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  • Guidance on waste management (Inglés)

    What roles do global environmental conventions and the various UN agencies play in this process? This paper reviews available guidance on the issue of waste management and highlights some key considerations...

    Tipo de documento: Boletín informativo Número del informe: 37382 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2005 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Wong,Chantale

  • The Convention to Combat Desertification and the role of the World Bank (Inglés)

    The note provides an overview of the Convention to Combat Desertification (CCD), following the first conference of parties in Rome, highlights the commitments of affected countries that ratified the Convention...

    Tipo de documento: Boletín informativo Número del informe: 22343 Fecha del documento: 31 de agosto de 1998 Tipo de divulgación: Autor:

  • Use of public consultation in the Nam Theun 2 hydroelectric project (Inglés)

    The purpose of this note is to describe the public consultation program to date for the Nam Theun 2 (NT2) hydroelectric project and share lessons learned regarding the process and methodologies that were...

    Tipo de documento: Boletín informativo Número del informe: 18205 Fecha del documento: 31 de marzo de 1998 Tipo de divulgación: Autor: Mcphail,Kathryn,Callieri, Christian

  • The global environmental benefits of land degradation control on agricultural land (Inglés)

    Land degradation on agricultural land, in addition to reducing productivity and causing problems such as sedimentation, can also affect problems of global concern. Land degradation can contribute to climate...

    Tipo de documento: Boletín informativo Número del informe: 18294 Fecha del documento: 30 de septiembre de 1997 Tipo de divulgación: Autor: Pagiola,Stefano P.

  • Using GIS for pollution control (Inglés)

    How can geographic information systems (GIS) assist in pollution control and prevention? What role can GIS play in environmental monitoring and impact assessment? Can GIS offer information management solutions...

    Tipo de documento: Boletín informativo Número del informe: 18293 Fecha del documento: 31 de julio de 1997 Tipo de divulgación: Autor: Kishor,Puneet

  • ENVSP review of local and community driven development projects (Inglés)

    A Quality-at-entry review of 108 World Bank projects in 53 countries was undertaken to determine the extent and nature of community driven development (CDD) within the Bank's portfolio. The review included...

    Tipo de documento: Boletín informativo Número del informe: 18204 Fecha del documento: 31 de julio de 1997 Tipo de divulgación: Autor: Narayan,Deepa,Kochar,Rajiv

  • Social assessment influences design of the India tuberculosis control project (Inglés)

    The government of India is implementing a new strategy to arrest the spread of tuberculosis (TB) in the country. The World Bank-funded Tuberculosis Control Project used social assessment (SA) as an "umbrella"...

    Tipo de documento: Boletín informativo Número del informe: 18207 Fecha del documento: 31 de mayo de 1997 Tipo de divulgación: Autor: Clark,Maria Donoso

  • The World Bank Group & the Global Environment Facility (Inglés)

    The World Bank, the United Nations Development Program, and the United Nations Environment Program, act as implementing agencies of the Global Environment Facility. The World Bank's role is to develop...

    Tipo de documento: Boletín informativo Número del informe: 18290 Fecha del documento: 30 de abril de 1997 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Kellenberg,John,Vidaeus,Lars O.

  • Animals under threat (Inglés)

    The 1996 Red List of Threatened Animals is a warning flag, signaling for global attention to the perilous status of many species. It is estimated that 25 percent of mammal species and 11 percent of bird...

    Tipo de documento: Boletín informativo Número del informe: 18292 Fecha del documento: 30 de abril de 1997 Tipo de divulgación: Autor: Rabb, George B.,Baillie, Jonathan,Tressler, Susan [editor],Rees,Colin P.

  • A review of participation in the World Bank's GEF portfolio (Inglés)

    Against a backdrop of increasing attention to social assessment and participation issues throughout the World Bank and within the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the Bank's Global Environment Coordination...

    Tipo de documento: Boletín informativo Número del informe: 21960 Fecha del documento: 31 de marzo de 1997 Tipo de divulgación: Autor: Morgan,Maria Katherine

  • Effective pollution charges : lessons of worldwide experience (Inglés)

    Pollution charges are becoming an increasingly popular instrument for environmental policy. Currently, they are widely applied in OECD countries, play a key role among environmental policy instruments...

    Tipo de documento: Boletín informativo Número del informe: 18288 Fecha del documento: 31 de diciembre de 1996 Tipo de divulgación: Autor: Lvovsky,Kseniya

  • Field guides : useful tools in environmental planning and management (Inglés)

    Field guides are useful tools for promoting conservation awareness and action, and are implicitly supported by at least five Articles of the Convention on Biological Diversity. They can be used directly...

    Tipo de documento: Boletín informativo Número del informe: 18289 Fecha del documento: 31 de diciembre de 1996 Tipo de divulgación: Autor: Whitten, Tony

  • Revitalizing low-income public housing through community participation in the UK (Inglés)

    Poverty is at the root of the problems facing many public housing projects in the U.K. today. Experience emerging from 100 low-income housing estates echoes findings from urban upgrading for the poor in...

    Tipo de documento: Boletín informativo Número del informe: 18208 Fecha del documento: 30 de septiembre de 1996 Tipo de divulgación: Autor: Taylor, Marilyn

  • Participation in sustainable financial service systems (Inglés)

    Most poor and disadvantaged people have not previously been integrated into the formal financial sector. However, from the standpoint both of financial sector development and poverty alleviation, the participation...

    Tipo de documento: Boletín informativo Número del informe: 18202 Fecha del documento: 31 de agosto de 1996 Tipo de divulgación: Autor: Bennett,Lynn,Goldberg, Mike,Hunte, Pam

  • Kenya : participatory poverty assessment (Inglés)

    A Participatory Poverty Assessment (PPA) was undertaken by the World Bank in collaboration with the Government of Kenya to complement previous statistical studies of poverty in Kenya. While the PPA confirmed...

    Tipo de documento: Boletín informativo Número del informe: 18209 Fecha del documento: 31 de agosto de 1996 Tipo de divulgación: Autor: Narayan,Deepa,Nyamwaya, David

  • Participation and local government (Inglés)

    Citizen participation in the decisionmaking and development activities of local government can produce more efficient and effective delivery of services by the public sector. In order to foster participation...

    Tipo de documento: Boletín informativo Número del informe: 18203 Fecha del documento: 31 de agosto de 1996 Tipo de divulgación: Autor: Silverman, Jerry M.,Gow, David,Frankenhoff, John

  • Listening to farmers - agricultural extension in Senegal (Inglés)

    Understanding the perspective of farmers is key to the success of any activity aimed at improving their lives. Agricultural extension, which provides information to increase farmers' production, is particularly...

    Tipo de documento: Boletín informativo Número del informe: 18210 Fecha del documento: 31 de agosto de 1996 Tipo de divulgación: Autor: Salmen,Lawrence F.

  • India - Using social assessment to foster participation in protected areas (Inglés)

    Designers of the India Ecodevelopment Project found the social assessment (SA) to be a good starting place for stakeholders and nongovernmental organization (NGO) participation in project participation...

    Tipo de documento: Boletín informativo Número del informe: 18213 Fecha del documento: 31 de mayo de 1996 Tipo de divulgación: Autor: