Package 1 seeks to strengthen the enabling environment for the private sector, while Package 2 acknowledges the importance of ...

Gender-based violence (GBV) is a form of gender discrimination and is one of the leading causes of human rights violations in ...

Though the development, articulation, and systematization of indigenous knowledge in Africa are most often seen as issues of culture and local epistemology, they have at the same time critical ...

The Country Program Evaluation (CPE) will assess the performance of the World Bank Group’s support to the Arab Republic of Egypt from FY 2015 to FY25. The evaluation will focus on the relevance, ...

The Republic of Congo, a country with extensive tropical forests and low deforestation rates, needs to balance export-driven development, especially through timber production, and sustainable forest ...

Coastal flood risks are expected to increase due climate change. Therefore, Bangladesh has been upgrading its coastal embankment system to enhance flood safety. This initiative includes not only hard ...

The Democratic Republic of Congo is committed to achieving Universal Health Care by 2030. Progress toward this goal faces ...

Ethiopia achieves a high overall rate of execution of its health budget. From 2016 to 2021 the health budget execution rate ...

By combining two complementary approaches, the gravity model and the Bartik model, this paper estimates: (i) the ...

Digital business training offers flexibility and scalability, but translating these features into tangible benefits for women ...

This background note provides more detail on the key findings for the health sector from the forthcoming World Bank 2025 ...

Progress toward this goal faces challenges due to limitations in the execution and allocation of the country's health budget.