COP28 kicks off this week with a growing urgency to increase action and financing to protect people in developing countries from climate extremes. Tune into the World Bank Group’s relevant events…

Sunny Kaplan |

The scale of the climate challenge facing South Asia is immense. Average temperatures have risen by 1 °C since pre-industrial times, leading to more scorching heatwaves across India and Pakistan.…

Abhas Jha |

In this latest blog, Valerie Hickey shows the importance of forests for development – including benefits to climate, jobs, and food security – particularly in the context of the new Global…

Valerie Hickey |

Concessional finance is more important than ever for the world’s poorest countries. Yet today’s aid architecture is highly complex, fragmented, and offers limited concessionality. In this context…

Akihiko Nishio |

November 19 is the World Toilet Day highlighting the importance of toilets for health, hygiene, and safety. Open defecation poses a serious risk to public health as it can contaminate sources of…

Haruna Kashiwase |

Save the Children’s Child Atlas seeks to fill this gap by providing an easy-to-use tool that brings together high-quality, publicly available data on spanning child-related outcomes, risks and…

Oliver Fiala |

This year marks the critical halfway point to the finish line of the 2030 agenda, including SDG6, Water and Sanitation for All. We will not achieve this goal, nor any of the goals that are…

Climate Resilient Sanitation Coalition |

DRC can overcome fragility to become Africa’s leading climate solutions country

Ana Bucher, Sandra El Saghir, Ruxandra Burdescu |

One of the least developed countries in the world, Chad’s GDP per capita has contracted since 2015. Its GDP per capita (in constant 2010 US dollars) was $710 in 2019, down significantly from $961…

Fulbert Tchana Tchana, Claudia Noumedem Temgoua |

The West African Economic and Monetary Union community, which comprises Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, and Togo, is facing a deficit of decent housing of…

Mazen Bouri |