When seeking to engage a community and disseminate critical knowledge and skills, experience points to one of the most innovative, engaging, and effective learning tools available. Interactive Theater has been successfully applied to raise awareness, challenge attitudes, and influence behaviors...

New communication technologies are changing the way World Bank Group (WBG) staff work and interact with their colleagues. For example, teams in different locations and time zones can use virtual collaboration platforms for communication and knowledge management. During 2009 and 2010, the Latin...

From fostering expertise to packaging and sharing lessons from the field, the knowledge work of the World Bank Group takes many shapes. But unlike lending operations, knowledge work is not always subject to the same results monitoring processes. For example, the publishing of a report has often...

Some developing countries have successfully reformed their business start-up systems, but the majority significantly lags behind. And starting a business is one of the Doing Business (DB) indicators recognized as a major constraint to businesses in developing countries. For over five years, the...

The Poor Rural Communities Development Project (PRCDP) is a rural development intervention covering some of the poorest communities in Guangxi, Sichuan, and Yunnan provinces in China. The project, which is led by the Chinese provincial and county project offices (PMO), reaches out to ethnic...

Smallholder banana farmers are beginning to understand that their old farming methods are contributing to the planet's drying up or suffocating in fields of garbage. They are convinced that they have to change their ways for the good of their farms, their communities, and their children. But...

When it comes to strategy, the Chinese have a saying: 'think big, start small, but move fast.' This has been our guiding philosophy for the pilot land reforms of the World Bank-Department of International Development (DFID) sub national Investment Climate Program (ICP) in Nigeria. The challenge...

How can International Finance Corporation (IFC) advisory teams with limited numbers and budgets trigger actions among multiple players to bring about an impact that reaches the scale of a country or a sector? The IFC Russia Cleaner Production Program encountered that question when initiating a...

Access to extractive industry resources, and to the revenues springing from them, is at the root of many conflicts. Recent examples include the several wars fought, in part, over access to oil in the Middle East and wars fueled by 'blood diamonds' in West Africa. The Extractive Industries...

Working closely with the client, the tax department of Lao PDR, and World Bank colleagues, the Investment Climate Advisory Services team designed and rolled out a multifaceted campaign to introduce a new tax in Lao PDR, one that surpassed our own expectations and contributed to increased...