Documents et rapports
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Guidance on waste management (anglais)
What roles do global environmental conventions and the various UN agencies play in this process? This paper reviews available guidance on the issue of waste management and highlights some key considerations...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 37382 Date du document: 1 janvier 2005 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Wong,Chantale
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The Convention to Combat Desertification and the role of the World Bank (anglais)
The note provides an overview of the Convention to Combat Desertification (CCD), following the first conference of parties in Rome, highlights the commitments of affected countries that ratified the Convention...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 22343 Date du document: 31 août 1998
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Use of public consultation in the Nam Theun 2 hydroelectric project (anglais)
The purpose of this note is to describe the public consultation program to date for the Nam Theun 2 (NT2) hydroelectric project and share lessons learned regarding the process and methodologies that were...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 18205 Date du document: 31 mars 1998 Auteur: Mcphail,Kathryn,Callieri, Christian
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The global environmental benefits of land degradation control on agricultural land (anglais)
Land degradation on agricultural land, in addition to reducing productivity and causing problems such as sedimentation, can also affect problems of global concern. Land degradation can contribute to climate...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 18294 Date du document: 30 septembre 1997 Auteur: Pagiola,Stefano P.
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Using GIS for pollution control (anglais)
How can geographic information systems (GIS) assist in pollution control and prevention? What role can GIS play in environmental monitoring and impact assessment? Can GIS offer information management solutions...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 18293 Date du document: 31 juillet 1997 Auteur: Kishor,Puneet
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ENVSP review of local and community driven development projects (anglais)
A Quality-at-entry review of 108 World Bank projects in 53 countries was undertaken to determine the extent and nature of community driven development (CDD) within the Bank's portfolio. The review included...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 18204 Date du document: 31 juillet 1997 Auteur: Narayan,Deepa,Kochar,Rajiv
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Social assessment influences design of the India tuberculosis control project (anglais)
The government of India is implementing a new strategy to arrest the spread of tuberculosis (TB) in the country. The World Bank-funded Tuberculosis Control Project used social assessment (SA) as an "umbrella"...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 18207 Date du document: 31 mai 1997 Auteur: Clark,Maria Donoso
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The World Bank Group & the Global Environment Facility (anglais)
The World Bank, the United Nations Development Program, and the United Nations Environment Program, act as implementing agencies of the Global Environment Facility. The World Bank's role is to develop...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 18290 Date du document: 30 avril 1997 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Kellenberg,John,Vidaeus,Lars O.
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Sustaining natural resources through community management : a framework for action (anglais)
Community management of natural resources can be promoted by providing an incentive environment to help ensure the flow of benefits to communities through the establishment of regulated access and rational...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 18291 Date du document: 30 avril 1997 Auteur: Jain, Nihal C.
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Animals under threat (anglais)
The 1996 Red List of Threatened Animals is a warning flag, signaling for global attention to the perilous status of many species. It is estimated that 25 percent of mammal species and 11 percent of bird...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 18292 Date du document: 30 avril 1997 Auteur: Rabb, George B.,Baillie, Jonathan,Tressler, Susan [editor],Rees,Colin P.
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A review of participation in the World Bank's GEF portfolio (anglais)
Against a backdrop of increasing attention to social assessment and participation issues throughout the World Bank and within the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the Bank's Global Environment Coordination...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 21960 Date du document: 31 mars 1997 Auteur: Morgan,Maria Katherine
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Effective pollution charges : lessons of worldwide experience (anglais)
Pollution charges are becoming an increasingly popular instrument for environmental policy. Currently, they are widely applied in OECD countries, play a key role among environmental policy instruments...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 18288 Date du document: 31 décembre 1996 Auteur: Lvovsky,Kseniya
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Field guides : useful tools in environmental planning and management (anglais)
Field guides are useful tools for promoting conservation awareness and action, and are implicitly supported by at least five Articles of the Convention on Biological Diversity. They can be used directly...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 18289 Date du document: 31 décembre 1996 Auteur: Whitten, Tony
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Revitalizing low-income public housing through community participation in the UK (anglais)
Poverty is at the root of the problems facing many public housing projects in the U.K. today. Experience emerging from 100 low-income housing estates echoes findings from urban upgrading for the poor in...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 18208 Date du document: 30 septembre 1996 Auteur: Taylor, Marilyn
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Participation in sustainable financial service systems (anglais)
Most poor and disadvantaged people have not previously been integrated into the formal financial sector. However, from the standpoint both of financial sector development and poverty alleviation, the participation...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 18202 Date du document: 31 août 1996 Auteur: Bennett,Lynn,Goldberg, Mike,Hunte, Pam
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Kenya : participatory poverty assessment (anglais)
A Participatory Poverty Assessment (PPA) was undertaken by the World Bank in collaboration with the Government of Kenya to complement previous statistical studies of poverty in Kenya. While the PPA confirmed...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 18209 Date du document: 31 août 1996 Auteur: Narayan,Deepa,Nyamwaya, David
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Listening to farmers - agricultural extension in Senegal (anglais)
Understanding the perspective of farmers is key to the success of any activity aimed at improving their lives. Agricultural extension, which provides information to increase farmers' production, is particularly...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 18210 Date du document: 31 août 1996 Auteur: Salmen,Lawrence F.
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Participation and local government (anglais)
Citizen participation in the decisionmaking and development activities of local government can produce more efficient and effective delivery of services by the public sector. In order to foster participation...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 18203 Date du document: 31 août 1996 Auteur: Silverman, Jerry M.,Gow, David,Frankenhoff, John
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India - Using social assessment to foster participation in protected areas (anglais)
Designers of the India Ecodevelopment Project found the social assessment (SA) to be a good starting place for stakeholders and nongovernmental organization (NGO) participation in project participation...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 18213 Date du document: 31 mai 1996
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Mexico resource conservation and forest sector review - incorporating social assessment into economic and sector work (anglais)
The government of Mexico and a World Bank team incorporated social assessment (SA) into their analytical work when carrying out a comprehensive review of the forestry and resource conservation sector...
Type de document: Bulletin d’information Numéro du rapport: 18211 Date du document: 31 mai 1996