Women are often overrepresented among the poorest and the most vulnerable. Due to various factors limiting their opportunities, including care responsibilities and gender norms, many either remain outside...
Type: BriefReport#: 192575Date: July 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
CAMFED, the Campaign for Female Education, has partnered with rural communities since 1993 to multiply educational opportunities for girls and vulnerable boys and build the economic empowerment of young...
Type: BriefReport#: 192293Date: July 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Council for Global Equality appreciates the opportunity to submit our comments on the Consultation Draft of the World Bank Gender Strategy 2024-2030. Our overarching reaction is that the strategy’s...
Type: BriefReport#: 192308Date: July 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is pleased to offer its feedback on the World Bank Group’s (WBG) proposed Gender Strategy 2024- 2030. In reviewing the strategy, CRS noted the complementarity between the...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 192306Date: July 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Costa Rican Social Security Fund (CCSS) has taken its first steps towards the introduction of strategic purchasing of healthcare services with a pilot that was introduced for the first time as part...
Type: BriefReport#: 192500Date: July 1, 2024Author:
Laura Di Giorgio ;
Valenzuela, Ana Lucia Rosado ;
Ashley Lauren Sheffel ;
Micaela Mussini
This report contains the World Bank Group Boards’ updated calendar for the period from July to September 2024, specifying the Boards’ engagements, such as meetings and briefings.
Type: Board ReportReport#: 192977Date: July 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
As the number of forcibly displaced persons around the world reached a record 120 million in June 2024, the World Bank continues to deepen its efforts to understand and respond to the unique needs of these...
Type: ReportReport#: 192957Date: July 1, 2024Author:
Erik Caldwell Johnson ;
Sarah Dreier ;
Danai Angeli ;
Sophie Crozet ;
Oleksandra Shatyrko
The economic recovery faltered due to global and domestic headwinds as growth fell to 1.5 percent year-on-year in 2024 Q1. The current account remained positive at 2.2 percent of gross domestic product...
Type: BriefReport#: 192262Date: July 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
In the proposed 2024-2030 World Bank Group (WBG), We Effect, and partner organisations appreciate the World Bank Gender Team for recognising civil society organisations suggestions and experiences throughout...
Type: BriefReport#: 192297Date: July 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Among the key areas of intervention suggested by ILC members for the World Bank Group to best help countries accelerate progress toward gender equality and empowerment, the main areas that emerged are...
Type: BriefReport#: 192303Date: July 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Oxfam especially welcomes the repeated references to human rights and the rights of women and girls throughout this new strategy. They also appreciate efforts to build on gender tagging and flagging at...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 192305Date: July 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Myanmar subnational phone surveys (MSPS) track household wellbeing at the state and regional levels. The inaugural round of MSPS, carried out from November 2022 to March 2023, gathered comprehensive data...
Type: BriefReport#: 192278Date: July 1, 2024Author:
Sutirtha Sinha Roy
The World Bank Group (WBG) Gender Strategy 2024-2030 is framed by the strategic vision of WBG President Ajay Banga, elaborated through the Strategic Engagement discussion with Executive Directors and WBG...
Type: ReportReport#: 192286Date: July 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
The Myanmar firm monitoring survey (Round 17) was conducted from April 5, 2024, to May 5, 2024, encompassing a nationally representative sample of 500 firms. The survey spanned various areas of Myanmar,...
Type: ReportReport#: 191567Date: July 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Gender equality is an urgent imperative. The world is experiencing an unprecedented set of crises with disproportionately negative impacts on women, girls, sexual and gender minorities, and marginalized...
Type: ReportReport#: 192281Date: July 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
This paper describes the challenges of accurately measuring the upper tail of the income and wealth distributions in low- and middle-income countries. It reviews the seminal contributions in the literature...
Type: Policy Research Working PaperReport#: WPS10836Date: July 1, 2024Author:
Kerr,Andrew ;
Zondi,Mxolisi
This document summarizes key takeaways from informal discussions with external stakeholders that informed development of the draft World Bank Group (WBG) Gender Strategy 2024-2030 ‘Accelerate Gender Equality...
Type: BriefReport#: 192290Date: July 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
Yet achieving gender equality is uniquely challenging and complex. It calls for changes spanning country laws and policies, public and private sector activities, and personal lives. WBG Gender Strategy...
Type: BriefReport#: 192304Date: July 1, 2024Author:
Marshall, Katherine
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) appreciates the WBG’s commitment to elevate and center gender equality across all areas of its work, building from the current strategy, drawing on the lessons learned,...
Type: Working PaperReport#: 192280Date: July 1, 2024Author:
World Bank
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