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 |

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 |

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 |

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 |

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 |

When thinking of Angola, often the first thing that comes to people’s mind is the oil industry, with the country having overtaken Nigeria as Africa’s largest oil producer last month. However,…

Izabela Leao, Shobha Shetty |

Youth are said to be the “driving force” of society, and we, here in Africa, have a predominantly young population, which means that we have the potential to offer a workforce full of energy.

Evaristo Ucuahamba Manasés |

Today, on the occasion of the World Youth Skills Day , we are pleased to announce the winners of the Blog4Dev 2021 competition.

Hafez Ghanem, Ousmane Diagana |