Ratings of COVID-19 Emergency Response Project for Sudan were as follows: outcome was moderately satisfactory, Bank performance was satisfactory, and monitoring and evaluation quality was substantial...
Ratings for the Livestock Sector Development Support Project for Mali were as follows: outcomes were satisfactory, the Bank performance was moderately satisfactory, and the monitoring and evaluation quality...
Employment in Bhutan stabilized with minor changes. The employment rate remained steady, as 18.7 percent gained jobs and 17.4 percent lost them. Paid work slightly increased from 48.0 percent to 49.4 percent...
The Progress in International Reading and Literacy Study (PIRLS) is one of the world’s foremost data sources on reading proficiency. PIRLS provides comparable data on reading trends for grade 4 students...
In the region of the Americas, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) constitute a major disease burden, accounting for approximately 80 percent of all deaths (PAHO 2019). Mental and neurological disorders...
The world is facing the largest crisis in forced displacement since the end of the second world war. Women and girls now account for more than half of all forcibly displaced people, comprising refugees...
Water security was not a regular feature in mainstream news during 2019, when headlines were dominated by natural disasters like Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas and wildfires in California, Australia...