Economics & Development

The development objective of the Togo Digital Acceleration Project for Togo is to expand access to affordable and climate-resilient broadband connectivity, enhance digital skills, and digital entrepreneurship. The additional financing is provided to address a cost overrun under the connectivity component without changing the development objective, scope, or closing date, and is necessitated by adoption of a fully fiber-optic solution in place of a mixed-technology approach, inclusion of value-added tax at twenty percent, incorporation of rated-criteria commitments such as accelerated deployment, enhanced quality of service, and local employment, and input-cost movements since appraisal; it ensures contracts can be awarded as designed, prevents delays or reductions in investment scope, and preserves nationwide coherence and private co-investment commitments. The Bank will focus near-term resources on connectivity by financing backbone densification and last-mile fiber-optic links to public facilities in rural, peri-urban, and urban areas, including schools, health centers, and local administrations, with works managed through strengthened supervision and milestone-based disbursements; procurement for digital skills, innovation, entrepreneurship, and enabling-environment activities will continue, with contract awards sequenced to future financing and satisfactory implementation of connectivity. The project intends to deliver climate-resilient digital infrastructure and improved affordability, connect priority public institutions to high-capacity networks that enable services such as telemedicine, online learning, and digital public administration, catalyze private capital through operator fiber-to-the-home extensions and mobile network upgrades, and reduce the cost of broadband baskets over time. Implementation will maintain moderate environmental and social risk management consistent with the parent project through existing instruments, including the Environmental and Social Management Framework, Resettlement Framework, Security Management Plan, Labor Management Procedures, and an updated Environmental and Social Commitment Plan; it will address occupational and community health and safety, land and traffic management, and risks of sexual exploitation and abuse or sexual harassment, and will sequence works to reflect security conditions in northern regions, using remote or third-party monitoring as needed. The project also supports a climate-smart digital infrastructure strategy and an extended producer responsibility program for e-waste to lower emissions and manage lifecycle impacts. Results will be monitored through indicators on people newly using broadband, reductions in broadband cost as a share of gross national income per capita, the share of infrastructure built or upgraded to be resilient to climate-related shocks, public institutions connected, and, as additional financing becomes available, outcomes on digital skills, enterprise incubation, and reforms such as cloud strategy, e-waste policy, and a modernized digital code.

This document outlines the procurement plan for the Sustainable Power and Irrigation for Nigeria Project within the Western and Central Africa region. It covers sectors including irrigation and drainage, energy generation, and public water administration.

This official document details the notice of partial cancelation of a loan and the extension of the closing date for Loan 9226-IN, concerning water supply and sub-national government projects.

This Project Information Document outlines details concerning public administration, industry, trade and services, tourism, agricultural markets, commercialization, and agri-business. It provides foundational information regarding central and sub-national government involvement in these sectors for fiscal year 2017.

This document outlines the resettlement plan for the Cote d'Ivoire Water Security and Sanitation Support Program (P177118). It addresses land acquisition, displacement impacts, and mitigation measures associated with water supply and sanitation infrastructure development.

This document outlines the procurement plan for the Higher Education Project in Moldova, managed within Europe and Central Asia. It covers focus areas such as tertiary education, public administration in education, and ICT services.

The development objective of the Integrated Community Development Project (Turikumwe) for Burundi is to improve nutrition, access to basic services and economic opportunities in the targeted areas. The additional financing is proposed to cover cost overruns driven by inflation and exchange rate pressures, respond to the sharp increase in refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo amid declining humanitarian support, align operations with the country’s recent decentralization and territorial reform, and strengthen resilience to climate shocks, while scaling up effective interventions to underserved communes hosting refugees and vulnerable hosts and extending the implementation period to consolidate results. The Bank will work through inclusive, community-driven planning and delivery systems anchored in updated Commune Development Plans and Annual Investment Plans, with targeted facilitation and capacity building for newly structured communes and local actors to ensure participatory, conflict-sensitive prioritization that reflects the needs of women, youth, refugees, and other vulnerable groups. At the local level, commune grants will finance climate-resilient socioeconomic infrastructure such as schools, health centers, potable water systems, rural roads, bridges, markets, warehouses, and community spaces, using a revised allocation formula that accounts for refugee presence and dispersed settlement patterns and applying resilient design standards to reduce flood, erosion, and heat risks. Livelihoods, food security, and nutrition support will be scaled up through two operational windows: (a) matching grants for additional microenterprises selected via transparent community processes and equally accessible to refugees and hosts, complemented by business development services, financial education, and facilitation of private capital; and (b) grants to cooperatives and associations for primary production and value addition using climate-smart agriculture, improved inputs, and small-scale processing. To enhance agency and equitable intra-household decision-making, the project will introduce the Gender Action Learning System (GALS) and integrate mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS). Nutrition actions will expand the Parents Lumieres model with micronutrient supplements for pregnant women and young children, establishment of household and community kitchen gardens using climate-resilient inputs, and social and behavioral change communication, including community radio. Project management and monitoring will be reinforced through georeferenced tracking, a digital planning and monitoring platform interoperable with related operations, regular technical and fiduciary audits, and an accessible grievance redress mechanism, alongside structured stakeholder engagement and social cohesion activities. The operation will strengthen national and local capacities, including institutional support to the National Office of the Protection of Refugees and the Stateless (ONPRA) and training for communal administrations, while advancing prevention and response to gender-based violence and to sexual exploitation and abuse and sexual harassment through contractor requirements, survivor-centered referral pathways, and continuous awareness building. The project intends to expand access to services for host and refugee communities across 11 communes, deliver additional climate-resilient infrastructure and basic water services, create more and better paid jobs through labor-intensive works and productive inclusion, increase dietary diversity for women and young children, enhance food and nutrition security, leverage private capital alongside matching grants, and strengthen social cohesion and local governance, thereby improving resilience to climate and displacement-related risks and supporting the Government’s community-based refugee inclusion strategy.

Seria Subnational B-READY w Unii Europejskiej to projekt prowadzony przez Jednostkę ds. Efektywności Regulacyjnej Banku Światowego we współpracy z Dyrekcją Generalną Komisji Europejskiej ds. Polityki Regionalnej i Miejskiej (DG REGIO), mający na celu ocenę i poprawę środowiska biznesowego w różnych regionach Unii Europejskiej. W tym roku seria Subnational B-READY obejmuje 66 miast w sześciu państwach członkowskich UE (Czechy, Grecja, Irlandia, Włochy, Polska i Hiszpania), obejmując 64 regiony NUTS2. Głównym celem badań Subnational B-READY jest identyfikacja i przeciwdziałanie regionalnym nierównościom w środowisku regulacyjnym oraz promowanie reform sprzyjających wzrostowi, tworzeniu miejsc pracy i trwałości sektora prywatnego.

Bhutan’s agrifood system (AFS) contributes to income and employment generation, but its role beyond primary production is not properly understood. Standard development models, national accounting, and household or labor force surveys (LFS) tend to narrowly define agriculture as primary production and omit the output and employment generated by workers and firms that connect farms to final consumers. Understanding the role of the AFS in Bhutan’s labor market is both important and urgent. Bhutan’s labor market is currently facing an existential threat of youth outmigration and unemployment as a result of a gradual but incomplete structural transformation process. The Bhutan Agrifood Systems Jobs Diagnostic addresses two important policy questions on how the AFS can contribute to More and Better-Paid Jobs (MBJ). This information helps policy makers to identify emerging employment opportunities, which occupations offer better outcomes, which workers are positioned to access them, and what interventions may be needed to facilitate labor movement. Second, the Diagnostic assesses how much additional employment would be demanded if Bhutanese value chains can respond to growing demand for Bhutanese priority high-value commodities. This information informs policy makers about the potential pathways through which the AFS can contribute to MBJ and what type of investments in infrastructure, policy reforms, and an enabling agribusiness environment are needed to transform the AFS.

This document outlines the procurement plan for the Strengthening the Resilience of Ecuadorian Schools Project in Ecuador, managed within the Latin America and Caribbean region. It focuses on early childhood education and public administration in education.

This document is an official administrative agreement amendment concerning the Trust Fund Contribution Agreement between the Green Climate Fund and the Government of Denmark. It outlines legal and financial adjustments related to trust fund TF069022.

This document is an implementation status and results report for the Enhancing Sierra Leone Energy Access project. It covers public administration, energy transmission, distribution, and renewable solar energy.

This document outlines the procurement plan for the Senegal Contingent Emergency Response Project (CERP) under the Western and Central Africa region. It provides structured guidance on procurement activities and resource allocation for the project.

Ratings of the Salvador Social Multi-Sector Service Delivery Project II for Brazil were as follows: outcome was satisfactory; Bank performance was moderately satisfactory; M&E quality was substantial. Lessons and recommendations emphasized that prior phase lessons remained valid, including that multi-sector human development operations can succeed but inter-secretariat cooperation is difficult due to limited incentives and high workloads, while results-based financing fosters accountability; gender indicators that rely on cross-secretariat collaboration are challenging to measure, prompting later phases to narrow multisector scope to a single high-value entry point with dedicated technical assistance. A phased, long-term engagement produces deeper institutional change than standalone operations by sequencing reforms and enabling a natural evolution of instruments, moving from traditional investment financing toward program-for-results as borrower capacity strengthens. Results-based financing should use indicators fully within the implementing entity’s measurement and operational control to avoid dependence on external systems and intergovernmental disputes. Legislative approval risks that can delay effectiveness should be explicitly built into design through longer implementation periods or pre-effectiveness preparatory actions. Effective execution of technical assistance in multi-sector settings requires proactive procurement support from the Project Management Unit and designated, adequately resourced focal points within each secretariat. Target-setting must be realistic, especially for innovative interventions in fast-evolving contexts, to preserve credibility and avoid perverse incentives. Shared, precisely defined indicator protocols agreed by all agencies before implementation are essential for reliable M&E. Technological and management investments in health systems, such as electronic medical records and surveillance and analytics platforms, can yield significant efficiency gains and should complement service delivery interventions. Direct partnerships with municipal service providers in decentralized systems maximize development impact by placing management improvements and capacity building at the level where service decisions are made.

This document is an implementation status report for the National Health Insurance (JKN) Reforms and Results Program, tracking project progress and results. It covers public administration and health sector developments associated with project P172707.