Tim Evans - the World Bank Group's Senior Director for Health, Nutrition and Population - gives an eyewitness account of his trip to the Ebola-affected countries of Guinea and Liberia. Community...
"Learn how to render Bank operations more welcoming toward the differently-abled."
More than a billion persons globally, about 15 percent of the world’s population, are estimated to have a...
As interest grows in results-based financing (RBF), the need for reliable verification systems intensifies. Independent verification is a key component of OBA, which links the disbursement of funds...
Greenhouse Gas emissions accounting for investment lending is a corporate mandate of the World Bank following the WBG Environment Strategy. Accounting for GHG emissions allows the World Bank and its...
Social accountability is an important component of an overall good governance framework. This three-module course introduces participants to the concept of social accountability and provides the...
"Collaborative social accountability offers significant potential to advance relational state-building in fragile states"
Strengthening the social contract between state and society has become the...
These online modules provides support and resources for Security Focal Points with the intent to build confidence, knowledge and skills in a role that many have taken on as an extra duty. The content...
Enabling strong accountability relationships between government agencies and service providers—on the one hand—and citizens and service users—on the other—is critical to good governance and...
Agent Banking Changes the Economics of Small Accounts. Agent Banking Works Best for Low-Balance, High-Transaction Accounts. Agent Banking Systems Are Cheaper to Operate Than Branches.
In Sub Saharan Africa women are often not protecting their savings through formal devices but instead keeping their savings in more vulnerable savings options. After participating in a savings...
As Dubai has grown over the last two decades, the demand for private education has grown with it, a reflection of the number of expatriates settling in the city and the various curricula on offer to...
Recent years have seen explosive progress in nancial inclusion. Worldwide, 62 percent of adults have an account at a nancial institution or through a mobile money provider, up from 51 percent in 2011...
New data from the Global Financial Inclusion (Global Findex) database show that 50 percent of adults worldwide have an account at a formal financial institution. The data also show deep disparities...
Agriculture is the world’s leading emitter of methane and nitrous oxide, and the principal driver of deforestation. Agriculture contributes a quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions. On the other...
The high hopes internationally for using technology to support openness and transparency rest on assumptions about information integrity and accessibility. Many countries have yet to achieve either...
Recent guest articles on the The SDG Knowledge Hub present a range of perspectives about the private sector’s role in advancing the Global Goals. Some commentators focus on business’ potential for...
Many countries are in the process of transitioning from primarily paper-based administrative systems to digital systems through the application of information and communication technology (ICTs) as...
As mobile phone ownership rates have risen dramatically in Africa, there has been increased interest in using mobile telephones as a data collection platform. This note draws on two largely...
Disaster risks are rapidly increasing around the world: many regions are experiencing greater damage and higher losses than in the past. There is variability in annual losses and deaths from...