The World Bank is supporting disability-inclusive education in Rwanda, Burkina Faso, and Cambodia by training teachers, upgrading school infrastructure, and embedding disability support in school ...

Since 2021, three World Bank-supported projects in Ethiopia have helped expand digital access significantly, benefiting more than seven million Ethiopians to date and facilitating the transition to a ...

A homestead in Kanzenze, Bugesera District, Rwanda accessing electricity through a tabletsized solar panel, placed on the roof; a member of the homestead charging his phone using solar power. Photo: ...

Gender equality is central to the World Bank’s mission of ending extreme poverty and promoting shared prosperity. In Eastern and Southern Africa (AFE), where women and girls face unique disadvantages ...

A decade-long engagement between the Government of Cameroon and the World Bank has improved textbook availability and affordability for over 4 million children nationwide. Since 2014, a combination of ...

Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) faces critical challenges for digital development, including underdeveloped digital infrastructure, lack of accessible and affordable connectivity, a stubborn digital gender ...

The World Bank SHIFT (Securing Human Investments to Foster Transformation) program sought to improve the rights and conditions of home-based workers (HBWs) and other vulnerable women working in ...

TKP was launched in 2015 to mitigate the impact of economic reforms on the poor including energy subsidy removal. It was designed as a well-targeted cash transfer program with a solid delivery system, ...

A World Bank project strengthened the institutional capacity of Haiti’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development by accessing technologies to increase not only agricultural productivity and ...

The World Bank is supporting India’s efforts to give the country’s fast-growing young workforce access to skills needed to drive the economy of the future. The Bank-financed $250 million Skill India ...

Generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) is set to potentially transform the labor market, presenting both opportunities and challenges. Studies about its possible impacts have generally focused on ...

The Côte d’Ivoire e-Agriculture Project benefited over 400,000 individuals between 2018 and 2023 working in selected agricultural value chains by improving market access and information through ...