Economics & Development

The Climate Health Implementation Manual (CHIM) is a guide that helps project teams, government counterparts, and development partners—including Regional Multilateral and National Development Banks integrate climate considerations into health systems, not as an add-on, but as a core component of health systems strengthening. Building climate-resilient health systems is essential to achieving universal health coverage and supporting human capital development.

The Climate Health Implementation Manual (CHIM) is a practical guide that helps project teams, government counterparts, and development partners - including Regional Multilateral and National Development Banks integrate climate considerations into health systems, not as an add-on, but as a core component of health systems strengthening. The CHIM brings together the best available guidance, strategies, and tools so countries do not have to start from scratch. They can learn from what is already working elsewhere and adapt it to their context, moving from design to operations, implementation, and results.

This Country Partnership Framework (CPF) outlines the strategic collaboration between the World Bank Group (WBG) and Tajikistan for the period FY2026-2032. It is designed to support the country’s transition from a remittance-dependent economy that is highly vulnerable to shocks, toward a more sustainable and resilient growth model centered on private-sector job creation, human capital development, and climate resilience. This ambitious and selective CPF is in line with the Government’s National Development Strategy 2030 that aims to accelerate development while fostering a more equitable society, with better access to jobs and services.

This paper evaluates the impact of Bob Emploi, a digital platform designed to provide personalized job search advice and coaching to the unemployed. The platform, developed by a nonprofit organization with access to France’s public employment agency data, aims to replicate traditional counseling services through automated tools. The experiment included 212,277 individuals, with 56.3 percent randomly assigned to receive encouragement to use the platform. Although our intervention increased Bob Emploi’s usage by 27 percentage points, the effects of the platform remained limited. Users made modest changes to their search methods, showed slightly higher engagement with standard employment services, and felt more supported in their search. However, the evaluation finds no impact on time spent searching, occupational scope, or job seeker well-being. Most importantly, the platform did not improve any employment outcomes over an 18-month follow-up period, with precise null effects across all subgroups. These results suggest that digital job search assistance platforms may need to combine coaching with specific job recommendations to effectively improve job seekers’ labor market outcomes.