-based financing across government....
The Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) will add CHF 1.8 million to its contribution. It allows the Program to continue supporting global knowledge and in-country activities, including on GovTech and ...
This year, the G&I supported many knowledge initiatives and in-country activities that help strengthen institutional frameworks and promote transparent governance practices to address the complex issues facing societies.
Joint activities supported by the G&I Umbrella Program will aim at exploring, identifying, and scaling innovative governance solutions in constrained environments through new convenings and data sharing.
Canada joined G&I's partners with a USD 210,980 contribution. The UK’s FCDO contributed GBP 750,000 more supporting anticorruption efforts in Moldova. The Hewlett Foundation added USD 250,000 to its contribution.
The Republic of Austria joined G&I with a EUR 1 million contribution, and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) contributed nearly USD 750,000. FCDO of UK has added GBP 2 million in funding.
The Governance and Institutions Umbrella Program won the 2024 Umbrella Program Award in the Communication and Visibility category. This recognizes the Program's communications excellence and strategic donor engagement.
The Governance and Institutions Umbrella Program (G&I) collaborates with donors to enhance government effectiveness and accountability. Read the Annual Report 2024 to learn more.
The Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) joined G&I, highlighting a shared commitment to strengthen institutions essential for achieving the World Bank’s mission of eradicating poverty on a livable planet.
Government institutions worldwide: apply for the GovTech Bootcamp on AI in Governance and Public Administration! The initiative targets government institutions in low- and middle-income countries that are developing, piloting, or deploying AI-enabled solutions to strengthen public administration, service delivery, transparency, efficiency, and citizen engagement. Up to five government teams will be selected to participate in a fully funded, five-day technical bootcamp in Seoul. Participants will learn directly from practitioners who design, operate, and scale Korea's public AI systems, engage with Korean and World Bank experts, and develop practical implementation roadmaps for their own AI initiatives. Following the bootcamp, participating teams will receive follow-up support and technical feedback to help advance their initiatives. The application deadline is October 2, 2026.
