The African Legal Support Facility (ALSF) has developed country profiles to assess the progress of developing PPP legal frameworks and carried out a comparative analysis of existing legal and…

Maude Vallée, Andrea Stucchi |

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 |

Displaced households typically experience greater deprivation compared to their local counterparts, including ownership of household and productive assets, children's educational outcomes,…

Maria Eugenia Genoni, Nandini Krishnan, Tara Vishwanath |

The World Bank, the Government of India’s Ministry of Rural Development, BRAC, BOMA, Jeevika, and India’s National Rural Livelihood Mission come together to share the learnings from Bangladesh,…

Soumya Kapoor Mehta, Anna O'Donnell |

With 90 percent of fresh water in Africa found within 63 international river basin catchments crossing multiple borders, water resource management on the continent must be an inherently…

Noosha Tayebi |

With one billion, or 15% of the world’s population, experiencing a form of disability, and 80% living in low- and middle-income countries, we must consider the impacts of natural hazards on…

Yusra Uzair, Simone Balog-Way, Mari Koistinen |

Please join us on April 21, 2021 at 7:30AM EST for a cross-country experience sharing on strengthening public procurement systems in Lebanon, Bangladesh, and Mozambique through the Methodology for…

Carlos Ferreyra |

Discover how steps taken today are helping to address climate change and its impact on education systems, and vice versa.

Jason Weaver |

A World Bank report, "Enhancing Government Effectiveness and Transparency: The Fight Against Corruption," examined three examples of positive reform experiences in public procurement to…

Joel Turkewitz |

A summary of the important steps the World Bank Group has taken in response to COVID-19.

David Malpass |