This evaluation assesses the World Bank Group’s contributions to supporting electricity access in Sub-Saharan Africa during 2015–24. Electricity access is an end user’s ability to use an energy supply...
This Country Program Evaluation (CPE) will assess the performance of the World Bank Group’s support to Indonesia between FY 2013 and FY23. The evaluation will focus on the Bank Group’s contribution to...
Fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV) have upended development progress. Overlapping and mutually reinforcing crises, including worsening climate challenges, ideological polarization and extremism, growing...
Este documento tiene por objeto brindar orientación sobre la fijación del precio en función del costo de oportunidad para CRE ajustados. Los CRE ajustados son créditos de reducción de emisiones que...
The objective of this paper is to develop guidance for host countries on assessing and choosing their approach to participation in Cooperative Approaches of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement. The main audience...
The Paris Agreement provides a framework for all countries - both developed and developing - to voluntarily adopt individual targets, elaborated in their nationally determined contributions (NDCs). This...
The World Bank adopted a new Environmental and Social Framework (ESF) in 2016 that aims to protect people and the environment from potential adverse project impacts while promoting sustainable development...
Unlike the Kyoto protocol’s clean development mechanism (CDM), Article 6.2 of the Paris Agreement is designed to allow for international cooperation in carbon markets through decentralized governance...
This paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and financial protection in four East Asia and Pacific (EAP) countries, focusing on the dynamics of healthcare...
Argentina’s COVID-19 Emergency Project was among the first operations under the World Bank’s global response to the COVID-19 epidemic. The first of the two loans included under this Project was approved...
The global demographic landscape is at a crossroads, with rapid declines in fertility and aging populations holding profound implications for employment, social services, and wellbeing. Population aging...
Biodiversity underpins the provision of critical ecosystem services, but it is being lost at an unprecedented rate and scale. The biodiversity crisis is a threat to development with far-reaching implications...
This Country Program Evaluation (CPE) will assess the performance of World Bank Group support to Ghana in achieving its development objectives between fiscal years (FY)13 and FY23. The evaluation period...
The global demographic landscape is at a crossroads, with rapid declines in fertility and aging populations holding profound implications for employment, social services, and wellbeing. Population aging...
The global demographic landscape is at a crossroads, with rapid declines in fertility and aging populations holding profound implications for employment, social services, and wellbeing. Population aging...
El panorama demográfico mundial se encuentra en una encrucijada, con una rápida disminución de la fertilidad y el envejecimiento de la población que tienen profundas implicaciones para el empleo, los servicios...
Providing care for older parents or parents-in-law significantly reduces the probability of employment and annual earnings, particularly among women and intensive caregivers, which remains the most prevalent...
Gender gaps in access to, and use of health and long-term care services affect both women and men, albeit differently. While male mortality due to key non-communicable diseases (NCDs), particularly in...
The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) under the Kyoto Protocol has seen the development of over 250 project-based methodologies for establishing baseline emissions, assessing additionality, monitoring...
This approach paper examines the role of additionality for environmental integrity under Article 6.2 approaches. It analyzes the relevance of additionality determination methods from market mechanisms...