Africa Region Findings
www.worldbank.org/afr/findings/default.htm Source: The World Bank
Region: Africa - Sub-Saharan
Description: Valuable poverty-related Findings and Infobrief Best Practices from the World Bank's Africa Region.[Back to top] AIDS Economics
www.worldbank.org/aidsecon/ Source: The World Bank
Description: World Bank AIDS Economics is part of the International AIDS Economics Network (IAEN). The IAEN offers data, tools, and analysis for compassionate, cost-effective responses to the global HIV/AIDS epidemic.[Back to top] Attacking Poverty Program
www.worldbank.org/wbi/attackingpoverty/index.html Source: The World Bank
Description: The World Bank Institute's Attacking Poverty Program (APP) aims to build the capacity of poor countries to design and implement effective poverty reduction strategies. Customized “country learning programs” are used to leverage the resources of the development community to fight against the deprivation, vulnerability of powerlessness of poverty.
[Back to top] B-Span
www.worldbank.org/wbi/B-SPAN/ Source: The World Bank
Description: B-SPAN is an internet-based broadcasting station that presents World Bank seminars, workshops, and conferences on a variety of sustainable development and poverty reduction issues.[Back to top] Beijing +5: Women 2000
www.worldbank.org/gender/beijing5/index.htm Source: The World Bank
Description: Five years after the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995, the United Nations will hold a Special Session assessing progress in implementing the Beijing Platform for Action as well as the Nairobi Forward-looking Strategies for the Advancement of Women, adopted in 1985. The World Bank is participating actively in these events and is fully committed to working together with its UN partners and NGOs in preparations for the Special Session. As a special contribution, the World Bank has produced a report highlighting actions it has taken since Beijing to integrate gender issues into its development work and its organizational culture and structure.
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Advancing Gender Equality: this report outlines actions the World Bank has taken to integrate gender equality into its work since the Fourth International Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995
[Back to top] Civil Society in Latin America
lnweb18.worldbank.org/External/lac/ ... C3848F85256B53005738A3?OpenDocument Source: The World Bank
Region: Latin America and Caribbean
Description: The LAC civil society program promotes opportunities for enhanced dialogue between government, civil society organizations and the private sector, at the national and local levels, in an effort to harness diverse resources and expertise and create the partnerships and synergies required to address the challenge of inclusion in Latin America.[Back to top] Community Driven Development
wbln0018.worldbank.org/essd/cddwk2000.nsf/Gweb/Home Source: The World Bank
Description: CDD is broadly defined as giving control of decisions and resources to community groups. CDD frameworks link participation, community management of resources, good governance and decentralization. The goals of community driven development are to promote security, opportunity and empowerment by: (i) strengthening accountable, inclusive community groups; (ii) supporting broad-based participation by poor people in the strategies and decisions that affect them; (iii) facilitating access to information and linkages to the market; and (iv) improving governance, institutions and policies so that local and central governments and service providers, including NGOs and the private sector, respond to community demand. This website offers information on project preparation and implementation, policy and strategy, training, evaluations and a series of case studies.[Back to top] Decentralization Net
www1.worldbank.org/publicsector/decentralization/ Source: The World Bank
Description: Decentralization, a set of policies that encompasses fiscal, political, and administrative changes, can impact virtually all aspects of development. The structure of intergovernmental relations affects everything from the efficiency
The notes found under each topic in the website are designed to highlight the broad range of issues that need to be considered with regard to decentralization. They are intended to provide brief overviews of the many different aspects of decentralization and summarize key issues that need to be considered by practitioners.
[Back to top] Development Goals
www.developmentgoals.org/ Source: The World Bank
Description: The International Development Goals set targets for reductions in poverty, improvements in health and education, and protection of the environment. They distill the experience of many years, expressed in the resolutions of major United Nations conferences. The goals have been adopted by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the members of the Development Assistance Committee of the OECD, and many other agencies.[Back to top] E-Government
www1.worldbank.org/publicsector/egov/ Source: The World Bank
Description: This site focuses on e-government in developing countries. Case studies are presented as a source of ideas and learning. Each follows a common structure, assessing government strategies and experience with e-government tools. Related Sites:Empowerment through information Information is a critical ingredient for development. The more information that the poor possess, the greater their sense of empowerment. Empowered citizens can more readily hold governments accountable. With greater information the poor also are better able to organize and take actions to improve their qualtiy of life. [Back to top] Economic Growth Research
www.worldbank.org/research/growth/ Source: The World Bank
Description: This website features published articles and working papers (with the associated data sets) from the World Bank's Research Group, as well as some related literature on economic growth.
[Back to top] Educational Attainment and Enrollment across the World
www.worldbank.org/research/projects/edattain/edattain.htm Source: The World Bank
Description: Patterns of educational attainment vary greatly across countries, and across population groups within countries. For some, basic education is practically universal whereas for others attainment is dismal. The primary purpose of this research is to document and analyze these differences using a unique collection of comparable household data sets: the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS).
[Back to top] Faces of Inclusion
www.worldbank.org/faces/ Source: The World Bank
Description: The faces and words of this exhibition portray six people who are striving to meet their own challenge of inclusion through their personal efforts, supported by local institutions and the World Bank. These individuals and their communities are overcoming social exclusion that has denied them access to institutions that provide basic goods and services, economic opportunities, and good governance. These stories, one from each of the major regions in which the World Bank carries out its work, highlight many facets of social development including: civil society, participation, gender, indigenous peoples, culture in sustainable development, social capital, institutions, social assessment, resettlement, and post-conflict reconstruction.[Back to top] Globalization, Development and Poverty: Online Discussion
www.worldbank.org/devforum/forum_globalization.html Source: The World Bank
Description: Email discussion forum focusing on the impact of globalization on development and poverty. The whole discussion, which was conducted between May 1 and May 31, 2000, is accessible through an on-line archive.
[Back to top] Human Rights & Sustainable Development: What Role for the Bank?
lnweb18.worldbank.org/essd/essd.nsf/SocialDevelopment/HR&SD-ExecSum Source: The World Bank
Description: As part of the Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development Network's (ESSD) Sustainable Development Month, a workshop entitled "Human Rights and Sustainable Development: What Role for the Bank?" gave on May 2, 2002 World Bank staff the opportunity to explore the role of human rights in the Bank's work. This historic one-day Bank learning event attracted over 100 staff from across the Bank to join in an open dialogue on human rights. [Back to top] Hunger in a World of Plenty
wbln0018.worldbank.org/rdv/food.nsf/mainview?openview Source: The World Bank
Description: To help solve the hunger problem the World Bank is engaged in: supporting government policies and strategies that encourage investment and growth, and which do not discriminate against agriculture or small farmers; encouraging open international trade and stable access to international markets; promoting better technology and production techniques and getting better information about them to farmers; investing in infrastructure in roads, telecommunications, electricity, and irrigation; Investing in people through education, health, and nutrition programs; fully involving local communities, and especially the poor, in designing, implementing, and monitoring projects; and focusing on the interconnection between agriculture and the environment -- an absolute necessity if food production is to be sustainable.[Back to top] Indigenous Knowledge Program
www.worldbank.org/afr/ik/ Source: The World Bank
Region: Africa - Sub-Saharan
Description: The Indigenous Knowledge (IK) Program's website opens a gateway to different sources on IK. It aims to facilitate a multilateral dialogue between local communities, NGOs, governments, donors, civil society and the private sector. The ultimate objective of the website is to help mainstream indigenous knowledge into activities of development partners and to optimize the benefits of development assistance, especially to the poor.[Back to top] Indigenous People
wbln0018.worldbank.org/essd/essd.ns ... visoryService/ESSD_Information_Page Source: The World Bank
Description: To promote indigenous peoples' development and to ensure that the development process fosters the full respect for the dignity, human rights and uniqueness of indigenous peoples.[Back to top] Infrastructure and Poverty
www.worldbank.org/html/fpd/infrastructure/ Source: The World Bank
Description: Developing infrastructure sector policies that play a positive and sustainable role in the battle against poverty.[Back to top] International Development Association (IDA)
www.worldbank.org/ida/ Source: The World Bank
Description: The International Development Association, or IDA, was established in 1960 to provide assistance to the poorer developing countries on concessional terms. IDA's objective is to help its borrowers improve the living standards of their people and achieve faster, environmentally sustainable growth.
[Back to top] International Finance Corporation (IFC)
www.ifc.org/ Source: The World Bank
Description: The mission of IFC, part of the World Bank Group, is to promote private sector investment in developing countries, which will reduce poverty and improve people's lives. Today IFC is the largest multilateral source of loan and equity financing for private sector projects in the developing world.[Back to top] Knowledge Sharing to Fight Poverty
www.worldbank.org/ks/ Source: The World Bank
Description: Fighting poverty requires a global strategy to share knowledge systematically and energetically and to ensure that people who need that knowledge get it on time, whether from us or others. From a fairly closed organization a few years ago, the World Bank has become a global development partner making it easier for people to find out who knows what and where the best expertise can be drawn upon, wherever it resides. Continuously sharing this global and local know- how with client countries, public and private partners, and civil society will better equip the development community to fight poverty.[Back to top] Latin America and the Caribbean: Poverty
lnweb18.worldbank.org/external/lac/ ... 507745852569350050e4e4?OpenDocument Source: The World Bank
Region: Latin America and Caribbean
Description: The role of the Poverty Group is to ensure and enhance the World Bank's poverty focus in products and services, and build capacity within the Latin America and Caribbean region, in order to help reduce poverty.[Back to top] Our Dream: A World Free of Poverty
www.worldbank.org/ourdream/index.htm Source: The World Bank
Description: Our Dream is a joint project between the World Bank Group Staff Association and the Bank's Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network. The book points to some of the answers regarding poverty, hunger, literacy, health, and other difficult problems, and it also portrays the people who are toiling to make them a reality.[Back to top] Participation
www.worldbank.org/participation/ Source: The World Bank
Description: The Participation Thematic Team promotes methods and approaches that encourage the involvement of various stakeholders, especially the poor, in development initiatives that affect them.[Back to top] Poverty Analysis Community
info.worldbank.org/etools/pac/ Source: The World Bank
Description: A community of individuals with an interest in learning how their colleagues across the globe are grappling with the challenges of poverty analysis, monitoring and evaluation. [Back to top] Poverty and Environment
lnweb18.worldbank.org/ESSD/essdext. ... f/44ByDocName/PovertyandEnvironment Source: The World Bank
Description: The Bank's mission includes a requirement for sustainable development, which makes the environment an integral part of the development challenge. This demands that special attention must be paid to how the environment links poverty, economics, and people. The Bank can assist countries to understand the linkages between poverty and the environment, mainstream the environment into country programs, and measure progress through environmental indicators.[Back to top] Poverty in Africa
www4.worldbank.org/afr/poverty/default.cfm Source: The World Bank
Region: Africa - Sub-Saharan
Description: The Poverty in Africa web site includes a Household Survey Databank, with in-depth information on African surveys, and links to document and questionnaires. Also featured are a Survey Navigator and a Document Navigator, which allow, respectively, to perform searches of the data archives and of survey documentation and questionnaires, analytical and working papers, manuals, and yearbooks.[Back to top] Poverty Matters
www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/gc/ Source: The World Bank
Description: The World Bank is sponsoring Global Challenges, a year-long series of informational vignettes and documentaries on CNN International that will bring key poverty-related messages on topics such as health, knowledge, environment, and governance to audiences around the world[Back to top] Poverty Research: Looking Beyond Averages
econ.worldbank.org/projects/subpage.php?sp=2473 Source: The World Bank
Description: The program aims to improve current data and methods of poverty and inequality analysis, including greater standardization of household survey data, and making the data more accessible to users, and use the improved data and existing data sources to better understand what makes “pro-poor growth.”
[Back to top] Rapid Response: Pro-Poor Private Infrastructure
rru.worldbank.org/Resources.asp?results=true&stopicids=3 Source: The World Bank
Description: Private participation in infrastructure is generally expected to improve efficiency, and speed investment in service expansion. Well-designed infrastructure reforms can benefit the poor through improved economic performance and growth, and through service expansion. But making a significant dent in the problem of improved access to services by the poor requires careful attention to the details of sector reform. The papers gathered under this topic reflect exciting new thinking on how to make infrastructure reforms “pro-poor” – through freeing up entry into infrastructure markets, rethinking regulatory rules and processes, and more effective targeting of subsidies to those who really need them.
[Back to top] Rural, Micro Finance & Small Enterprise Development
wbln0018.worldbank.org/networks/fpsi/rmfsme.nsf/ Source: The World Bank
Description: High levels of poverty combined with slow economic growth in the formal sector have forced a large part of the developing world's population into self-employment and informal activities. Many of the World Bank Group's client governments place a high priority on developing their indigenous private sector to participate in and lead future growth. A related and equally pressing issue is raising the ability of the self-employed and rural poor to sustain the economic activities essential to their survival. A diversified financial sector capable of meeting the full range of demand for financial services, including informal and small businesses, is needed to facilitate these objectives. The related current challenge in small and medium scale enterprise (SME) development is to build on the success of microfinance, establishing good practices for SME financing and for the provision of non-financial services to SMEs.[Back to top] Serving the Urban Poor
www.worldbank.org/html/fpd/water/topics/serving.html Source: The World Bank
Description: The rapid growth of urban populations is a major challenge for the World Bank's regional member countries, as many utilities cannot keep up with urban growth or absorb their coverage backlog, especially for low income peri-urban areas. Innovative mechanisms are needed to reach the underserved poor. The key is to involve users in selecting service options that they want and are willing to pay for, and to give providers incentives to expand and manage services efficiently.[Back to top] Small and Medium Enterprise
www.ifc.org/sme/ Source: The World Bank
Description: The World Bank Group’s Small and Medium Enterprise Department combines the market perspective of the International Finance Corporation with the policy expertise of the World Bank to promote local small business growth in developing nations. These merged capabilities create a powerful synergy and underscore a strategic commitment to improving lives by creating opportunities in small business. To meet this challenge, the department has identified a four-part approach to its SME work: better business environments, technical assistance and capacity building, access to capital, and access to information technology.
[Back to top] Social Analysis
lnweb18.worldbank.org/ESSD/essdext. ... rentDoc/SocialAnalysis?Opendocument Source: The World Bank
Description: Social analysis enables the World Bank to assess whether a proposed program or operation is likely to meet its social objectives and to recommend measures that will ensure that these objectives are met. This involves examining the project's socio-cultural, institutional, historical and political context, and stakeholder views and priorities, and including as many relevant stakeholders as feasible in the project cycle. Good social analysis can thus broaden social support for economic and social development. This website features the Social Analysis Sourcebook, information on the Poverty and Social Impact Analysis framework, case studies and additional tools and methods.[Back to top] Social Funds
wbln0018.worldbank.org/HDNet/HDDocs ... 82f76d8525688e00813c44?OpenDocument Source: The World Bank
Description: Social Funds allow poor people and communities to become actively involved in their own development. Social funds support small projects ranging from infrastructure and social services to training and microenterprise development which have been identified by communities and presented to the social fund for financing. Social funds appraise, finance and supervise these grants, which then may be managed by a wide range of actors, including local governments, NGOs, line ministries, community groups and local project committees.[Back to top] Social Protection
www1.worldbank.org/sp/ Source: The World Bank
Description: Social Protection is as a collection of measures to improve or protect human capital, ranging from labor market interventions, publicly mandated unemployment or old-age insurance to targeted income support. Social Protection interventions assist individuals, households, and communities to better manage the income risks that leave people vulnerable.
[Back to top] Stories from the field
www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/pb/success/success.html Source: The World Bank
Description: This website offers a snapshot of how World Bank-supported projects in developing countries help improve the lives of the poor.[Back to top] Sustainable Development
lnweb18.worldbank.org/ESSD/essdext. ... SustainableDevelopment?Opendocument Source: The World Bank
Description: Reducing poverty through sustainable development is a global strategic priority for the survival of our planet. For the World Bank this means dealing with the comprehensive nature of development. This approach is reflected in the implementation of projects and programs in partnership with the public and private sectors, and civil society. Participation, empowerment, strengthened institutions, environmental protection and conservation, and focus on the rural poor are all foundations for sustained and inclusive economic growth. [Back to top] Urban Poverty
www.worldbank.org/urban/poverty/ Source: The World Bank
Description: Urban poverty reduction strategies should be grounded and implemented at local (city) level. The objective of this website is to provide cities with available tools and examples to assist them to develop city level poverty analyses and strategic responses (city PRSPs).
[Back to top] World Summit for Social Development
wbln0018.worldbank.org/essd/essd.ns ... alDevelopment/World%20Summit%20home Source: The World Bank
Description: The World Bank is engaged in many initiatives that address the commitments outlined in the Copenhagen Declaration and Program of Action adopted by governments at the 1995 World Summit for Social Development.[Back to top]
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