Bangladesh has maintained an impressive track record on growth and development. However, even with a growing economy there is still widespread poverty and underemployment motivating many Bangladeshis to...
Indonesia’s biodiversity and cultural diversity are among what make it unique among the nations of the world. Out of more than one thousand government identified ethnic groups, roughly two hundred and...
The Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF), administered by the World Bank, provided a grant aimed at improving accessibility and accountability of the justice system in two of the poorest and most vulnerable...
The Republic of the Philippines is an archipelago in South-East Asia with more than 7,000 islands. The Philippines has an average population of 101,833,938 (2011 Index Mundi) and the numbers keep on growing...
In 2004 when this Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF) project was approved, diarrheal diseases were one of the three main causes of morbidity and mortality for children under the age of five in Peru...
India amended its constitution in the early 1990s to strengthen decentralization and local governance, and all Indian states, including Tamil Nadu, has subsequently reinforced their commitment to decentralization...
In 2003, after two decades of fighting for independence, the conflict in the Casamance, an area in Senegal south of the Gambia, finally came to an end. Tens of thousands of people who had been driven from...
Despite progress made in recent years, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region still faces a number of challenges related to the development of human capital, long-term productivity, and social...
The Village Self-Help Learning Initiative Pilot (VSHLI) sought to introduce and test a direct funding mechanism for community driven development (CDD), in a country that had little or no experience with...
The Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF) Project was the first of its kind, aiming to effectively expand both the supply and demand for preschool education and services for the ethnic poor in rural Vietnam...
The Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF) provided United States (U.S.) 1.9 million dollars to support a pilot project for early childhood care and development (ECCD) in Vietnam's three poorest provinces...