Success in life is influenced by more than cognitive ability and opportunity. Success is also influenced by social, emotional, and behavioral skills (SEB skills): a person’s capacities to maintain social...
This paper provides experimental evidence of the impact of an after-school program on vulnerable public-school students in El Salvador. The program combined a behavioral intervention with ludic activities...
Interest Bearing Notes is a product of the Finance and Private Sector Research Team in the World Bank's Development Research Group. It reports on research by the team, as well as non-World Bank research...
The purpose of this practical guide is to provide local schools and communities in Latin America and the Caribbean with information and tools to design school based violence prevention programs. Its purpose...
Communication is generally defined as has having both a verbal and nonverbal component. Whereas verbal communication often refers to the words use in communication, nonverbal communication refers to communication...
Staff learning is increasingly important in the World Bank and accounts for over 5 percent of the total administrative budget. This past fiscal year (FY02), stakeholder groups received substantial resources...
This report synthesizes the results from end-of course evaluations provided by participants in 126 courses sampled across 17 stakeholder groups. It addresses three questions: (1). Which Bank staff participate...
Successful learning organizations turn knowledge and reflection into action. It is necessary for capacity building that an organization increase the knowledge and skill levels of its staff, but raising...
The Children and Youth Development Project in Macedonia, will significantly increase social cohesion, through the social integration of youth at risk from different socio-cultural backgrounds. To this...