Projects & Operations

The World Bank carries out projects and provides a wide variety of analytical and advisory services to help meet the development needs of individual countries and the international community.

World Bank projects are classified by themes as well as sectors; Urban Development is considered a theme in the Bank's classification. Key information about themes includes:

• a theme represents a targeted outcome of a project (not an economic activity)
• a project may be classified into up to five themes
• older projects are not mapped to themes
• some themes were formerly sectors (for example, Urban Development)

For a complete list of Urban Development projects (active, closed, dropped and pipeline), please click on a link below:

Urban Development (result will include all active projects with one or more of an urban development theme classification -- see following list)

• Access to urban services for the poor

• Municipal finance

• Municipal governance and institution building

• Other urban development

To do a more in-depth search, please visit the Project Portfolio Advanced Search page of the Projects Database.