The focus of the Mozambique Land Administration Project (MozLand) is to strengthen land tenure security in selected districts and improve the efficiency and accessibility of land administration services.
The development objective of the Human Capital and Women and Girls' Empowerment Project (MAÏNGO) for Central African Republic is to enhance access to essential health services, education and employment...
Gender-based violence (GBV) is a form of gender discrimination and is one of the leading causes of human rights violations in the world. GBV, which is often heightened in emergencies, is a compelling issue...
This report outlines the World Bank Education Global Department's efforts to improve education outcomes for girls and young women, emphasizing its role in unlocking their economic potential. The brochure...
This short note summarizes some of the findings from an extensive literature review, a global stocktaking exercise, key informant interviews, and five case studies in order to provide World Bank Group...
The five case studies detailed in this document describe a variety of contexts in which measures are being implemented to attract, recruit, retain, and advance women in science, technology, engineering...
Digital business training offers flexibility and scalability, but translating these features into tangible benefits for women-led businesses is challenging. Completion rates were much higher for in-person...
This short note summarizes some of the findings from an extensive literature review, a global stocktaking exercise, key informant interviews, and five case studies in order to provide World Bank Group...
Pakistan faces significant gender gaps in wage employment, entrepreneurship, and access to productive assets. Women in Pakistan also contend with critical issues related to safety, mobility, agency, and...
She Drives Change: A Toolkit for Redefining Opportunities for Women in Transport is a comprehensive resource designed to empower transport sector professionals and policy makers to address disparities...
Economic growth and job creation remain key challenges for Jordan, where the economy has only grown by an annual average of 2.5 percent over the past decade. Unemployment is persistently high (22.3 percent...
The World Bank Group’s Women, Business and the Law (WBL) is a global benchmarking project that provides comprehensive and comparable data on how laws, regulations, and policies affect women’s economic...
Family law has witnessed significant global progress over the past 50 years: Since 1970, 600 million women have gained economic opportunities through family law reforms. In 1970, only 37 economies had...
Ratings for the Nigeria for Women Project (NFWP) were as follows: outcome was moderately satisfactory, Bank performance was satisfactory, and monitoring and evaluation (M and E) quality was substantial...
This paper uses household survey data from 27 countries to assess sex-differentiated access to social protection programs and their impact on mitigating gender gaps in the labor market. The analysis includes...
In November 2018, only five percent of the 10 million plots in Mozambique had land use titles recorded on the national land registry. The lack of land tenure documentation has led to land conflicts within...
The Women, Business and the Law Manual and Guide (WBL M&G) outlines the production and dissemination process for WBL reports and underlying data, serving as an official source of information for WBL Team...
This is a list of selected World Bank Group publications on childcare. It provides links to the documents, as well as bibliographical information.
This report Summarizes the findings from data collection to measure the legal and policy frameworks affecting women’s legal protections from FGM as well as SRHR in 26 selected countries in Sub-Saharan...
The World Bank estimates that closing the gender gap in employment would increase long-run gross domestic product (GDP) per capita by 20 percent (Pennings 2022). Realizing this achievement, however, depends...