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 World Bank recognizes corruption as a serious problem. When it occurs, it not only undermines development progress. It has real costs for people across society. How can young people in Africa…

Daniel Nikolits |

By speeding up information exchange and the tracing of shipments, ePhyto will enhance Côte d’Ivoire’s trade competitiveness and help Ivorian traders participate more fully in the global economy.…

Shane Sela, Maiko Miyake |

The Inter-Parliamentary Union report of 2021 on Youth Participation in National Parliaments places at least 50% of the world’s population at under 30, yet only 2.6% of the world’s parliamentarians…

O’Neall Massamba |

This year’s UN theme for International Women’s Day was DigitALL – Innovation and Technology for Gender Equality. Digital technologies are at the forefront of development and provide a unique…

Aisha MohammedElhassan Hamid |

It is important for governments to institute education policies that enable girls to overcome the economic and social barriers blocking their access to education. One such policy measure could be…

Olivier Max Zoumenou, Exaucée Wonga |

Two years ago, a top logistics company in the central business district of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania’s commercial capital, disqualified Olivia Massawe for a job interview because she was 45 minutes…

Kelvin Mutagwaba, Yonas Eliesikia Mchomvu, Fang Xu |

High levels of poverty coupled with conflict, instability, and climate-induced disasters, make the Sahel a difficult environment for the people that live there. Challenges from droughts and…

Judy Baker, Sylvie Debomy, Soraya Goga |

In Mozambique's fast-growing capital city, the World Bank is using anonymized cell phone data to help understand how people move around and improve the local transport system.

Fatima Arroyo Arroyo, Kaori Niina, Dunstan Matekenya, Ishan Khokar |

Is digital technology another race in which women have been left behind? Globally, data show that men are 21% more likely to be online than women, a figure that goes up to 52% in the world’s least…

Yasmin Ali Gedi |