New ESMAP Program Provides Gender Based Interventions for Equitable Development
The Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP)’s Gender and Energy Program is making progress in integrating gender equity into policies, strategies and programs of client countries.
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Bottom-Up State Building: Preventing Violence at the Community Level
Haiti and Kenya offer two examples of the global distribution and pattern of violence that have been changing from the large-scale civil wars to the increasing emergence of common violence, particularly in urban areas. Read More
UNICEF's Youth Summit on Climate Change
As part of UNICEF's youth summit on climate change in New York, members of the Social Development Department's Social Dimensions of Climate Change (SDCC) team were invited to present their innovative new learning module on the social dimensions of climate change. Read More
Local Government Competition of Excellence (COPEGOL)
Through a new Bank-financed initiative, the Local Government Competition of Excellence, or COPEGOL, communities across Africa are being recognized for innovations in governance practices. Read More
Social Development Civil Society Fund
Annual Reports
Created in 1983, the Social Development Civil Society Fund (CSF) is one of the few global programs of the World Bank that directly funds civil society organizations (CSOs). The CSF provides grants generally ranging from $3,000 - $7,000 to CSOs for work that promotes the "civic engagement" of marginalized populations. Learn More
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