On December 14, 2023, the International
Finance Corporation (IFC) held a consultation with
stakeholders from the private sector in Kenya on the
proposed World Bank Group...
Type: BriefReport#: 192208Date: December 14, 2023Author:
World Bank
On December 13, 2023, the World Bank
Group (WBG) held a virtual consultation on the proposed WBG
gender strategy 2024-2030. This meeting was co-convened by
the secretariats...
Type: BriefReport#: 192229Date: December 13, 2023Author:
World Bank
On December 13, 2023, the World Bank
Group held a virtual consultation on the proposed World Bank
Group Gender Strategy 2024-2030 with representatives from
the governments...
Type: BriefReport#: 192215Date: December 13, 2023Author:
World Bank
In Recife, Brazil, the water and
sanitation utility company is responsible for constructing
the public sewerage network. However, connecting a house to
the available...
Type: BriefReport#: 186381Date: December 11, 2023Author:
Castaneda Nunez,Jorge Luis ;
Brescianini,Juliana Neves Soares ;
Finamor Pfeifer,Flora ;
De Carvalho Marques,Murilo ;
Correia Santos,Leonardo Gill ;
Dill,Helena Cristina
The Recife Metropolitan Region (RMR),
located in the state of Pernambuco in Northeast Brazil, has
4.1 million inhabitants, of which 99% have access to water
and 34%...
Type: BriefReport#: 186991Date: December 11, 2023Author:
Castaneda Nunez,Jorge Luis ;
Brescianini,Juliana Neves Soares ;
Finamor Pfeifer,Flora ;
De Carvalho Marques,Murilo ;
Correia Santos,Leonardo Gill ;
Dill,Helena Cristina
Climate change has profound and
far-reaching impacts on people’s health and
health systems. The climate crisis is increasing global
temperatures, altering rainfall...
Type: BriefReport#: 186331Date: December 8, 2023Author:
World Bank
Between December 4 and 7, 2023, the
World Bank Group conducted a series of consultations on the
proposed World Bank Group Gender Strategy 2024-2030 in Peru.
These discussions...
Type: BriefReport#: 192218Date: December 7, 2023Author:
World Bank
Investing in nature and the services it
providesis an affordable approach to tackling
climatemitigation and adaptation, landscape restoration,and
livelihood development.
Type: BriefReport#: 186231Date: December 5, 2023Author:
World Bank
Teach Secondary comes with a suite of
complementary resources that are intended to support the use
of the tool through every stage of implementation. Please
note that...
Type: BriefReport#: 186200Date: December 4, 2023Author:
World Bank
Until recently, Nairobi’s
informal settlement residents did not have access to
household-level piped water and sanitation services. That
began to change when,...
Type: BriefReport#: 186141Date: December 1, 2023Author:
World Bank
This Knowledge Note, produced by the
World Bank’s Integrating Gender Equality into Tax
Reform project team of the Global Tax Program, provides a
broad overview...
While the scientific understanding of
climate migration is advancing, major gaps prevail in
addressing the related humanitarian and socio-economic
challenges. Drawing...
Type: BriefReport#: 193090Date: December 1, 2023Author:
Hoffmann,Roman Max Ludwig ;
Vinke, Kira ;
Šedová, Barbora
Despite considerable efforts to reach
the sustainable development goal (SDG) target 6.2, about 2.3
million people globally still lack basic sanitation services
and only...
Type: BriefReport#: 180351Date: November 30, 2023Author:
George Joseph ;
Ayling,Sophie Charlotte Emi ;
Cardona,Alejandra Quevedo
This case study presents lessons learned
by the Africa GenderInnovation Lab (GIL) and its partners
from pilots of differentmodels of low-cost childcare
provision across...
Type: BriefReport#: 186248Date: November 30, 2023Author:
Cassidy,Rachel Margaret ;
Zighed,Roxane Meriem Delphine ;
Gokalp,Cansu Birce
Climate change has profoundly affected
Pakistan, manifesting in altered weather patterns and
devastating floods. According to projections,
Pakistan’s gross domestic...
The sustainable development goals (SDGs)
for water are a greater challenge than the millennium
development goals (MDGs) before them. In addition to the
addressing the...
Type: BriefReport#: 180352Date: November 30, 2023Author:
George Joseph ;
Ayling,Sophie Charlotte Emi ;
Cardona,Alejandra Quevedo
Many governments around the world
subsidize the energy consumption of their citizens. Despite
the negative economic and social consequences of providing
these subsidies,...
Type: BriefReport#: 185946Date: November 29, 2023Author:
World Bank
Key findings: • Mangrove loss
in Indonesia has been rapid and linked to market incentives,
land tenure issues, regulations, and institutions.
• Efforts...
Type: BriefReport#: 186092Date: November 29, 2023Author:
World Bank
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a
global problem and a widespread issue in the Democratic
Republic of Congo (DRC), where nationally more than one
third of women have...
Data collection methodologies for
mobilities influenced by environmental factors still grapple
with the multicausality of movement, the differentiation
between forced...
Type: BriefReport#: 193089Date: November 25, 2023Author:
Nicoletti,Alessandro ;
Melde, Susanne ;
Guadagno,Lorenzo ;
Bilsborrow,Richard E.
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