Documents et rapports

Partnership for Market Readiness - Costa Rica Program : Program Alignment and Achievements : Overview and Key Lessons (espagnol)

Costa Rica ratified the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1994 and has since developed and implemented national climate policies in accordance with its principles, primarily...

Machine Learning for Disaster Risk Management : Using Data to Protect People Across the Globe (anglais)

A machine learning (ML) algorithm is a type of computer program that learns to perform specific tasks based on various data inputs or rules provided by a human. Since disasters often affect poor and vulnerable...

How are Youth Employment Programs Adapting to COVID-19? (anglais)

This brief is part of the solutions for youth employment (S4YE) knowledge brief series focusing on the design and implementation of youth employment programs. In this knowledge brief, the authors highlight...

Strengthening Moldova’s Disaster Risk Management and Climate Resilience : Facing Current Issues and Future Challenges (Roumain)

Moldova is exposed to an array of natural hazards, and their impact disproportionately affects the poor. The Government of Moldova has been strengthening institutions to better prepare for and respond...

Identifying Urban Areas by Combining Human Judgment and Machine Learning : An Application to India (anglais)

This paper proposes a methodology for identifying urban areas that combines subjective assessments with machine learning, and applies it to India, a country where several studies see the official urbanization...

Regional Resilience and DRM Engagement : Understanding Risk Central America (espagnol)

Disclosable Version of the ISR - Serbia - Real Estate Management Project - P147050 - Sequence No : 09 (anglais)

Smart and Safe Kenya Transport (SMARTTRANS) (anglais)

Design for Impact Framework : Integrating Open Data and Risk Communication for Decision-Making (anglais)

Since its establishment in 2011, OpenDRI has successfully applied the open databased approaches called for in the Sendai Framework to address the challenges of reducing vulnerability to natural hazards...

Identifying Success Factors in Crowdsourced Geographic Information Use in Government (anglais)

The adoption of crowdsourced geographic data, or volunteered geographic information (VGI), as a valuable source of spatial data is growing at all levels of government. VGI is crowdsourced geographic information...

Disclosable Version of the ISR - Development Marketplace 2014 - P149264 - Sequence No : 01 (anglais)

ICT in agriculture : connecting smallholders to knowledge, networks, and institutions (anglais)

Information and communication have always mattered in agriculture. Ever since people have grown crops, raised livestock, and caught fish, they have sought information from one another. Agriculture is facing...

Challenge fund project : American red cross (anglais)

During disasters, efficient and effective risk identification is imperative to saving lives and livelihoods. Access to preliminary data of hazard impacts improves operational decision-making, saving critical...

Crowdsourcing water quality data : a conceptual framework (anglais)

Using mobile phone technologies coupled with water quality testing, there is great opportunity to increase the awareness of water quality throughout rural and urban communities in developing countries...

Official Documents- Administration Arrangement with DFID for Contribution to TF072566 (anglais)

Toward an innovative Poland : the entrepreneurial discovery process and business needs analysis (Vol. 2 of 2) : final report (anglais)

Poland is the European growth champion. Since 1989, it has more than doubled its gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, coming in ahead of all European peers. It was the only EU economy to avoid the...

Toward an innovative Poland : the entrepreneurial discovery process and business needs analysis (Vol. 1 of 2) : executive summary (anglais)

Poland is the European growth champion. Since 1989, it has more than doubled its gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, coming in ahead of all European peers. It was the only EU economy to avoid the...

Advances and Challenges in Intelligent Transportation : The Evolution of ICT to Address Transport Challenges in Developing Countries (anglais)

Transport efficiency and safety in the advanced economies have long benefited from information and communication technology (ICT). However, these ICT applications have typically been high-cost, customized...

International Comparison Program (ICP) : quarterly update for September 2015 (anglais)

This newsletter includes the following headings: $1.90 international poverty line incorporates 2011 PPPs; workshop on crowdsourcing food prices in Africa; 60th International Statistical Institute World...

The pulse of public opinion : using Twitter data to analyze public perception of reform in El Salvador (anglais)

This study uses Twitter data to provide a more nuanced understanding of the public reaction to the 2011 reform to the propane gas subsidy in El Salvador. By soliciting a small sample of manually tagged...