This report introduces an approach to local revitalization through community-driven, site-specific art festivals. Site-specific art festivals emerged in Japan in the early 2000s to revitalize villages...
The government of Mauritania and the World Bank collaborated to implement a Family Dialogue pilot that targets the recipients of Tekavoul, the national cash transfer program and combines a couple’s training...
Governments and nongovernment organizations around the world utilize Community-Driven Development (CDD) approaches to address complex and overlapping development challenges. Despite consistent evidence...
Ghana’s Community Resource Management Area (CREMA) mechanism has shown mixed success, with some CREMAs achieving impressive conservation outcomes and socioeconomic development, while others have struggled...
The National Plan for the Development of Social Services for 2021 – 2027, and the related Action Plan for the period 2021 – 2024, were adopted by the Government of the Republic of Croatia on 10 December...
Through grant financing, the World Bank is helping Bangladesh provide basic services and build disaster and social resilience for nearly a million displaced Rohingya people who fled from violence in Myanmar...
Efforts to promote social cohesion through development projects have had to contend with multiple definitions of the term, a lack of clarity on diagnostic and measurement approaches, and contradictory...
This study highlights potential policy areas where the government of Ghana and the development community could collaborate. Generally, these relate to upgrading the entire energy system through investing...
The development objective of the Jharkhand Municipal Development Project for India is to improve urban service delivery and urban management capacity in participating urban local bodies. Some of the negative...
The objective of the Community Support Project for Kyrgyz Republic is to engage communities in the development of social and economic infrastructure to enhance services, livelihoods and inclusion in villages...
This primer provides concrete steps and tools to help one build a community of practitioners and or online community in the context of the World Bank Group (WBG). The primer is divided into four sections:...