This report presents an annex which
gives tables containing thresholds for review by the
Procurement Specialist (PS) or Procurement Accredited Staff
(PAS), Regional...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 87294Date: March 1, 2014
Recurring floods in the north of Ghana
called for an improved flood forecasting system to better
manage the situation, and find long-term solutions for
mitigation. However,...
Type: BriefReport#: 135390Date: February 28, 2014Author:
Dingel,Carl Christian
The Second Mizoram State Roads Regional
Transport Connectivity Project for India seeks to improve
existing road connectivity through rehabilitation,
strengthening and...
The Second Mizoram State Roads Regional
Transport Connectivity Project for India seeks to improve
existing road connectivity through rehabilitation,
strengthening and...
The World Bank has emerged as a leading
partner in efforts to help developing countries manage
disasters and recover from extreme weather events.
Increasingly frequent...
The report includes the thematic and
chronological listing of items pertaining to the Board and
and committees work programs for the third quarter of FY14
to the first...
Type: Board ReportReport#: 84460Date: February 3, 2014
This report concerns the relationship
between information and communication technologies (ICTs)
and post conflict reconstruction, especially with ways in
which ICTs...
Type: PublicationReport#: 84355Date: February 3, 2014Author:
Kelly,Timothy John Charles ;
Souter,David
This report begins by laying out the
dynamics of the youth employment challenge in Sub-Saharan
Africa today: the demographic transition, which created the
youth bulge...
Type: Working PaperReport#: ACS8133Date: January 27, 2014Author:
Filmer,Deon P. ;
Fox,M. Louise
On 24th and 25th December, 2013 a
tropical trough system produced heavy rains in Saint Vincent
and the Grenadines (SVG). The ensuing rapid and intense
flash flooding...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 84329Date: January 16, 2014Author:
Charles,Keren Carla ;
Locke,Justin Taylor ;
Meier,Gerald E. ;
Pandey,Bishwa Raj ;
Rodrigues, Marco
The World Bank's fragile, conflict,
and violence group (formally the center on conflict,
security, and development (CCSD)) annually releases the
harmonized list of fragile...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 89275Date: January 1, 2014Author:
Piffaretti,Nadia Fernanda ;
Ralston,Laura R. ;
Shaikh,Khadija
Disasters are increasing worldwide, with
more devastating effects than ever before. While the
absolute number of disasters around the world has almost
doubled since...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 81658Date: January 1, 2014Author:
Banerjee,Aditi ;
Bhavnani,Rakhi ;
Burtonboy,Catherine H. ;
Hamad,Osama ;
Linares-Rivas Barandiaran,Alejandra ;
Safaie,Sahar ;
Tewari,Deepali ;
Zanon,Andrea
Understanding risk (UR) is a global
community of almost 3,500 experts and practitioners in the
field of disaster risk assessment. Every two years, the
global facility...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 96529Date: January 1, 2014Author:
Ghesquiere,Francis ;
Simpson,Alanna Leigh ;
Phillips,Emma Katrine Alexandra ;
Toro Landivar,Jose C. Joaquin ;
Wyan,Angela Adilia ;
Balog,Simone Andrea Breunig ;
Heslop, Clio
In the Sahel, the climatic and
geographic transition into the Sahara desert creates
enormous and unpredictable risk for drought and water
scarcity. This often translates...
Type: BriefReport#: 97328Date: January 1, 2014Author:
James,Richard
The primary objective of this report is
to take stock of the global progress on financial protection
against natural disasters over the last decade and bring
together...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 94988Date: January 1, 2014Author:
Atamuratova,Sevara ;
Boudreau,Laura Elizabeth ;
Clarke,Daniel Jonathan ;
Mahul,Olivier ;
Signer,Benedikt Lukas ;
White,Emily Jennifer ;
Yi,Hannah Joy
The State and Peacebuilding Fund (SPF)
is the World Bank’s largest global, multi-donor trust fund
(MDTF) to support projects that contribute to prevention and
recovery...
The Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF)
was established in 2000 as a collaboration between the
Government of Japan (GoJ) and the World Bank to address the
Asian financial...
Type: Annual ReportReport#: 105777Date: January 1, 2014
This guide offers a comprehensive
understanding of the design and implementation of an Open
Cities mapping project, for both practitioners in the field
and those interested...
Type: ReportReport#: 149806Date: January 1, 2014Author:
Forni,Marc S. ;
Haack, Jeff ;
Soden,Robert John ;
York,Dustin William ;
Sommerville,Michael Ryan ;
Deparday,Vivien
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