With the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), world leaders made a bold pledge in 2015 to leave no one behind on the path of development by 2030. Half-way to the target date, some 22 countries…

Samuel Kofi Tetteh Baah, Christoph Lakner, Umar Serajuddin |

In public schools across six countries, approximately 20 percent of teachers were absent on a typical school day, on average. Furthermore, even when present, teachers often did not engage in…

Shwetlena Sabarwal, Surayya Masood |

An estimated 1 in 6 people experience significant disability, making it essential to consider accessibility when planning, financing and building infrastructure. Japan and the World Bank are…

Yohei Takahashi, Imad N. Fakhoury, Charlotte McClain-Nhlapo |

The World Bank supports cybersecurity skills development initiatives in developing countries to help close the cybersecurity skills gap and enhance cyber resilience as a catalyst for socio-…

Ghislain de Salins, Anat Lewin |

If some or many refugee movements can be predicted, what are the implications?

Xavier Devictor |

In 2021, the Nile Basin Discourse (NBD) program, with the support of the CIWA Program, empowered women and youth to become resilient Climate Change Champions. This training had a major positive…

Ai-Ju Huang |

CIWA is exploring ways to better align its transboundary water cooperation efforts with biodiversity conservation goals, including identifying opportunities at the intersection of transboundary…

Piet Theron |

Uganda is one of the most biodiverse countries on the planet with millennia of history and thriving cultural traditions. But it remains an underrated tourist destination.

Qursum Qasim |

Saudi Arabia's experience with the COVID-19 pandemic shows that it takes time to build the right enabling environment. Discover Saudi Arabia's digital government services, Seha Virtual…

Samia Melhem, Anila Graupp, Fatimah Alotaibi |

On a recent World Bank mission in Kampala, we held a roundtable with Ugandan women entrepreneurs and witnessed a cacophony of anger sweep the room as one brazen male banker stood up and declared “…

Sreelakshmi Papineni, Margarita Puerto, Wei Chang |