The public investment management (PIM) reference guide aims to convey country experiences and good international practices as a basis for decisions on how to address country-specific PIM reform agendas...
The guide supports transitioning accounting education, training, and certification from a knowledge-based approach to a competency-based approach. Underlying this shift is the expanding expectation for...
The guide supports transitioning accounting education, training, and certification from a knowledge-based approach to a competency-based approach. Underlying this shift is the expanding expectation for...
This annex contains the methodology for a comprehensive assessment of a country’s quality infrastructure (QI) based on the detailed description thereof in modules 3–8 of Ensuring Quality to Gain Access...
Bangladesh has maintained an impressive track record on growth and development. However, even with a growing economy there is still widespread poverty and underemployment motivating many Bangladeshis to...
Indonesia’s biodiversity and cultural diversity are among what make it unique among the nations of the world. Out of more than one thousand government identified ethnic groups, roughly two hundred and...
The Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF), administered by the World Bank, provided a grant aimed at improving accessibility and accountability of the justice system in two of the poorest and most vulnerable...
The Republic of the Philippines is an archipelago in South-East Asia with more than 7,000 islands. The Philippines has an average population of 101,833,938 (2011 Index Mundi) and the numbers keep on growing...
In 2004 when this Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF) project was approved, diarrheal diseases were one of the three main causes of morbidity and mortality for children under the age of five in Peru...
The Singapore economy has undergone significant stages of development since the 1960s. It has grown from its traditional role as a regional port and distribution center in the 1960s to an international...
World Bank Institute (WBI) works to improve the understanding, practice and results of capacity development, an important way to support development goals and priorities for aid effectiveness. WBI developed...
An intermediate capacity outcome (ICO) is an improvement in the ability or disposition of stakeholders (or agents of change) to take actions. This improvement is considered an intermediate capacity outcome...
Three broad areas of institutional capacity and their contributing characteristics can help development practitioners to assess institutional capacity needs, inform program design and measure progress...
India amended its constitution in the early 1990s to strengthen decentralization and local governance, and all Indian states, including Tamil Nadu, has subsequently reinforced their commitment to decentralization...
Despite progress made in recent years, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region still faces a number of challenges related to the development of human capital, long-term productivity, and social...
In 2003, after two decades of fighting for independence, the conflict in the Casamance, an area in Senegal south of the Gambia, finally came to an end. Tens of thousands of people who had been driven from...
The Japan Social Development Fund (JSDF) Project was the first of its kind, aiming to effectively expand both the supply and demand for preschool education and services for the ethnic poor in rural Vietnam...
The Village Self-Help Learning Initiative Pilot (VSHLI) sought to introduce and test a direct funding mechanism for community driven development (CDD), in a country that had little or no experience with...
Based on case studies of education systems and practices in eight English-speaking African countries, the publication closely examines issues of teacher supply, deployment, management and finance. The...