Through a portfolio of projects – AGILE, NFWP, IMPACT, ANRiN, NASSP-SU, and NG-CARES – the International Development Association (IDA) is empowering adolescents and women, driving Nigeria’s human ...

The Philippine Rural Development Project aims to increase rural incomes and enhance farm and fishery productivity in the targeted areas. To date the project has provided capacity building/technical ...

Household registration underway during the launch of the Imibereho Social Registry system in Kagugu Cell, City of Kigali, Rwanda, on January 17, 2024. As of 2024, 62 countries have operationalized ...

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: ...

In 2017, Uzbekistan launched a major reform agenda for societal and economic transformation, breaking from its past as a largely state-led and isolated economy. A series of World Bank Development ...

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 ...

In the past five years, countries in Africa have experienced a considerable increase in public debt and risk, as the shocks from the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine have compounded ...

Since 2021, three World Bank-supported projects in Ethiopia have helped expand digital access significantly, benefiting more than seven million Ethiopians to date and facilitating the transition to a ...

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 ...

TKP was launched in 2015 to mitigate the impact of economic reforms on the poor including energy subsidy removal. It was designed as a well-targeted cash transfer program with a solid delivery system, ...

Tanzania reached an important milestone in July 2020 when it formally graduated from low-income to lower-middle-income country (LMIC) status. In partnership with the International Development ...