The 20 million people who depend on migratory livestock herding face challenges that are threatening their very way of life.
Our Plan provides a blueprint to help Sub-Saharan African economies achieve low carbon and climate-resilient outcomes.
Strengthening health, knowledge, capabilities, skills and resilience is key to ensuring everyone reaches their full potential.
The Sahel Women’s Empowerment and Demographic Dividend Project (SWEDD), aims to empower women and adolescent girls in Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Cote d’Ivoire, Mali, Mauritania and Niger.
Vice President, Eastern and Southern Africa
Vice President, Western and Central Africa
The latest economic analysis for the region predicts the pandemic could cost as much as $79 billion in output losses for 2020.
Africa’s poorest countries saw little to no progress on average in improving the quality of their policy and institutional frameworks in 2018.
With IDA’s help, hundreds of millions of people have escaped poverty—through the creation of jobs, access to clean water, schools, roads, nutrition, electricity, and more.
Read the World Bank’s plan to support African countries to strengthen the quantity, efficiency and impact of investments in people.
