This document reports the findings of a
forensic assessment of the flood, mudflow, and mass movement
disasters which struck Tajikistan in May 2021. The
assessment used...
Given its geographic characteristics,
Tajikistan’s sub-national and international connectivity is
severely constrained by exposure to various natural hazards.
Roads...
The inhabitants of Antananarivo, the
capital of Madagascar, are struggling with diverse
water-related issues, like pluvial floods and water
pollution, which are particularly...
Widespread adoption of efficient
irrigation technologies, including drip irrigation, has been
proposed as a means of limiting groundwater
over-exploitation, especially...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 159153Date: May 1, 2021Author:
Fishman,Ram ;
Gine,Xavier ;
Jacoby,Hanan G.
The inhabitants of Antananarivo, the
capital of Madagascar, are struggling with diverse
water-related issues, like pluvial floods and water
pollution, which are particularly...
The Country Hydromet Diagnostics (CHD)
is a tool indicating where additional focus and support are
needed, based on defined maturity levels for each of the ten
critical...
Type: ReportReport#: 171858Date: April 30, 2021Author:
Emmanuel Brocard ;
Moritz Flubacher ;
Marcel Haefliger ;
Michiko Hama ;
Christian Lukasczyk ;
Alicia Pache ;
Andrea Rossa ;
Yves-Alain Roulet
To support Mozambique’s blue economy and
promote sustainable rural development, the World Bank is
working to make the fishing sector more sustainable and
profitable...
Complexities surround the relationships
between the public and private sectors that fundamentally
influence the provision of hydromet informationand services.
This technical...
Type: BriefReport#: 158504Date: April 22, 2021Author:
Rogers, David P. ;
Bogdanova,Anna-Maria ;
Tsirkunov,Vladimir V. ;
Suwa,Makoto
Costa Rica’s national climate change
metrics system (sistema nacional de metrica de cambio
climatico, SINAMECC) is Costa Rica’s official platform to
coordinate climate...
Climate and systems modeling in Costa
Rica has been used to integrate physical variables to
traditional modeling tools. The models have enabled
quantitative analysis...
The partnership for market
readiness-Costa Rica (PMR-CR) supported the Costa Rican
government with technical and conceptual inputs in two
complementary approaches for...
The Costa Rican offsetting mechanism
(mecanismo de compensacion de Costa Rica, MCCR) is a
domestic greenhouse gas (GHG) crediting instrument to
address the structural...
Costa Rica’s national carbon neutrality
program (programa pais de carbono neutralidad, PPCN) is an
official mechanism for participants to join the country’s
long-term...
Residential buildings make up a
significant proportion of total buildings in Jordan and is
the fastest growing subset. The sector dominates electricity
use, accounting...
Amman is the capital city and economic
and cultural hub of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. As one
of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, it
has a...
The Bangladesh Solar Home Systems (SHS)
Program is the largest national program in the world for
off-grid electrification. Begun in 2003, SHS installations
under the...
Type: ReportReport#: 157689Date: March 24, 2021Author:
Cabraal,Ravindra Anil ;
Ward,William A. ;
Bogach,Susan V. ;
Jain,Amit
The World Bank Institute (WBI) launched
the contract monitoring initiative (CMI) with the goal of
enhancing the capacity of organizations engaged in
monitoring procurement...
The World Bank Institute open government
practice (WBIOG) provides cutting-edge knowledge and
capacity building opportunities to practitioners in the
public and private...
Following the 2014 floods, the Serbian
Government approved a national disaster risk management
program (NDRMP) to develop a long-term risk management
system, including...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 157226Date: March 5, 2021
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