This report presents a comprehensive skill training needs assessment for the agriculture, ICT, and logistics sectors in Lao PDR. The study relied on a mixed-methods research approach, incorporating literature...
Disasters triggered by climate and other natural hazards are increasing in frequency, severity, and duration worldwide. Disasters, whether from natural hazards or man-made, cost lives and livelihoods...
Effectively addressing gender-based violence (GBV) contributes to the achievement of the World Bank’s twin goals of poverty reduction and shared prosperity by increasing the ability of women and girls...
The Advisory Services and Analytics (ASA) Mitigating Gender-Based Violence Risks and Expanding the gender-based violence (GBV) portfolio in Central America carried out in FY21 aimed to develop and apply...
This aims to review Latin America and Caribbean (LC2) projects both in preparation and implementation phases to identify key entry points to address Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG). This review...
The outputs summarized in this Terms of Reference (TOR) will bring the gender lens into World Bank’s Investment Project. Financing (IPF) project process in a consistent manner, with the potential to positively...
This note provides key entry points of Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) prevention and response actions in the World Bank (WB) projects by Global Practice/sector.
This how-to note provides guiding principles and practical strategies for integrating Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) prevention and response into sectoral World Bank projects. The note addresses...
This report summarizes a qualitative study undertaken as part of World Bank’s Armenia Country Gender Action Plan FY17-19 (WBG 2017b). The study aims to build the evidence on how best to strengthen women’s...
This report summarizes a qualitative study undertaken as part of World Bank’s Armenia Country Gender Action Plan FY17-19 (WBG 2017b). The study aims to build the evidence on how best to strengthen women’s...
Energy efficiency in public buildings in Turkey is currently at a low level. Energy use in the country’s public and service sectors experienced a five-fold increase between 2000 and 2015. Total green house...
Bolivia has achieved significant improvements in its reproductive health indicators in recent years. Yet the country’s maternal mortality ratio, at 206 per 100,000 women in 2015, was the second highest...
The Latin America and Caribbean region (LAC) has achieved substantial progress on gender equality in past decades. Gains have come in diverse areas like declines in fertility and maternal mortality, gender...
The Latin America and Caribbean region (LAC) has achieved substantial progress on gender equality in past decades. Gains have come in diverse areas like declines in fertility and maternal mortality, gender...
The Latin America and Caribbean region (LAC) has achieved substantial progress on gender equality in past decades. Gains have come in diverse areas like declines in fertility and maternal mortality, gender...
The Croatia Country Gender Assessment reviewed the state of equality between women and men in Croatia in endowments, economic opportunities, and voice and agency. Overall, the country has made progress...
Uzbekistan has the second-most-energy-intensive economy in Europe and Central Asia as measured according to energy intensity per unit of gross domestic product. This study assesses the sex-disaggregated...
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The purpose of this brief is to highlight entry points that offer actionable guidance to development practitioners on how to integrate prevention of and response to violence against women and girls (VAWG)...
The Croatia Country Gender Assessment reviewed the state of equality between women and men in Croatia in endowments, economic opportunities, and voice and agency. Overall, the country has made progress...