A group of 30 students from Ngola Kanini Public Secondary School visited our World Bank office in Luanda this week. The students, ages 14-15 years, had the opportunity to interact with our…

Juan Carlos Alvarez |

Six years after Hurricanes Irma and Maria, Antigua and Barbuda and Dominica, among other countries, are still recovering from the impact of two of the deadliest hydrometeorological events in…

Francesco Varotto, Clara Ariza, Roberto Mendez, Naraya Carrasco, Suranga Kahandawa |

A statement by a young woman in Luanda, Angola echoes an experience faced by countless others: “A woman has to earn everything in life. She can’t expect it from a man because then she will never…

Ana Luiza Machado, Miriam Muller, Liliana Sousa |

Many Caribbean countries simply do not collect data to measure and monitor poverty and inequality.

Lilia Burunciuc, Marla Dukharan, Anna Luisa Paffhausen |

A project is successfully engaging citizens in reducing threats to globally important biodiversity in Caribbean countries. Read more.

Hélène Pfeil, Norman R. Howard Taylor, Sanjay Agarwal |

We hosted a virtual capacity-building workshop in December 2022 that brought together members of civil society and non-government organizations, private sector representatives, and legal…

Natália Mazoni Silva Martins, Héloïse Groussard |

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 |

The rising prevalence of non-communicable diseases is pressuring countries and health systems in the Caribbean at a rate of epidemic proportions.

Lilia Burunciuc, Timothy Antoine |

In Angola, women experience lower levels of representation in water utilities, but usually carry the burden of water collection. Through research, targeted engagement, and an inter-disciplinary…

Marco Antonio Aguero, Jonathan Grabinsky, Berta Macheve |

Economics is known as the “dismal science” because economists are always talking about trade-offs: if you eat your cake, you can’t have it too. But is there a trade-off between economic growth and…

Arame Tall, Frederico Gil Sander |