The World Bank Group supports cities and mobilizes subnational finance to create jobs by building urban infrastructure and strengthening municipal services.
Discover how the Ethiopia Urban Institutional and Infrastructure Development Program created 1.15 million jobs with World Bank support.
How an Urban Program in Ethiopia Delivered More than a Million Jobs
This report highlights the substantial investments required to build more resilient and low-carbon cities in low- and middle-income countries. These investments are crucial to strengthen essential infrastructure, unlock new jobs, and ensure more sustainable urban development. Resilient and low ...
Extreme urban heat is becoming an urgent challenge for Bangkok, threatening lives, livelihoods, and the city’s economic resilience. The Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect exacerbates this crisis, turning built-up areas into heat traps that contribute to heat-related mortality, lost productivity, higher energy consumption, and other negative outcomes.
Shaping a Cooler Bangkok: Tackling Urban Heat for a More Livable City
The Djibouti Integrated Slum Upgrading Project, launched in 2018, aims to improve living conditions in deprived urban areas in Djibouti City and to strengthen the capacity of public institutions responsible for implementing the Zero Slum Program.
Urban China: Toward Efficient, Inclusive, and Sustainable Urbanization The joint report by the World Bank and the Development Research Center of China’s State Council, Urban China: Toward Efficient, Inclusive and Sustainable Urbanization, includes six priority areas for a new model of urbanization: 1. Reforming land management and institutions Because most of the urban expansion in recent ...
Nature-based solutions like urban farming, terraces, and green corridors can help cities with climate challenges including urban heat, flooding, and air pollution. But how can governments and communities determine which nature-based solutions best meet their needs? In Kinshasa, indigenous knowledge, innovative tools, and proactive local government are helping to answer the question.
Investments in adaptation will also save over 130,000 lives from extreme heat impacts by 2050. With over 50 percent of the urban infrastructure required for 2050 still to be built, India has a critical opportunity to drive resilient urban infrastructure development. “The imperative for India to build resilient cities at scale is clear.
New World Bank Financing Set to Revamp Dodoma’s Urban Mobility and ...
WASHINGTON, – The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved $400 million in financing for a new project that will provide safely managed water, sanitation and basic hygiene services, and help improve the institutional and financial performance of local urban administration in Punjab province.
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A new report on Urban Transport in Yangon and Mandalay provides an assessment of urban mobility in Myanmar’s two largest cities for policymakers.
Demographic trends are diverse among regions, within regions and within countries: while many cities will continue to grow, albeit at declining rates, many other cities are looking at declining or aging populations. In the near future, many more cities will face an increasing aging population, with important implications for the provision of urban infrastructure and service provision.
A new report, Livable Pacific Cities and Towns: Urbanization Strategies for Resilience, Sustainability and Inclusion, offers a regional analysis of current trends, practical recommendations to address resilient urbanization, and diagnostic tools for policymakers and practitioners involved in planning, design, and building cities in the region.
The Romanian Urban Policy is designed to advise on the vision of a sustainable, inclusive, and resilient urban development in line with the EU’s Urban Agenda. It represents a common agenda of the public authorities at central and local levels in order to improve the urban development framework, by providing a set of coherent measures and by coordination and correlation of the sectoral fields ...
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The Smithsonian has introduced Smithsonian Profiles, a searchable directory of the Smithsonian’s scholarly experts. The Smithsonian’s dedication to research supports hundreds of staff scholars, and ...
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