Disputes over land access and control often escalate into violence and conflict leading to dispossession and forced displacement within and across borders. Estimates indicate that 56 percent of conflicts...
Disputes over land access and control often escalate into violence and conflict leading to dispossession and forced displacement within and across borders. Estimates indicate that 56 percent of conflicts...
Disputes over land access and control often escalate into violence and conflict leading to dispossession and forced displacement within and across borders. Estimates indicate that 56 percent of conflicts...
Recognizing the capacity constraints faced by governments in countries emerging from conflict and violence, and that international support is typically fragmented and uncoordinated, an recovery and peacebuilding...
Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) insures foreign direct investments against losses related to: (i) currency inconvertibility and transfer restrictions; (ii) expropriation; (iii) war, civil...
Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) insures foreign direct investments against losses related to: (i) currency inconvertibility and transfer restrictions; (ii) expropriation; (iii) war, civil...
Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) insures foreign direct investments against losses related to: (i) currency inconvertibility and transfer restrictions; (ii) expropriation; (iii) war, civil...
IFC is working with the Yemen Education for Employment Foundation (YEFE) to increase employment among the country’s women and college-educated youth, two segments of society with higher than average unemployment...
Developing a diagnostic and action framework for donor-assisted governance reform in conflict-affected countries and fragile states was the objective of a program implemented by the World Bank's Social...
The issue note discusses the rationale for, and presents the initial results of an innovative method of governance support conducted through the preparation and implementation of Poverty Reduction Strategy...
Conflict's path of devastation and chaos has dramatically slowed the ability of wartorn countries to reach the Education for All (EFA) goals adopted in Dakar in April 2000. This paper sketches the situation...
Indonesia's democratic transition was accompanied by a range of violent conflicts. Separatist conflict in Aceh escalated and claimed thousands of lives before a successful peace deal in 2005, and continues...
Indonesia's democratic transition was accompanied by a range of violent conflicts. Separatist conflict in Aceh escalated and claimed thousands of lives before a successful peace deal in 2005, and continues...
Increasingly community-driven development (CDD) projects have been viewed as having the potential to address local conflicts and to increase local conflict management capacity. The project improves inter-group...
Increasingly community-driven development (CDD) projects have been viewed as having the potential to address local conflicts and to increase local conflict management capacity. The project improves inter-group...
Extortion by police and military personnel manning roadside security posts has been a consistent problem in each of Indonesia's areas of large-scale conflict. The staged withdrawal of security forces from...
Extortion by police and military personnel manning roadside security posts has been a consistent problem in each of Indonesia's areas of large-scale conflict. The staged withdrawal of security forces from...
This Report covers the period January 1, 2010 through December 31, 2010. Peer review services processed a total of 42 cases in CY2010. Of these, 31 new cases were filed in CY2010, while 11 were brought...
This note discusses the development dimensions of forced displacement, and the potential role of the World Bank to address these dimensions and contribute to durable solutions for group's who have returned...
Millions of men, women and children are victims of human trafficking for sexual, forced labor and other forms of exploitation worldwide. The human and economic costs of this take an immense toll on individuals...