• SABER - Equity and inclusion
    Equity and inclusion are at the core of the World Bank Group’s twin goals of eradicating extreme poverty and building shared prosperity. Within the Education Global Practice, promoting equity and inclusion...
    Type: Brief Report#: 115381 Date: February 1, 2016
  • Tanzania - Do campaigns to get people to wash hands and use (improved) toilets work?
    The World Bank is committed to providing opportunities for healthy child development, and ensuring safe sanitation and good hygiene is critical to achieving that. In Tanzania, the World Bank’s Water and...
    Type: Brief Report#: 104142 Date: February 1, 2016 Author: Marcus,Aliza ; Berman,Daphna
  • Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER) education resilience approaches
    It is widely recognized that countries need strong education systems that promote learning, life skills, and social cohesion. However, systems struggle to deliver education services in adverse contexts...
    Type: Brief Report#: 115394 Date: February 1, 2016
  • SABER - School finance
    Finance is the lifeblood of any education system, making it possible to build schools, hire and train teachers, and equip classrooms with learning materials and technology. School finance is an essential...
    Type: Brief Report#: 115386 Date: February 1, 2016
  • SABER - Information and communication technologies
    Globalization and rapid technological change have made knowledge a critical determinant of competitiveness in the world economy. With globalization, the information revolution, and increasing demands for...
    Type: Brief Report#: 115387 Date: February 1, 2016
  • Local Content in Oil, Gas, and Mining
    Foreign capital in mineral and petroleum producing countries has historically driven investment and employment. But the most valuable contribution to long term sustainable and inclusive growth comes from...
    Type: Brief Report#: 166328 Date: January 27, 2016
  • Tech Meets Agriculture at #Hack4Ag in Uganda
    The World Bank aims to help jumpstart agricultural innovation by hosting #Hack4Ag in Kampala, Uganda. Supported by funding from South Korea, the hackathon brings together young people from Uganda and South...
    Type: Brief Report#: 166468 Date: January 21, 2016
  • World Bank Group Launches New Gender Data Products
    This story highlights the World Bank Group relaunched its popular gender data portal, comprising current and historical data on topics ranging from health and education to jobs, assets, and political participation...
    Type: Brief Report#: 166816 Date: January 20, 2016
  • Disaster Risk Management in Armenia
    The Government of Armenia has recognized the importance of disaster risk management, highlighting that natural hazards threaten the country’s development. In this regard, the World Bank Group is offering...
    Type: Brief Report#: 179753 Date: January 19, 2016 Author: World Bank
  • Using Gabon’s Digital Network to Improve Healthcare
    This story highlights easier access to health services, at lower costs, and the widespread availability over mobile phones (including smartphones) of health apps should impact almost everyone, and experts...
    Type: Brief Report#: 166472 Date: January 14, 2016
  • Harnessing the Internet for Development
    Universal access to the Internet has become a top development priority. Getting there requires affordable, reliable access to fast, always on broadband networks, one of the United Nations’ (UN) sustainable...
    Type: Brief Report#: 166332 Date: January 13, 2016
  • Sustainable Energy for All : Harnessing the Internet for Development
    Sustainable Energy for All, a global coalition of governments, private sector, civil society and international organizations, aims to deliver universal access to electricity and safe cooking solutions,...
    Type: Brief Report#: 166319 Date: January 13, 2016
  • Canal Reconstruction Improves Rural Living in Bamyan Province
    The reconstruction of canal systems in Bamyan Province is enabling farmers to increase productivity of their lands through better irrigation as well as improve living standards through hydro-powered electricity....
    Type: Brief Report#: 178928 Date: January 6, 2016 Author: World Bank
  • Upper secondary education enhancement project
    Since the early 1990s, the government of Vietnam (GoV) has made sustained and successful efforts to improve basic education outcomes. The percentage of the population aged 25–55 years without any level...
    Type: Brief Report#: 112779 Date: January 6, 2016
  • Scaling Up Climate and Disaster Resilience for the World's Most Vulnerable
    Natural disasters can cause unthinkable tolls and continue to disproportionately affect the poorest and most vulnerable. The number of climate related disasters alone in the last decade is nearly twice...
    Type: Brief Report#: 166569 Date: January 5, 2016
  • What challenges will Latin America face in 2016?
    After over a decade of growth, the tides have changed for Latin America. It is anticipated that the region will have to adapt to a new reality of low growth in 2016, because of the slowdown in China, among...
    Type: Brief Report#: 179533 Date: January 4, 2016 Author: World Bank
  • Identifying risks and guiding recovery efforts in Malawi
    In January 2015, Malawi experienced some of the most devastating flooding in its history. In the aftermath, the Government of Malawi conducted a post-disaster needs assessment (PDNA), with support from...
    Type: Brief Report#: 103261 Date: January 1, 2016 Author: Rahman,Shaela
  • Shaping Ukraine’s recovery
    The ongoing conflict in Eastern Ukraine has resulted in instability and insecurity, heavily impacting the Ukrainian people with devastating social and economic consequences. Beyond the significant losses...
    Type: Brief Report#: 103268 Date: January 1, 2016 Author: Rahman,Shaela
  • Informal firms in Myanmar
    Using survey data on informal firms in Myanmar, a number of issues related to firm-size,productivity, business environment, gender disparity and registration costs and benefits arediscussed. The findings...
    Type: Brief Report#: 119221 Date: January 1, 2016 Author: Amin,Mohammad
  • Bridge international academies
    From the creation of the United Nations millennium development goals of 2000 to the 2015 sustainable development goals there has been a notable shift in focus on the all-important issue of education. Today...
    Type: Brief Report#: 119876 Date: January 1, 2016
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