The World Bank funded training on
reservoir sedimentation management and introduction to
RESCON 2 software over the period August 6 to 8, 2018 in
Debrezeit, Ethiopia,...
The purpose of this position paper is
to: (i) assess key interventions in innovation policy
indicated in the strategy for responsible development (SRD)
endorsed in 2017,...
Type: ReportReport#: 132500Date: August 1, 2018Author:
De Rosa,Donato ;
Boratynska,Agnieszka ;
Borowik,Iwona Maria ;
Iwanowski,Damian ;
Kochan,Filip Piotr ;
Marc,Lukasz Marek ;
Rodrigo,Delia ;
Skrok,Emilia ;
Skwarczynska,Barbara Maria
The guidebook consists of five chapters.
Chapter one overviews the CIP process and the challenges of
that process in UB, including how the CIP process is linked
with...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 141586Date: August 1, 2018Author:
Kaganova,Olga ;
Dash,Battuya ;
Bat Orig,Khaliun ;
Chen,Yang
Although efforts at Soil and Water
Conservation (SWC) are viewed as instrumental in reducing
vulnerability to climate change, their impact has rarely
been quantified....
Type: BriefReport#: 129862Date: August 1, 2018Author:
Ali,Daniel Ayalew ;
Deininger,Klaus W. ;
Monchuk,Daniel C.
This document provides background and
guidance on how to design and implement shared, communal and
public sanitation facilities, with a focus on operation and
management...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 129628Date: August 1, 2018Author:
Cardone,Rachel ;
Schrecongost,Alyse Marie ;
Gilsdorf,Rebecca Jean
This paper is part of an ongoing
collaboration between the World Bank and the United
Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization to raise
awareness about the importance...
Type: PublicationReport#: 129634Date: August 1, 2018Author:
Steduto, Pasquale ;
Jagerskog,Lars Anders ;
Ward, Christopher ;
Borgomeo,Edoardo ;
Ruckstuhl,Sandra Meryl
Disputes over land access and control
often escalate into violence and conflict leading to
dispossession and forced displacement within and across
borders. Estimates...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 129136Date: August 1, 2018Author:
Mccallin,Barbara Eleonore Mai
Carbon taxes can be win-win for
Bangladesh. They can help show the world that Bangladesh is
serious about climate mitigation, boosting the country’s
influence in international...
Type: Policy NoteReport#: 129699Date: August 1, 2018
The document gives account for
background information that has been considered to design
the Benefit Sharing System (SDB) for the National Strategy
on Climate Change...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 129236Date: August 1, 2018Author:
Quintanilla, Osvaldo ;
Sartori, Angelo ;
Cano, Javier ;
Moraga, Jaeel
This inception report provides the
following key information as a basis for the execution of
the Feasibility Assessment of Parametric Insurance for
Volcanic Unrest and...
Type: ReportReport#: 146899Date: July 25, 2018Author:
Watson,Willis Towers
This review of the Solomon Islands
Completion and Learning Review (CLR) of the World Bank
Group’s (WBG) Country Partnership Strategy (CPS)
covers the CPS period,...
Type: CPF Completion and Learning Review ReviewReport#: 129028Date: July 23, 2018
Improving rural credit markets requires
a good understanding of the root causes of market failures
and taking necessary steps to address them. This paper
investigates...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8528Date: July 12, 2018Author:
Adjognon,Guigonan Serge ;
Liverpool-Tasie,Lenis Saweda ;
Shupp,Robert
The Ethiopia case study addresses
multiple dimensions of poverty of the refugee populations
and the Ethiopian host community living in the vicinity. The
analysis is...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 128185Date: July 10, 2018Author:
Pape,Utz Johann ;
Petrini,Benjamin ;
Iqbal,Syedah Aroob
This paper explores the impact of large,
individual-liability loans on the growth of women-owned
microenterprises in Ethiopia. Traditionally, microfinance
institutions...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS8511Date: July 10, 2018Author:
Alibhai,Aly Salman ;
Buehren,Niklas ;
Papineni,Sreelakshmi
South Asia is highly vulnerable to
climate change. Average temperatures have been rising
throughout the region, and rainfall has become more erratic.
These changes are...
Type: PublicationReport#: 128323Date: July 9, 2018Author:
Mani,Muthukumara S. ;
Bandyopadhyay,Sushenjit ;
Chonabayashi,Shun ;
Markandya,Anil ;
Mosier,Thomas Michael Rowe
The Deep South is a holistic study that
provides a socio-economic, historic, cultural, political,
anthropological and environmental perspective on the
situation of the...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 127982Date: July 1, 2018Author:
Healy,Timothy M.
A combination of poverty, water
scarcity, armed conflict, and warfare has produced serious
challenges for both water supply and sanitation in Yemen.
Although the tanker...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 128907Date: July 1, 2018Author:
Abu-Lohom,Naif Mohammed ;
Konishi,Yasuo ;
Mumssen,Yogita ;
Zabara,Bilkis ;
Moore,Scott Michael
The objective of this report is to
examine the process for assigning UINs (unique
identification number) at birth and the mechanism for
incorporating them into the civil...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 128453Date: July 1, 2018Author:
Dharwadker,Sanjay ;
Harbitz,Mia Elisabeth ;
Mills,Samuel Lantei ;
Palacios,Robert J. ;
Kim,Mijung ;
Desai,Vyjayanti Tharmaratnam ;
Marskell,Jonathan Daniel ;
Rietdijk, Wim ;
Weller, Ludger
The World Bank Group (WBG) Gender
Strategy (FY16–23) describes the importance of supporting
women’s entrepreneurship to help advance the World Bank
Group’s mission and...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 132588Date: July 1, 2018Author:
Qasim,Qursum ;
Lu,Zoe Cordelia ;
Ford,Kalyah Alaina
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