The development objective of the Integrated Early Childhood Development (ECD) Project is to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of cash transfer programs for vulnerable populations, including pregnant...
The development objective of the Enhancing Health System Transformation (GUEST) Project for Guinea is to improve the utilization of quality reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child, and adolescent health...
Amidst noticeable improvements and achievements in the reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child health, and nutrition (RMNCH-N) landscape in Bangladesh, existing evidence suggests that further accelerated...
The proposed project will address PLW’s inequalities of opportunities and the financial burden among socially economically and vulnerable PLW, which are linked to out-of-pocket costs that are significant...
Improvements in the health outcomes of women, young girls, and children will be key to Rwanda attaining three of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) focused on good health and wellbeing (SDG3)...
Bangladesh has made significant progress in economic growth and poverty reduction over the past decades. This has been accompanied by improvements in maternal and child health outcomes. Prevalence of stunting...
The Global Financing Facility for Women, Children, and Adolescents (GFF) was launched in 2015, in response to the unfinished Millennium Development Goals (MDG) agenda and inadequate progress towards ending...
The development objective of the Health, Nutrition, and Early Childhood Development (ECD) Program Project for Côte d’Ivoire is to: (i) reduce maternal mortality and stunting, (ii) improve ECD outcomes...
The Commonwealth of Dominica (Dominica) is a multiparty unicameral parliamentary democracy. According to data from the 2011 Census, the population has fallen in every census since 1981, standing now at...
This brief provides insight into how Ethiopia increased the duration of paid maternity leave from 90 to 120 days and introduced three days of paid paternity leave in 2019. While ensuring job-protected...
There has been renewed interest and effort in recent years to adopt a multisectoral approach to address malnutrition in many countries. The government of Uganda, with technical support from the World Bank...
Summary of the projects that have benefited from funding from the SASPP in Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal. The summaries include a breakdown of the project's components, achieved...
The development objective of the Maternal and Child Health Investment Program for Tanzania is to scale up the provision and improve the quality of essential health care services, with a focus on maternal...
In Uganda, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health (RMNCAH) conditions remain the primary drivers of morbidity and mortality, accounting for 60 percent of years of life lost in the...
Most welfare measures, including food expenditure and diet quality, are based on household aggregates and assume an equal or equitable distribution of resources among members within the household. But...
Childhood stunting, being too short for one’s age, is the result of chronic or recurrent undernutrition. Stunting poses a significant impediment to human development, with those affected facing long-term...
This Country Program Evaluation (CPE) assesses the development effectiveness of the World Bank Group’s engagement with Bangladesh during the past decade (fiscal year [FY]11–20) and provides lessons to...