Welcome to the April 2025 edition of the Skills4Dev Knowledge Digest! This issue explores how Results-Based Financing (RBF) is reshaping Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) by linkingfunding...
Forced displacement is increasingly urban and protracted, presenting a developmental challenge for cities that host displaced populations. The abrupt arrival of many displaced people creates technical...
This paper presents evidence of the impact of a five-year package of interconnected interventions intended to improve learning environments in eight disadvantaged districts in Malawi. The intervention...
Ratings for the State Owned Enterprises (SOE) Related Fiscal Management Project for Cabo Verde were as follows: outcome and Bank performance was moderately unsatisfactory and monitoring and evaluation...
Ratings for the Improving the Quality of Initial and Primary Education in Uruguay Project for Uruguay were as follows: outcome and Bank performance was satisfactory and monitoring and evaluation (M and...
Ratings for the Investment Project Financing for Afghanistan were as follows: outcome and Bank performance was moderately satisfactory, and monitoring and evaluation (M and E) quality was substantial...
Since its establishment in 2003, Global Partnership for Results-Based Approaches (GPRBA) has served as an innovator in results-based financing (RBF), first in output-based aid, and more recently in outcomes-based...
Colombia has significantly increased its investments in education over the last two decades, producing modest gains in its international standardized test scores. Yet in 2015, nearly 40 percent of students...
This report reviews high quality impact evaluations of results-based financing interventions (RBF) in education to investigate whether particular subgroups of students benefit systematically more (or less)...
This study used qualitative data analysis to draw both theoretical and practical lessons from diverse experiences with RBF at the meso-level of the education sector, particularly in low and middle-income...