The World Bank supports numerous Latin American and Caribbean countries in their efforts to develop a blue economy. Find out two examples here

Michel Kerf |

The Honduras Climate and Development Report outlines opportunities for improvement in areas such as natural resource management, implementation of agricultural practices to reduce deforestation,…

Katharina Siegmann, Elena Bondarenko, Kinnon Scott |

Unlike the rest of India where the states are responsible for the protection and management of forests, nearly 90 percent of the forests in Meghalaya have been managed under customary law by the…

Pyush Dogra, Simi Mishra |

Benin is a small country with big potential. Considered among the best-performing economies in Africa, improving access to water and sanitation are key to sustaining the country’s efforts towards…

Georges Comair, Mariam Sou, Laila Kasuri |

In its most recent update on the Sustainable Development Goals, the United Nations reports that in 2020, despite some progress, 2 billion people still lacked safe drinking water and 1.7 billion…

Joel Kolker |

The World Bank’s engagement in transboundary waters in West Africa is at a turning point, at a time when the G5 Sahel countries of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, and Niger are facing…

Laura Bonzanigo, Sanjay Pahuja, Clementine Marie Stip, Cecilia Borgia |

Zambia aims for universal access to safe and affordable water and sanitation services by 2030. Yet, Zambia is one of the countries that missed the MDGs for water and sanitation and is projected to…

Josses Mugabi, Ruth Kennedy-Walker |

In the deserts and dryland communities of the Sahel region, the scarcity of water resources threatens livelihoods, agriculture, and even industries. And due to the limited number of rivers and…

François Bertone, Mariam Sou |

If the coronavirus pandemic has taught the world anything, the lesson is about the cost of unequal resources on our health and lives but also about how interconnected and yes, resilient, we are as…

Ai-Ju Huang, Erwin de Nys |

The Global Water & Sanitation Partnership’s work over the past year has focused on helping countries respond to the water-related challenges of COVID-19 and climate change, and ultimately make…

Jennifer J. Sara |