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) ...

Veronica, cocoa producer in Mexico. The Sustainable Productive Landscapes (TPS, “Proyecto Territorios Productivos Sostenibles”) initiative in Mexico, funded by a Global Environment Facility (GEF) ...

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 ...

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 ...

Digitalization is a transformative force that can drive productivity-led growth and enhance the efficiency of critical services such as healthcare, education, financial inclusion, agriculture, social ...

In the Sahel and Horn of Africa, both regions facing a persistent food and nutrition crisis driven by drought and exacerbated by conflict and fragility, the World Bank is scaling up short- and ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Côte d’Ivoire e-Agriculture Project benefited over 400,000 individuals between 2018 and 2023 working in selected agricultural value chains by improving market access and information through ...

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 ...