Forest monitoring efforts in Phu Khao Khouay, Vientiane Province, Laos PDR. Photo credit: Hannah McDonald If ever there was a year to make significant progress on forest conservation and climate…

Kazakhstan. Photo: Kubat Sydykov / World Bank How large is the share of public procurement to GDP in middle-income and low-income countries and how it is evolving? If sizable, can public…

Pasco, Peru. This Andean community stands out for several reasons: at 4, 380 meters above sea level, it is the highest and one of the oldest cities in Peru. The birthplace of the millenary Wari…

"undefined"==typeof window.datawrapper&&(window.datawrapper={"v80o8":{}}), window.datawrapper["v80o8"].embedDeltas={"100":635, "200":554…

Also available in: Español In our previous blogs: Fecal Sludge Management: the invisible elephant in urban sanitation,  5 lessons to manage fecal sludge better, and A tale of two cities: how…

"The average length of time that refugees spend in camps is 17 years." This cruel statistic has been quoted many times, influencing our perception of refugee crises as never-ending…

Also available in: Español In the context of the upcoming UN High Level Meeting on Addressing Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants, this blog offers [[tweetable]]a field-level perspective from…

In the previous blog, we wrote about some essential features of a development response to forced displacement, which is the first question that we confronted in preparing a project to support the…

Also available in: Español Every day we are confronted with new images of people making a desperate bid to escape their living conditions and countries against treacherous and unforgiving odds.…

Building earthquake-resistant housing in Peru. Photo: USAID/OFDA, Auriana Koutnik/Flickr When a hurricane, earthquake or other natural disaster strikes a poor country, families too often suffer a…