Darwin Pineda (Bananas producer): "Banco de Machala has been supporting us in a very harmonious, very fast, and efficient way. It is extremely important that the government has changed the CFN credit ...

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, ...

Natural hazards, some fueled by a changing climate, have a devastating effect on children’s education and lives in every corner of the globe. Through its Global Program for Safer Schools (GPSS), the ...

Over two decades and with support from the World Bank, many countries in Latin America and the Caribbean region pioneered and continuously refined flagship cash transfer programs, mainly conditional ...

Even with record food production, global hunger is intensifying, and food insecurity remains especially severe in fragile and poorly connected regions because of high transport costs. In some cases, ...

In the Sahel and Horn of Africa, both regions facing a persistent food and nutrition crisis driven by drought and exacerbated by conflict and fragility, the World Bank is scaling up short- and ...

Well-designed digital solutions have the potential to alleviate the impacts of Fragility, Conflict, and Violence (FCV) and address FCV-related risks and drivers that undermine economic and social ...

In 2017, Uzbekistan launched a major reform agenda for societal and economic transformation, breaking from its past as a largely state-led and isolated economy. A series of World Bank Development ...

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 ...

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 ...

World Bank’s Climate Change Action Plan (CCAP) for 2021-2025 aims to integrate climate and development to maximize the climate impact of its projects. The Energy Sector Management Assistance Program’s ...

Countries affected by fragility, conflict, and violence (FCV) are on a different development trajectory than the rest of the world, with persistently high levels of poverty and declining human capital ...