Gestión Social Local (GSL) is a people-centric, integrated municipal one-stop shop that, since 2019, has improved access to social protection for more than 10 million people (50 percent of the Chilean ...

Chronic Child Malnutrition remains a major development challenge in Ecuador. Although prevalence fell by 4.3 percentage points between 2018 and 2023, nearly one in five children under two (19 percent) ...

Well-designed digital solutions have the potential to alleviate the impacts of Fragility, Conflict, and Violence (FCV) and address FCV-related risks and drivers that undermine economic and social ...

The World Bank is supporting India’s efforts to give the country’s fast-growing young workforce access to skills needed to drive the economy of the future. The Bank-financed $250 million Skill India ...

Gender equality is central to the World Bank’s mission of ending extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity. In Eastern and Southern Africa (AFE), where women and girls face unique disadvantages ...

Children in Kaboud District do homework by the light of a pico system installed by YEEAP. Photo credits: YEEAP - UNOPS. Between 2018 and 2022, the World Bank’s Yemen Emergency Electricity Access ...

A World Bank project strengthened the institutional capacity of Haiti’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development by accessing technologies to increase not only agricultural productivity and ...

A homestead in Kanzenze, Bugesera District, Rwanda accessing electricity through a tabletsized solar panel, placed on the roof; a member of the homestead charging his phone using solar power. Photo: ...

Countries affected by fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV) are on a different development trajectory than the rest of the world, with persistently high levels of poverty and declining human capital ...

Between 2003 and 2024, World Bank support has helped to significantly improve solid waste management in low- and middle-income countries. This has been achieved through holistic financing approaches ...

The project facilitated access to digital government services to over 9 million citizens by 2021 and supported the launch of a digital government portal to access more than 1,300 digital government ...

For the past 30 years, the World Bank has partnered with Tajikistan to help boost economic growth, reduce poverty, and unleash the country’s full development potential. When COVID-19 hit, the World ...